Talk:Dried plant

Naming

Is there a reason why the page name is dried plant and not straw when they're both official names? I'd argue the bundles look a bit more like straw. That's of course just personal interpretation, but when two equally official names are provided in cases such as this, how do we determine which to give to an article? Deeb1324354657 (talk)

The reason this article is called "Dried plant" is because no-one in the Discord channel was aware that the name "straw" is used in the game at the time the article was created. (It was mentioned that "straw" is an unused name for the obstacle, but it was decided to not use the name to prioritize using names that are used in the game.) Now that we know that the name "straw" is used, we could potentially rename this article. In a situation like this, where both names are only used in the game as a description of the obstacle and neither is used specifically as a name, we can choose which name to use. — Soprano_(talk) 06:28, July 16, 2025 (EDT)

I think using "straw" instead of "dried plant" makes sense since straw is mentioned in a loading screen tip where it uses the actual names for enemies/tools/objects, while dried plant is only used in a single piece of character dialogue, which may be less reliable. Twins1105 (talk) 07:10, July 16, 2025 (EDT)

I agree, I think that this indicates that straw would be a more correct name. Bulborbs are enemies in the same way that straw is dried plants, but we don't professionally refer to Bulborbs as "enemies" as their page titles and the like because Bulborb is a more specific and correct name (the point I'm trying to make is that just because something is referred to as something doesn't mean that's its official name). There aren't multiple types of dried plants as there are enemies, but could we still infer based on the different places "dried plants" and "straw" are said that the latter is more specific and correct than the former? What I'm trying to say is that "enemy" is something you could call a Bulborb, but that's more of a way to describe it rather than its actual name, and that this is probably a similar situation with "dried plants" being a way to describe it and "straw" being its actual name. Deeb1324354657 (talk)