Category talk:Mini bosses

What exactly should we consider to be bosses? Anything red- or orange-named that is a required kill to finish the quest? Or is there another definition that people have been using? Trying to figure out a standard definition since I have been creating a bunch of monster pages. -Susalona (Contributions &bull; Message)
 * I'd say just use your best judgement. Theres no hard rule that will work i can think of. And yea orange named should be the minimum color type. Generally your idea (required killed) also usually matches, tho id say not always. I updated the template to allow for color type non bosses specificly for this reason, so try to use that when possibly (use color= ). Also ideally when you can, fill all fields. If you don't know like say attack, its a safe bet to just copy in the racial entry, looks cleaner that way and the pages never get much attention so its worth that imo.
 * Some examples:
 * Respawning Gnolls, entry trash efreeti/mephit in DQ on epic difficulties: Everythings red named, and the initial entry stuff is required kills.. But they are definetely not bosses. So they should use color equals red.
 * Or non boss orange: Bearded Devil Trooper -- all of these are orange named, but pretty much they are just tough trash monsters.
 * Rare orange/red named with actual unique named in most any quest or explorer area - Yea id use the boss field. (also set rare=yes.) In this case they usually aren't required kills. But they are generally much harder then the trash around them, which imo makes them bosses or minibosses.
 * Purple named I'd say are generally always bosses. Least bossish type is probably some of the things in the new lolth raid, but id call them all bosses regardless.
 * --Shade