Talk:Chuckster

Should this stay, be deleted, or be merged with Pianta? -- Y ' o ' s ' h ' i ' 6 ' 2  6  18:18, 31 January 2007 (EST)


 * just stands there and falls over* Ya gat yourself a big smart question. [[Image:MayorPenguinPM.png]] Paper Jorge

Split from Pianta?
Apparently Chuckster redirects to Pianta. I think they have a large enough role to justify their own article. Even the Mario FANDOM gave them their own page. Thoughts? Results May Vary (talk) 21:55, April 8, 2020 (EDT)
 * Porple says he wants them to have a page. I'd do that, but first I'd like a big list of every Pianta to do so in SMS. Aside from the (medium difficulty) secret area, I remember the rooftop guy in Delfino Plaza, a red female in Bianco Hills, two in Ricco Harbor (one of which gets progressively stronger in later missions), and one in Gelato Beach in a few missions (at the bottom of the slide in the Sand Bird mission; one could also count the watermelon contest guy too since he throws the melon). I think there's one or two I missed, can anyone think of any other ones? Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 22:26, April 8, 2020 (EDT)
 * I'd need to check Prima or Nintendo Power guide for a name. Btw yeah, there it like only two sentences on Chuckster on the Pianta page. There can definitely be enough info for Chuckster to have its own article. although "chuckster" is lowercase in game, so it might be forming name from adjective. thats why i'll see if the guides use any actual, capitalized name/. And the Chucksters are actually needed to get some Shine Sprites, so that's already a reason why they're notable enough to be distinct from Piantas. I almost want to start the article already because of how obvious the distinctions are. At the same time, enough people would need to agree on the decision. Results May Vary (talk) 03:10, April 9, 2020 (EDT)
 * According to this game script, there's also another one in Bianco Hills (the husband of the one mentioned), two* in Gelato Beach, and a whopping eleven in a Pianta Village bonus stage. The Gelato Beach NPCs are notable because they are only chucksters in certain episodes - a pink male Pianta in Episodes 4 and 7, and even the Surf Cabana owner in Episode 4. Since this behavior can change among the same characters, I'm not really sure about a full split. You might also notice the term "chuckster" is only uttered by seven of them in the Pianta Village bonus stage challenge - six of which is a repeating line - though they don't call themselves that elsewhere. In terms of guides: Versus Books, BradyGAMES, and Prima Games guides capitalize it, but the Nintendo Power guide doesn't. Outside of one instance of "Chuckster Piantas" when describing Pianta Village Episode 5 on page 104, Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia doesn't mention them separately from normal Piantas, and neither does the Japanese version; the Japanese term used in place of "chuckster" in-game is 「ごっちゃん」 (gocchan), which doesn't show up in the book. LinkTheLefty (talk) 11:19, April 9, 2020 (EDT)
 * There's also at the very least some Piantas that behave like Chucksters in SMG2, for what it's worth. -- 12:06, April 9, 2020 (EDT)
 * Okay, so the general consensus is to expand upon Chucksters on the Pianta page itself, correct? So how we would go about doing that? Results May Vary (talk) 12:41, April 9, 2020 (EDT)
 * I agree to split it. -- 13:23, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

Hey, guys! I decided to make this article into a species variant page due to a lot of Chucksters contributing to the focus of an area, if that's quite all right. 12:25, October 24, 2020 (EDT)
 * I think this article should be re-merged with Pianta. The term "chuckster" is only really used in Secret of the Village Underside, and the game is actually very vague regarding what a "chuckster" actually is. According to this article, any Pianta that throws you is a chuckster, but the quoted line at the top of the page implies otherwise, despite not actually explaining what a chuckster is. Additionally, throwing is heavily implied to be an ability intrinsic to Piantas in general, even if some throw farther than others (particularly notable are the ones in Ricco Harbor that get better as the episodes go by), since Piantas that do throw don't have any visual differences from Piantas that don't throw. From where I'm sitting, "chuckster" is as much of a variant of Pianta as "Submarine Nep-Enut" is a variant of Nep-Enut. 19:32, October 1, 2022 (EDT)

Re-merge with Pianta
See my comment above. The term "chuckster" is little more than a catchphrase used by the Piantas in that Pianta Village sub-area. The closest any of them come to actually defining "chuckster" is that one at the beginning, which provides the quote at the top of the article. It fails to actually explain what a chuckster is, but it implies that not all Piantas that throw are "chucksters", whatever that may be. Therefore, us defining "chuckster" as any Pianta that throws is pretty much fanwank. The very idea that Piantas that throw are a "variant" is also fanwank; throwing is just a thing Piantas do, even if not all of them are seen doing it.

EDIT: Per Swallow, I've added an option to rename this article to Pianta Thrower. I'd prefer an outright merge, since I still don't think Piantas that throw are a variant, at least it's a cited name that can actually be appended to all throwing Piantas, unlike "chuckster".

Proposer: Deadline: October 22, 2022, 23:59 GMT

Merge
Per all. Also worth mentioning the term isn't used at all in Galaxy 2; all that they say is "strongest Pianta tournament".
 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal and above discussion, this is comparable to how some Volbonans can be captured and give a boost while others just stand around.
 * 3) per all
 * 4) Per all. We don't really have separate articles of Lumas that can transform into Pull Stars, or Launch Stars, or Red Stars, etc, nor of New Donkers with RC car remotes that can be captured.
 * 5) Per all, Hewer and Arend bring up good examples of similar situations of subjects with differing gameplay elements that are not split.
 * 6) Per all, especially Hewer and Arend's examples.
 * 7) Per all.

Rename to Pianta Thrower

 * 1) Second choice, at least this avoids the fanwank issue described above and below.
 * 2) As I suggested in the comments.
 * 3) Per Swallow.
 * 4) Second choice, per all.
 * 5) Second choice.
 * 6) Second choice.
 * 7) Second option - although chuckster is apparently used a proper name in some guides, if we are keeping the page's content as is then I believe this is technically the most recent name since they're unnamed in SMG2.
 * 8) "Chuckster" as a name seems pretty shaky due to the lack of capitalization styling in-game, but since they have this name in a guide, might as well use that instead.
 * 9) Second choice.
 * 10) Per all.
 * 11) While I disagree on the belief that "Pianta that throws" is not enough to be a variant (because in that case neither is Shy Guy that flips), I believe we should at least go with this proper name instead of a generic description that was never intended to be the acutal name.

Do nothing

 * 1) I'd actually prefer this split myself. (I dug up an alternate, variant-like name from the Mario Party 8 Prima guide, but forgot to contribute to the discussion.) "Chuckster" and most of its foreign equivalents are pretty specific terms that I don't think would be too easily confused for another subject—being a type of Pianta that performs a very specific action appearing in several games now—plus most Sunshine guides capitalize it. It's not like some derivatives can't look identical to their base species.
 * 2) Per LTL and Porple.
 * 3) What ^^ said. Wheter they're a separate in-universe thing is arguable, but they're certainly a distinct gameplay thing.

Comments
"I'm an asshole", says Pianta. MarioWiki then makes article called "asshole". 16:44, October 8, 2022 (EDT)
 * Not an entirely equivalent scenario. If Piantas hypothetically dubbed as such acted in a specific, gameplay-affecting manner, then by all means "asshole" Piantas would get their own coverage. They're technically already covered here as "chucksters". 12:04, October 9, 2022 (EDT)
 * Heh.

Porple once said he wanted it split, so, there's that... Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 17:40, October 8, 2022 (EDT)

If this ends up remaining split, I feel it should at least be renamed "Pianta Thrower" which at least seems to be a proper name. 14:39, October 9, 2022 (EDT)

@Opposition: Your votes completely fail to address a very important part of the argument for merging - namely that Pianta that throws ≠ chuckster. There is no in-game evidence to support that definition of "chuckster". In fact, the only in-game evidence we have that even vaguely hints at a definition for "chuckster" outright contradicts that interpretation. There is no true definition for chuckster, so us trying to append this definition to it is - I cannot stress this enough - fanwank. This wiki should not fanwank things. Is having an article specifically for Piantas that throw really worth fanwanking a definition for a meme-y catchphrase term just so we can have an article for them? 14:48, October 9, 2022 (EDT)
 * I just think the specific gameplay concept of pianta that throws the player avatar when spoken to is a substantial and recurring-enough aspect of Sunshine's gameplay to be worth documenting on its own. Doesn't really matter to me what the end page is called tbh --Glowsquid (talk) 15:02, October 9, 2022 (EDT)
 * In that case, I suggest the rename option, since as I have stated repeatedly, there is in-game evidence actively against "chuckster" meaning "any Pianta that throws". The only confirmed chucksters are the ones that outright say they are.
 * 15:25, October 9, 2022 (EDT)
 * (edit conflict) 7feetunder: Also, although you might not realize it, I feel your language directed at the opposition is a bit harsh. I don't think anyone would want to sacrifice proper documentation for the sake of a memorable catchphrase and I personally wouldn't describe the opposition as falling to, uh, "fanwank". I don't really agree that "chuckster" should be the name of the page, it just seems like a general casual slang in a similar vein to like "i'm a huckster!" and they sell you stuff. I do want to bring up characters like crate guy, Cannon Pianta, and sunglasses vendor that are generically named, have minor differences but not super notable, that are split just for the services they offer, and I do think it's not unreasonable to split off chucksters for their services as well (loosely defined as "service" heh).  15:59, October 9, 2022 (EDT)
 * I was simply getting frustrated that the opposers were only addressing my secondary point (about Piantas that throw even being a variant), to the point of failing to acknowledge my main point (that the term "chuckster" isn't being used correctly) that the proposal text actually begins with. Swallow's suggestion for the alternate option of renaming was posted in the middle of me typing that comment, so the idea hadn't crossed my mind yet. I can understand the desire to keep this article, even if I don't agree with it, it just shouldn't be called "chuckster". 16:18, October 9, 2022 (EDT)