User blog:AgentMuffin/Something that's bugging me

So I've been seeing this recurring trend on the wiki. It's nothing major, but it is, as I just said, a recurring issue.

It's where people note that something isn't necessarily true in the actual Mario franchise, with no reason to assume it would be true.

Take Waluigi's page. Last time I checked, if I remember correctly, it was stated in the intro section that Waluigi didn't know how to write the letter "L" (most likely referring to the capital form of the letter), but that this wasn't actually true in the videogames' canon. Now, what's wrong with this scenario? First of all, this shouldn't be in the intro section at all, because it's not a character trait throughout SMG4's videos, to the best of my knowledge. Honestly, it sounds much more like a throwaway gag than anything. Which brings me to the next problem: they didn't even bother citing or linking to the article for the blooper in which this was stated. But back to the actual issue, now. It's completely arbitrary to say this on a wiki that's about SMG4's videos. SMG4's videos are obviously not canonical to the games, nor have they tried to be. If some small trait contradicts another blooper, throw it down into the trivia. This kind of comparison, though, is pointless.

Another example is that new video about Toad and Toadette, where (SPOILER ALERT) Toadette is revealed to have been 9 years old, prompting the police to appear and take Toad away to jail. The article's trivia section states this fact, that in the blooper Toadette is 9, but that she isn't really that old in Mario canon. Again, this is pointless: it assumes that SMG4's canon and the games' canon are one in the same. They aren't, and I'd think everyone knows this. (And heck, even if they did share a timeline, and even if Toadette is officially older than 9, this blooper could have taken place at a time when Toadette was a nine-year-old.)

And another thing: you can't even say that these things aren't true in the games. Take Waluigi. He rarely appears in the games, and even the spinoffs never show him trying to write the letter "L". So no, you can't say anything either way regarding Waluigi's ability to write that letter in its proper orientation. Nor can you even infer it either way, because Waluigi has never been stated to be dyslexic, but then again, he might be—there's no evidence for one statement nor the other, so why say anything about it? As for Toadette, well, she may very well be older than 9. After all, she is an adventurer and all, and a pretty good one at that (if Treasure Tracker is anything to go by, and it is one of the few Mario games to explicitly establish a temporal relationship to another game). However, that doesn't mean she is definitely older than that. Societal standards are probably very different in the Mushroom Kingdom. In the Pokémon world, ten-year-olds roam the country and battle total strangers' dangerous pets by commanding their own dangerous pets. Who's to say a world where dinosaurs are probably used as taxis doesn't have a similar dynamic, letting young Toads strap on heavy backpacks and hike through tiny universes riddled with deadly creatures? Again, you can't say anything about this either way.

And this is just playing off of those two examples.

In conclusion, people, just don't do this. The wiki isn't a place to compare SMG4 to officially licensed Nintendo products. The continuities of those two things are negative enough already, kinda muddled at best. This whole wikia is about SMG4, so you really have no need to point out contradictions with things that are not SMG4—especially not regarding things this disjointed and unclear. Thanks.  ˜ AgentMuffin ”