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| − | Given all the activity that's going on in Enemy-land recently, there's another point it might be good to raise.
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| − | *On the one hand, we have things like [[Crabmeat]] and [[Taraban]]; [[Buton]] and [[Ball Hog]]; [[Drillin]] and [[Burrobot]]; [[Pen]] and [[Penguinator]] - enemies which are obviously ''conceptually'' the same, but just have different names (oftentimes, it seems, just due to different translations / localisations) and are drawn slightly differently on different games.
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| − | *On the other hand, there's [[Kiki]] and [[Mosqui]], both ''series'' of enemies with just the one name but often significantly different mechanics between games, on pages where 90% of the page length is the templates to their various different portrayls. [[Newtron]] is another example; there were 2 different kinds in Sonic 1 ''itself'' (the ones that dropped down and rocketed at you, and the ones that just shot and vanished), AND then there was a version called [[Meleon]] in 8-bit S2.
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| − | *And on a third hand grafted to the middle of your chest, there's halfway things like [[Artificial Chaos]], different versions of which got given different names in ''SA2'' ([[Artificial Chaos P-1]] and [[Artificial Chaos P-100]]) but then the one in ''Shadow'' was just nameless vanilla.
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| − | I don't really know what procedure should be with these chaps to avoid everything becoming a horrible inconsistent mess. Options as I see them are:
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| − | #We could give every ''appearence'' of every enemy its own page (splitting Kiki up into Kiki (Sonic Adventure), Kiki (Sonic Advance), etx)
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| − | #Or fold all conceptually equivalent enemies into one page (say, for example, having a subsection in [[Penguinator]] saying "A very similar penguin badnik named Pen appeared in ''Sonic Advance'', differing in that ...)
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| − | #Or we could be ruthless and do all the enemies like [[Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Enemies]] (with pictures), in that they're tabulated - because realisticly, there's few if any run-of-the-mill in-game enemies that can't be entirely described by PIC/ NAME / GAME / ZONE (and maybe a 1-sentence DESCRIPTION if you're feeling loquacious).
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| − | Thoughts? I'm torn between options 1 and 3 personally. - [[User:Frozen Nitrogen|Frozen Nitrogen]] 19:08, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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This is a bad category name. It would have worked fifteen years ago, maybe, but Eggman is no longer the only opponent, and having Category:Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Enemies, Category:Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Enemies, and Category:Sonic Unleashed Badniks as sub-categories of Category:Badniks is silly because most of the enemies in those games aren't even ROBOTS (and even those that are are neither animal-themed nor animal-containing).
Methinks we should, as a general rule, replace all instances of the word "Badnik" in category-space to "Enemy". - Frozen Nitrogen 16:11, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
- I'm going to agree about this, the Badnik name hasn't been used for a long time. Even if the Badnik name still needs to be used for some games, they should go under an Enemies category. SOTI 16:14, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
- Considering we use the term "enemies" for navigation in templates, I think this is just another case of categories not keeping up with writing. I guess we should change. - Scarred Sun 16:44, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
- Renaming complete. SOTI 21:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
- Græt success! Frozen Nitrogen
