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When searching "Animal Crossing"

I see the series article is being made, which is a good thing. However, when one types "Animal Crossing" in the search box, should it go to Animal Crosing for the GCN or the series article? Other games (like Pikmin for example) go to the game with that title, and at the top it says somehting like: this is about the GameCube game... etc... blahblah... and theres a link to the series article. --Gyroid 18:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

e+ and seasons.

Should Doubutsu no Mori e+ (the second GameCube DnM game only released in Japan) get its own article, or should it just be put in the article about the first GCN game? Also, I don't think the season info should be in this article, rather in the articles of the games themselves. --ComputerBox 16:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merging this with Nookington's and the List Of Animal Characters

I think this absolutely should be done. These two articles belong under the main headings of both Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World. (Particularly because there are some important differences about Nookington's between the original AC and AC:WW.)

I've commented below about that, but since there are important differences, why aren't they reflected here? So far this article only covers nookington's ACWW. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly Agree - I played both games, and yes they should be merged. Go for it. Starmenclock 15:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes to Nookingtons, maybe not for characters. Characters like Tom Nook and K.K. Slider should have their own articles though.--StormCommander 22:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Animal crossing characters don't need their own articles. That's overkil beyond belief. Maybe on gaming wiki, but be reasonable, this is an encyclopedia, not an encyclopedia of animal crossing or of games even. Even if you put all of the information you could find on Tom Nook in an article, how much would you have? Online rumors? How the character was created? When the store closes? How on earth does this require it's own article. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It should be merged with Nookington's. (Who made that an article anyway?) Not the character list though. The characters absolutely do not need their own individual articles, as most of them are simply interchangeable skins. --tjstrf 11:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Then why do characters like Captain Olimar, Ness, and every single Pokemon have their own article?--StormCommander 10:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AC:WW, not AC:GC--this page needs to be both

this page is supposed to be about Animal Crossing, independant of which system you're playing it on. Unfortunatly, large chunks of the information in this article is game system specific (without even saying that it is system specific). All of the images are from AC:WW and too much of the content is. It's perfectly possible to give either content that is not system specific (true for both games), or when the games have differences, to make a note of them. Nookington's for example should read: "The final upgrade. Nookington's has a second floor. Extra staff now include Tommy and Timmy, two young raccons who run the second floor. In AC:WW, Nookington's also includes a barber shop on the first floor and Harriet, the female Shampoodle that runs the barber shop."

The other possibility is to let the system specific information be on the ACGC and the ACWW pages, not here. Oddly enough, ACGC has much more generic information in places than this page does.

My other suggestion would be to take out the specific gaming information from both this page and the ACGC page and any thats overloading the ACWW page and create specific gaming pages on gaming wiki, and have this page link to those pages. This would help the ACGC and the ACWW page on wikipedia focus on the other aspects of the articles that should be focused on and put the gaming stuff in one place.TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The reason the articles are this way was because the person who made this article, cut & pasted a lot of the content from Animal Crossing & inserted it here. SNS 17:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That makes no sense. This article is WW centric because information was taken from the ACGC page? I could get it being take from the AC:WW page--though I haven't seen this material anywhere on wikipedia. It must have been really edited out. No matter where it came from, this article is inaccurate beyond belief and sounds like a WW article. Not to mention that it focuses on all of the wrong things for a wiki article. Of all of the AC articles, this one sounds most like a gaming article. TStein 12:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

searching for animal crossing and getting redirected

when searching for animal crossing I am directly taken to this page. the redirect page has only this page. The only way to get to the GC page or the WW page or any other animal crossing page is through this page. I think that this should be changed. Searching for animal crossing should give you all of the animal crossing pages--the other articles shouldn't only be available through more complex searches or direct links. TStein 10:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is the head of a category. Hence, the main link must lead here. What you are suggesting, a disambig page, would be inane unless there were other unrelated and equally notable entities called Animal Corssing that weren't games in this series. --tjstrf 11:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, a disambig page has been added, so that's the end of that arguement. And while you're right in saying that there are no entries pertaining to Animal Crossing that don't relate to the series--there are enough Animal Crossing articles that a disambig page makes sense. People shouldn't have to read this article in order to be able to find the article they want. That doesn't make sense. If they are looking for information on AC:WW--they shouldn't have to come here in order to link there. That's using this article as a disambig page--and that's a bad idea. Not only because users will miss links that do exist, but because this article would have to be really on top of things. TStein 12:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nook's Shop References

Would it be alright to mention possible references that Nook's shops may refer to? For example, Nook's Cranny refers to the popular term "nook and cranny" (such as "searching every nook and cranny"), while, Nookway can refer to the supermarket Safeway. Just a small suggestion that my sister and I have noticed after playing the game on DS. CrazyNekoRun 05:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No. These articles, the Animal Crossing articles that is, are already so overrun with completely unnecessary stuff that adding more stuff right now really isn't what we need. At some point, when the articles have been rewritten and pared down to the salient points so that they read like encyclopedia articles and not bad gaming guides, a sentence or two on how the game is filled with clever puns might not be so bad. It wouldn't say anything about the store most likely, it would probably mention how things are named in the game. Animals are as likely to be a pig and named "bacon" and they are to be a pig and named "oink". It would probably be along those lines or something, because it is a running thing through the games and clearly, the programmers spent a lot of thime and had a lot of fun, especially with characters like Static and Lucky. But the WW, Crossing and GC articles are all completely ridiculous. They don't have necessary information, and are overrun with game information. I'd refrain from adding anything unless it was absolutely necessary. Correct things that are incorrect, fix grammar. That's my vote anyway. TStein 12:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nook n' Go refers to GetGo. 67.38.242.86 23:35, 3 August 2007 (UTC)GameMania[reply]

Nookingtons - Morrisons? Just an idea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.6.254 (talk • contribs)

Unless you can provide a cite from a reliable source, you can speculate here all you want, but it can't go in the article. Travisl (talk) 17:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, no, you can't speculate here. This isn't a place to talk about the article's subject. Haipa Doragon (talk • contributions) 18:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs a complete rewrite..

This article isn't really about the series, more about the game mechanics. Although i won't have time to do it myself, I suggest the article get a full rewrite. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 17:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Yes I know. I'm in the middle of working on it. I'm trying to make it a mix between the Animal Forest article and this one. I'd like this article to have the important information about game systems and selling stats and then some sections on the game. Ideally, I think the way the articles should work is that the (series) article should only have info on basic things that make the game unique and that are in all of the games, or a majority, so 4 out of 5 versions. I'm working on this article first, and then I'm working on the others. TStein 10:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFC

Hey...we only have the input of three people at Talk:Dōbutsu no Mori (film)#Requested move and I'd realy like more. Since this article is closely related your opinions would be welcome. Miss Mondegreen | Talk 20:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Animal Crossing Super Smash Bros Stage?

Should we add some information about brawl's Animal crossing Stage? Read about it here.OBEY STARMAN 15:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

InFrance?

Why the does it say Summer In France next to winter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.30.89 (talk) 08:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Clean-up

My login expired while I was editing the page, sorry about leaving that unsigned. I tried to clean the page up a bit. There's a lot of unnecessary or irrelevant information that would belong more either on each individual game's page or in a strategy guide. I tried to remove some of it, especially the section on the individual seasons, but there's a lot that can be trimmed down. I'd like another editor to revise it before I'd be satisfied with its clean-up. --llamapalooza87 (talk) 03:46, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, don't mean to cause any trouble, but the gameplay section is currently a summary of the timeline of WWII. Just thought I'd say. Feargalglean 12:42, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Reference From iCarly

In the episode when Spencer gets addicted to Pak-Rat he said he got the dog hair for his sculpture from the dog parlor down the street then carly says "Shampoodle" then Spencer says "yeah"--15avaughn (talk) 18:04, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shampoodle is kind of an old joke, I've seen a few real grooming salons with the name. I doubt it's a reference to AC. 88.108.134.85 (talk) 13:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of Animal Crossing characters

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of characters in the Animal Crossing series. The consensus there seems to be that the list of characters does not warrant its own page, but should be included in Animal Crossing (series). I agree. I also agree that characters like Peanut and Eloise don't have enough distinguishing characteristics to list them in this article. However, characters who aren't part of the pool of "residents" should be listed here. I see no reason to exclude Crazy Redd when we're including KK Slider. Also, I don't see the benefit to dividing out the City Folk characters from the rest of the list, and don't understand the order that the characters are currently in. I've reverted that section back to the alphabetical list I posted a few days ago. Let me know if you disagree. Travisl (talk) 20:30, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resetti's "authoritative tone of voice"

After Funnycricket added the sentence about the warning in the manual about small children and Resetti's voice, I looked in the manual, couldn't find it, and because there was no cite, deleted it. Today, I googled for resetti authoritative children disturbing and found 69 different results, including one at kotaku.com, a reliable site in the Gawker Media empire. I added a revised version of Funnycricket's sentence back in, and cited to Kotaku.

Tonight, however, I pored over the manual trying to find the passage mentioned:

“

Information for parents - Mr Resetti

It is important that players save before switching off the Wii console in order to retain data after each play session (see Saving Data, above). If players switch off without saving, the character Mr. Resetti may appear upon restarting.

Mr. Resetti's purpose is to teach players the importance of saving. However, parents should be aware that his personality and tone of voice, while intentionally humorous, are authoritative and may be disturbing to young children.

”

I failed to find it, nor any mention of Resetti at all. I searched for the "Saving Data" section, and it's not there. There is an "About Saving" section (page 5), and equivalent sections in French (page 27) and Spanish (page 49), but I'm not finding this. The manual that came with my game has barcode 66806A on the back cover. Is there another version of the manual, or is this a hoax that got wings, and which Funnycricket mistakenly fell into? travisl (talk) 03:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dalekusa, you changed the section to indicate that this is the language in the European version of the manual. This makes a lot of sense; thanks for teh clarification. Instead of citing to Kotaku, can you cite directly to the page number in the European manual? That would be a better source. If you're not sure how to do it, just toss something up there and I'll do my best to wikifiy it. travisl (talk) 19:23, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I live in the USA, but I got the source from a link in that article to N-europe. Dalekusa (talk) 00:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies to you all who I may have confused. I was unaware that the warning was not in manuals enclosed with NTSC copies. Living in Ireland, I own a PAL copy of the game, which has the warning in its manual. Funnycricket (talk) 15:25, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Can you tell me what page number it's on, so we can cite to it? travisl (talk) 23:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Page 13. The manual's bar code is 2124546M. I should also mention that the game is called Let's Go To The City in the PAL region, rather than City Folk, in case you wanted to edit what it says. Funnycricket (talk) 16:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Labelle and Gracie

I'm pretty sure it's Gracie who offers a discount if she approves of your outfit, not Labelle.24.40.177.156 (talk) 18:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned the article

As you can see from this edit, I cut about 30 of the 40 characters. I left some of the most notable NPCs.(Note I have only played WildWorld) Most of this list should be able to be referenced from this UGO Top 20 list. _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 13:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also put the Gameplay things into sections in this edit. Some of it probably doesn't need to be there, and some others might need to be added.(Such as having the Axe, but not the shovel.) _Blake ^{(Talk·Edits)} 13:24, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure I agree with the list as the series' most notable characters. For example, Blanca and Sable or more minor characters than others. I think we should bring back the Animal Crossing characters article though. --StormCommander (talk) 19:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sable and Mable?

Are they actually Hedgehogs and not Porcupines? because I thought they were Porcupines?(. (talk) 21:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Sable is a hard-working, little hedgehog with a tragic past (which she'll reveal to you if you attempt to speak to her daily for a week). Geologist (talk) 15:14, 6 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Willing to do a clear up

i know a lot more about the animal crossing than it portrays on here Aylish (talk) 10:25, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What do you have in mind? I did a massive clean-up of the page a long while back because it had things like long lists of characters, descriptions, items, and game play tips, which are considered by WP:GAMEGUIDE to be inappropriate for a Wikipedia article. See the old version here. I personally believe that the Reception needs the most help right now, as the Game Play already gives a generally good overview of the series as a whole. --ThomasO1989 (talk) 12:59, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Number of games released is wrong

As Satoru Iwata noted, there are SIX games in the doubutsu no mori series, yet the article said only 4 games of the series exist. For reference, the 6 noted are doubutsu no mori (N64), doubutsu no mori + (GC that was localized into Animal Crossing), doubutsu no mori e+ (Animal Crossing localized back to Japan), oideyo doubutsu no mori (NDS), machi he ikouyo doubutsu no mori (Wii) and tobidase doubutsu no mori (3DS). That's SIX, not four! It needs to be added Japan will get its 7th game in the franchise while other regions will be getting their 5th.2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:6992:90C1:A96D:5473 (talk) 22:36, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doubutsu no Mori, Dobutsu no Mori + are japan version of Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing e+ is an extra one, so as stated it 4 and not 6

User: Aozz101x (talk)

Actually, they're not. There is a HUGE difference between Doubutsu no mori and Doubutsu no mori +. There are no "extra games" for a series either! That logic is stupid, like there's no chapter 4 after chapter 3 or before chapter 5, it's jut an "extra one". Read the source, it does say in the interview there were 6 total games as of 2013. Reference: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/animalcrossing-newleaf/0/0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:E878:CD98:B01B:17EC (talk) 07:20, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

not life sim, communication game

It's billed as a communication game, as shown by IGN a credible source, and other sources. Reference: http://www.ign.com/games/doubutsu-no-mori/n64-15246 This error needs to be fixed, it's not a life simulator like the Sims, but rather a communication-based game as everything that occurs in the game is text-based.2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:E878:CD98:B01B:17EC (talk) 07:23, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Animal Crossing: Animal Craziness! listed at Redirects for discussion

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Interesting article

https://www.fandom.com/articles/the-weird-and-wonderful-history-of-animal-crossing

Wonder if this can be used or not MightyArms (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2020

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please change "aged between 9-13" to "aged between 9-13^{[citation needed]}"

(Context: See Special:Diff/947838767 - it's suspiciously close to the time a strange debate about the morality of Animal Crossing pornography parody content began, was written by an anonymous user, and remains unsourced. I can't find any sources to back it up, either.) Falldmg2 (talk) 23:05, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Falldmg2:

Done - added {{citation needed}}. GoingBatty (talk) 23:11, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyediting and additions to character section

Currently copyediting this article and noticing that the characters section could use a lot of improvement. It looks like previous editors to this section mostly took just New Horizons into consideration when discussing the franchise's characters. This may be potentially confusing to readers who are unfamiliar with the series and do not realize that there are more special characters beyond the ones currently introduced in New Horizons. While I am currently only focusing on fixing the article's grammar and style, I would like to expand upon the character section. If anyone has any suggestions to improve this part of the article, then let me know so we can raise this article's quality.

Addienotaddy (talk) 22:38, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Egyptian cat 'dancing'

By now, I'm sure you've all heard of/seen the video featuring an egyptian cat...dancing. (If you haven't, it's not in your best interest to view it. Seriously.) I found an article from Insider that showed the video went viral, so I went ahead and added a mention of it. Feel free to remove it if it doesn't belong here. (JayPlaysStuff | talk to me | What I've been up to) 00:38, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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