Talk:Arachnus' room

Making a case
Since Arachnus' room has been mentioned multiple times as a subject of potential deletion, I decided to present my case for keeping it.


 * "Arachnus' room" is not a poor, obtuse, confusing, or non-descriptive name for this article.
 * As with all other SR388 room pages I've created, it appears in both Return of Samus and Samus Returns, allowing the differences between the original and the remake to be fully documented without bloating other articles with this information. In my mind, that alone justifies the articles I've written.
 * It is a boss room. Between the "Boss Rooms" navbox and the easily-identified name, that makes it more likely to attract readers, easing your concerns about low traffic and esoteric names.
 * It has a unique room layout in Return of Samus, instead of being a copy/pasted item room like all the others.
 * In each game, there is something unique about its inhabitants, as discussed in the article's Trivia section.
 * It contains an item, which makes it useful for linking to on articles such as Phase 3/Items and Spring Ball.
 * Since the door remains locked after the battle, there is a minor puzzle to exit the room in Samus Returns.

I have read over the RfC. Obviously, the first "real life" point doesn't apply. The second "scenery" point means I can't write articles about (for example) the high-tech structures in the background of Arachnus' room, but it doesn't forbid an article on the room itself. The fourth "low potential" point doesn't apply when the article already has significantly more than three sentences, all of which are directly relevant to Metroid.

That brings us to the third point, the "restating info" point. Could all this be summed up on the articles for Arachnus and Area 2? Yes, they could... but I don't think it should. As I've said previously on Talk:Water-filled room (Area 5 lower level), this article has information that would be relevant on an article for Arachnus' room, but would be considered bloat if shoehorned onto other articles; for example, the room becoming occupied by Drivels in Samus Returns and how that's a unique feature. Only a few sentences of the article can be considered "redundant" with Arachnus itself; the rest is information about the room itself.

It isn't really comparable to large lava pit arena (discussed in the RfC's "restating info" point), which is an unused room where all known information about it comes from literally just a single sentence; I agree that would be something that does not justify its own article under the Notability RfC and would just be better summed up on Thardus's page. I'd even argue that Arachnus' room no less relevant than the likes of Thardus's actual boss room, Quarantine Cave... which, for the sake of argument, we could just delete because all the information could be stated on Thardus and Phendrana Drifts' articles, but we really shouldn't. At the very least, I can say that Arachnus' room is currently a better article than Pirate Homeworld Leviathan Core.

I carefully consider each of these "guidebook-named room" articles before writing them. It's why I haven't written articles for rooms such as "Moheek-filled room", "Wallfire hall", or "Omega's chamber". Therefore, I can certainly make a case-by-case argument for keeping each of the articles I've already written, and that's why I previously requested that we not delete any of them. However, I will comply with your own request, and so I won't be making more of these articles for the time being. --PeabodySam (talk) 14:40, February 16, 2019 (UTC)