Talk:Item (entity)

A note on the naming of this page and the terminology across the wiki
I originally wanted to title this page “Resource”, on the grounds that on this wiki “Items” refers to non-blocks specifically, and the linked video. However, more evidence (e.g. the Entity ID) says that they are called items by Mojang. This leads to the problem that an item-entity may be a block, i.e. not an item.

This would seem to indicate that we are incorrect to call non-block inventory objects “items” elsewhere on the wiki. But, However, if we were to find out that such a name exists, I feel that we should make the change, so as to have a clear and consistent vocabulary. We can see that there is a problem from the circumlocutions and assorted words used to refer to the subject of this article: "Item (entity)", "dropped item", "dropped blocks/items", "drops", "resources", etc.
 * there is no in-game text making this distinction, so we don't have an official name to use instead, and there is no obvious word to apply
 * and, of course, it would be a massive change.

—kpreid 17:12, 18 February 2012 (UTC)