Forum:Removal of Origin Game/Artwork from List of spirits pages: Difference between revisions

#So from what I can see the main reasons for the removal is because of speculation, redundancy and because it's unofficial. But there are problems with that. Exactly what part of it is speculation? If saying Ninten originated from EarthBound Beginnings as seen in the origin game column [[List of spirits (EarthBound series)]] is speculation, then that makes absolutely no sense. If you say the ''way we listed'' them is speculation then I can see that. But [[SW:SPEC]] does not apply here: speculation that should be avoided is if us editors or other people add their theories or assumptions to articles that could potentially spread false information. The origin game/artwork section lists the game the character originated from and where the artwork originated. That is in no way speculation or false information.<br><br>Redundancy makes no sense. As mentioned above many long running series all list only one origin series for all spirits, which is no less redundant than saying all Punch Out spirits artwork came from the Wii title.<br><br>Listing unofficially is no reason to remove it. [[SW:OFFICIAL|We are not official]]. We don't need to list things the way Nintendo does, in fact there are times we don't because [[Template:SSBU character table|the way we list it is better than the official way.]]<br><br>And that brings my last point: by removing the column you're also removing interesting information on where the artwork originated. As someone who has such little knowledge of the Pokemon series (Get off my lawn you pesky kids! There are only 251 Pokemon as far as I'm concerned! *waves double cane*), I never knew the spirit artwork was from the global link I never heard of, and I thought they were Smash- original artwork until I read the article then I learned. So my thoughts are the saying "If it's not broken then don't fix it": keep things the way they are as removing it will probably do more harm than good. [[Image:001Toad.jpg|20px]] <span style="text-shadow:0px 0px 3px #18F">'''[[User:OmegaToad64|<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="blue">OmegαToαd64</font></span>]] • [[User talk:OmegaToad64|<font color="springgreen">the Best Kαrter</font>]]'''</span> 07:48, April 29, 2020 (EDT)

#Listing the origin game makes sense, as hardly anyone is going to be familiar with the histories of every single character/object portrayed as a spirit, and thus it is useful for us to provide that information, and there is really no other sensible place to do so. As for the artwork section, it's essentially a form of trivia, however it once again cannot be put anywhere else (putting it in the trivia section for the articles would clog them up, so short of creating a page for every single spirit in the game, there is no other way to convey the information conveniently), and I'd say that when it's clear what piece of artwork/portrayal inspired the spirit design, it's definitely worth mentioning, both for interest and informative purposes. That being said, you did show concern for some of them being speculative, and where that is the case, by all means remove that part from the column, but leave the origin game information intact (as it is objective). ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 08:10, April 29, 2020 (EDT)