Hello RKS Wiki! As some of you have probably noticed, recently, I've split off more enemy articles from the main two "list" pages, mainly, the Dryad, the Spear Knight (and his cousin the Axe Knight), and the Skull Cannon (and his bro the Skull Flamer), to go along with the enemy pages for the Eggmet, the Living Cross, and the Zorne Robot. My goal is to eventually have pages for every enemy independent of the lists (except for maybe the minibosses), but I know just making pages for everything right away wouldn't work very well. What I am basically here for is to ask for some help and/or advice. How should we do this? What should we split next? (I was thinking maybe the skeleton enemies?) Should we group some enemies together (such as the Evil Eddie and Rush enemies)? Any feedback would be appropriated.--Otherarrow (talk) 17:25, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
If you want to take my word for it, Evil Eddies and Evil Rushes are two distinct enemies (even though IMO Evil Rush should've been replaced by one of those bird enemies from Sonic 2's Sky Chase zone, so it doesn't try to continue shoving "Mega Man Clone" in your face). Only enemies in similar classes should be put together, like the Spear and Axe Knights, for example. Superjustinbros. (talk) 17:42, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Alright. I see. So the Evil Eddie and Evil Rush will be separate. Another question: If I were to make a page for the skeletons, woul I include the Arthur inspired skeleton or the "red" Skeleton? EDIT:Also, would the page be at "Skeletal Warrior" (the first enemy of the grouping) or at a more generic "Skeleton"?--Otherarrow (talk) 18:01, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- OK. So I made a page for the Skeletal Warrior, using the same format I used for the Dryad and Spear Knight pages, instead of the one I used for the Eggmet and Skull Cannon. I didn't include the "Red" Skeleton, as it seemed unrelated aside from being a Skeleton. Any thoughts?--Otherarrow (talk) 19:01, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
OK, let's get to work.[]
I've been really inactive here lately, and for that I apologize. I kinda "stopped" doing this because I have no idea what I am doing. To get more organized, I am going to make a list of all the enemies, see which ones have pages, which ones don't, who should be grouped together, and so on. Please, any help is appreciated here.
- Air Boy
- Amoeba
- Ant
- Astaroth
- Ball Bat
- Big Fish
- Tortoisnail
- Boobeam Trap
- Cheep-Cheep
- Crawling Skull
- Dryad (and mobile and wall variants)
- Dummy Schwer-Muta (and Boot variant)
- Eggmet (and variants. Too many to list here.)
- Elecmine
- Evil Eddie
- Evil Rush
- Flaming Skull
- Fireball (and Oil Fireball plus Maker)
- Fire Plant
- Friender
- Gargoyle Statue
- Goomba
- Hawk
- Hover (and variant)
- Ice Behemoth
- Ice Cyclops
- Ice Curlinger
- Ice Elemental
- Ice Peterchy
- Jellyfish
- Lantern Ghost
- Laser Barrel
- Lava Lotus
- Demon's Cross (and variants)
- Lizard (and variants)
- Burkhardt Maid
- Medusa Head
- Mothraya
- Needle
- Needle Car
- Octopus
- Picture Frame
- Red Skeleton
- Sea Hydra
- Skeletal Warrior (and Skeletal Knight)
- Skull Cannon (and Skull Flamer)
- Skull Lantern
- Vishnu
- Snake Maker
- Spear Knight (and Axe Knight)
- Starfish
- Tree
- Toadman
- Up 'n' Down
- Wanaan
- Zombie (and red variant)
- Zorne Robot (and pink variant)
...Oh lordy, what did I get myself into when I started this. As I said, any feedback would be nice.--Otherarrow (talk) 16:28, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm willing to help and will just take a crack at what looks like it needs to be done next time I have a chance. First though I'll break up the mid boss page since that'll be quicker and out of the way faster. I'd suggest giving Fire Plant it's own page since that directors cut thing WOMI is releasing for Summer Comiket has a new blue variant of it so it would seem.EGGER (talk) 20:57, March 31, 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, right, there is that, isn't there? Thanks. For the moment, I am working on Air Boy, and I planned on just going down the list (after my first few pages were just kinda all over the place). Be sure to link the pages on the list when you make them.--Otherarrow (talk) 21:16, March 31, 2013 (UTC)
- ...Guys. Don't just copy paste the sections. Some of them aren't written that well anyway, and it just looks sloppy. What I have been doing is using the "old" sections as a base, but writing something better with that information.--Otherarrow (talk) 01:10, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm mainly just giving us something to work with for the mid-bosses since there isn't much to say about them really, I've added some more stuff such as weaknesses and a bit more detail where possible. I'll work harder on any enemies I get to. Anyways I was still doing them which was why I hadn't linked them here yet sorry bout that. If I do any I'll start from the bottom of the list and work up so I don't get in your way as much.EGGER (talk) 01:36, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
- Got to Cheep-Cheep, still don't know what to do about it. Going to skip and come back to it once we've figured it out.--Otherarrow (talk) 01:55, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm mainly just giving us something to work with for the mid-bosses since there isn't much to say about them really, I've added some more stuff such as weaknesses and a bit more detail where possible. I'll work harder on any enemies I get to. Anyways I was still doing them which was why I hadn't linked them here yet sorry bout that. If I do any I'll start from the bottom of the list and work up so I don't get in your way as much.EGGER (talk) 01:36, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
- ...Guys. Don't just copy paste the sections. Some of them aren't written that well anyway, and it just looks sloppy. What I have been doing is using the "old" sections as a base, but writing something better with that information.--Otherarrow (talk) 01:10, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, right, there is that, isn't there? Thanks. For the moment, I am working on Air Boy, and I planned on just going down the list (after my first few pages were just kinda all over the place). Be sure to link the pages on the list when you make them.--Otherarrow (talk) 21:16, March 31, 2013 (UTC)
And with that, we are done! Thanks to everyone who helped out, I probably wouldn't have found the motivation to keep at it without you guys! Of course, just because we are done with the split itself doesn't mean we are done period! We still have the matter mentioned below, as well as matters concerning the administrative side of things, as well as general clean up and fact checking. We can do it!--Otherarrow (talk) 21:31, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
Variant order[]
I reverted it on the Dryad page, since it wasn't how I worked all the pages since then, but do you guys think it would be better to revert to the "old Eggmet" way of doing the enemy pages, with a general overview, then all of the enemy types being listed under "Variations" instead of the opening talking about the "base" enemy and the variants talking about variants? Give me some feedback here.--Otherarrow (talk) 16:09, April 1, 2013 (UTC)
Enemy categories?[]
I've noticed how the various characters are divided into subcategories based on element and such. I was wondering, do you think we should do that for enemies? I can see making categories based on element (Fire Enemies, Ice Enemies, Electric Enemies, etc), description (Skull Enemies, Humanoid Enemies, etc), and inspiration (Mega Man Inspired Enemies, Castlevania Inspired Enemies, Mario Inspired Enemies, etc). What do you think? Should we go for it? (Also, sorry for slowing down drastically on my editing. I've been checking in every day though!)--Otherarrow (talk) 16:35, April 9, 2013 (UTC)