Talk:Wire Trap

Merge Wire Trap to Spark or Move Wire Spark to Wire Trap

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The Spark article currently describes two very different versions of the enemy: the standard one appearing in various titles that orbits around objects, and the faceless one from the Game Boy Donkey Kong and the Game Boy Advance Mario vs. Donkey Kong that exist solely as a periodical hazard on horizontal wires. Meanwhile, the Wire Trap enemy from Super Mario Sunshine travels along similar horizontal wires just like the latter, and shares the name "Spark" in Japanese. Wire Sparks and Wire Traps can safely be grouped in the same article, and we can do this by either completely merging Wire Trap to Spark or by simply moving Spark's Game Boy Donkey Kong and Mario vs. Donkey Kong information over to Wire Trap. If we do the latter, this would fully split the Spark enemy between its platform-based and wire-based types, although the Wire Trap article should probably be renamed to "Sparky (Wire Trap)" or "Sparky (wire)" afterwards since Sparky is the most recent name.

Proposer: LinkTheLefty
Deadline: November 20, 2017, 23:59 (GMT)

Merge Wire Trap to Spark

1. LinkTheLefty (talk) Per proposal. This option is a total merge of Spark's Super Mario Sunshine appearance, taking into account that the English name is a localization alteration; the behavioral and physical differences between platform-based and wire-based Sparks themselves are deemed inconsequential as they are now.
2. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) One one hand, the wire behavior is quite similar in that that they travel along a surface...
3. Niiue (talk) Per all.

Move Wire Spark to Wire Trap

1. LinkTheLefty (talk) An alternative to the above. This option acknowledges that while Wire Trap is indeed a Spark, the differences between platform-based and wire-based Sparks in general are too great to share the same article; as a result, the Game Boy Donkey Kong and Mario vs. Donkey Kong appearances will be here.
2. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) ...but on the other hand, they are fairly different as well, and given the sheer amount of Japanese names (which are all admittedly transliterations of the same word) we have on Spark......
3. Time Turner (talk) Per all.
4. TheFlameChomp (talk) Per all.
5. Toadette the Achiever (talk) Per all.