Talk:Universe of Monkey Island

Characters images

If you're going to use some of the images of the characters from MILegend.com at least make an external reference to the site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blondebeard2 (talk • contribs) 10:59, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

If you click on the images you'll see that people have referred to the site. Personally I'd be all for removing most of the images and trimming a lot of the content - but I've come to learn that you can be fighting a losing battle with pages like this! Playclever (talk) 11:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

I have to agree that a lot of the info should probably be cut, especially in the character section. For example; Captain Dread. Do we even really need 2 paragraphs and an image for a character that served no purpose except as transportation between islands in one game of the series. But, whatever.Flygongengar (talk) 21:57, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Monkey Kombat

Is Monkey Combat written with a C or a K like Mortal Kombat?

K. It's a play on Mortal Kombat. In the game, a Mortal Kombat-style symbol, with a monkey istead of a dragon, is shown on screen. -- Supermorff 20:08, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• • Removed the last few sentences from the Big Whoop-section. Some Gilbert-loyalist attempted to claim that CMI and EfMI are not canon (HM)

i think big woop should have its own page

The entry on Big Whoop is so small, that a lot of content should be added about it, if it is to have its own article. There's no point in having a seperate article on Big Whoop which will never be more than a few lines long. Poulsen 16:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Tri-Island Area

We don't really know, if The Rock of Gelato and Flotsam Island are the part of Tri-Island Area. Probably not, as they are portrayed as part of "Gulf of Melange". What's more, the Flotsam Island article is a lot of speculation. Nobody in game said anything about it being in the middle of Tri-Island Area or about the loot the citizens collect from sunken ships. Chandagnac (talk) 21:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Article's name

The name of this article doesn't seem right. Mabye it should be renamed to something more professional sounding? bruce89 21:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

It probably should. Any suggestions? Shinobu 23:24, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I also agree. How about something along the lines "Monkey Island Glossary"? Then maybe we can start to put more stuff in, including more minor stuff. Kris 07:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Hm... "Monkey Island glossary"... sounds much better than "Monkey Island things" (but note that the g shouldn't be a capital, as per MoS). Putting more stuff in sounds okay to me, but watch out for WP:CRUFT. Shinobu 06:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I see your point...I wasn't aware of "fancruft". If it was written carefully enough, without insane fanatic waffle and just sticking to the facts, it might be OK. Regarding my proposed new title, glossaries tend to be quite concise, so perhaps that's not totally appropriate for the fairly bulky descriptive information this article requires. Another consideration as well is the large number of existing Monkey Island articles...got to be careful not to repeat stuff. Perhaps this article would be better split into the existing pages as extra information sections or something, although I do like the idea of a page for MI knick-knacks. It obviously just needs some consideration before anything is started. Kris 10:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Glossary also contains extended descriptions. Even if the descriptions here are a bit longer than is the norm for glossaries, I still think "glossary" beats "things" as an article title. Shinobu 17:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps some variation of "Monkey Island series concepts", as with Minor Discworld concepts? The page Wikipedia:Naming conventions might be worth a look. --Nick R^Talk 00:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Had a look at the naming conventions, I couldn't see anything relating to this problem — may just have missed it — perhaps it would be worth bringing it up on the discussion page to see what people think. The Minor Discworld concepts page is broadly analogous, and a good point to bring up, however, things like "Sea Monkey" and "Rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle", which are more objects than concepts, would struggle to naturally come under this title. I know you said maybe a slight variation exists that would be appropriate Nick R, you may be right but it escapes me for now. I looked at some of the other glossaries and you're right Shinobu, they do seem to elaborate a little more than is standard. If the definitions that are already on this page could be pared down a little, and some more brief entries created for other minor things to split to larger definitions up, it might work as a glossary. Kris 11:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I moved the page to a new title and then had a look at this talk page to see this debate going on. Sorry if I might have been to bold. I've called the article "List of Monkey Island topics", but maybe concepts is a better name. mensch • t 13:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah that one probably gets my vote for now. Kris 15:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I still think the title leaves a lot to be desired, the words "List Of" and "topics" neither suggest a very full article, nor really explain what it is for. I think we have a bit of an identity crisis, and need to revisit the reasons that this information isn't on (a) the series page or (b) an individual game page. Failing that, or perhaps in addition to that, we might need a "Monkey Island Universe" style page where we can merge the minor character and tri-island area topics with this article. -- Playclever (talk) 22:17, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm a little unsure about the current "World of Monkey Island" naming, which would normally be appropriate but in this case is also the name of the fan site this page uses multiple images from (and it also takes the same form as entries in the series, Secret of/Curse of). I've no idea what a better name would be, though. -- Playclever (talk) 07:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

What do we think of "Monkey Island Universe", as you suggested above? Like you said, "World of Monkey Island" was a popular web site... and "Universe of Monkey Island" (like the Kingdom Hearts page) sounds too strange... spacey. Another alternative, of course, is the old "Tri-Island Area" title. -BaronGrackle (talk) 15:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

"Monkey Island Universe" is better than the current title I would say, although "universe" is typically used for things like epic space adventures which actually take place on a universe scale (although perhaps MI5, who knows? :)). I don't think the "Tri-Island area" is really appropriate, because it doesn't mean anything to someone who doesn't already know about the "world" of Monkey Island. Another alternative might be "The Fiction of Monkey Island" which has the advantage of being fairly explicit about the topic... but seems to have little precedent and is perhaps a bit dry. At a push I would say "Monkey Island Universe" right now. Playclever (talk) 08:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

E-ticket

what the heck was the E-ticket at the end of lechucks revenge about? it confused the monkeys out of me sailor cuteness-ready for love 15:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The E-Ticket was a reference to Disney Land and most likely the POTC-ride. -TheHande 13:07, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I Deleted sulfuric acid beacuse battery acid is actually sulfuric acid...

I changed this back, because although the above is true (you learn something new every day!) it is not as spoken in the game. Playclever (talk) 20:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge of fictional Monkey Island list-based topics

I have been bold and (a) renamed this page and (b) merged both the Minor characters in Monkey Island and Tri-Island Area articles into this page. This had been previously proposed on the Monkey Island (series) talk page... well, the tri-island area part had anyway... and having played around with the change, I believe that it works.

The article is large, but no larger than, say, the Southampton article that I have worked on -- I believe the merge will enable us to keep a coherent view of the fictional Monkey Island topics, and to ideally reduce them down to a more streamlined and encyclopedia-like form. Playclever (talk) 22:21, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

• Better give me some bloody good reasons not to be bold myself and revert... Thanos6 (talk) 00:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

That's disappointing, I was hoping based on the discussions on the series page that this would not be a controversial merge :( What is it that you object to about the merge? My primary reason was that we had three pages of only partial information, particularly the "list of monkey island topics" page; we had a page for minor Monkey Island characters that didn't clearly deliniate which characters were considered major vs minor (I mean the major ones weren't mentioned); there is a general precedence for fiction-based pages on videogames to be grouped into a single "universe" page; this allows for more focused editing and reduces duplication. Please feel free to revert if you feel strongly, but you might want to consider keeping at least some of the modifications I made, such as the smaller text in the character listings and some of the general edits. -- Playclever (talk) 02:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I've been asked for more reasons for the move. I see this page as a portal into the fictional world of Monkey Island -- there are sections on here that are significant enough to warrant their own page (as the most prominent characters do). I don't object to individual sections being split out and expanded, but I didn't think the article should be arbitrarily split into three parts as it was. I don't think they make too much sense out of the context of each other.

I also believe this setup is much easier to navigate than the original pages -- if I had clicked on a link in the character page, it might have referred me to a subsection in the island page, and vice-versa. By linking the subsections within this page, and linking out to other pages from within those subsections, it is easier to cross-reference content, avoid broken links, and prevent duplication, and I did find some while compiling the page, particularly between the island and characters sections.

There are alternative approaches that would satisfy me somewhat; merging into two articles, "all characters of" and "world of", for example. but I really liked the way this page turned out. -- Playclever (talk) 09:26, 7 July 2008 (UTC) (now edited for a bit more coherence :) Playclever (talk) 19:29, 7 July 2008 (UTC) )

For what it's worth, I approve the merge. There were some people wishing to merge certain elements with the main article on Monkey Island (series), which I felt would have been unacceptible in terms of covering them. -BaronGrackle (talk) 13:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I notice an editor has just removed all the material that was merged in. This is simply wrong. Its an attempt to do a delete without discussion. If am thinking of reverting. DGG ( talk ) 21:07, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree with DGG that merged content should not be removed without discussion and as some of the associated articles now nominated at AfD have improved since, we actually now have even more useful content that could potential be merged here. Best, --A Nobody^{My talk} 01:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Kenny Falmouth

Can we have here listed Kenny Falmouth from The Curse of Monkey Island who was voiced by Gary Coleman? --Victory93 (talk) 02:32, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree with this, I feel he was one of the more iconic minor characters in The Curse of Monkey Island. SirGuybrush (talk) 02:27, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Monkey and Dinky are not part of the Tri-Island Area, neither is Flotsom

Okay, first, Monkey and Dinky are not part of the Tri-Island area. This misunderstanding comes from the image used in the article. The image illustrates the world of Monkey Island at the time of Curse, not just the Tri-Island area. Monkey and Dinky are clearly separated from the Tri-Island area with the little cloud barrier illustration. It was a way to include the islands on the world of Monkey Island image not to indicate they are part of the Tri-Island Area.

Second, Tales takes place in the Gulf of Melange, not the Tri-Island Area. The section of Flotsom Island was a complete mess claiming it was in the center of the Tri-Island Area. It's a separate part of the Caribbean, Telltale said so in the forums.Flygongengar (talk) 23:52, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

• You are, of course, correct. I think the confusion mainly comes from the association of the Tri-Island Area with the entire Monkey Island universe. -BaronGrackle (talk) 14:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU  ???? WHY DOESNT CAPTAIN DREAD GET ANY DESCRIPTION IN THE WHOLE MONKEY ISLAND ARTICLE? YOU CLAIM HE IS A LESSER CHARACTER, BUT PEGNOSE PETE GETS A DESCRIPTION... I AM GONNNA BRING HIM BACK IN --PS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.75.32.239 (talk) 09:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

The Ancillary Characters Section

Please, before this section gets out of control, don't add new characters to this section without good reason. This section is not meant for a listing of every minor character in the MI universe. It's meant for tertiary characters. This means they appeared in multiple games of the series (with significant time devoted to them not just a passing reference) OR they played a significant plot role in one or more of the games. Characters like Captain Dread who served virtually no plot purpose besides being Guybrush's chauffeur in the second game, and never appeared in any other game do not belong in this section.

Additionally, as these are only third-tier characters in the series, ancillary character descriptions should not be more than 2-3 sentences MAX! (Note: this article is about the series, not an individual game, so no matter how important they are in a single game's plot, in the over-all scheme their role is relatively minor). We don't need two whole paragraphs on Morgan LeFlay, when a) shes been in only one game of the series so far, and b) her role can be summed up in 2-3 sentences.

This isn't the section for major plot summaries, each games individual article's already covers their plots and there's no need to recreate them here. [Special:Contributions/24.190.34.219|24.190.34.219]] (talk) 19:38, 15 October 2009 (UTC)