Talk:Metroid (disambiguation)

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Please do not remove the Metroid Navigation template, as it links to many items of interest. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:01, 2005 July 9 (UTC)

It's a disambiguation page. You really don't put template to multiple links like this on a disambiguation page. This is what the disambiguation page itself is for. In fact, the disambiguation page itself is pretty much overkill, but still, the template should not be on here. What if there's something else out there called "Metroid" that isn't related to Nintendo's series? I mean, should I add {{Half-Life}} to Freeman? It's stupid. So really, the only reason I'm not RE-removing it is because I don't want to start an edit war just yet. --Shadow Hog 00:40, 10 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need this page?

Considering that the term Metroid refers to one of these three items (the species, the 1986 NES game, and the series as a whole), and that on the Metroid page, there's already a disambiguation line that has a link to the Metroid series page, shouldn't we just put one more comment in the disambiguation linking to Metroid (video game species) and then eliminate this page entirely?

I feel that this separate disambiguation page would be necessary if there were at least two quite distinct items that a single term referred to (such as Star Wars referring to both the movie series and the Strategic Defense Initiative), but in this case, the series is named after the single word common to all the games, which happens to be the name of the first game, which is named after the star creature that justifies the plot of that first game. These three items are strongly related, and I doubt that we would see an unrelated item called "Metroid" anytime soon (even if Nintendo would let go of the name copyright, which is highly unlikely). ~GMH talk to me 03:10, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]