Category talk:Fictional artwork

Do WarioWare games qualify?

Poking a hornet's nest here, but in the keyfabe of the WarioWare (series), the company WarioWare, Inc. creates each of the WarioWare games. Like no, really, the official website spells it out in plain text,[1] and this is backed by Wario's fourth wall breaking explanations about how to play his latest games. So add Category:Fictional artwork to Category:WarioWare series, remove Category:Microgames and Wario's amiibo Sketch because they're both within the WarioWare series, we're good right?

Not so fast. Contained within Category:WarioWare series are Paper Airplane Chase and Bird & Beans, both games that are not listed in the Company History of WarioWare Inc on the website. While I know they're both based on WarioWare minigames, that's not good enough. We would need explicit confirmation that those specific improved releases of the games are also developed by a fictional company. So I guess short of new information coming to light, we would have to put every WarioWare game in Category:Fictional artwork manually.

There's also the possibility we ignore the "WarioWare Inc makes the entire game" concept and focus more on how they make the microgames, saving us some amount of handwringing over this very bizarre series. Could just make it a note in the intro that "Retail games of the WarioWare (series) are stated to be created by WarioWare, Inc., though this wiki does not categorize them as such for sanity's sake", but probably more formal somehow. Salmancer (talk) 23:56, July 29, 2025 (EDT)

Real-world paintings?

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For whatever reason, stuff like the Mona Lisa and Guernica are in this category, despite them being real-world pieces of art. Should these really... Count, as "fictional artwork in the Mario franchise"? Sure, they count as fictional in the Mario franchise, but they're also fictional to... well, our reality. Calling it "fictional artwork" feels a bit too literal for its own good. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 21:13, August 22, 2025 (EDT)

This category's job, as far as I'm aware, is as a listing of art that appears in Mario media. Like the Mona Mushroom and the Mona Lisa. It's supposed to be the Category:Characters to a nonexistent Category:People analogue. The problem is that you can't call this category "Category:Artwork" because "artwork" is a term the wiki uses for a kind of promotional material, something that distinctly is not a kind of item in media. (It does appear on items within media, like Battle Cards and spirits, but that's another topic.) The term artwork even has its own categories, like Category:Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam artwork, another good reason to avoid using "Artwork" has the name of this category. So with "Category:Artwork" right out, the next best thing was "Category:Fictional artwork", because "Category:Artwork objects" probably excludes things like the Folded Soldiers. Really, what the category needs a better name. To which I have no suggestions. (I'd say "Category:In-universe artwork" but that is too much jargon.) Salmancer (talk) 01:31, August 23, 2025 (EDT)