Talk:Melonhead

At the moment, this page is having an identity crisis of what melonheads actually are. It can't decide if it wants to go with "melonheads exist and are everywhere" or "melonheads are a concept made up by scrubs". I'd suggest going with the latter, because the article specifically says the term originates from Stubal applying it to anyone he doesn't like, and then making up and changing the definition as time goes on to fit his needs. Another reason to go with the "melonheads are made up" concept is because, unlike scrub which is generally a blanket term for anyone annoying or incredibly bad, which is fairly objective as far as this wiki goes, in nearly every case a character on this page actually being a melonhead based on the traditional characteristics would be OOC. That being said, melonheads COULD exist, and probably a good chunk of radical anti-scrubs would call themselves melonheads just to annoy scrubs, but it would have to be up to the OOC holder of that character to decide if they really are. --Chill57181 (Talk • Contributions )  18:14, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Melonheads are characters accused of being arrogant, pretentious, snobbish, self-centered and to find enjoyment in humiliating others, just like scrubs are characters accused of being, in your words, annoying or incredibly bad. Penstubal invented the term and that is what it meant at first, but Penstubal eventually expanded the term to cover a second meaning, which is basically anybody who opposes him, just as he has started to use the term scrub to use those who are with him. Also note that it is not the "inventor" of a term that decides if the meaning changes, it's the way the general public uses it or a wider group uses it, and even if Penstubal randomly woke up and decided it actually is a slang term for diapers, unless it is adopted by a majority of people who used that term so that the new meaning becomes the main one, it still won't be a slang term for diapers and will have its original meaning. -- Penstubal (Talk) (Edits) 18:53, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, but it still needs a more neutral point of view imo. The keyword here is "accused", but most of the time the page acts like it's a real thing. The majority of characters accused of being "melonheads" really don't fit the bill at all, there's only three characters on that list that seem like they could be properly melonheaded to me based on the rest of the page. All I ask is that the page be revised a bit to better explain that in the majority of cases being a melonhead is just a scrub perception, though there are still some legitimate melonheads out there and others who just give themselves the title because they don't like scrubs. --Chill57181 (Talk • Contributions )  20:04, 23 November 2019 (UTC)