Template talk:Background characters

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What exactly counts as "background"?

Stuff like the Banzai Bill on Yoshi's Island, the Sonic characters running on Green Hill and the Pokémon on Pokémon Stadium 2 definitely do, but several of the ones listed here have actual gameplay roles, either directly interacting with the players (Support Ghost, Bulborb, King Bulblin) or by triggering effects (Kotake and Koume, Kraid, Dialga and Palkia, Whispy Woods in Dream Land). Would it be more sensible to split them off in a "Stage hazards" template, or call this "Background characters and stage hazards"? (Plus it's missing some characters). --Menshay (talk) 06:06, 11 June 2015 (EDT)

I'd say for the purposes of this template any character not controlled by the character or part of an item is a backround character.--Dinodomain (talk) 12:57, 20 August 2015 (EDT)

The current policy I'd been working from was that named hazard characters (5-Volt, Flying Man, etc.) got pages, whereas background visual-only cameos don't (Magnezone, Celeste, etc.). This template's kind of in an awkward position as a result, although I wasn't really thinking about it when I set that as the guideline. Miles (talk) 14:58, 20 August 2015 (EDT)