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Do these really need their own individual articles? There are at least 900(!) Power Moons in the game, most of which serve more as collectibles scattered around the kingdom than actual goals/objectives like in 64, Sunshine and Galaxy, and don't really provide us with much information to go on other than "[Power Moon name] is a Power Moon in Super Mario Odyssey. It can be found in [location]." With the Power Star missions from previous games, you have a set goal, how to get there, and what you find along the way, all of which vary between missions, but with a lot of these Power Moons, you just have a location. If anything, the Power Moons that would have enough information to be separate articles are the objective-based ones (the ones found on the pedestals that trigger an event within the kingdom when collected), Multi Moons, and the secret areas. Mario JC 10:00, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Yes, actually. We have coverage on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door missions from the Trouble Center, missions from Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, and even cover secret missions from Super Mario Sunshine. Plus, these are technically missions, so they should get full coverage in separate articles as per policy. As for the issue of content, I think I can work around that. ^(T|C) 15:06, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Padding is bad and you shouldn't try to force them to reach a certain word limit. Hello, I'm Time Turner. 15:09, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

I agree that there isn't a lot of information to put on these articles, and I opposed the creation of those Thousand-Year Door and Paper Jam missions for the same reason. Whatever information that's already on the page is really all there is. The missions and levels in other main Mario games require the player to play through the level in its entirety and/or complete specific requirements throughout said level. The Power Moons appear to just be a "one-and-done" type of thing and are more akin to Star Coins or maybe Green Stars. 15:12, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Please read this comment before any further discussion is made. ^(T|C) 15:18, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

I agree with Alex and Mario jc this time. While they do have individual names, they are much more like Green Stars or Star Coins than actual missions. I do not feel it is necessary to create over 800 pages of collectables that can be explained in one or two sentences on the kingdom pages. --TheFlameChomp (talk) 15:21, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

That actually contradicts what you said about the PMTTYD Trouble Center missions. There is actually one of them that is very simple to complete, and yet it is an article because all the others have articles. Plus, Thousand-Year Door Trouble Canter missions also don't boot Mario back to the Trouble Center. How about if we actually start creating the articles to see if there is indeed a need for them, as it seems that the issue is currently one-sided. ^(T|C) 15:34, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

How about we come to a decision first. 15:38, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Making the articles is not a valid solution when the point of the discussion is that we don't want the articles to be made. Hello, I'm Time Turner. 15:40, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

I should also point out that Perilous Vine Climb is also an article amid the level's very short length, and Double 1-Up Mushroom is also an article despite its short length. My point here is that the MarioWiki community has generally accepted short articles (and, as Yoshi876 (talk) pointed out here, short articles are not stubs by themselves), and even if there are over eight hundred Power Moons, there are still measures we can take to alleviate the problems, such as splitting the "missions" category by kingdom. ^(T|C) 15:46, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

836 Power Moons (according to what I got when I added all the moons together from the SMO page) are in the game. I would imagine that story based moons (including Multi Moons) will be given articles. Although, the Multi Moon in the Darker Side is questionable due to not only it being the only moon there, but also the whole place is about getting to that moon. Article creation of those that are smaller isn't a good idea. How about you put it in a Sandbox (probably in your userpage) and then we can make a decision based on that. Yoshi the SSM (talk) 15:47, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

*Smacks himself in the head* Right, the sandbox. Thanks, YSSM! I'll get around to that as soon as I can! ^(T|C) 15:50, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Okay, so, just because an article is short doesn't mean it shouldn't be made. However, the type of the article's subject is the thing being called into question. Yes, these are the main collectables in the game, but they aren't levels and aren't exactly missions. They're more like Star Coins given an objective name. 15:51, 30 October 2017 (EDT)

Would you give an article about each individual purple coin if they were all named? Hello, I'm Time Turner. 15:52, 30 October 2017 (EDT)