Talk:Birdo (species)

WHAT!!! I WAS REPEATEDLY TOLD NOT TO MAKE THIS ARTICLE!!!- Ultimatetoad

Not to be rude, but the proposal that was passed said that we were to split Birdo into her character, and her species. — Stooben Rooben Sorry if that was blunt.

Rooben, Ultimatetoad wrote that before the proposal passed. I didn't know it either, but apparently I'm not the first to propose that this article be created. Wild! Stumpers! 22:13, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

Whoa! Yeah, he wrote this almost a year ago! _Ooops... — Stooben Rooben Thanks for telling me that!

No problem! I had to check the first time I saw it, too! Stumpers! 23:04, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

Yes, of course, I was the one who told him not to create it. Back then, no one decided if we wanted to create it, if Birdo was really a species and I didn't want this article. I still want it, but the proposal was finished. Ah well. :P Paper Jorge ( Talk·Contributions)·

Stumpers' To-Do List

I know I have a big part of the article done, but I'm by no means calling it a day. We need to remove the information that is added to this article from the Birdo article. Here's my list of things to add to this article and remove from the Birdo one when they overlap: Stumpers! 23:04, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

• Adding "Betrayal Most Proper" to the History section
• Biology section
  • physiology
  • life cycle
  • abilities
• Information from the Comics
• Noteable Birdos (technically complete)
• Actual Histroy (from character to species, etc.)

Hey Stumpers should I put this tag because it not finshin. Template:Construction Princess Grapes Butterfly 06:27, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

Not that it's really up to me, but I wouldn't think that the article would need that tag simply because the article has pretty much all the basics that it needs to be substantial for now. With the video game articles that have very little info and still need work, that's when that tag would come in handy. This article has a good portion of information, and it's mostly gonna need just little edits; perhaps the occasional add-of-bio. — Stooben Rooben But I don't wanna step on Stumpers' toes.

I think I will go ahead on put the template on there. Thanks for reminding me about it! The article technically is fine as it is, but I think its good to put the header up there until I can get information about the comics there... I don't want people to think that Birdos have appeared nowhere else! ;) Stumpers! 18:10, 12 March 2008 (EDT)

Okay. I didn't know. :o — Stooben Rooben Sowwy.

Wha? You shouldn't be sorry! :D You're fine! And doing awesome stuff around here. Stumpers! 22:31, 13 March 2008 (EDT)

Hey, thanks! :D W00t! I done been complimented! — Stooben Rooben W00t W00t!

Yaaaay! Nice Template! Princess Grapes Butterfly 15:01, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

Thanks!

Just thought I'd mention this here; I found another comic Birdos appear in, "Betrayal Most Proper". Two attack Mario and Toad when they storm Bowser's Castle looking for Wooster. Here the panel: [1]. -- Sir Grodus 20:06, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

Thanks very much!!

Plural

Is it "Birdo" or "Birdos"? I don't believe I've ever heard a plural used before! If that's the case, we should probably use "Birdos" because we know the plural of "Yoshi" is "Yoshies." Stumpers! 17:32, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

I think it plural if there more then one birdo is might be Birdos right or Birdies. Well is Yoshies have a plural sure that Birdos have plurals too. (This is too confusing!) Princess Grapes Butterfly 19:36, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

I would think (going by my school book) that it would be "Birdoes". That looks weird, but it says if a vowel (o) follows a consonant (d), then an "es" must be added; if it is a vowel-vowel ending, it's just "s". — Stooben Rooben That does look odd though.

I think the Marioverse has a different way to do this, maybe? Paper Jorge ( Talk·Contributions)·

Thanks, Rooben. Thing is, it lookes like "Bir -- does" now... as in "That's what he does for a living." But this is English we're talking about, and there are plenty of strange, non-phonetic things like that. Does anyone know of any word that ends in "do" or "bo" or whatever? Stumpers! 13:06, 15 March 2008 (EDT)

Hmm...well, all I can think of (off the top of my head) is: "Psychos", "hobos", "albinos", and "armadillos". I know there's a lot more than that though. o.0 — Stooben Rooben I agree that "Birdos" looks a lot better, though.

Huh... in all of those, it's "os" rather than "oes"... wild. Stumpers! 14:16, 16 March 2008 (EDT)

I totally agree! — Stooben Rooben XD

Okay, so here's the deal: it's not correct either way because it has never been used in a plural context... this would even be a conjectural title article except that the Super Show has something to the extent of, "Come back with Toad, you stupid Birdo!" BUT, the precident set with Toad, the precedent sent with the words you listed (which was awesome... how did you think of all of this?), the whole "does" appearance of the plurals, and the fact that we all agree it looks better so there is no opposition, I think we can safely use "Birdos." Awesome! Case closed, IMO. Thanks Rooben! Stumpers! 21:55, 16 March 2008 (EDT)

o_0 That's kwazy! But it makes sense. Glad I could help! — Stooben Rooben And for my next trick, I'll investigate why the buttons on Mario's overalls are yellow! XD

I'm coming in a bit late here, but I think the difference between words like "does" and "albinos" is because of pronounciation: "Do" (doo) becomes "Does" (duhs), while albino (ahl-by-noe) keeps the "oh" sound (ahl-by-nose). Since Birdo is pronounced "bird-oh", it should be Birdos (bird-ohs). English is a pain: I cound only figure this out because I'm also learning French and its pronounciation rules. - Walkazo 18:56, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Need another main picture

The character depicted in the main picture is "the" birdo, as she's wearing a diamond ring. We need to get some random birdo. Mumbles 19:19, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

It'd be nice if Nintendo released official artwork of lotsa Birdos, but the current one works because, well, Birdo is a Birdo. YELLOWYOSHI398

Mumbles: the Birdos in Mario Strikers Charged and I believe Super Mario Strikers as well all wore rings. It's a big oversight of the developement team. In other words, what you are saying applies to all gimes except the Strikers games. And don't worry -- I'll replace that image as soon as I fine one better. Stumpers! 21:40, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

Birdos in Sports

Is it really necessary to talk about how the Birdo character represents its species in all these games? It doesn't do that for Yoshi on the Yoshi (species) page, or Toad on Toad (species). Plus its not gender neutral. I'm going ahead and removing the superfluous information, but I thought I'd mention it here anyway. - Walkazo 19:07, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

I included it because, if you were to write an article about a race of humanity, such as Asians, Caucasians, African-Americans, etc. you would include references to individual members of the race. Keep in mind that the Yoshi (species) and Toad (species) pages are far from complete if memory serves. Stumpers! 21:58, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Okay, but having sections for each sport Birdo played was a bit excessive. There should just be, say, a one-liner about how it plays which sports; but it shouldn't be the focus of the section. - Walkazo 23:52, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Agreed. I couldn't believe that I had written over 1000 characters about her and her alone. Stumpers! 01:21, 31 July 2008 (EDT)