Talk:Game Power

Delete?

So, when making this page, I failed to notice that this... isn't licensed by Nintendo, therefore we cannot use information like the ones found in the cool game guide inserts. Sure they have stuff like actual interviews to Nintendo's staff and game reviews, but... does that justify the coverage? Mariuigi Khed 09:33, March 16, 2026 (UTC)

I mean, we already have magazines that aren't necessarily licensed by Nintendo, such as Mycom BASIC Magazine and Famitsu, but I wouldn't say that every magazine covering Nintendo should get an article. At the very least, if more of these get made, they should at least include some official and Mario-relevant content. SuperGamer18 (talk) 14:08, April 10, 2026 (UTC)

Welp... then I think it's not worth the trouble, then. Official-official Nintendo stuff just a couple of interviews. Most of the content is staff's reviews, previews and, again, the cool guide inserts. We could maybe do like a list page for the unlicensed magazines with such coverage, but I think this has to go. Mariuigi Khed 14:26, April 10, 2026 (UTC)

Y'know, that could actually be useful for citations of, for example, release dates. Might need a proposal however (if you want, I could co-author it with you). SuperGamer18 (talk) 14:55, April 10, 2026 (UTC)

For a bit of context, Mycom BASIC Magazine is here mostly because it's associated with Hudson Soft's titles for Japanese home computers, being the main contemporary source (or at least, the most well-preserved one) for those titles. Whether or not we think its situation is applicable to Game Power hinges almost entirely on if there's any information otherwise not readily accessible without it. Like Maruigi asked, did they do any interviews with Nintendo employees? Do they list precise release dates we didn't already know of? If so, great, and we think it's worth at least a base-line acknowledgement. Otherwise, uh, yeah, this page has no legs to stand on. ;P ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 17:31, April 15, 2026 (UTC)

The Murder of Roger "Game Power" Ackroyd

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Was going through the list of stuff that has been requested to be deleted, and I ran into this article again. Per the above conversation; like those Family BASIC minigames that were deleted per proposal a short period ago, this was not licensed. As said above, it did however feature interviews with Nintendo's staff, as well as game reviews [though I am uncertain of the status of the latter]. I don't have much of my own to add, most of what needs to be said has already been said above.

Thus, I shall offer two options.

• Delete the article. It will most likely still end up being used as a citation one way or another (the magazine itself) due to the very small amount of official content (the interviews), but I'm not sure that those interviews are enough to keep the article. Someone like IGN does that kind of thing a lot, no?
• Keep the article. I'm really not sure how this option would work, solely because it'd clash with how we handle a lot of other mostly-unlicensed things.

Proposer: Nelsonic (talk)
Deadline: November 22, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Kill it

1. The Grim Reaper (talk) As proposer.
2. Wandering Overlord (talk) "This page now dies under the monocled gaze of... the Wandering Overlord! But don't let that stop you from trying to find a Featured article status you shall never acquire!" In other words, per proposal.
3. Mariuigi Khed (talk) "Destroy the child". Per proposal.
4. Brett (talk) Per proposal.
5. Camwoodstock (talk) Mycom BASIC gets to skirt along the lines by virtue of being used by Hudson Soft, even if that isn't Nintendo themselves. This couldn't even muster that, so, uh, yeah, no, it fails coverage policy. No reason to keep this around, per proposal.
6. Xiahou Ba, The Nasty Warrior (talk) My finger was over the kill button for this for quite some time.
7. SuperGamer18 (talk) At the very least some of its content could be moved to List of references in publications instead (specifically the magazine covers and the comics). It might fit right at home there.
8. Jdtendo (talk) Per all.

Deliberations

As said above, it did however feature interviews with Nintendo's staff

...Isn't that alone worth keeping it? I mean, supposedly, those are interviews with official Nintendo staff. Unless those interviews have nothing to do with Mario, of course. rend (talk) (edits) 19:19, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

No. We can just cite any relevant interviews for the information within them. If we allowed any publication to get an article because a Nintendo representative spoke to them directly, we would have articles for every single gaming news website on the planet. Polygon, IGN, VGC, maybe even Nintendo Life if they got super lucky. We'd also need to have an article for Reddit due to an official Ask Me Anything event. Salmancer (talk) 19:34, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

Might be worth asking @Mariuigi Khed about those. SuperGamer18 (talk) 19:36, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

I reported those interviews in the page itself: the only Mario-related stuff are two Miyamoto interviews about Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and one with "Mr. Nintendo" (Howard Lincoln). Mariuigi Khed 19:50, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

@Salmancer We might actually need an article for Reddit regardless; Nintendo's got an official profile, and they've posted multiple Mario-related things. They also put up a OOT quiz recently, so that means there may be Mario-related Reddit quizzes... Nelsonic (talk edits) 21:13, November 7, 2026 (UTC)

By that logic we might as well make articles for Facebook, Instagram and ahem YouTube... SuperGamer18 (talk) 22:35, November 8, 2026 (UTC)

I think the YouTube one is sound, given that Wario Land: Shake It – Amazing footage! could only have been created with direct collaboration with YouTube. Plus, we can't let Wikipedia have an article about a Super Mario matter that we don't have! Salmancer (talk) 19:46, November 9, 2026 (UTC)

Funny enough, I think I talked about this on the Discord server. SuperGamer18 (talk) 09:37, November 13, 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, to be fair, we could cover YouTube, for the official Nintendo channels, one of which being about NSMBU challenges. Mariuigi Khed 21:08, November 9, 2026 (UTC)

(To both users) Well, I've worded the addition of YouTube as such because IIRC a proposal about that was near-universally rejected or something like that? Regardless, it wasn't seen well at the time, so the fact that some consensus has changed now is interesting, to say the least... SuperGamer18 (talk) 09:37, November 13, 2026 (UTC)