Editing Talk:Banana

{{fake heading|3|Merge Both articles}}

{{fake heading|3|Merge only Triple Bananas}}

{{fake heading|3|Merge only Giant Banana}}

{{fake heading|3|Leave unmerged}}

{{fake heading|3|Comments}}

OK, I don't think that this proposal is right because we have the [[Banana Bunch]] article and the triple bananas seem to fit perfectly in it. As for the Giant Banana, I you think that should be merged with the (normal) banana article, then you should merge the other giant variants into their corresponding normal-items' articles as well (IE: [[big shell|Giant Green Shell]], [[Giant Bob-omb]], etc). {{User:Coincollector/sig}}

It's been a few years since the last proposal, so I'd say opinions have changed, especially with [[big shell|every]] [[Giant Cannonball|single]] [[Giant Coin|other]] [[Giant Question Block|item]] [[Giant Ninji|or]] [[Mega Guy|enemy]] [[Giant Yoshi Egg|that]] [[big shell|is]] [[Giant Bob-omb|currently]] [[big shell|has]] [[Big Fuzzy|an]] [[Big Goomba|article]] [[Mega Goomba (species)|on]] [[Mega Goomba (boss)|the]] [[Mega Unagi|Mario]] [[Mega Chomp|Wiki]]. Honestly, I think the barrage of links speaks for itself; there is an overwhelming precedence for giving articles to entities that vary from their counterparts in size, so I don't see why the Giant Banana should be left out.

{{Settled TPP}}

{{Proposal outcome|passed|15-4|Split}}

This has been proposed (and failed) at least twice before, with the last attempt being 8 years ago (ie, before I started actually editing here). The main reason it failed was alleged mingling of the subject, which amounts to "sometimes banana peel items are just called bananas and two ''Mario Kart'' games from the turn of the millennium (MK64 and MKSC) used a banana as an icon for the banana peel." Personally, I find this to be rather weak reasoning to keep them merged, when for all intents and purposes they are different things with different appearances and different functions. The ''Mario Kart'' icon quirk could easily just be mentioned on the banana page while otherwise the information would be covered on the Banana Peel page. We have since changed how many other MK items are organized (splitting the triples, splitting Dash Mushroom from Mushroom, splitting Golden Dash Mushroom from Golden Mushroom, making a generalized Koopa Shell article in addition to the colored ones), and I believe it's time to do the same here. Furthermore, both appear as completely separate interactive objects in ''Donkey Kong 64'', with Bananas being the collectibles and Peels being a slippery interactive object found in a separate context.

#{{User|Mario}} This is the an article on bananas in general. If you're going to split the two based on function, you may as well split everything else. The reasoning for the previous proposals still stands; this is a split on pedantry: "If there were only two distinct uses for bananas, you could try to justify a split, but that's not the case at all. As well as being obstacles in Mario Kart, they're used as similarly slip-causing items in SSB (attributed to the MK games as their origin) and Strikers (and Mario Sports Mix, but as a level hazard, since the bananas as usuable items have different effects); in the DK series, they've been used as coins, health and required collectibles to get to bosses (like Stars and Shines in the Mario 3D platformers); and there's appearances in numerous other series and games with a variety of different attributes. There's no point to separate out any one chunk of the appearances when there are so many equally distinct roles. Best to keep them all in one place." If people want to search banana, they'll find the information in this page regardless if it's banana from DKC or banana from Mario Kart or banana from Smash Bros or banana from Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Furthermore, this proposal's reasoning is to lead to Giant Banana being split into two: the peel with the flesh and the peel without the flesh for these instances, which is honestly overkill and further supports my stance that splitting these is not the way to go. The current state of the article CAN use organization and splitting, but not this way.