Talk:Crocodile Isle (Donkey Kong 64)
Wait, the official guide I have calls it K. Rool's Ship. -- Sir Grodus
- Nintendo Power? If so, change it back. The conjecture template was on this page, so I decided to change the name. -- Son of Suns
I assume this meant Prima's Official Strategy Guide, which is considered a lower-priority source. LinkTheLefty (talk) 11:14, 12 October 2014 (EDT)
Merge to Crocodile Isle
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Considering the amount of variance DK Island has, I fail to see why this should be treated any differently. Yes, in DK64, it's a completely mechanical vehicle, but SSBU merges the design to an actual geological formation. On that note, we don't treat Bowser's Castle differently across games (barring stage articles), and it's been treated as a mobile weapon on occasion as well.
Proposer: Doc von Schmeltwick (talk)
Deadline: April 2, 2022, 23:59 GMT
Support
- Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) - Per
- Hewer (talk) Per proposal, recurring locations have never stayed consistent outside of Mario Kart.
Oppose
- LinkTheLefty (talk) I'm actually not too sure about this one. If it only had one name for Donkey Kong 64, I'd probably be for it, but it has multiple, and "Crocodile Isle" just happens to be the one with the highest priority. This part of the series is also kind of weird since we're suddenly supposed to believe that Cranky is DK's father and that the Golden Bananas were always there all along as part of the banana hoard. If anything, this should merge with Blast-o-Matic, which Super Smash Bros. seems to take as the name of the island too.
Comments
@LinkTheLefty: While I'm not ready to jump on the support bandwagon just yet, I don't agree with your arguments. Crocodile Isle doesn't "just happen" to be the name with the highest priority, it comes from the game's manual, which we consider comparable to in-game names as far as priority is concerned. The other names all come from strategy guides, which are secondary sources. Since they contradict a primary source, they should not be considered a factor in this at all. If "Crocodile Isle" were also a guide name, I would understand, but it isn't. We certainly shouldn't merge this with Blast-o-Matic; the SSBU spirit clearly just uses a render of the island as its image for convenience, since no official artwork of the weapon itself exists, and merging things purely because of Smash wouldn't sit well with me anyway. 
13:18, March 20, 2022 (EDT)
