Talk:Chestnut King

Is the name a translation error? Was this guy supposed to be the Goomba King? --Zeta 00:14, 15 April 2008 (EDT)

Not a translation error. The Chestnut King is named cos' the Kingdom Luigi traverses in TTYD has a food motif to it. My Bloody Valentine

I'm not so sure. At least in the German translation of the game, he is called "Gumba-König" (which means Goomba King, of course). "Chestnut King" is a literal translation of the Goomba King's/Goomboss' Japanese name, Kuri King (クリキング). It seems that the German translators paid more attention on the name (but not in general, they renamed Toadette "T. Tanja" this time). --Grandy02 13:04, 11 July 2008 (EDT)

I think German translations are Japanese->German and not English->German for various reasons in various games. The German names are mostly much closer to the original Japanese name. - Cobold (talk · contribs) 16:06, 11 July 2008 (EDT)

You are right, the European translations for M&L1 and PM2 are obviously based on the Japanese texts, also beacuse Vivian is a tranny in at least the French and Spanish translations. But I think PM, M&L2 and SPM translations are based on the English texts, because for some important characters the English names are used in two or more European translations in these three games (e.g. Shroobs, Tippi, Kammy Koopa, Mimi, partners in PM). --Grandy02 06:44, 12 July 2008 (EDT)

Uniqueness?

This gets its own page and not on the List of implied characters... why? 12:20, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

So do Scarlette and the Croacus dynasty (the latter of which at least have pictures). Probably due to his importance in a secondary character's little story arc, but I really don't know. I think the reason has waned over time. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 15:23, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

If the Chestnut King warrants his own article, so do Minister Crepe and Princess Eclair. Otherwise this should just be merged. 17:02, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

The reasoning given in the edit summary of List of implied characters states that the reasoning for the split was "There's enough interesting information here, plus he's referenced multiple times in Luigi's story." Since this has a similar amount of content to the section for Princess Eclair, and there are a few larger sections (Pixl Queen, for example), this seems like something that could probably be merged. --TheFlameChomp (talk) 17:17, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

I'm not seeing a good reason to keep this. Him being only mentioned in Luigi's arc, no matter how important he is in that arc, doesn't give him enough legitimacy to warrant an article of his own. He's never seen and has no bearing on the main story of The Thousand-Year Door. Any categories related to him can just be on his redirect. 18:16, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

I support merging, but to the Goomba King page. The translations in other languages and TTYD having other instances of the English translators mangling references to the original Paper Mario ("Mushville" = Toad Town, "Goomstar Temple" = Crystal Palace) makes it blatantly obvious to me it's supposed to be that character. --Glowsquid (talk) 19:06, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

That makes sense to me. We can just add a {{redirect}} to the top. 19:48, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

Redirect to what exactly? The info would go on that page alone. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 20:53, 15 July 2018 (EDT)

Could be like

"Chestnut King" redirects here. For the implied character from Luigi's story in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, see List of implied characters#Chestnut King.

on Goomboss's page. 10:44, 16 July 2018 (EDT)