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::::I fail to see how "mom" is less broad than "mother". The games preferring the informal term is irrelevant since it's not used as a name but as a title. Bulbapedia is first and foremost an encyclopedia so the formal term is the one that should be used. [[User:SatoMew2|<b><span style="color:blue">Sato</span></b>]][[User talk:SatoMew2|<b><span style="color:pink">Mew</span></b>]] 22:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC) | ::::I fail to see how "mom" is less broad than "mother". The games preferring the informal term is irrelevant since it's not used as a name but as a title. Bulbapedia is first and foremost an encyclopedia so the formal term is the one that should be used. [[User:SatoMew2|<b><span style="color:blue">Sato</span></b>]][[User talk:SatoMew2|<b><span style="color:pink">Mew</span></b>]] 22:37, 16 August 2014 (UTC) | ||
:::::Without any context, sure, neither "mom" nor "mother" is more or less broad than the other. But in the context of Pokemon and especially the games, the prominence of the player's '''mom''' and her consistent naming as such makes "Mom" more likely to refer to her than anyone else's mother. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 22:47, 16 August 2014 (UTC) | :::::Without any context, sure, neither "mom" nor "mother" is more or less broad than the other. But in the context of Pokemon and especially the games, the prominence of the player's '''mom''' and her consistent naming as such makes "Mom" more likely to refer to her than anyone else's mother. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 22:47, 16 August 2014 (UTC) | ||
::::::I probably should have looked more carefully before I leapt. When I browsed the diff for your big edit, I only noticed the main protagonist (players and/or their counterparts) moms, and otherwise I only glanced at the table of contents before concluding it was (surely) just about protagonists. (The games section is certainly big enough...) But checking the page carefully now, I see that Brock's mother is indeed on here. In which case...I guess I don't have an opinion. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 23:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC) | |||