Talk:Yoshi's Island

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Good articleYoshi's Island has been listed as one of the Video games good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
April 20, 2015Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 10, 2015.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Shigeru Miyamoto gave Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island its signature, hand-drawn art style in defiance of Nintendo's marketing department?

Requested move 11 February 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. per consensus against moving. (closed by non-admin page mover) echidnaLives - talk - edits 06:22, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Yoshi's IslandSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's IslandSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island rather than just Yoshi's Island is the full WP:COMMONNAME per reliable sources in the article. It's the equivalent of moving The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to just Breath of the Wild. DecafPotato (talk) 05:22, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose - According to the article, "Yoshi's Island was ported to the Game Boy Advance as Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 in North America on September 23, 2002". The sequel is called Yoshi's New Island. It's clear that even to Nintendo, the other part was interchangeable. To all but the original reviewers it is commonly called simply "Yoshi's Island", and I would argue that is indeed the common name. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 05:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. I think almost 30 years on, "Yoshi's Island" is far and away the common name. Very few contemporary sources type out the full name when referring to this game and there's no ambiguity as to which game they're talking about. Axem Titanium (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose move. The common name is "Yoshi's Island". O.N.R. (talk) 08:15, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Can I get any more details on how we're coming to the COMMONNAME claims on either side of the argument? I'm not voting yet, as all I have is anecdotal evidence...but I always felt like the full name was more frequently used honestly. Sergecross73 msg me 13:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    A check of the more recent sources in the gaming press led me to that conclusion, as opposed to contemporaneous ones. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 14:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. When I went through the sources in 2015 it was far and away the most common name for the topic. It's the best balance of the naming criteria (article titles policy): the most recognizable (the name most people will call it), natural (reflecting what it's usually called), precise (unambiguously identified), and concise (not longer than necessary to identify). czar 22:30, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Obelix[edit]

a boss in the second stage ist obviously inspired by Obelix, yet there ist nothing to be found about it. Any ideas? KhlavKhalash (talk) 11:13, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If no reliable sources point something out, it cannot be included in the article. Sergecross73 msg me 13:36, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]