# Talk:EarthBound Beginnings

Hello! I own the Mother to Earth documentary, which focuses on the development, cancellation, and eventual release of Earth Bound/ EarthBound Beginnings. It features invaluable information not really available anywhere else...but how do I properly cite it? If anyone knows, please respond to me here. Thanks for your time. NintenBOUND (talk) 00:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Is the XX gravestone actually Maria’s? It wouldn’t necessarily make sense for it to be hers, given the opening text states that she never returned to Earth. It would make more sense if it was George’s, as he built EVE and the underground lab she dwelt in underneath Mt. Itoi’s lake. NintenBOUND (talk) 19:48, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

that's one of the more deliberately ambiguous details. george could have made a psychic gravestone for funsies for all we know. i'd recommend leaving specifics regarding it out (unless sources pick up on it), and ignore the "it must be maria's because xx means xx chromosome which means woman" argument cogsan (nag me) (stalk me) 11:20, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Just for consensus' sake, should we revert to Japanese names in article and English in footnotes or leave it at English in article and Japanese in footnotes, because someone only changed the article names to English, without changing the footnotes. Yes I am a nerd -XCBRO172 (How could you tell?) 18:20, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Being too late for the above discussion, I just want to register that I think too much weight was given to recent sources in the above name change discussion. While we do prefer common name changes in recent sources, the article and its legacy is based on its decades of being a Japanese game widely known by its English title "Mother" and most of that sourcing was in other languages since there was no English-language release of the game. Now that it has been made more widely available as "EarthBound Beginnings" there are the handful of English-language reviews obviously mentioning the new localized name but that does not change the fact that its common name remains the same through the bulk of sourcing both used in the article and throughout the decades of legacy that led to the localization. The strongest reason for this change would be to match what Nintendo calls it in their English-speaking region stores, but I don't think it's the best name by policy. czar 13:01, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

My rationalization for originally nominating the page was not that "EarthBound Beginnings" is a common name, rather that "Mother (video game)" is unsuitable per WP:NATURAL, since the title "EarthBound Beginnings" is an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title, which is sometimes preferred. Sorry if the whole discussion was a mess, it was my first time requesting an outright controversial move. Thanks, Yes I am a nerd -XCBRO172 (How could you tell?) 01:38, 18 July 2025 (UTC)