Talk:Rauru Town

Moving
Although it's already been moved, I can't really agree with the notion of it or the other suggested moves in the other articles. If you guys notice, I was the one that initially moved Rauru Town to Rauru (Town) [as well as the other town articles] by going with that the game calls them. In-game, the town is simply called Rauru, and according to our names template, that's the Japanese name as well. I know the manual has maps calling it Rauru Town, but I can't quite imaging why they would go through the trouble of giving the Mido town "Harbor Town of Mido" and then simply call it "Mido Town" in the manual. The translations weren't quite consistent then (we have Town of Ruto in the game and Ruto Town in the manual), but if we were going to have any discussion about it, I'd prefer it if we stuck to the in-game names instead of going with what the maps of the manual says. Not only because people are more likely to remember the name from the game, but also 'cus Harbor Town of Mido and Water Town of Saria sound a bit more awesome than simply Mido Town. :P

By the way, apologies for only bringing up the discussion AFTER you started the move. It seems that's the only way to get folks' attentions.

--Dany36 07:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I believe I already covered this elsewhere, but "Harbor town of Mido" is not a name, it's a description. Like saying "The Floating City of Venice". The name of the city is just Venice. It's a welcome sign, it's basically touting the trait of the town, not actually naming it. The map in the manual has four towns listed on the map and they all follow this naming convention of "Rauru Town", "Mido Town" etc., and this is the same for the Japanese version as well, AND the official player's guide, which lists every town under this terminology consistently. So I don't see anything wrong with moving them to those names. Not only is it consistent within the game, it is even consistent with other towns in the entire series (Hyrule Castle Town, Kakariko Village, Clock Town). Also, I don't buy that people are more likely to remember the messages on the signs rather than the much simpler names of the towns (which are names after the Sages, no less, so it's not like people are going to forget them easily, unlike the messages on the signs), nor do I think there's anything particularly awesome about them. "Town of Ruto" is clearly not a special name, for example. Not only all that, but since the game never capitalizes anything, we're basically throwing fanon in there to pretend those descriptions are part of the name of the town, but I really don't think they are, and the only reason we're thinking that is because the wiki has said so for so long. I never thought this while I was playing. Again, it's like "Welcome to the ancient city of Rome". Rome is just called Rome. 12:58, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to add, I do still think it's worth mentioning that Saria is known as the "Water Town" in the article of course, for example! But it's not really ever part of the name of the town itself. 13:37, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, if we're going for consistency, then I guess they need to be moved back to their [x] Town names, even if Rauru and Nabooru didn't have the description thingy on them in-game. But at least we have the manual and player guides to back them up. Even then, it's good to have these discussions recorded somewhere so that later on we don't bump into the same issue again or if someone else wonders why we go by the manual and not by the in-game names. --Dany36 20:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * It was, here. Kind of hard to find but it's the one page all the towns have in common. :P 20:24, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh, well, there we go! No more objections from me. 8) --Dany36 04:08, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

You guys know me, and you know that normally I would agree with Dany on "the gospel according to the game," but in this case...I think Fizz has it right. The names given in the game are more of descriptions of the towns rather than actual names. The renaming has my full support for going by "(x) town," especially considering that no place would be actually be called "Mountain town of blah" or "water town of blah" and such. (Sorry, I don't know which town is which in AoL; I'm not a huge fan of the game :P) 07:51, 3 January 2013 (UTC)