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I should note that the blue jays from the Wooded Kingdom are consistently referred to as "small birds" in ''The Art of Super Mario Odyssey'' - they are never referred to as the species they clearly are based on, nor are they ever generically just called a "bird", so the impression I have is that it is a literal translation of the same Japanese name used for the white birds of older games. That tells me they are recognized as the same subject. If these blue jays are "small birds", then Bowser's Kingdom's sparrows of the same name are certainly "small birds". That's at least my view. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 16:01, April 7, 2024 (EDT) | I should note that the blue jays from the Wooded Kingdom are consistently referred to as "small birds" in ''The Art of Super Mario Odyssey'' - they are never referred to as the species they clearly are based on, nor are they ever generically just called a "bird", so the impression I have is that it is a literal translation of the same Japanese name used for the white birds of older games. That tells me they are recognized as the same subject. If these blue jays are "small birds", then Bowser's Kingdom's sparrows of the same name are certainly "small birds". That's at least my view. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 16:01, April 7, 2024 (EDT) | ||
:I’m not arguing whether the small birds take inspiration from the little birds, but I see it as an expansion of the concept: in the Mushroom Kingdom and Bonneton we have the familiar little birds, that then ''Odyssey'' reveals being part of a bigger family of small birds. It should be noted that this page deals with the little birds because they are recurring and even had gameplay value in at least one game. They definitely deserve an individual page. Now, we might argue that there’s simply too little material to make a page about the broader small birds, and at this point we can decide to make this a page about the small birds as well. Absolutely nothing wrong with this, but I think at this point we should indeed vote on this intermediate step before jumping to conclusions and already making the rename. This is my position, and sorry if it wasn’t clear.—[[User:Mister Wu|Mister Wu]] ([[User talk:Mister Wu|talk]]) 07:13, April 8, 2024 (EDT) | |||