Talk:List of Crash Bandicoot characters

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  • Copyedit: Needs plenty as several character sections repeat the same statements 2-4 times.
  • Wikify: Make sure first instance of each game title is properly wikified
  • Merge: Uka Uka, Dingodile, Tiny Tiger, Doctor N. Gin, Doctor Neo Cortex, Crunch Bandicoot, Coco Bandicoot, Aku Aku, Titans (Crash of the Titans)
  • Verify: Grouping of games as "main series" and "spin offs" needs sourcing to ensure it is a legitimate classification and not a fan-driven split
  • Cleanup: List has a lot of speculation and original research; several character personalities use short video game quotes to extrapolate extended personality traits, including classifying characters as "masochistic", being "bipolar" and "depressed", etc.
  • Expand: Introduction needs expansion and rewrite to be more in-line WP:LEAD
  • NPOV: Several areas are not written in a neutral tone, and many game characters seem to be missing all together (focuses mostly on the "main" series
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[edit] Deleted characters

Im a bit annoyed because for no apparent reason somebody has deleted a lot of the characters from the list of crash bandicoot characters page. I also stated if the secondary and minor characters were good, bad or neutral. For some reason somebody has deleted that too, I hope when I put this back on, somebody will not delete the content again. This page is far more accurate than the box of crash characters as on the box it shows alot of the characters in the wrong category, such as willie wumpa cheeks being neutral when he is actually bad.

[edit] Add new charcter descriptions

It would also be good if somebody could add pictures and character descriptions to the characters that have not got an article.

[edit] Page protected again

Because of sock-puppetry and block evasion, I have reprotected this page. I regret that this is necessary. It is semi-protected, so established and trusted users should have no problem editing the page. - Philippe | Talk 20:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ripper Roo

Has been vandalised. Needs removing, please. Otley (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). - Philippe | Talk 16:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Eh, I just realized this is a brand new account. You're right, you can't fix it. Perhaps someone else will. I don't have enough experience with the subject matter to do it myself. - Philippe | Talk 16:11, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Characters

I have two suggestions to put here.

  • #1 is: I have read the article that discusses the Titans (from Crash of the Titans ), and there seems to be a section in that article that talks about three or four Minions. That article was written just for the Titans, so the Minions section in the article should not even be there. Maybe it should be moved to this article: List of Crash Bandicoot Characters. That would make a lot more sense.
  • #2 is: If anyone has some pictures of any of the characters listed in the article, then they should be put in.

I ♥ Crash. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.26.91 (talk) 01:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Where Are Bearminator?? (one of the bosses from crash bash) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.180.146.79 (talk) 20:36, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Articles

The articles should be merged with this one.Intellegent9876522 (talk) 12:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't count on it just yet. The Crash Bandicoot series, having sold over 40 million units, is pretty popular and to an extent major, and according to Wikipedia:Deletion policy/Minor characters, major characters from major works deserve their own articles. We'll have to see what the others have to say about this. However, I do think the Titans and Crunch Bandicoot should be merged for now since they haven't appeared in enough games to be considered major (four main series games as of Titans, five when the eighth main game is announced). Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 13:36, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
That page is very old and out of date (as noted by the historical tag). The status of the characters in the series has nothing to do with the necessity of having articles on them. Only the creation and reception information has anything to do with it (as per WP:FICT). If it isn't obtained for any of the characters, even Crash doesn't need an article. I have to imagine Crash and Cortex at least have the potential, but I wouldn't say that it is definite or anything. I would definitely start searching if you haven't already. TTN (talk) 13:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, the list of Crash Bandicoot characters is getting too big as it is (There's less than 70 characters in the entire series). I was thinking we split the page into a Major characters in Crash Bandicoot and Minor characters in Crash Bandicoot article just in case. Each of the nine major characters (Crash Bandicoot, Aku Aku, Coco Bandicoot, Doctor Neo Cortex, Doctor N. Gin, Tiny Tiger, Uka Uka, Dingodile, and Doctor Nitrus Brio) have plenty of info on them, so I don't think it's entirely improbable. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 14:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
There is definitely a lot of trimming and reformatting that should go on before a split is deemed necessary. I would imagine that a final polished product with every character merged shouldn't go too far above 50KB. Those characters have in-universe information, but that rarely translates into having real world information. It's not impossible, but it's also not likely for anything below Crash and Cortex, and it's not even set in stone for those two. I definitely suggest that you spend some time trying to build reception sections for them. TTN (talk) 14:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the merging. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I strongly support a merge of all the character articles into this one. Randomran (talk) 04:38, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

This article's already too big to take that much information. I'm still going with my "Major characters in Crash Bandicoot article" idea. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 10:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps we should wait for Mind Over Mutant to come out, see who appears, then decide how best to seperate the characters. As I see it, there are two sorts of characters: Mainstream and Spin-Off. Furthermore, Mainstream characters can be split into being either major or minor.CBFan (talk) 10:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)