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On a more general note, I don't understand why people are saying this will set a precedent. This is an extremely unique scenario that, as far as I know, has never been repeated. As I said previously, any other attempts to go against game manuals using this to support it would likely be comparing apples to oranges; they'd have to go through a proposal just like this one, and they would be supported or opposed on their own merits, not based on the outcome of this one. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 17:39, March 3, 2023 (EST) | On a more general note, I don't understand why people are saying this will set a precedent. This is an extremely unique scenario that, as far as I know, has never been repeated. As I said previously, any other attempts to go against game manuals using this to support it would likely be comparing apples to oranges; they'd have to go through a proposal just like this one, and they would be supported or opposed on their own merits, not based on the outcome of this one. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 17:39, March 3, 2023 (EST) | ||
:I don't think the King Boo hypothetical is appropriate here, for two reasons: (1) I realise I'm being anal about the lang-of-origin aspect, which I noticed you disagreed with in the past, but I must state that the Japanese version of SM64DS [https://youtu.be/2eoNjlg0STY?t=3146 correctly identifies the character as "Kingu Teresa"], already rendering "Big Boo" improminent; and (2) outside of that, King Boo has had a vast amount of media and material, in various languages, that identified him as such, validating any fan rectification along the lines of "this character is called such in this game, which is wrong". As even you said, the Construction Site Fight sitch, with the sole two sources repeating the same (alleged, by wiki standards) error, is possibly the only instance of this thing in all of the media that falls under the site's coverage, and should any other identical situations surface, this proposal's outcome would apply to them as well. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 18:15, March 3, 2023 (EST) | :I don't think the King Boo hypothetical is appropriate here, for two reasons: (1) I realise I'm being anal about the lang-of-origin aspect, which I noticed you disagreed with in the past, but I must state that the Japanese version of SM64DS [https://youtu.be/2eoNjlg0STY?t=3146 correctly identifies the character as "Kingu Teresa"], already rendering "Big Boo" improminent; and (2) outside of that, King Boo has had a vast amount of media and material, in various languages, that identified him as such, validating any fan rectification along the lines of "this character is called such in this game, which is wrong". As even you said, the Construction Site Fight sitch, with the sole two sources repeating the same (alleged, by wiki standards) error, is possibly the only instance of this thing in all of the media that falls under the site's coverage, and should any other identical situations surface, this proposal's outcome would apply to them as well. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 18:15, March 3, 2023 (EST) | ||
::I never intended the King Boo hypothetical to be an argument in favor of this proposal, otherwise I would have included it in the header. It was merely meant to debunk your implied sentiment that only people on fan wikis care about errors in video games and their manuals. I was very confused by that King Boo/Big Boo screwup long before I ever discovered, let alone joined, this wiki. I knew from the beginning that this proposal would be something of a crapshoot given the lack of comparisons or previous proposals to draw upon. This is unlikely to happen again, since printed manuals have largely gone the way of the dodo, and such an blatant error in in-game text would be patched out in this day and age. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 19:21, March 3, 2023 (EST) | |||
@Glowsquid, out of curiosity, can you link to the SMRPG discussion, if there was any? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 19:17, March 3, 2023 (EST) | @Glowsquid, out of curiosity, can you link to the SMRPG discussion, if there was any? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 19:17, March 3, 2023 (EST) | ||