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Talk:Name

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Revision as of 13:59, 11 March 2023 by Alpacalypse (talk | contribs) (Disambiguation comment)
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This is a very comprehensive and well written wiki page, however it is very narrow in focus. The first line is "Names are what individual creatures are known by.". Whilst this is not a false statement, it is not a very inclusive or explanatory one. I think this page/terminology could do with the introduction of some nuance of meaning, as there are a lot of things in the game, that not only have names, but have both generated semi-unique names, and custom names that can be created by the player. Some examples are Fortress names, and Symbols (which could describe two different named things in the game: symbol of office and "group" Symbols. There is a changes to terminology centralized discussion relating to this issue, but I thought I'd make a comment here, as this is such an obvious candidate for disambiguation. --Alpacalypse (talk) 13:59, 11 March 2023 (UTC)