Talk:Nine-Toes

Trivia
Can people refrain from making extra additions about the "3 balls" please? Yes, we know he has three balls and yes, the factoid is amusing, but a single reference is sufficient enough to mention it. Additionally, the Morrowind reference is pure speculation and one I find to be a highly unlikely reference. Seeing as it looks far more like a random coincidence than an intentional reference is should really be dropped and forgotten in my opinion. -- WarBlade 22:52, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

I would argue that it is in fact a highly likely reference, as Borderlands shares many themes and gameplay similarities with other Bethesda Softworks games. Because of the massive amounts of work put into both games, I'd say it's just as likely that Nine-Toes is a tribute to Morrowind for helping out the first-person roleplaying genre as it is that it's a random coincidence. Just my two-cents, and one line of text isn't taking up much space. Let's leave it in and let readers decide the level of connection for themselves? --Aelwrath45 23:02, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

In my opinion if something shares a large similarity with some other media, then if it is added to the trivia section it should be clarified that it is speculation and may or may not be nothing more than coincidence.... Effective way to solve that conflict--68.60.164.154 19:15, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. --Aelwrath45 19:34, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * The reason why that is a terrible position to adopt is that once people have got the origin reference out of the way, other people then start filling the page with cross-references that have no connection to the article in question. I've seen this happen with a "By your command," quote (Battlestar Galactica) and pretty soon the page filled with Warhammer 40K, WarCraft 3, something called Timesplitters and so on. As soon as you cross-reference, or draw parallels to coincidences, articles start to bloat in a way that doesn't really improve the article. -- WarBlade 22:03, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Then why is there even a triva article? No offense WarBlade, but you're being extremely paranoid. How about this: If horribly irrelevant cross references start popping up on this article, I'll take care of it myself. There's no need to fight smoke with fire. --Aelwrath45 22:09, October 28, 2009 (UTC)