User:Son of Suns/Sandbox

'''This is a work-in-progress to make the Chronology guideline more flexible, and possibly create an archive of how different games in the series connect to each other chronologically. Any feedback would be helpful.'''

MarioWiki:Chronology is a guideline to help contributors organize the order information surrounding the events of the video games, cartoons, comics, etc. should be placed in articles, specifically in "History" and "Biography" sections. This is not a strict guideline, but a general set of rules that may be followed if so desired. While information may be divided into different sections, this does not reflect that certain media products are more or less canonical than any other source...

The standard article is divided into divided into several sections: the main section about video game appearances (possible sub-divided between the main series and sub-series), while following sections provide information from other media, such as cartoons, comics, etc. Appearances are listed in order of the source's international release. However, articles are often writtin from an "in-universe" perspective and ordered in terms of the franchise's fictional chronology. As such, the standard need not be followed to accomodate the fictional chronology of the Mario series. For example, information from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is often placed before information from all other appearances, as that game depicts the first events to take place in the "in-universe" chronology (the birth and delivery of the series' heroes Mario and Luigi). Additionally, information from cartoons and comics can be inserted into sections primarily focusing on video games in order to provide additional commentary about a particular event. For example, Mario may comment on his childhood in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, so that information may be inserted between sections on the video games Super Mario World 2 (Mario as a baby) and Super Mario Bros. (Mario as an adult). Ultimately articles should be organized based on what the community decides makes the most sense for the article.