Editing Talk:Spotcap

==About splitting the article==
There's been a template in regards to splitting the Spotcap and Kingcap from one another for the sake of parity, but no such discussion on the talk page. I figured I'd remedy this, and also give my two cents.

I'm very much in favor of the split--Generally speaking, if there's entities in this series that are of the same classification, but have literally any differences whatsoever, the two entities get their own distinct pages. This can range from minor differences like [[Common Glowcap]]s and [[Glowstem]]s where the only difference gameplay-wise is a unique Piklopedia entry and Glowstems usually marking Bomb Rocks traps,  or more major differences where [[Dwarf Red Bulborb]]s and [[Red Bulborb]]s being just ''entirely different'' in terms of gameplay, species, lore, etc..

While the Spotcap and the Kingcap both lack Piklopedia entries to differentiate them in Pikmin 3 Deluxe (smh nintendo ;P), it seems Nintendo definitely considers Spotcaps and Kingcaps different enough from each other, both in terms of gameplay (Kingcaps are beefier in terms of health, whereas Spotcaps are smaller and weaker) ''and'' in terms of their iconography, sort of (Kingcaps are the basis for the [[Challenge]] mushrooms in ''[[Pikmin Bloom]]'', and most UI only uses single Kingcap mushrooms to represent Challenges altogether. Spotcaps, meanwhile, despite existing in Pikmin Bloom, are primarily used as decoration for the central Kingcap mushroom in the challenge proper, as well as the UI to show how "big" a Challenge is).

This *does*, however, leave a question about the brown mushrooms in the arena for the [[Armored Mawdad]]. To my awareness, they have no name, so they'd go in [[Minor obstacles]]--however, if it turns out they ''do'' have a name (be it by Nintendo confirming in an e-mail what their name is like what happened with the Wario Land II enemies and VB Wario Land Bosses, the name in the files, or maybe even them directly name-dropping them), I'd say it may be worthwhile to decide if they belong on either the newly-split Spotcap/Kingcap articles or even their own articles entirely depending on if any further differences become emergent.

Admittedly, as just a standard user, I don't want to rashly try splitting the pages myself, especially if it turns out this idea literally came from just the one edit that added the template, and then myself. So I'll pose the question here--should we split the Spotcap and Kingcap? -[[User:Camwoodstock|Camwoodstock]] ([[User talk:Camwoodstock|talk]]) 13:10, February 2, 2022 (EST)