Talk:Dorrie: Difference between revisions

:That's exactly what I thought too. If only we still had the Super Mario 64 game guide. {{User:BabyLuigiOnFire/sig}} 23:33, 2 April 2013 (EDT)

::Well the game itself refers to Dorrie as he and the game usually takes precedent over game guides. {{User|Marshal Dan Troop}}

== Dorries (species?) ==

There's multiple dorries, they're all on this page, so should we make all the dorries into their own page and this one separate, or make all the dorries this page collectively? [[User:Chat Man|Chat Man]] ([[User talk:Chat Man|talk]]) 14:58, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:I know there are multiple Dorries in ''Super Mario Odyssey'', but do other games have multiple Dorries, too, like ''Mario Party''? {{User:Alex95/sig}} 15:00, 28 October 2017 (EDT)

:::::::I believe I have responded to most of your points. A character with a generic name who has an important role and decent screen time has ''more'' right to have their own page than "someone you talk to in one game and oh yeah they given you a minigame thing''. And yes, the generic named ones ''do'' have less reason to have their own articles, especially given there apparently is no central "Yoshi" character anymore. Apparently a lot of species just have members with the species name, and appearing in one instance for a few minutes should not make it gain an article if an important, lengthier instance in another won't. It's arbitrarity, and that's bad. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 03:25, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

::::::::You still haven't touched on the uniquely named characters in ''Mario Party Advance'' whose roles are equal to those of the generically named (but still ''named'') characters, nor my proposition about giving articles to the examples you listed, nor did you actually go into detail about your examples (I still don't know how [[Yurarin Boo]] and [[Faster Than a Speeding Penguin]] relate to this), but regardless. On the topic of examples, what are you talking about when you mention someone who "has an important role and decent screen time"? An important role and decent screen time in relation to what, and in what context? Also, [[Yoshi|we clearly still have a page on the individual Yoshi]], as we do with [[Toad]], [[Birdo]], and others, so regardless of how things are being set up today, that point is meaningless. ''Also'', arbitrary in what sense? Are you saying that it's not arbitrary to only give articles to pages with obviously unique names? That completely ignores the possibility of giving articles to subjects who aren't named at all, despite the notable role they play. How is that not arbitrary? {{User:Time Turner/sig}} 14:08, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

We should just alter this page to make it for all dorries collectively [[User:Chat Man|Chat Man]] ([[User talk:Chat Man|talk]]) 01:42, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

:I say we leave it for the Dorrie character. We can easily say "members of his species" if the yellow and purple ones aren't explicitly called Dorrie, and if they are, just convert the whole page to a species page. Not to mention, three games have had multiple [[Petey Piranha]]s, but we don't change the whole page to turn him into a species. 03:30, 29 October 2017 (EDT)

Somebody make this a talk page proposal, it'll make this easier (also the dorries in mario oddessy are refered to as "Dorrie". [[User:Chat Man|Chat Man]] ([[User talk:Chat Man|talk]]) 14:13, 29 October 2017 (EDT)