Talk:Animal Crossing (series)
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[edit] When searching "Animal Crossing"
I see the series article is being made, which is a good thing. However, when one types "Animal Crossing" in the search box, should it go to Animal Crosing for the GCN or the series article? Other games (like Pikmin for example) go to the game with that title, and at the top it says somehting like: this is about the GameCube game... etc... blahblah... and theres a link to the series article. --Gyroid 18:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] e+ and seasons.
Should Doubutsu no Mori e+ (the second GameCube DnM game only released in Japan) get its own article, or should it just be put in the article about the first GCN game? Also, I don't think the season info should be in this article, rather in the articles of the games themselves. --ComputerBox 16:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merging this with Nookington's and the List Of Animal Characters
I think this absolutely should be done. These two articles belong under the main headings of both Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World. (Particularly because there are some important differences about Nookington's between the original AC and AC:WW.)
- I've commented below about that, but since there are important differences, why aren't they reflected here? So far this article only covers nookington's ACWW. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Strongly Agree - I played both games, and yes they should be merged. Go for it. Starmenclock 15:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yes to Nookingtons, maybe not for characters. Characters like Tom Nook and K.K. Slider should have their own articles though.--StormCommander 22:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- Animal crossing characters don't need their own articles. That's overkil beyond belief. Maybe on gaming wiki, but be reasonable, this is an encyclopedia, not an encyclopedia of animal crossing or of games even. Even if you put all of the information you could find on Tom Nook in an article, how much would you have? Online rumors? How the character was created? When the store closes? How on earth does this require it's own article. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- It should be merged with Nookington's. (Who made that an article anyway?) Not the character list though. The characters absolutely do not need their own individual articles, as most of them are simply interchangeable skins. --tjstrf 11:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Then why do characters like Captain Olimar, Ness, and every single Pokemon have their own article?--StormCommander 10:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AC:WW, not AC:GC--this page needs to be both
this page is supposed to be about Animal Crossing, independant of which system you're playing it on. Unfortunatly, large chunks of the information in this article is game system specific (without even saying that it is system specific). All of the images are from AC:WW and too much of the content is. It's perfectly possible to give either content that is not system specific (true for both games), or when the games have differences, to make a note of them. Nookington's for example should read: "The final upgrade. Nookington's has a second floor. Extra staff now include Tommy and Timmy, two young raccons who run the second floor. In AC:WW, Nookington's also includes a barber shop on the first floor and Harriet, the female Shampoodle that runs the barber shop."
The other possibility is to let the system specific information be on the ACGC and the ACWW pages, not here. Oddly enough, ACGC has much more generic information in places than this page does.
My other suggestion would be to take out the specific gaming information from both this page and the ACGC page and any thats overloading the ACWW page and create specific gaming pages on gaming wiki, and have this page link to those pages. This would help the ACGC and the ACWW page on wikipedia focus on the other aspects of the articles that should be focused on and put the gaming stuff in one place.TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- The reason the articles are this way was because the person who made this article, cut & pasted a lot of the content from Animal Crossing (GameCube) & inserted it here. SNS 17:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
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- That makes no sense. This article is WW centric because information was taken from the ACGC page? I could get it being take from the AC:WW page--though I haven't seen this material anywhere on wikipedia. It must have been really edited out. No matter where it came from, this article is inaccurate beyond belief and sounds like a WW article. Not to mention that it focuses on all of the wrong things for a wiki article. Of all of the AC articles, this one sounds most like a gaming article. TStein 12:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] searching for animal crossing and getting redirected
when searching for animal crossing I am directly taken to this page. the redirect page has only this page. The only way to get to the GC page or the WW page or any other animal crossing page is through this page. I think that this should be changed. Searching for animal crossing should give you all of the animal crossing pages--the other articles shouldn't only be available through more complex searches or direct links. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- This article is the head of a category. Hence, the main link must lead here. What you are suggesting, a disambig page, would be inane unless there were other unrelated and equally notable entities called Animal Corssing that weren't games in this series. --tjstrf 11:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Well, a disambig page has been added, so that's the end of that arguement. And while you're right in saying that there are no entries pertaining to Animal Crossing that don't relate to the series--there are enough Animal Crossing articles that a disambig page makes sense. People shouldn't have to read this article in order to be able to find the article they want. That doesn't make sense. If they are looking for information on AC:WW--they shouldn't have to come here in order to link there. That's using this article as a disambig page--and that's a bad idea. Not only because users will miss links that do exist, but because this article would have to be really on top of things. TStein 12:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nook's Shop References
Would it be alright to mention possible references that Nook's shops may refer to? For example, Nook's Cranny refers to the popular term "nook and cranny" (such as "searching every nook and cranny"), while, Nookway can refer to the supermarket Safeway. Just a small suggestion that my sister and I have noticed after playing the game on DS. CrazyNekoRun 05:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- No. These articles, the Animal Crossing articles that is, are already so overrun with completely unnecessary stuff that adding more stuff right now really isn't what we need. At some point, when the articles have been rewritten and pared down to the salient points so that they read like encyclopedia articles and not bad gaming guides, a sentence or two on how the game is filled with clever puns might not be so bad. It wouldn't say anything about the store most likely, it would probably mention how things are named in the game. Animals are as likely to be a pig and named "bacon" and they are to be a pig and named "oink". It would probably be along those lines or something, because it is a running thing through the games and clearly, the programmers spent a lot of thime and had a lot of fun, especially with characters like Static and Lucky. But the WW, Crossing and GC articles are all completely ridiculous. They don't have necessary information, and are overrun with game information. I'd refrain from adding anything unless it was absolutely necessary. Correct things that are incorrect, fix grammar. That's my vote anyway. TStein 12:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This article needs a complete rewrite..
This article isn't really about the series, more about the game mechanics. Although i won't have time to do it myself, I suggest the article get a full rewrite. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 17:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC).
- Yes I know. I'm in the middle of working on it. I'm trying to make it a mix between the Animal Forest article and this one. I'd like this article to have the important information about game systems and selling stats and then some sections on the game. Ideally, I think the way the articles should work is that the (series) article should only have info on basic things that make the game unique and that are in all of the games, or a majority, so 4 out of 5 versions. I'm working on this article first, and then I'm working on the others. TStein 10:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RFC
Hey...we only have the input of three people at Talk:Dōbutsu no Mori (film)#Requested move and I'd realy like more. Since this article is closely related your opinions would be welcome. Miss Mondegreen | Talk 20:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
