Talk:Brinstar (Metroid)

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Name ("Brinstar (Metroid)") is Confusing

I find that the new name of the article (as of me writing this), "Brinstar (Metroid)" is rather confusing and potentially misleading. First, I didn't understand what the importance of Jam With the Band was, in part because ChozoBoy didn't actually explain what it was or link to it in any way (I only figured out that it was a Nintendo game after a Google search). In addition to questioning whether a game which has essentially no relation to the Metroid series - and arguably less relation than the Super Smash Bros. games - can be used to provide official names for articles, I find the use of Metroid in a parenthetical statement to be misleading (this is true for a few other articles as well, such as Brinstar Depths (Melee)). Parentheticals in article titles are usually used to disambiguate the context of the article (e.g., Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime (creature)). Using Metroid as the parenthetical in this article's title to me gives the false impression that this article covers Brinstar in the context of the original Metroid game, which is not really true, as the article covers the Super Smash Bros. Melee variant of the original theme. Therefore, I propose that the move be reverted and the article renamed to "Brinstar (Melee)", or even renaming all of these articles to "Brinstar (theme variation)", "Brinstar Depths (theme variation)", etc. --FastLizard4_{ADMIN} (Talk•Contribs•Logs) 02:58, June 28, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, it sorta does mean the original Brinstar theme apparently. Why it was moved to Brinstar melee I have no clue. The MarioGalaxy2433g5 {talk/contribs} 03:06, June 28, 2012 (UTC)

I think it would be fine to keep the "Metroid" version of the article named "Brinstar," and have "For the Super Smash Bros. Melee version of Brinstar, see Brinstar (Melee)" at the top, or something of the sort. Joe Copp 03:55, June 28, 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I don't get why we have so many of these referentials anyway, the parenthetical is misleading and makes me think this is actually from a Metroid game, and the article itself is just generally a mess. There are a lot of problems here... but let's fix the name first. "My name is AdmiralSakai, and you should really read my book." 13:25, June 28, 2012 (UTC)