Talk:Fortress

Merge with Tower

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I think that Tower and Fortress articles should be merged. They both serve the same purpose and the names are interchangeable. For example, in New Super Mario Bros. U they are called towers but look like fortresses.

Proposer: BluePiranha (talk)
Deadline: December 20, 2012, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. BluePiranha (talk) Per my proposal.
2. 1337star (talk) Both are essentially the same level type (the mid-world or secret variant of the Castle). While that normally wouldn't be worth a merge to me, the fact that post-NSMB, fortresses became much like that game's Towers is enough for me to say merge 'em.

Oppose

1. Marshal Dan Troop (talk) No because they aren't the same a tower is not a fortress so they shouldn't be merged together even if they often play the same role.
2. Coooool123 (talk) As much as I'm for merging articles, I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Fortresses are the things at the end of each level. Towers are the things that the koopalings are in.

Comments

Coooool123, read the fortress article. There are two types of fortresses. The ones at the end of levels and the ones that function like towers. BluePiranha (talk)

Actually, why don't we just move over the NSMB info to the tower page instead of merging? NSMB's fortresses may be towers, but the SMB3, SMW, and end of level fortresses are not. DonnyKD (talk) 16:03, 6 December 2012 (EST)

I would personally vastly prefer the information on the end of level fortresses to be removed, regardless of whether this proposal passes. Covering them starts to seep into violating MarioWiki:Generic subjects. As for pre-NSMB fortress levels, how are they different, than, say the towers of NSMBU? -- 1337star ^{(Mailbox SP)} 16:24, 6 December 2012 (EST)

Well, for starters, every fortress in SMW is not vertical, unlike NSMBU's towers. And in SMW, fortresses are infrequent and are generally harder than the castles. While SMB3's fortresses don't share the latter's benefit, it does have the former. DonnyKD (talk) 16:27, 6 December 2012 (EST)