Talk:Bee

Can we move/split this to Honeybee? Look at this screenshot:

The name Honeybee is official. SWFlash

Is Honeybee just one character or the official name for the entire race? In any case I definately do agree that the Bees of Mario Galaxy need to have there own page, since they are a specific species just like all the other bee-like enemies mentioned here, who already have their own pages as well as a mention here. This article is still good in my opinion though, but just as one that directs us to a wide range of different species inspired by a real-world creature.--Goomboy 11:58, 3 February 2012 (EST)

I think we should split the smg bees too yoshiyoshiyoshi (talk)

The thing with the screen shot is that it doesn't say if that's from the entire species or just one bee whose named Honeybee now if it were to say from the Honeybees then yes we would split/rename them Raven Effect (talk)

Bee Quote

The Bee Quote is

“Welcome to the Honeyhive Kingdom! Our queen rules this land.”

—Bee, Super Mario Galaxy

Can we change this because it is the same quote as the Honeyhive Galaxy quote. We don't want replica quotes, right?

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That's true, though the quote is meant to characterize the personality of the species or character. I personally think it's better than any of the "humorous" quotes because they don't really mean anything to the bees; any character could have said that. I suppose this quote will suffice for now, though I will try to look for better options. MarioComix (talk) 22:43, 4 March 2014 (EST)

Thank you for your opinion. I have seen the new quote, and like it.

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Split?

Pretty sure the enemy bees and SMG bees should have their own articles, seeing as how they're only identical by generic name. Niiue (talk) 23:57, 6 January 2016 (EST)

Quite a few of these Bees (Yoshi's Story, Mario & Luigi, Super Mario Galaxy) could stand to be split, and this article could be used for the generic ones like Super Mario Sunshine and Sm4sh. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

I don't think the M&L ones deserve a split, since from what I can tell, they aren't separate enemies, just glorified projectiles. Niiue (talk) 12:42, 12 January 2016 (EST)

Split Bee (Yoshi's Story) and Bee (Super Mario Galaxy)

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For some reason, this page is essentially just a list of bees in the Mario series. Because of this, the bee NPCs in Super Mario Galaxy and the bee enemies from Yoshi's Story are on this page, even though they have nothing to do with each other or generic real-world bees, any more than they have to do with Beezleys or Zingers. Sure, they don't have unique names, but neither do Bees and we have those split.

Proposer: Niiue (talk)
Deadline: February 14, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. Niiue (talk) Per proposal.

Oppose

1. Walkazo (talk) - The only one I'd consider would be the anthropomorphic SMG Bees, but I really fail to see how the SMS' and YS subjects are anything more than generic, swarming, stinging bees. Bee (Wario Land II) has a specific purpose to turn Wario into Puffy Wario, plus it has a unique Japanese name to help justify the split, but that's not the case here. It's simpler to just keep all the info in one place rather than splitting hairs and content alike, and then risk getting the gutted central article deleted per MarioWiki:Generic Subjects.
2. LudwigVon (talk) Per Walkazo. I would support if it was only for the Super Mario Galaxy's bees. Create a page for SMG's bees is better and let the others bees here.
3. Bazooka Mario (talk) Well, yeah, this is a list of generic bees because generic subjects don't need separate individual articles for every time they occur. I don't see exactly why they need to be split, especially when you could apply the same logic to Butterfly, Chicken (the Mario Golf and Mario Party variants?), Crow, etc. Rule of thumb: recurring generic species should get an article that lists them; otherwise, they should be named with an identifier if the generic species appear twice. Exceptions apply. Also, why stop at animals? Why not split Barrel, Soccer Ball, and Banana by function and game appearance as well?
4. Baby Luigi (talk) Per all
5. Wildgoosespeeder (talk) I'm shocked no one wants to split this up. Past experience editing for MarioWiki, people want to split up everything into something potentially stub-like. I'll still oppose because I hate it when we split things up that don't need to be split. Consider this vote stub prevention.

Comments

In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the name of this species wasn't "Honeybee"? Implied by the image shown above.--^(TALK) 12:56, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Some users are saying that "well, we don't know if that's an individual or a species name" but I think that is looking way too far into it. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 15:44, 31 January 2016 (EST)

In addition, the use of the plural instead of the singular form in the letter, and if it was in the singular, it would be easier to whether or not it is a character or the name of the species. But the use of the plural and the supposed character that makes no distinct appearance may assume that this is the name of the species. Maybe It's too much interpretation.--^(TALK) 15:57, 31 January 2016 (EST)

@Walkazo: I can accept the SMS ones as being generic (seeing as how they don't have a unique design), but the Yoshi's Story bees are definitely deserving of their own article. As I said before, the only reason they're not split is because they didn't get a unique, "Mario-sounding" name.

@Bazooka Mario: Butterflies don't really act all that different in games they appear in (they supposedly attack you in Super Mario 64, but I haven't been able to find proof of it). Chickens are sort of iffy, since splitting them based on their Mario Party appearance could lead to splitting a ton of "variants" of recurring enemies. I actually plan to make a proposal to split Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon crows seeing as how they're about as deserving of a page as ghost bats. As for the various inanimate objects, barrels usually don't act that different between games (unless I missed something, which is entirely possible), and soccer balls only really change in appearance, not function. As for bananas, I actually made a proposal a while back to split the ones that function differently, which failed. Niiue (talk) 16:57, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Many things in Yoshi Story were given unique aesthetics. Like Blarggs, Spiked Fun Guys and Gabon/Spikes. Lots of other enemies get different appearances in different games; when there's no significant behavioural changes and/or unique names to go with it, there's not enough cause to split. - Walkazo 17:12, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Good point. Though I think there's more cause to split with the fact that there are apparently two sizes of the YS bees, which act differently. Niiue (talk) 17:18, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Yes, they all do the same thing, but the entities you want to split aren't drastically different from each other, behaving like normal bees. The sentient ones could use their own article perhaps, but the ones you propose, I don't agree. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 20:38, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Removed the mention of SMS bees since those are pretty much normal bees. Niiue (talk) 21:27, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Still on the oppose side. Per all reason stated here on the comments and on the opposition why Yoshi's Story's bee should not be separate from here. The only one I support splitting are the honeybee from Super Mario Galaxy which I already stated on my vote.--^(TALK) 22:34, 31 January 2016 (EST)

Also, Wildgoosespeeder, short articles aren't stubs. Stubs are articles lacking information. Niiue (talk) 21:32, 31 January 2016 (EST)