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What is the correct name: Moneybags or Money Bags? -- [[User: Son of Suns|Son of Suns]] | What is the correct name: Moneybags or Money Bags? -- [[User: Son of Suns|Son of Suns]] | ||
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==Move to Moneybag (enemy)== | ==Move to Moneybag (enemy)== | ||
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So there's only three sources cited for the name of this enemy, and all of them disagree with each other in some way: a Super Mario 64 guide calling it "Money Bags", a New Super Mario Bros. guide (which is "rife with mistakes", according to Doc a couple sections above) calling it "Moneybags", and much more recently, Mario Portal calling it "Moneybag", without the s. It's true that we haven't moved every enemy to its Mario Portal name, but as far as I can tell, the ones we haven't are ones whose names have been confirmed in a bunch of games up to recently (e.g. [[Banzai Bill]], [[Parabomb]]). It seems like the only reason this page hasn't been moved yet is because the singular Moneybag name first appeared in Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, but I don't think that's a very good reason not to move it - it didn't stop [[Fireball Boy]], [[Whimp]], or [[Mega Grrrol]] from using names that also appeared in Encyclopedia and then Mario Portal. And honestly, I think it's entirely possible for them to have come up with the name "Moneybag" independently of the wiki, seeing as it's just a much more logical name than "Moneybags". | So there's only three sources cited for the name of this enemy, and all of them disagree with each other in some way: a Super Mario 64 guide calling it "Money Bags", a New Super Mario Bros. guide (which is "rife with mistakes", according to Doc a couple sections above) calling it "Moneybags", and much more recently, Mario Portal calling it "Moneybag", without the s. It's true that we haven't moved every enemy to its Mario Portal name, but as far as I can tell, the ones we haven't are ones whose names have been confirmed in a bunch of games up to recently (e.g. [[Banzai Bill]], [[Parabomb]]). It seems like the only reason this page hasn't been moved yet is because the singular Moneybag name first appeared in Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, but I don't think that's a very good reason not to move it - it didn't stop [[Fireball Boy]], [[Whimp]], or [[Mega Grrrol]] from using names that also appeared in Encyclopedia and then Mario Portal. And honestly, I think it's entirely possible for them to have come up with the name "Moneybag" independently of the wiki, seeing as it's just a much more logical name than "Moneybags". | ||
'''Proposer''': {{User|Hewer}}<br> | '''Proposer''': {{User|Hewer}}<br> | ||
'''Deadline''': | '''Deadline''': May 13, 2024, 23:59 GMT | ||
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#{{User|Jdtendo}} Per proposal. Moreover, per [[MarioWiki:Naming#Acceptable_sources_for_naming|naming policy]], a name from an official Nintendo-hosted website has higher priority over any physical guide source. | #{{User|Jdtendo}} Per proposal. Moreover, per [[MarioWiki:Naming#Acceptable_sources_for_naming|naming policy]], a name from an official Nintendo-hosted website has higher priority over any physical guide source. | ||
#{{User|Cadrega86}} per Hewer's comment. | #{{User|Cadrega86}} per Hewer's comment. | ||
===Oppose=== | ===Oppose=== | ||
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::I already addressed Bomber Bill and Parachute Bob-omb, but to to reiterate, those cases are many games including recent ones vs. Mario Portal, whereas this case is the New Super Mario Bros. Player's Guide from 2006 vs. Mario Portal, so it's not comparable, and Moneybags is currently an outlier among Fireball Boy and friends. I feel like the Swimming Beast and Big Bird case is too antiquated to be relevant, but even if we did go with those names for Mario 64, they've been called Klepto and Dorrie since, so it'd be another Bomber Bill case (minus the "wait and see if it becomes a permanent name" element). Even if websites aren't infallible, neither are guides, so I don't see a problem with the current naming policy. And I think it's quite a stretch to call an exception here "common sense" - even if "Moneybags" technically makes sense as the name, I'd be more inclined to call "Moneybag" the more logical name. Better to settle the disagreement by going with the more recent and high-priority source rather than what we like more, that's what the naming policy's for. {{User:Hewer/sig}} 17:02, May 9, 2024 (EDT) | ::I already addressed Bomber Bill and Parachute Bob-omb, but to to reiterate, those cases are many games including recent ones vs. Mario Portal, whereas this case is the New Super Mario Bros. Player's Guide from 2006 vs. Mario Portal, so it's not comparable, and Moneybags is currently an outlier among Fireball Boy and friends. I feel like the Swimming Beast and Big Bird case is too antiquated to be relevant, but even if we did go with those names for Mario 64, they've been called Klepto and Dorrie since, so it'd be another Bomber Bill case (minus the "wait and see if it becomes a permanent name" element). Even if websites aren't infallible, neither are guides, so I don't see a problem with the current naming policy. And I think it's quite a stretch to call an exception here "common sense" - even if "Moneybags" technically makes sense as the name, I'd be more inclined to call "Moneybag" the more logical name. Better to settle the disagreement by going with the more recent and high-priority source rather than what we like more, that's what the naming policy's for. {{User:Hewer/sig}} 17:02, May 9, 2024 (EDT) | ||
:::I'm a little confused. What Fireball Boy, Whimp, and Mega Grrrol have in common is that they don't have any known English name from a previous accepted non-foreign source, unlike this one. (And we still go by contemporary source priority from what I can tell, e.g.Bloober/Blooper, just that [[Talk:Nipper Dandelion|the Nipper Dandelion kerfuffle]] set a precedent.) What is this proposal aiming at? If it's to classify Moneybags as a mistake, I strongly disagree since the original spaced spelling was also pluralized, and as Doc points out, it's from slang. If it's just to follow the (very new) policy tier, then...well, what exactly makes this different from the likes of Big Boo (''Super Mario Sunshine''), Cyclo, Fire Cheep Cheep, Rocky Wrench (''Super Mario Galaxy''), etc.? Why not use stuff like Mega Goomba, Mega Koopa Troopa, Mega Piranha Plant, and Mega Cheep Cheep for ''Super Mario Bros. 3''? [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 21:30, May 9, 2024 (EDT) | :::I'm a little confused. What Fireball Boy, Whimp, and Mega Grrrol have in common is that they don't have any known English name from a previous accepted non-foreign source, unlike this one. (And we still go by contemporary source priority from what I can tell, e.g.Bloober/Blooper, just that [[Talk:Nipper Dandelion|the Nipper Dandelion kerfuffle]] set a precedent.) What is this proposal aiming at? If it's to classify Moneybags as a mistake, I strongly disagree since the original spaced spelling was also pluralized, and as Doc points out, it's from slang. If it's just to follow the (very new) policy tier, then...well, what exactly makes this different from the likes of Big Boo (''Super Mario Sunshine''), Cyclo, Fire Cheep Cheep, Rocky Wrench (''Super Mario Galaxy''), etc.? Why not use stuff like Mega Goomba, Mega Koopa Troopa, Mega Piranha Plant, and Mega Cheep Cheep for ''Super Mario Bros. 3''? [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 21:30, May 9, 2024 (EDT) | ||