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#'''Name from a pre-''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' Prima Games Strategy Guide or any other third-party guide''' – A name from an officially-licensed Prima Games Strategy Guide (when they were published concurrently with ''Nintendo Power'') is also an acceptable alternative, though in case of contradictions, the ''Nintendo Power'' name takes priority. This also applies to other official third-party guides by companies such as Bradygames. For Japanese names, guides published by [[Shogakukan]] (Nintendo's official guidebook licensee) take priority over other publications. | #'''Name from a pre-''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' Prima Games Strategy Guide or any other third-party guide''' – A name from an officially-licensed Prima Games Strategy Guide (when they were published concurrently with ''Nintendo Power'') is also an acceptable alternative, though in case of contradictions, the ''Nintendo Power'' name takes priority. This also applies to other official third-party guides by companies such as Bradygames. For Japanese names, guides published by [[Shogakukan]] (Nintendo's official guidebook licensee) take priority over other publications. | ||
#'''Name used in officially licensed media''' – A name from any officially Nintendo-licensed non-video game media source. This includes cartoons, movies, magazines, comics and web content. Like games, North American media names get priority, followed by the first international English name and finally, the first non-English source. | #'''Name used in officially licensed media''' – A name from any officially Nintendo-licensed non-video game media source. This includes cartoons, movies, magazines, comics and web content. Like games, North American media names get priority, followed by the first international English name and finally, the first non-English source. | ||
#'''Development name or name from internal data''' – Any name used in relation to the development of a video game or other Nintendo-licensed media source. This type of name usually comes from internal game files, unused data, developer interviews, or development documents. If a name can be derived using a combination of internal data and known information (such as an enemy variant where the base enemy name is known but the variant name is internal), then this information should be combined into one name and tagged with <code><nowiki>{{conjecture|derived= | #'''Development name or name from internal data''' – Any name used in relation to the development of a video game or other Nintendo-licensed media source. This type of name usually comes from internal game files, unused data, developer interviews, or development documents. If a name can be derived using a combination of internal data and known information (such as an enemy variant where the base enemy name is known but the variant name is internal), then this information should be combined into one name and tagged with <code><nowiki>{{conjecture|derived=yes}}</nowiki></code> rather than using only the internal name. In other words, we only resort to internal data for information that we ''don't know''. If part of the name is known, then there's no need to resort to internal data for that part. | ||
#'''English translation of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia''' – The wiki initially banned citations of the English ''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]s'' due to concerns about circular sourcing. As names first used in the English ''Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia'' started appearing in other sources, this was later amended to having it being acceptable to cite if there is no other known English name for the subject. If an English name from any of the other tiers listed above exists, it takes priority over the SMBE name. | #'''English translation of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia''' – The wiki initially banned citations of the English ''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]s'' due to concerns about circular sourcing. As names first used in the English ''Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia'' started appearing in other sources, this was later amended to having it being acceptable to cite if there is no other known English name for the subject. If an English name from any of the other tiers listed above exists, it takes priority over the SMBE name. | ||
#'''Name derived from a filename on a Nintendo-hosted website''' – A name from an image file on a website run by Nintendo such as [[Play Nintendo]] or game promotion websites. As filenames are not directly shown to users of websites, the names of image files do not need to follow proper naming conventions. This can lead to names which [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/57#Decide if obscure media filenames from Nintendo's websites qualify as sources for subject names|contain typos or other oddities]]. Should an alternate name for a subject originate from a filename, it should be mentioned using the [[:Template:Internal names|internal names template]] or as trivia. | #'''Name derived from a filename on a Nintendo-hosted website''' – A name from an image file on a website run by Nintendo such as [[Play Nintendo]] or game promotion websites. As filenames are not directly shown to users of websites, the names of image files do not need to follow proper naming conventions. This can lead to names which [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/57#Decide if obscure media filenames from Nintendo's websites qualify as sources for subject names|contain typos or other oddities]]. Should an alternate name for a subject originate from a filename, it should be mentioned using the [[:Template:Internal names|internal names template]] or as trivia. | ||