Talk:Pokémon Red and Green beta: Difference between revisions

Hello! Somebody recently posted [https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/mbuf2m/i_found_stickers_sent_to_me_in_1996_by_nintendo/ this thread] on the Pokemon subreddit which shows a sticker sheet with some pre-release Pokemon names. Most of these names are consistent with what Bulbapedia lists in this article, but something that one user pointed out is that the stickers suggest that Pidgeot was originally named "Pidgeott" while Pidgeotto was still named Pidgeotto. This differs from what's currently written on Bulbapedia, which says that Pidgeotto was named "Pidgeot" and I guess implies that Pidgeot was also Pidgeot. I looked into the edit history of the article and noticed that it also used to say Pidgeott like the sticker, but this was changed [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?title=Pok%C3%A9mon_Red_and_Green_beta&diff=prev&oldid=2808229 in this edit] on June 15, 2018. I think the editor who made the change assumed that Pidgeotto was named Pidgeot based on [https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/9/9c/Generation_I_prototype_English_names.jpg this poster] pictured in the article, but the poster is limited to seven characters per name for some odd reason (hence why it says "Charman" instead of Charmander) which would explain why "Pidgeotto" and "Pidgeott" would have both been shortened to "Pidgeot." Due to this, I believe the linked 2018 edit was erroneous (though understandable) and should probably be reverted unless I'm missing something. [[User:ItsIzumi|ItsIzumi]] ([[User talk:ItsIzumi|talk]]) 13:12, 24 March 2021 (UTC)