User talk:Poopmcpoop
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We don't chat here. We chat in the wiki-discuss channel on the discord. Elsewise we might not see a discussion was even made, for example I didn't see the one that was originally on that page from over a year ago. And I blanked it to avoid confusion.
As for the part on the plural issue:
"but that fails to address the underlying issue in Template:InfoItem that programmatically causes the issue across the wiki. "
The issue is that Lava will pluralize some thing, then not others, then on the wiki we have something in plural form, while not others, or some things that aren't even on their own pages anyway and would still require a redirect.
If you have a solution that doesn't require us to 'manually "correct" this behaviour' and accounts for more than just the InfoItem template, because it affects more than just that and the pluralizer template fyi, then I'm happy to hear it. I made that solution to a problem a while ago, and it ended up having its own issues that I, and so far no one else, has had the time to find a solution for other than a 'manual fix' by creating redirects. Plus, this wiki gets redirects added all the time even just because someone is too lazy to search for something like "Gold ore" instead of "Gold" (Just an example, Don't know if that is actually one of the redirects, but there have been a number created for that reason).
The plural form redirects also help those who would use the wiki bot on the discord but wouldn't know, for example, that they had to search for EXP Balloon instead of EXP Balloons, Exp Balloon, or Exp Balloons. I specifically included those last two because even in your post in the discussion you used the lower case form despite EXP being an abbreviation which traditionally should be all caps.
But for real, come chat on the wiki-discuss channel. We always welcome people who are interested in updating the wiki, and who knows, maybe you will solve this problem we've had for a long time since, despite all of what I said above, I actually abhore redirects.
