Talk:Don't Starve Wiki:Manual of Style/@comment-2606:A000:111A:8138:7900:D8F5:31A3:4896-20180219122746

This wiki (and the DS community in general) has a serious problem with the word, "KITING."

The word is ubiquitous here. Some pages refer to it as if everyone knows what it means, others use an awkward sidebar to briefly attempt to explain kiting.

Apparently, (according to this wiki) if you're playing Don't Starve, ANY interaction with any mob is "kiting."

Fleeing is kiting, fighting is kiting, dodging is kiting, ranged attacks are kiting, hit-and-run tactics are kiting, just about everything is kiting except for the tactic that actually resembles pulling a kite (the original source of the word "kiting.")

This is confusing to players who read "these can be kited" and then find out that to the Don't Starve community, "kited" means getting in the mob's face in melee and then dodging the next attack.

When you're killing a mob with melee weapons, you are not "kiting" in any sense of the word. You aren't pulling a mob behind you and hitting it with ranged attacks so that it never gets close (the way a kite never gets close to you).

Attacking and dodging would be described in other wikis as FIGHTING. One might even use a highly specific, descriptive word such as "RIPOSTE" to describe the exact tactic.

Dodging would be described in other wikis as DODGING.

Fleeing would be described in other wikis as FLEEING.

Pulling one mob to a more desired location would be described in other wikis as PULLING.

Knowing that Fighting, Dodging, Riposting, Fleeing, and Pulling are DIFFERENT from kiting will help players know when they should ACTUALLY KITE, and when they must employ other, specific tactics to win.