English dialectal akas of features
Following a comment on Talk:Baked Potato#, I realise that this wiki is doing a poor job of showing non-American English names of features. We should endeavour to include all the English names of the feature in articles to avoid any confusion. For example, "A baked potato (jacket potato in British English) ..." (or at least in a footnote). This is the English wiki, not American English wiki. Nixinova T ⁄ C 11:07, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Strong support. Many Minecraft Wikis do that and nothing wrong happened. 👁 Image
BigEarsQuake 2 11:31, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support Dianliang233 (talk) 11:44, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
- The FR, PT, and UK wikis each have a dedicated page that document all dialectal differences and include alternative names in infoboxes (e.g. fr:Bleuet). This is all managed through a script, with support for both JE and BE translations. A similar thing could be done on EN for Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealand, and Anglish variants (potentially even Pirate and Early Modern).
- (Pinging @Patcho as he's the one who set up this on all 3 wikis and regularly run his bot to update the list.) - Zamburger (talk) 12:03, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Neutral. 👁 Image
Support for Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealand, 👁 Image
Oppose for Anglish, Pirate and Early Modern. 78.212.34.40 13:49, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Strong oppose because it makes no sense and can confuse readers. 78.211.133.251 15:09, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- How does having a dedicated page documenting the different languages akin to the FR, PT, and UK ones I linked confusing to readers? How is including other names in the infobox confusing? - Zamburger (talk) 17:35, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, i thought you said only the dedicated pages in different dialects, for the infobox, i 👁 Image
Support 37.161.127.87 05:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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Neutral on Zamburger's proposal. 👁 Image
Strong oppose for the same pages in different dialects, 👁 Image
Support for putting the name in different dialects in the infobox 37.161.127.87 05:40, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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Very strong support 78.212.34.40 13:50, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Very strong support for Canadian, British and American English. 👁 Image
Oppose for Anglish, Pirate English and Early Modern English. – Unsigned comment added by 78.211.133.251 (talk) at 15:11, 29 September 2025 (UTC). Please sign comments with ~~~~
- This conflicts with your strong oppose vote 2 mins earlier.. Nixinova T ⁄ C 19:42, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- The strong oppose was for Zamburger's proposal about making a dedicated page in different dialects, for the forum topic in general, i am neutral. 37.161.127.87 05:32, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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Support, this would clarify loads of things for our readers. Else, readers might think they're at the wrong article after searching the alternate names. -~- Nerdyguy2000 Talk Edits 14:11, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support In Java at least there are four different types of English available, I don’t see a reason not to include these. Realshow19 (talk) 15:41, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support for Canadian, British and American English. 👁 Image
Oppose for languages like "Anglish" and "Pirate English". ~Whydeletemyaccs: user page, user talk page, contribs 17:55, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
- same. 78.211.133.251 15:10, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support for the variants of English still used.
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Neutral for the other ones. Can I write now ? (talk) 15:28, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support for official dialects of English where the names differ. Names in the more jocular variants as well as Anglish might probably be kept in the trivia. — BabylonAS 17:45, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support because why not? This extends to other variants as well, such as Early Modern and Anglish. Gwen Stacy (talk) 18:01, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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alizard (talk) 22:09, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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Strong support, I really can't think of a reason not to do this. -- 👁 Image
Mitsos [ talk | edits ] 22:18, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support. Make it to the infobox please. Hxy123abc (talk) 14:19, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
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BigEarsQuake 2 14:23, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
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Agree 37.161.127.87 05:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
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Strong support. ––– Aed8814 (C | T) 17:24, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
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Support. 👁 Image
Ja17 05:46, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- Since most of the involved people support this proposal, can we close this forum implement it soon? ––– Aed8814 (C | T) 16:26, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
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Support for regular English variants, 👁 Image
Oppose for joke languages/conlangs (pirate, Shakespearean, Anglish, lolcat, upside-down). I'd personally prefer if they were kept in a note instead of prose, especially if there's more than one alternative name - while these "translations" do appear in-game, they are crowd-sourced and the developers have no input on them, they are undeniably not at the same level of "officialness" as the US English names.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 16:36, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
