Talk:List of ponies/@comment-76.25.99.106-20130104034534/@comment-370525-20130104130451

Until a few weeks ago, the term "alicorn" was entirely fanon. The wiki staff chose to use "pegasus unicorn" instead because (IIRC) that term had appeared on some toys at some point. Maybe somepony's just dragging their hooves in creating the "Alicorn" graphic to put on this page, but it's also still not *entirely* clear that "alicorn" officially refers to what-the-princesses-are. The word (out here in the real world) can also refer to the material a unicorn's horn is made of, so the amulet hypothetically could have been (shudder) made from unicorn horn and still be an "alicorn amulet".

I personally think the wiki should change it, but I can understand the argument against doing so until somepony uses "alicorn" in a less ambiguous context.