Editing Talk:Bob-omb Battlefield

:::::Unlike the Golden Bananas, though, these missions, despite the similar layouts, are still individual ''named'' levels. Golden Bananas and Power Stars do share some elements in common, which include being major required collectibles, but Power Stars often end the level (though bonus ones exist including the 100-coin reward and that one Toad gives out) while Golden Bananas are rewards and scattered throughout a level. The important thing is that we're not giving Power Stars their articles, we are giving ''missions'' the articles and note the path Mario takes to obtain it and the differences in the mission. ''Super Mario 64'' and ''Super Mario Sunshine'' are ''not'' open-world games. Most, if not all missions, thanks to the level design, usually have Mario follow a relatively linear path so there is no reason those missions should not be full articles. Anyway, I just found out that we do have a [[MarioWiki:New articles#Level_articles|policy on this]] and a [http://www.marioboards.com/index.php?topic=35664.0 collab dedicated to splitting these articles] and remerging them would run against them. You'll have to discuss that in the forum link I provided or via a proposal, though I wouldn't count on it: the owner, {{User|Porplemontage}}, has made the policy in the first place and he has all authority to decide to remerge them or not. {{User:Bazooka Mario/sig}} 19:28, 24 June 2016 (EDT)

::::::Point taken. I do understand the reasoning, particularly for ''Galaxy'' missions since those frequently only allow you to explore certain parts of the level during one or two missions, making them more like levels in a world. One thing I ''don't'' understand however, and pardon me if I am straying somewhat from what's relevant to this particular article, is why we need separate articles for missions in one-star galaxies, like [[Loopdeeloop Galaxy]] and [[Sweet Sweet Galaxy]]. It's redundant and unnecessary; the missions are synonymous with the levels themselves. Isn't this why we don't have separate articles for most ''[[Donkey Kong Country (series)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' boss stages, like [[Very Gnawty]]'s Lair? {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 20:25, 24 June 2016 (EDT)

:::::::Probably for consistency and it might be a good idea to describe the level in galaxy article and then have the mission article go into detail on tasks Mario does. Otherwise, they're there only for the sake of completeness. Not very strong, mind you, but it's not a horrible set up: fortunately, worlds with one missions aren't that common. {{User:Bazooka Mario/sig}} 20:08, 25 June 2016 (EDT)

== "The" Bob-omb Battlefield? ==

I only just now noticed this as I'm splitting [[Meta Crystal]] from the [[List of stages debuting in Super Smash Bros.|''Super Smash Bros.'' stage list]], but apparently we consistently refer to this level as "the Bob-omb Battlefield" instead of simply "Bob-Omb Battlefield", and likewise for "the [[Hazy Maze Cave]]", "the [[Tower of the Wing Cap]]" and "the [[Cavern of the Metal Cap]]". While the latter two sort of make sense, why exactly do we refer to BOB and HMC with "the" and not any other stages? "The" here just seems inconsistent compared to how we usually handle properly named stages. [[User:DrippingYellow|DrippingYellow]] ([[User talk:DrippingYellow|talk]]) 14:25, September 7, 2024 (EDT)

:The ''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide refers to those courses as "the Bob-omb Battlefield" and "the Hazy Maze Cave." [[User:Dwhitney|Dwhitney]] ([[User talk:Dwhitney|talk]]) 15:22, September 7, 2024 (EDT)