Talk:Tracks (enemy)

Conjectural name?
Same as Astro Goomba: Why is the title conjectural when there are official names in both Japanese and German (according to the article)? Is there really no official English name? --Grandy02 15:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Prima Names
I'm logging this here for future reference: this enemy really avoids being named, being called "the creature", "that blue creature", and "an invisible creature" in the SMG1 Prima guide and isn't mentioned at all in the SMG2 Prima guide. Unless this article's gonna be named "Invisible Creature" or something, we're not getting a name anytime soon.

Naming Heirarchy
Shouldn't this be Petapeta? I've gone into great detail over why using internal filenames is fundamentally flawed. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 01:30, 23 October 2017 (EDT)
 * It shouldn't have been "Starbag" for the longest time since it's only a wiki translation of "Sternentasche" in German, and though "Petapeta" would have higher priority than that since the earlier foreign name is preferred, the "Petari" label conveniently means that the article doesn't need an another language tag. Development names take precedence over foreign names per policy. Sure, you can say that it's still derived from Japanese instead of English, but that's no different from, say, Sushi or Unagi. In addition to the distinctly Japanese design of the enemy making more sense, this name is also written in English letters rather than Japanese characters, and official romanized sources do not require an another language tag when used as article titles (see Punch Ball Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. Special, and Wrecking Crew '98 content). LinkTheLefty (talk) 09:30, 23 October 2017 (EDT)
 * Internal names are definitely an official part of the naming hierarchy. Per LTL. 10:51, 23 October 2017 (EDT)
 * They should be nowhere near the highest though, since they represent an early vision of the completed version, and plus may contain some sort of development jokes. Remember, there's always the potential some new Blooper variant will have one Japanese name in a guide, but an internal name that translates to "Squid poop" because of some esoteric joke. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 14:12, 23 October 2017 (EDT)
 * You're speculating about hypotheticals, and that still doesn't change policy. If you want to subvert it, make a proposal or convince an admin. 15:53, 23 October 2017 (EDT)