Talk:Bulbmin

I am still not convinced the Pikmin inside the Bulborb is orange, the motion blur the throwing cursor etc surely are all orange because of the Bulborbs orange body. The stem also seems to be part of the bulborbs body which the Pikmin has stretched over itself, the only part of the Pikmin exposed to the environment is its leaf which it needs to photosynthesis or whatever Pikmin do with it. Discordance 10:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I always remember that the trail they leave when thrown was green.Pikdude 21:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The trail and cursor are orange, but the leaf-glow and blip on the radar (I think?) are green. Personally, I think if you were to dissect a Bulbmin, you'd find nothing but a sinewy bundle of root-nerves tangled around inside the poor host. Really, what use is skin if you spend your entire life attached to the nervous system of another animal? Albeit, most endoparasites still have a shell or skin, but they live inside their hosts, not as part of it. —Jimbo Jambo

How to defeat with Pikmin

Hey, I don't understand why was the tutorial on how to kill Bulbmin with Pikmin removed... Please inform me. SpeedyTheSonicChao 16:09, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

How to kill: Like a normal Bulborb. (There are many ways to do this, they can be found here.) Warning: useing Bulbmin will not raise your chances, nor will it make the Parent Bulbmin stop from eating yours.Pikdude 21:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Should we perhaps split this article into two pages, one for the enemy and one for the controllable Pikmin, or is there little enough information to be able to just separate it by sections? The thing is that we have separate templates for Pikmin and enemies, as well as separate categories, and the name Bulbmin kind of refers to both. At very least the information should be separated, but I'm wondering if separate pages is too much. —Jimbo Jambo

Well, what would you call the other page then? Seperating in sections may look malapropos... Oh, and I think we should just stay with "strong" on the Purples page. They only do additional damage when throw, but not when swarmed.--Prezintenden

Are you sure about the Purples? I thought they were stronger, even when they don't land. I'll test it today. And about this article, I think that we should keep it at one, but just make it clear that this refers to two things. We need the enemy infobox and footer on here too.GP

Alright, I guess this is fine. There's a small problem though. Since it's part of the "Pikmin" family, the Enemy Infobox is trying to categorize it as "Pikmins"... —Jimbo Jambo

"Bulbmin" does not refer to the Bulborb (hence it has its own page, and the parasite can host in other species aswell), but to the parasite. If it belongs to the genus Pikminicus, then that's fine.--Prezintenden

It's not that. The word "Pikmins" is kind of an improper pluralization of "Pikmin." The template is designed to take the name of the family, add an S onto the end of it, and categorize it. Because Bulbmin are in the Pikmin family, it gets put under the category Pikmins, even though it's already in the Pikmin (species) category. —Jimbo Jambo

Ahhh... That was a little hard to understand, you'd have to admit. Category:Pikmins, hm? As I assumed, a redirect has no effect. Should we just code a custom box?--Prezintenden

It's okay, I'll just code it into the infobox, making a special case for it. I'll also put those with family: Unknown in Category:Creatures with no known family.GP

Done. That was kind of funny, though. "Category:Pikmins"...GP

I don't think it likes what you're trying to do. It just says [[Category: ]] on pages that have the template. —Jimbo Jambo

Are you sure? Bulbmin's in Category:Pikmin, Armored Cannon Beetle's in Category:Lithopods, Goolix is in Category:Creatures with no know family. It seems fine.

Ok, now it's working properly everywhere. No idea why there was a problem before.GP

Er...Cannon Beetle is working, but Goolix isn't, and Bulbmin is still categorized as Pikmin (species) and Pikmins. Is it really working for you? —Jimbo Jambo

I think it's trying to confuse me... It was working, but it takes a while for changes made in templates to categorisation to actually happen, so it's hard to follow what's actually going on. I'll try again...GP

I think hope that's it now.GP