Talk:Mario (franchise)
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"Mario Brothers" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Mario Brothers has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 November 4 § Mario Brothers until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 01:04, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
"Mario and Luigi" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect Mario and Luigi has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 November 4 § Mario and Luigi until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 01:06, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
"Mario" vs. "Super Mario"
editCurrently, "Mario" is the name Wikipedia uses to refer to the wider IP, while "Super Mario" refers specifically to the platformers. However, Nintendo seems to officially use "Super Mario" to refer to the full title of the IP in general, with "Mario" merely being shorthand. In that case, would it be better to differentiate the two as "Super Mario (franchise)" and "Super Mario (series)", or would this article just need to amend its intro to say "Super Mario, commonly abbreviated as Mario, [...]"? Game4brains (talk) 05:04, 18 January 2026 (UTC)
- We use WP:COMMONNAME instead of official names to define pages. And in this case, I think it's very obvious that: Simply call it Mario franchise is more precise than mixed the franchise and flagship series' names. Awdqmb (talk) 10:52, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
Japanese names
edit@Sergecross73 and @Kung Fu Man: Should we indicate the Japanese names of the characters by using {{Nihongo}}s, by using {{efn}}s, or not at all?
Relevant article history: Kung Fu Man originally added them for the first three, I added the others, and Sergecross73 reverted saying This is overkill - these are all globally used names - general audiences have no need to know what Toad goes by in Japan - at best they can be used at EFN footnotes
. I then removed the remaining three because we should be consistent in including or not including the names. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 03:27, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- They do tend to be added to most articles of this sort for easier searching in their source language, but this is also a unique case where almost every character is already spun out too. I think they should stay, but I'm not going to make a fuss if consensus is against it.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:38, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- I don't mind if they're added as efn notes, but I don't think they should be clogging up the prose. I don't believe that your average, general audiences reader gets any value out of the fact that Luigi also goes by "Ruīji". Sergecross73 msg me 03:51, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
- {{Nihongo foot}}, which puts everything but the English in a footnote, seems to be what we need here. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 12:42, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
- I don't mind if they're added as efn notes, but I don't think they should be clogging up the prose. I don't believe that your average, general audiences reader gets any value out of the fact that Luigi also goes by "Ruīji". Sergecross73 msg me 03:51, 28 May 2026 (UTC)