Talk:Shadow the Hedgehog

Nominating the Article for deletion
Since Shadow the Hedgehog is not a relevant subject for a wikipedia article. I dispute it's usefulness as a source of credible information. After all much like the sonic the Hedgehog Article it smacks with Fan Fiction unrelated to the video game franchise, and if the Sonic Article was not semi protected I would nominate that for deletion to!

P.S. To the writers of this Article, you need to grow up and lay of the weed because it's clearly slowed your mind! 96.2.110.63 (talk) 01:38, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - While I have had virtually no involvement in the writing of this article, I will ask you to bear in mind WP:Civility and refrain from making personal attacks on other editors. That said, I agree that this article needs some work, and I just made an edit to reduce some of the fluff (in particular, the "Shadow Androids" section seemed non-notable); however, I do not agree that this article should be deleted or with your assertions. In all honesty, I do not see how your explanation validly supports deletion under any of the criteria stated in Wikipedia's deletion policy. For one thing, video game characters from numerous franchises have Wikipedia articles, and it is generally accepted that major characters are notable subjects worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia, (see, e.g., Mario, Wario, Link, Midna, Master Chief), so your desire to remove characters like Shadow and Sonic for not being "relevant subjects for Wikipedia" falls flat under Wikipedia's notability guidelines and is likely to be dismissed by most editors. Also, what portions of this article are derived from fan faction? I do not see any from my review of it, though I haven't read it entirely thoroughly; but either way, perhaps a better solution would be to remove those pieces of information than to delete the entire article. For the most part, the information in this article appears to be sourced to reliable sources. Perhaps you can elaborate on your position some more, but at this time, I am unconvinced that any reason for deletion under Wikipedia's deletion policy exists (nor do I see how fixing the article's current shortcomings isn't a better solution). –Prototime (talk · contribs) 04:36, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Article is full of 3rd Party Reliable Sources giving both Verifiability and proving Notability. The need for cleanup of is noted. CIGraphix (talk) 01:03, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Phase 2 The New Approach
I was not surprised that my efforts to have the article deleted failed. So if I can't have it deleted then I shall re-construct it so that it better educates the reader about the game franchise. What does alot of the glorified fan fiction in the article have to do with the game's marketability or impact on the user in general?

As always I expect the typical resistance from other writers but they should carefully review the revised article and see for themselves, the obvious difference.

One should not think that they can somehow bully me out of the system. I do not and will never recant o the statements I made about the individuals who crafted the article and my continued efforts with the "Shadow The Hedgehog" Article shall speak for themselves.

Thank You! 96.2.110.63 (talk) 15:50, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia always needs passionate and knowledgeable editors to improve its articles with verifiable information, so your contributions are more than welcome; by all means, you should not view disagreement with your views in Wikipedia's consensus decision-making process as bullying—disagreement is a fact of life on Wikipedia for all of us editors. Thus, hopefully you will not perceive other editors who disagree with you as bullying you, and likewise you will strive not to personally attack editors whose edits you disagree with. Good luck with your edits! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 16:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You recently removed verifiable material from the reception section and replaced it with "The character and it's related games and comic books have seen modest popularity in the past few years, but has had an adverse mental health effect on it's less stable fans. It has caused some rioting in a few small Texas towns that have led to various acts of rape, murder, and cannibalism as reported on CNN August fifth 2006", sourcing it to a non-existent CNN link. Is this some sort of joke? I have restored the reception section to its previous status; if you don't have some sort of legitimate source to back up this wild claim, it will be treated as vandalism. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 21:55, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Notability
Please see Talk:List of Sonic the Hedgehog video game characters for a notability discussion that pertains to this article and its series czar ♔  04:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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Shadow Loves Guns!?
Okay, so I know this is totally irrelevant to Shadow himself, but I've seen so many things about Shadow having closets full of MK60's! I completely disagree with this. He may have a gun in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, but that doesn't mean he loves it. It's probably the most effective way to kill the Black Arms except Black Doom. Although, I'm not so sure since I never played the game XD. Basically, guns can be more efficient, and unlike chaos control and all those other moves, guns don't require energy, except aiming and pulling the trigger and reloading. Other than that, no physical force for the wielder whatsoever. I personally agree with his chaos abilities being the most powerful. But seriously guys, an MK60 for a wife?! Really!? It's so stupid! And YES, I have seen such articles about that! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omega Yagami (talk • contribs) 00:46, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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Transparent background not working...?
So I noticed the transparent background on the infobox image is no longer functioning for some very odd reason, it was working several days ago. I uploaded two other pictures and tested them to see if it was a problem with the pictures, but it isn't. For some reason, the infobox image does not use transparent backgrounds anymore, and this is very confusing. Anyone know the solution? Coda16 04:07, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Petition for Selection Deletion
In 2010, DeviantArt user "cmara" released a webcomic depicting Shadow in a romantic relationship with Shrek, the title character of the DreamWorks film series. According to Kotaku's Nathan Grayson, the comic paired the two because "if Shrek was the big screen embodiment of nu-millennium toilet garbage, Shadow the Hedgehog—with his hilariously unfitting blend of guns and angst in a colorful world of fast animals in clown shoes—was his video game bride". ""

Is this section really necessary for the understanding and reception of Shadow the Hedgehog? While the other examples in the section are from pop/internet culture, this particular example seems rather fringe and irrelevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NovaAmm (talk • contribs) 04:22, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 February 2021
Back in October 2020, Drummond himself confirmed on Twitter here:https://web.archive.org/web/20201015073026/https://twitter.com/RYANtheDRUMMOND/status/1316642485855117312, that he briefly voiced Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2, because David Humphrey forgot to record some lines in certain scenes in the game and they had Drummond come in and record them. Is there by any chance someone could update it and add him in the “Voiced by” section in the infobox? 2600:1000:B04E:B28A:2DC9:9374:579:C995 (talk) 05:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ◢  Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 06:37, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Right here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201015073026/https://twitter.com/RYANtheDRUMMOND/status/1316642485855117312 2600:1000:B05C:88F1:3DAC:7B9B:C8F7:A4AE (talk) 13:50, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2021
Back in October 2020, Drummond himself confirmed on Twitter here:https://web.archive.org/web/20201015073026/https://twitter.com/RYANtheDRUMMOND/status/1316642485855117312, that he briefly voiced Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2, because David Humphrey forgot to record some lines in certain scenes in the game and they had Drummond come in and record them. Is there by any chance someone could update it and add him in the “Voiced by” section in the infobox?

If you need to see the source again, here it is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201015073026/https://twitter.com/RYANtheDRUMMOND/status/1316642485855117312 2600:1000:B053:2E17:4DEA:FF87:4386:B71C (talk) 17:42, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as a matter of editorial judgement, sorry. Two reasons: (a) it's a trivial detail (a small part of the voicing for a single episode) and this is a general encyclopedia, not a compilation of every trivial detail about a topic, and (b) the source is a non-independent primary source (a social media post by the person involved).  If this had been covered by a reliable, independent, secondary source it might be worth mentioning in the body of the text (though not the infobox, which just gives an overview of the most salient details of the article). Wham2001 (talk) 15:27, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

MOS:FIRST
This has gone back and forth so I thought I would take it to the talk page. MOS:FIRST, in regards to the first sentence of an article, states: If the article is about a fictional character or place, say so. I replaced "is a character ..." to "is a fictional character ..." but has been reverted the few times added it. Is there any specific reason why we should ignore the MOS on this specific character article and not state it is fictional in the first sentence? I do not see one.  Spy-cicle💥  Talk? 02:51, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * "Fictional" is already implied by (A) the link to character (arts) and (B) the fact that characters are, by definition, fictionalized to some extent, so we are saying that the character is fictional implicitly. If it is not necessary to explicitly say "fictional", we do not need to say fictional. We're not ignoring the MOS at all. And even if we were, no one is going to think that a cartoon black hedgehog who stands on two legs and wears clown shoes is a real organism that exists. JOE BRO  64  02:55, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge, the reason the final bullet point was added to MOS:FIRST was to ensure it was completely unambigous and established in context that the item being discussed is fictional. We're not ignoring the MOS at all: I do not understand how you can claim that considering the exact bullet point in MOS:FIRST states "If the article is about a fictional character or place, say so.", and we are not currently following that on this page, since we are not directly stating fictional in the first sentence. It seems most of the arguments made are against having the bullet point in MOS in the first place rather than against its application in this specific case.  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 03:53, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have any other comments or points? If not it seems we are at a standstill, and may try to attract some external input via WP:DR. Regards  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 14:27, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I do not understand how you can claim that considering the exact bullet point in MOS:FIRST states "If the article is about a fictional character or place, say so." We’re saying that he’s fictional by calling him a character and linking to character (arts). This whole dispute is trying to solve an issue that no one is having. Shadow (who as a character is, by definition, fictional) is so obviously fictional that we shouldn’t have to spell it out. Readers aren’t stupid. If this was such a big issue it would’ve been addressed during the GA review, where it wasn’t even brought up. JOE BRO  64  15:11, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't think you need to explicitly state "fictional" if you state "character", as that implicitly puts the "fictional" right there, up front. You would need "fictional" if you said something like "Shadow the Hedgehog is a hedgehog..." that even though the rest of the sentence implies the fictional nature, it needs to be 100% clear in that format. --M asem (t) 15:18, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree with JoeBro and Masem. "Fictional character" is tautological in 99% of cases - it's a kind of idiomatic cliche so people cling to it, but "fictional" doesn't add clarity. Popcornfud (talk) 15:55, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Disclaimer: Was canvassed here from a Discord conversation. That said, I agree with JoeBro, and think MOS:FIRST should be clarified.  "fictional character" was word-cruft spread around Wikipedia as part of an attempt around 2006-2009 to "tighten up" some of the fancruft written excessively from an in-universe perspective, but "character" is really just fine.  As Masem notes, you need fictional for things like "fictional hedgehog", but "fictional character" is silly barring really, really weird cases like Stephen Colbert (character).  Maybe worth updating the example at MOS:FIRST to reflect the consensus here from the "Homer Simpson is a fictional character" one?  SnowFire (talk) 20:05, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree with Joe and the rest. "Fictional" seems rather superfluous in this instance. Perhaps MOS:FIRST should be revised... ♦ jaguar  21:21, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for other editors' input it seems consensus on this occassion is 'fictional' is superflous. If this if this is the broader opinion in the wider Wiki project for most character articles (i.e. not just VG editors, etc) then we probably need to adjust MOS:FIRST (even if I personally agree with the current use of it as it stands, at least it will save me time searching through character categories to apply the MOS) Regards  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 14:10, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've added a short section to the MOS talk page on this and linked this discussion - see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Lead section . If there's not much pushback, we can make the update.  SnowFire (talk) 15:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --Sonicafs (talk) 15:04, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Preferred display image
@TheJoebro64 @SONICFRONTIERSA I can't help but notice that you've been going back and forth with the image on this page. It might be better if you can come to a consensus here rather than going on with this constant flip-flopping. I'd like to point out that every other article for Sonic the Hedgehog characters uses a 3d render. (Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog), Knuckles the Echidna, Doctor Eggman, Sonic the Hedgehog (character)) Recon  rabbit  17:31, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The 2D artwork is more timeless and comes from Sonic Adventure 2, by far Shadow's most well-known appearance, and has been in the article for ages without issue. And aside from Sonic, all Sonic character articles used 2D artwork until someone unilaterally changed them recently. JOE BRO 64  17:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Taking a gander on the relevant Fandom wiki it seems that people are trying to make Wikipedia use the same images that are on sonic.fandom.com. Worth bringing this up on a larger forum. Recon  rabbit  17:53, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Created by Kazuyuki Hoshino
I noticed that only Takashi Iizuka and Shiro Maekawa are credited for creating Shadow but Kazuyuki Hoshino also provided his character design and was an instrumental part in his creation. Should he not be credited the same way that Naoto Ohshima is credited for creating Sonic? Spongebongs (talk) 15:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Naoto Ohshima is credited on creating Sonic because there are numerous sources indicating his involvement, such as this article. If you can find sources that show Kazuyuki Hoshino's influence on Shadow the Hedgehog's creation then feel free to add that information or make an edit request. Recon  rabbit  16:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Lead wording
Creating this topic to stave off edit warring. The article as it is now has wording in the leading paragraphs very similar to the version that was reviewed and passed as a GA, albeit rearranged. @Aardwolf68, if you have a proposed rewording or change to the lead of this article that improves its breadth or readability, you can write it here and we can discuss it. Recon rabbit  14:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * It’s just me being nitpicky is all, I definitely should’ve messaged you or went to your talk page before reverting your edit. I wanted to fix the back story a bit to be more in line with the story of Adventure 2 and to make the summarization of Shadow’s story make more sense, as opposed to how it was written before. Thanks for the ping, I appreciate it. Aardwolf68 (talk) 14:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * TheJoebro64 is the one who has been reverting, I am just someone who watches the page. Regardless, the lead is short for a reason, to only include the most relevant details. Details like those you added might be better included under "Character biography". Recon  rabbit  14:11, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 April 2024
Delete "In Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Shadow is set to be voiced by Chris Pratt"

There has been no information on who the official voice actor for shadow will be in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Leviatyn (talk) 17:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ This appears to be a meme, lots of social media posts come up with this claim but no reliable sources. I have removed this and restored the references that were removed when it was added. Thanks. Jamedeus (talk) 18:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)