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| : Those are mainly one-liners; which don't really count. --M. C. - "Mario Gals" Fan! [[User:MeritC|User Page]] | [[User_talk:MeritC|Talk Page]] 20:23, 28 December 2010 (EST) | | : Those are mainly one-liners; which don't really count. --M. C. - "Mario Gals" Fan! [[User:MeritC|User Page]] | [[User_talk:MeritC|Talk Page]] 20:23, 28 December 2010 (EST) |
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| ::I'm pretty sure it still counts. It's still character voice acting no matter how long the lines are. {{User:Tails777/sig}}
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| In this video of the Jap version the Nintendo logo is blue. I don't know about your game, but it's red in mine. | | In this video of the Jap version the Nintendo logo is blue. I don't know about your game, but it's red in mine. |
| This video also seems to disprove that thing about Mario and Toadsworth talking to each other. That might just be my speakers though so in that case, sorry.--[[User:TimTamChimchar|TimTamChimchar]] 01:55, 29 January 2011 (EST) | | This video also seems to disprove that thing about Mario and Toadsworth talking to each other. That might just be my speakers though so in that case, sorry.--[[User:TimTamChimchar|TimTamChimchar]] 01:55, 29 January 2011 (EST) |
| Well, yes, but that's not part of the main series, so it doesn't really count. [[User:TheDisneyGamer|TheDisneyGamer]] ([[User talk:TheDisneyGamer|talk]]) 15:34, 21 October 2015 (EDT)
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| == Those Raccoons == | | == Those Raccoons == |
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| Is there any official name for the raccoon people you give the Blue Coins to? [[File:Red_Yoshi_TTYD.png|30px]] [[User:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F96300>Yoshi</span>]][[User talk:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F00>waker</span>]] [[File:PMCS Orange Yoshi.png|30px]] 10:14, 25 April 2011 (EDT) | | Is there any official name for the raccoon people you give the Blue Coins to? [[File:Red_Yoshi_TTYD.png|30px]] [[User:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F96300>Yoshi</span>]][[User talk:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F00>waker</span>]] [[File:Orange_Yoshi_TTYD.PNG|30px]] 10:14, 25 April 2011 (EDT) |
| :None AKAIK. [[Tanooki|our article]] on them use a conjectural name. --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] 10:17, 25 April 2011 (EDT) | | :None AKAIK. [[Tanooki|our article]] on them use a conjectural name. --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] 10:17, 25 April 2011 (EDT) |
| ::Oh, I was just trying to find the article. Thanks! [[File:Red_Yoshi_TTYD.png|30px]] [[User:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F96300>Yoshi</span>]][[User talk:Yoshiwaker|<span style=color:#F00>waker</span>]] [[File:PMCS Orange Yoshi.png|30px]] 11:17, 25 April 2011 (EDT)
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| ==MENTION==
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| Should I mention that this happened sometime after the events of Mario 64?{{User:KoopaMan/sig}}
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| == Yoshi? ==
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| What are the controls for Yoshi? - [[User:Red-CyanToad|Red-CyanToad]]
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| :That kind of talk is more appropriate for the [http://www.marioboards.com forums] than this article's talk page, unless the question is asked with the intent of improving the given article. {{User:Bop1996/sig}}
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| == Trivia ==
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| sonic's invincibility theme have the same music of [[Delfino Plaza]]. I think it's remixed.<br>
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvZTzOiQes <br>
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw3eDb2RhyQ <br>
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| and, dolphin in italian is delfino. i think it's not coincidence, because the island is dolphin-shaped.<br>
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| :Yeah, no, I'm more than sure it's coincidence. [[User:Lord Grammaticus|Lord Grammaticus]] 14:47, 25 January 2012 (EST)
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| == Test level: Action Replay Only? Really? ==
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| its gotta be possible to go to the test level without an AR. what about an emulator and whatnot? [[User:Pointy Stick Of Doom +99|Pointy Stick Of Doom +99]] ([[User talk:Pointy Stick Of Doom +99|talk]]) 22:31, 11 October 2012 (EDT)
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| There is a reference to this in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. While talking to Gulliver, he mentions Ricco Harbor, although I do realise all the current references are from Mario games, so sorry if I misunderstood that.--[[Special:Contributions/96.44.90.196|96.44.90.196]] 20:12, 17 April 2014 (EDT)
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| == Sun sprite ==
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| I remember at one point there was a sprite of the sun on this page. It's not there anymore. What happened to it? Did using the image break a rule or something? And no, I do not mean an image of a [[Shine Sprite]]. I mean a sprite of the actual sun from this game. --[[User:J-Yoshi64|J-Yoshi64]] ([[User talk:J-Yoshi64|talk]]) 14:22, 4 July 2014 (EDT)
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| "It was the first main Mario series title not to be a launch title for its respective console." What about SMB3? [[Special:Contributions/71.226.144.42|71.226.144.42]] 17:07, 16 May 2015 (EDT)
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| == Should TCRF be credited for the regional differences somehow? ==
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| Seeing as they credit MarioWiki for things... --[[User:Hiccup|Hiccup]] ([[User talk:Hiccup|talk]]) 09:34, 19 December 2015 (EST)
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| :can you establish a reasonable case for the current section being based on TCRF's? I checked [https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Sunshine/Regional_Differences TCRF's Sunshine pages for regional differences] and the writing and formatting is different enough to pass off as original content. --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] ([[User talk:Glowsquid|talk]]) 13:11, 19 December 2015 (EST)
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| ::Oh, I meant the "discovery", not the actual text. --[[User:Hiccup|Hiccup]] ([[User talk:Hiccup|talk]]) 14:25, 19 December 2015 (EST)
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| == Pre-rendered cutsence ==
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| Can you add that this is the only main Mario game so far to have pre-rendered cutsences?{{unsigned|69.127.38.51}}
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| :The cutscenes are not pre-rendered though, they're live rendered. Unless you count possibly the little TV screen with the Piantas advertising as possible, but that's not really a cutscene. {{User:Baby Luigi/sig}} 16:21, 4 August 2018 (EDT)
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| How'd you know they're live rendered?{{unsigned|69.127.38.51}}
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| :The best way to tell is to play through an emulator and notice how the screenshot gets affected if you try adjusting the resolution. If you increase the resolution higher than intended aspect display, the models remain crisp if it's live-rendered. If it's pre-rendered, the screenshot would look bloated as if you took an image and resized it. After all, pre-rendered scenes are just a bunch of moving images (like in a movie) while live-rendering loads models, textures, animations, and so on. Do you understand the differences? Additionally, Dolphin Emulator provides a free-look (a hack that allows you to adjust the camera and explore the 3D environment), and it wouldn't be possible to view a scene with free-look if it's prerendered, because it's technically only a 2d image in-game. {{User:Bazooka Mario/sig}} 16:41, 4 August 2018 (EDT)
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| Wow! Saying they're pre-rendered cutsences is just a popular belief. But, why do many people believe they're pre-rendered cutsences?
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| I think it's because this game doesn't run at 60 frames.
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| :Now I'm wondering how the cutscenes were replaced with random FMVs in the Games Repainted hack of it, if the originals were live rendered scene setups and not videos themselves.... [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 00:25, 15 September 2018 (EDT)
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| ::If they could replace the cutscenes with FMV then that makes it prerenderd (unless it's a video edit). Unless the cutscenes run at 60 fps and the game never runs smoother than 30 fps, then frame rate is irrelevant. {{User:Bazooka Mario/sig}} 01:19, 15 September 2018 (EDT)
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| == A message about characters and enemies ==
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| The enemies are technically characters, so enemies should be a subsection of characters.{{unsigned|174.66.205.68}}
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| :I disagree, it's better if enemies are completely seperated from playable characters and NPCs. {{User:Keyblade Master/sig}}
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| == Promotional Preview CD ==
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| Check out this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ICuET4QLQ and add it accordingly because I don't know how. Also, I have a list of most of the mario games with physical demo versions and I have a list of the gamecube demo discs with mario on them. Do you want them? [[User:Bobster|Bobster]] ([[User talk:Bobster|talk]]) 08:23, March 28, 2021 (EDT)Bobster
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| == Revisiting Delfino Airstrip ==
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| In the Courses section it says the following:
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| "Delfino Airstrip is the setting of the game's prologue and is available to visit via ferry after completing the "Father and Son Shine!" episode."
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| This is false, completing the "Father and Son Shine!" episode is not actually required to unlock the ferry to the Airstrip. All you have to do is enter and exit Corona Mountain, if you exit the level (and presumably also if you get a Game Over and get sent back to Delfino Plaza, but I haven't tested that) Delfino Plaza is no longer flooded and the ferry appears. Could someone please correct this? The page is locked and I don't have permission to edit it. [[User:Bolt Strike|Bolt Strike]]
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| == Very minor change request ==
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| In the section where it talks about the 100% ending screen (at the very end of "Story" section), it says that the postcard depicts the characters in Hotel Delfino. While this is technically true, the photo actually appears to be taken in Casino Delfino. I think the article should be changed to specify that the photo was taken in Casino Delfino, rather than Hotel Delfino. Unfortunately, I do not have the permissions to edit this article for whatever reason, so anyone who does have these permissions shall change the article. - Some random guy who doesn't have an account [[Special:Contributions/97.112.18.223|97.112.18.223]]
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| :Made the change. {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 12:03, April 9, 2023 (EDT)
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| == A bit much?? ==
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| This page is '''gigantic''', and I think there's one major reason for this: Why is the "Obstacles" and "Objects" section so massively bloated? Do we really need entries for such small inconsequential things like "Hot Water", "Closet", "Fruit Tree", "Jar"???, "Window"???, "Blue and yellow blocks", "Boat", "Flipping Platforms", "Float", "Green Block", "Multicolored Block", "Orange Block", "Red Triangle", "Spinning Block", "Spinning Gear", "Star" (The wooden platform), "Vanishing Block", "Yellow Peg", "Hook", "Portrait", or "Spray Point"? Each, of course, with a large image that bloats the page. There's probably even more than those I listed that could go. We're not trying to list and document every single unique polygonal element in the game here, are we? It's a bit excessive, don't you think? [[User:Shadow2|Shadow2]] ([[User talk:Shadow2|talk]]) 21:48, January 21, 2024 (EST)
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| :Yes, we are, and no, it's not. Everything that counts as a distinct interactive object distinct from the stage geometry (and some that are part of it) deserve to be covered. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 22:09, January 21, 2024 (EST)
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| ::@Shadow2 I agree with Doc - if something has a discrete gameplay function, than it should be included here (especially - but not exclusively - if they are acknowledged in the "items & objects" section of the Shogakukan Mario encyclopedia, of which many of these allegedly superfluous objects are). I also don't think this article is particularly big. By contrast, ''Super Mario Sunshine'' (149,542 bytes) is only about half the size of the ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' (310,969 bytes) article. I would even say more can be contributed to the Sunshine article in the future (not in listing individual objects - that seems pretty thorough. More so in discussing the nature of the game itself, similar to SMG). - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 17:54, January 22, 2024 (EST)
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| :::I don't think we should document every single thing a thing does, but at least we should have sections for more concretely named things like [[Manhole]] or [[Wall painting]]; even something like flower, nail, and balloon probably. But something like a window or pianta-shaped tree, though? Nah. I mean, don't tell me every railing post cap, every newel, every streetlamp or other hat-mountable objects you find in Odyssey needs its own section because Mario can throw a hat on it to get a coin. {{User:Mario/sig}} 19:15, January 22, 2024 (EST)
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| ::::Shared functions can share a section. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 19:19, January 22, 2024 (EST)
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| :::Honestly, Super Mario Galaxy's page suffers the same problem, in my opinion. Crushing Pillar, Electric Ball, "Rotating Green Platform". Maybe there should be some policy in place to determine where to draw the line, because at what point do you stop? I'm sure if I tried hard enough, I could scrounge through these games to find some sort of tiny "objects" in these games that have distinct features, but really don't need to be talked about. You mention a "discrete gameplay function". Well, what if something gives Mario a single coin when it's sprayed? Doesn't that count as a function. So, would we include every single solitary object, wall, and building that gives Mario a coin? [[User:Shadow2|Shadow2]] ([[User talk:Shadow2|talk]]) 21:09, February 1, 2024 (EST)
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| ::::I do think there is a difference between something that is just part of the terrain (which I do not think should be included) and a discrete object (which I generally do think should be included), but it is not always clear where one should draw that line. Generally, at minimum, I personally try to include what is listed under the "Items & Objects" sections for the games in the [https://archive.org/details/30-th-anniversary-encyclopedia-super-mario-bros.-1985-2015 Shogakukan encyclopedia]. While not all encompassing, Nintendo was directly involved with the production of the text here, and it is best, most accessible primary literature that directly highlight what are true obstacles, items, and objects in most modern Mario games. (It also provides a place for English-speakers to engage with the same material, as the English-localization of the encyclopedia has many errors.) Anything beyond that is usually added by other users, and I do not always agree with those decisions. (Is it really necessary to have water tide and lava tide? It's just freezing water and lava that is moving. Similarly, there are entries in the Sunshine article that might be better understood as an element of the terrain.) However, I do not feel it is appropriate for me alone to tell other users what should or should not be included. Working on articles here is collaborative, and these are often edge-cases. Maybe a wider policy discussion would be helpful.
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| :::::I have created a spreadsheet for objects as listed in the encyclopedia and a talk post about it [[Category talk:Objects#Directory for objects, items, and obstacles in the Super Mario Encyclopedia|here]]. I thought it would be helpful in contextualizing what counts as an object, what is general terrain, etc. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 15:25, February 16, 2024 (EST)
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| What exactly qualifies the Manta as a mid boss? What makes its boss fight less notable than Eely Mouth, Petey Piranha, etc.? For that matter, what is our definition of mid boss at all? I see the desire to split off Gatekeepers, Monty Moles, Shadow Mario, and the Plungelos, but is there really anything that makes them lesser than the other bosses? Most of them are recurring, but so are Petey and Gooper Blooper, and Plungelos are not recurring (though there are at least multiple of them within the one "fight"). All of them are, at least once, the primary objective of a stage (Gatekeeper in Bianco, Shadow Mario in every Episode 7, Plungelo in its only appearance, Monty Mole in Noki Bay), and sure, Gatekeeper and Monty Mole have extensive platforming sections before you get to fight them in these stages, but so do Petey and Gooper in Noki Bay, and the Plungelos are the sole objective of the stage. The only thing I can think of is that it's based on the music that plays, but I don't know that that's really solid logic for declaring a group of bosses "less than" when the game otherwise doesn't seem to make the same distinction. [[Special:Contributions/73.171.104.211|73.171.104.211]] 19:21, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| :It is a mid-boss in the same way those others (as well as Gooper Blooper in Noki Bay) are. But the fact Gooper is both is why I had merged those sections in a prior iteration. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 19:37, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::When I build the tables for these games, it is with the knowledge that some subjects could be supported in multiple different subcategories (especially between obstacles and objects, and within different subcategories of objects). Where the barriers between them lies can sometimes be blurred. My mindset is to place subjects within the categories with which the see the most structural in-game support. I do think ''Super Mario Sunshine'' structurally has mid-bosses and normal bosses, and that is a valuable distinction to convey to readers. For Gooper Blooper, I believe it is ''repurposed'' as a mid-boss and that should probably be conveyed in the article, but is more often utilized as a normal boss and appears as such more often than not in the game, and thus makes more sense in the "normal boss" subcategory. I think the categorization of the Phantamanta is less ambiguous, and is further supported by the language used on the official soundtrack integrated in ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars''. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 19:49, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| :::It might be better to just have a merged table with a "type" column to it to better illustrate that. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 19:51, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::::I'm still not seeing a definition for mid boss here. What do you mean "it is a mid-boss in the same way those others are"? That's not an explanation lmao. [[Special:Contributions/73.171.104.211|73.171.104.211]] 20:55, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| :::::The OST calls that theme music they use the midboss theme, and also consider it relative to Petey (for the Gatekeepers), Wiggler (for Plungelos), Eely-Mouth (for Gooper-the-third), and King Boo (for the Manta). [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 20:57, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::::::Yes. For clarification, mid-bosses are (generally) physically diminutive and typically proceed a battle with a larger boss later on in the course. For Phantamanta, it is battled in Sirena Beach before an eventual battle with King Boo. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 21:09, July 13, 2024 (EDT)
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| '''TLDR'''; because of the inconsistent and unreliable nature of the third-party guidebooks published for ''Super Mario Sunshine'', I propose we use the scoreboard from ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'' - a direct, in-game source from Nintendo - for the endemic enemies and bosses in the main ''Super Mario Sunshine'' article, its corresponding level articles, and the body text of their respective enemy articles. We know from Mario Portal that these unambiguously are the localized names for these subjects. ''Super Mario Sunshine'' is the only game they have ever appeared in and thus the only context where these names would ever be applicable. The following would be changed in the previously mentioned articles:
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| *Sanbo Head → [[Pokey Head|Pokey Pod]] (see comment from {{User|Blinker}} below; "Pokey Head" would become the preferred localized name from ''Galaxy'' onward, but "Pokey Pod" is also used in ''Toadstool Tour'' whereas "Sanbo Head" only occurs in the third-party guides)
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| '''The long you can read'''; ''Super Mario Sunshine'' was one of the first ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' games where many of its characters, enemies, bosses, and objects were not properly localized into English, or at least not in a source directly published by Nintendo. In contrast to most prior guidebooks, the ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' Player's Guide (published and scribed by Nintendo of America) provides informal descriptors for subjects not directly named in-game, and the majority of subjects are wholly unmentioned in the instruction booklet. In typical EAD style, most of the enemies and characters are not named directly by NPCs in the game's script, who prefer to use informal descriptors. (e.g., {{cite|quote=Some [[Electro-Koopa King|weird turtle]] is doing bad stuff back there! It's crazy!|author=[[Pianta]] during "[[The Runaway Ferris Wheel]]"}})
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| Consequently, as delineated in our [[MarioWiki:Naming|naming policy]], we have historically been relying on licensed third-party ''Super Mario Sunshine'' guidebooks published around that time by [[Prima Games]], {{wp|DK (publisher)|DK}}'s BradyGames, and Versus Books. This has inherently been an imperfect approach, because despite all of these sources being licensed by Nintendo, they often used different names for the same subjects. This is apparent in our articles for nearly every enemy and boss from the game. There does not seem to be any hierarchy between these sources or one outlined in our policies, so which names are the most appropriate? This varies by article, but generally it seems that we have prioritized Prima Games' names, potentially due to their fecundity and exclusivity deal with Nintendo from 2007 onward, but neither of those aspects were relevant when ''Super Mario Sunshine'' was released. For this game, Prima Games, BradyGames, and Versus Books are equal. Curatorially, this makes it difficult to assess how to title articles and how to refer to subjects within the context of this game. What names were provided by Nintendo of America and what ones were invented by convenience by the editors and authors of these books? Because if any of them are the former, it is immediately odd that they would not use any of them in the in-house ''Nintendo Power'' Player's Guide, and only in these third-party books. Further, it is odd that these guides would have different names from each other at all if there really was a list of enemies provided by Nintendo themselves. It is beyond our capacity to speculate on the origin of these individual names. Some may be from Nintendo themselves, some may not be, some were applied in error (more on that in the next paragraph), but it makes the use of them, in my view at least, uncomfortably problematic.
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| "But, Nintendo101," you exclaim to your computer, "why does any of this matter? This is all semantics." It is semantics, and there was nothing wrong with using these sources in lieu of anything closer to Nintendo themselves. However, the names used has had disproportionate impact on the enemies and bosses that never appeared outside of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' (what I refer to here as "{{wp|Endemism|endemic}}") to the point of being misrepresentative of their subjects. For many years, we referred to a green turtle boss as an "[[Electro-Koopa King|Huge Red Electrokoopa]]" because that was the name used by Prima Games. A terrestrial, wingless blob unrelated to Stus was called a "[[Gooble|Swoopin' Stu]]". A recurring Piranha Plant mid-boss was called a "[[Proto Piranha|Gatekeeper]]." Because these subjects never reappeared outside of their debut game, any mentioning of these endemics on the wiki outside of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' feels inherently confusing (to me at least). Returning enemies, such as [[Cheep Cheep]]s, were given unique names and misidentified as wholly new ones on the wiki for multiple years. The editors for a [[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|officially-licensed book]] published by [[Dark Horse Comics]] incorporated some of these names, and while that alone should not inform our systematics (Nintendo frankly should have provided Dark Horse with names), it is an example of how the choices we make here can have greater consequences and reach a wide swath of readers.
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| As part of a fun tradition of the [[Mario Golf (series)|series]], ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' - a game published a few years after ''Super Mario Sunshine'' - incorporates the names of preestablished ''Super Mario'' characters (as well as some original monikers) on its in-game scoreboard as cameos. A number of these named seemed wholly new, but potentially were supposed to refer to ''Super Mario Sunshine'' enemies. Interestingly, a few of these were not used by any of the third-party guidebooks. With the release of the game's page on [https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/sunshine/index.html Mario Portal], it has been definitively indicated that the names that appear on the ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'' scoreboard are unambiguously representative of the enemies and bosses from ''Super Mario Sunshine'', and I would like us to prioritize the ''Toadstool Tour'' scoreboard over the third-party guidebooks for the game's endemics. These are more assuredly the true names for these subjects.
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| #'''Support: Let's change the names!'''
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| #'''Support: only change the names in the main game and level articles. Do not change the prioritized name in the body text of enemy articles.'''
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| #'''Oppose: do not change what names are prioritized.'''
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| '''Proposer''': {{User|Nintendo101}}<br>
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| '''Deadline''': July 31st, 2024, 23:59 GMT
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| ===Support: Let's change the names!===
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| #{{User|Nintendo101}} Per above.
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| #{{User|Super Mario RPG}} Per proposer.
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| #{{User|Sparks}} Per all.
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| #{{User|SolemnStormcloud}} Per proposal.
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| #{{User|Pseudo}} Per proposal.
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| #{{User|Seandwalsh}} Per proposal.
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| #{{User|LadySophie17}} Toadstool Tour, Mario Portal, and now even 3D All-Stars? That's the nail in the coffin for me.
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| #{{User|Jdtendo}} Per proposal.
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| #{{User|Arend}} Per all; I also had been under the impression for a while that the "Swoopin' Stu" name applied to Gooble has been a mistake from editors and authors of that guide, and was meant for [[Winged Strollin' Stu|another enemy]] instead (though that part is mere speculation atm)
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| #{{User|Ahemtoday}} These names have been bugging me for a long time.
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| #{{User|Blinker}} Per proposal.
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| #{{User|Scrooge200}} This had been bothering me for a while.
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| ===Support: only change the names in the main game and level articles.===
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| ===Comments on naming proposal===
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| We could also potentially use ''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' as justification for these names—the names "Proto Piranha" and "Phantamanta" are used in-game there for [https://smallmariofindings.tumblr.com/post/631635410607538176/the-super-mario-sunshine-soundtrack-included-in the music-player mode]. It wouldn't be much different than how we treat renames in remakes. [[User:SolemnStormcloud|SolemnStormcloud]] ([[User talk:SolemnStormcloud|talk]]) 15:54, July 17, 2024 (EDT)
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| Mario Portal also names [[Blue Electrokoopa]] and [[Red Electrokoopa]] as "Electro-Koopa (Blue)" and "Electro-Koopa (Red)" respectively. The names without hyphens also came from these third-party guides (Prima specifically, the same guide that named the [[Electro-Koopa King]] "Huge Red Electrokoopa"). Should these also be renamed to the Mario Portal names if this passes? {{User:Arend/sig}} 12:57, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| :Electro-Koopas are actually one of the few enemies explicitly named in-game and they use the hyphen. ({{cite|quote='''Please be careful of the Electro-Koopas around the park...'''|author=[[Noki]] from [[Pinna Park]]}}). Per our naming policies, we could potentially change them outright regardless of this proposal.
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| :I did not bring that up here because I thought it would be better to discuss their names in a proposal where we consider lumping them together under one [[Electro-Koopa]] article. All Japanese and English paratext treats them as colored variants on the same enemy, which we typically lump together as one on the wiki. What gives me pause is that they are not just colored variants on the same enemy with slight behavioral differences like [[Koopa Troopa]]s or [[Cataquack]]s. They physically look quite different from one another, are different sizes, occur in different parts of terrain, and have completely different means of attack. That might be tangential to what names we prioritize for them, and I don't know if their differences mean they ''shouldn't'' be lumped together in one article, but it was complicated enough that it made we want to push that off for another day. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 13:36, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::A point of comparison for how uniquely different they are could be [[Koopa Troopa]] and [[Climbing Koopa]], enemies that the wiki regards as separate in spite of being ontologically the same creatures owing to their massive behavioral and contextual differences within the same game. {{User:Pseudo/sig}} 16:22, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::There was a [[Talk:Electro-Koopa#Re-merge red and blue back here|proposal]] to merge the Electro-Koopas that failed, though it was a while ago. {{User:Hewer/sig}} 18:39, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| I'm not voting yet, but some names, like "Plurp" just do not sit well with me. Coo Coo sounds a lot more... pleasant. --{{User:FanOfYoshi/sig}} 13:18, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| :My position is that "Plurp" should be the prioritized name because it is unambiguously the proper localization for the enemy from Nintendo themselves (per ''Toadstool Tour'' and the Mario Portal{{sic}}) and that should be prioritized. While "Coo Coo" sounds pleasant, it has only appeared in third-party guides. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 13:36, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::I see. --{{User:FanOfYoshi/sig}} 14:03, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| I know this is a different case than those mentioned in this proposal (partly because the enemy appears outside of Sunshine, and partly because that means the name is not confirmed by Portal, which uses the current name), but I would also like to see this done to [[Pokey Head#Super Mario Sunshine|Sanbo Head]] and the Toadstool Tour name of "Pokey Pod", which matches [[Seedy Pod]]. [[User:Blinker|Blinker]] ([[User talk:Blinker|talk]]) 17:06, July 18, 2024 (EDT)
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| (I've been thinking of making my own Mario Portal-related proposal, but I'm still waiting to see how Banzai/Boomer Bill pans out first.) This one is so [[MarioWiki talk:Naming#Make an exception to source priority for articles with identical names|unusual]] that I understand using ''Toadstool Tour'' and ''3D All-Stars'' to keep things more grounded, but the problem I have with digital media is that, unlike print media, it isn't static by nature. Having print media higher priority than digital media kept things more stable for these older games. When things are put to print, you can point to a period of time and say, with reasonable certainty, that is how things stood back then. That helps maintain legacy material. We've already seen Mario Portal silently make [[Bunbun|minor]] [[No. 48|changes]], so I don't think I agree with putting websites way up in name tier #2. It made perfect sense to me to keep them below contemporary guides. The same "they've been phased out" rationale could be made to move instruction booklets, but Nintendo has generally kept manual PDFs of their older games, so I don't believe that needs to go anywhere either. But maybe it's just that this view is behind the times. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 14:10, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| :I understand your perspective, but it interferes with the fact that the most prioritized sources in our naming policy are the video games themselves, which are digital media. If there was a naming conflict between the actual game and its instruction booklet, the rendering in the game would take priority by default.
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| :Further, this proposal was not made to bridge with Mario Portal, it is to prioritize the names within ''Toadstool Tour'' which is a first-party video game published by Nintendo. Mario Portal (and to a lesser extent, ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'') is simply contextualizing to the intent and legitimacy of those names. I would not give it much weight on its own for the reasons you have cited. If the suggestion is that the names from ''Toadstool Tour'' were applied to the enemies and bosses form ''Sunshine'' in retrospect or only for Mario Portal specifically, then I would say that is overly cautious. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 19:24, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::I'm not sure if I really agree with the games being 'digital media' in nearly the same sense, but that's getting into a whole other discussion. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 19:40, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| :::Forgive me, I may have misunderstood your point. If you do not personally consider the games to be digital media, than what is the issue with prioritizing the video game ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'' over third-party guidebooks for these specific enemies and bosses? - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 21:08, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::::I don't see how the format of the primary product has to do with it. I suppose I would agree most with incorporating the ''3D All-Stars'' material (ie. Proto Piranha and Phantamanta) because that contains a direct re-release of said product. The sound galleries and what have you can be likened to supplemental material packaged with the primary product, like a booklet. I also agree with changing the Electro-Koopas to be consistent to their in-game form (I supported the merge proposal that failed). However, regardless of its ''Sunshine'' references, ''Toadstool Tour'' is decidedly its own thing. The fact that the ''Sunshine'' guidebooks couldn't keep things straight leads me to believe these names came about later, and so, to apply them to ''Sunshine'' sections would be anachronistic, which the wiki tries to avoid when it can. Again, though, it's not often that a game has this many licensed guidebooks, and that the Prima guide was taken as the de facto lead guide over the Nintendo Power one. I guess consider me neutral. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 22:18, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| OK, just for simple clarity, which pages are affected? [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 14:18, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| :I believe it's the six articles laid out at the top of the proposal text. {{User:Pseudo/sig}} 15:07, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::d'oh, that horizontal line threw me off, I didn't scroll above it. Whoopsy! Thanks. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 15:13, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| ::: No problem :) {{User:Pseudo/sig}} 15:59, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| I'm uneasy about the Phantamanta, since everything else (including in other languages) just calls it a manta; it's probably a ''megawacky'' (even by ''Sunshine''{{'}}s standards) reinterpretation of the SM64 thing. I know we already have the article titled as Phantamanta, but I'm still a bit uneasy about it. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 15:15, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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| :I agree it is probably an elaboration on the ''Mario 64'' manta ray because nearly all of the bosses in ''Sunshine'' are like that, but that alone does not mean it was suppose to be the same thing in an ontological sense and I doubt it was intended to be given the same name by Nintendo of America. I interpret the use of "manta" in the third-party guides as an informal descriptor (probably created by the editors) relating to its shape and how the Pianta describes it in-game, because I do not know of any scenarios within the last 24 years where Nintendo of America would deliberately give a ''Super Mario'' enemy or boss a lowercased name. - [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 19:24, July 20, 2024 (EDT)
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