Talk:Ghost: Difference between revisions

#{{User|Camwoodstock}} While merging stuff like real-world objects that happen to have vastly different uses in their appearances in the Mario series is fine by us (even if it does yield weird stuff like, say, the [[Koopa-Kola]] article--an article that seems to be about 3 distinct drinks that shared a name in early non-game content), merging the basis for ''an entire basis of a species'' (the ''LM'' ghosts) to just. Generic Ghost Enemy From A Donkey Kong Game. Feels much, much stranger. Ghosts have a pretty well-defined existence in the Mario franchise, so it feels kinda weird to have an article all melded together that's "there's a ghost in Wario Land II. there were like. 2 ghosts in the DK games. Here's a description for the entire Luigi's Mansion franchise and its relationship with ghosts.". And of course, there's the elephant of the room that are [[Boo|the]] [[Eerie|ghost]] [[Peepa|enemies]] in regards to the merged article--they aren't present on the mockup, and to be honest, we're not sure if that's necessarily even a bad thing, because that has the potential to be a proverbial nuke on that article's usefulness. A disambiguation page really isn't hurting anyone, it gives each of these individual ghosts a designated space on their own articles, and it's generally easier to navigate than trying to model ghosts in the Mario series as though they're one cohesive, franchise-wide consistent thing; this is not 2008, there absolutely is ''not'' a cohesive Mario universe.

#{{User|Arend}} Per all; the ghosts involved in the proposed merger are all very distinct from one another; with the ''Yoshi's Story'' one being green and serpentine in appearance, serving as Baby Bowser's ride in a boss battle; the ''Wario Land II'' one being an uncommon enemy that moves in particular patterns, and can turn Wario into a zombie; the ''DK: King of Swing'' and ''Jungle Climber'' one being another uncommon enemy but can either be a hazard or passed through depending on its opacity, even having a distinct name in the Japanese ''King of Swing''; and the ''Luigi's Mansion'' one being an amalgamation of ''every type of ghost in the series'', which would be odd in general to merge with other ghost types from outside ''Luigi's Mansion'' considering how distinct each ghost in ''Luigi's Mansion'' is. The ''Wario Land'' and ''DK'' ghosts are probably the most similar if we have to merge any of these, considering how both look like the generic white-sheeted ghost with hole faces, and both having angry eyes and pointy ends at the back of their head, but they still act different in the games they're from, and they have different Japanese names, so any visual similarities are most likely coincidental.

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