Talk:Lakitu in a Pipe

Where does the name "Pipe Lakitu" come from? - Zakor1138 19:52, 7 June 2012 (EDT)

Probably from them being a Lakitu in a Pipe. -GloopMaster

• I mean the official source where the name comes from. Is Pipe Lakitu its official name? Zakor1138 (talk) 21:48, 5 November 2012 (EST)

Pretty much every enemy in Super Mario World is named during the ending credits. I would assume the name comes from there. -- 1337star ^{(Mailbox SP)} 23:50, 5 November 2012 (EST)

Well, its not. I again ask where the name comes from. Zakor1138 (talk) 14:34, 27 December 2012 (EST)

Actually, its official name is... "Lakitu in a Pipe" (Mario Mania, page 50). LinkTheLefty (talk) 22:28, 10 October 2014 (EDT)

A name is a name. Regardless of how silly it may be, it's still more official than what we've got. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

Merge with Lakitu?

Found some pictures, and the Super Mario Encyclopedia treats them as the same enemy each other. (the book was originally released in Japan, so it might be considered as a normal Lakitu in Japan). Should it be merged? I think it should. -- FanOfYoshi at 07:40, 4 January 2019 (EST)

Even then, there is instances where enemies with unique names get called the same thing as another enemy, such as how Toadies often get mistakenly called Magikoopas. While in this case a Lakitu in a Pipe is well, literally a Lakitu in a Pipe and Toadies are entirely different from regular Magikoopas, you could also consider merging Fishin' Lakitu with regular Lakitus if we were to merge variants of species that are only different from their parent species by being named and doing an activity, such as fishing. While the SME does consider them the same, we cannot cite the english SME due to it plagiarizing from this and other wikis, so unless we have proof that Lakitus in a Pipe are considered the same as Lakitus in the Japanese SME, I personally think that they should be split, at least for now. Doomhiker (talk) 08:42, 4 January 2019 (EST)