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It's January 17th. It was announced that we would have a twenty-second member today. Where are they? What time would they be inducted? What's going on?

Now back to the character discussion. Should we cover characters? Or should Mario's article be deleted?

It was only inaccessable for a couple hours. I can continue to contribute there now.

Something's wrong. Whenever I type ssbwiki.com in my url, I get an error page. Smash Wiki was working just fine this morning. However while playing Brawl, I tried going to Smash Wiki and I got an error message saying either there is technical difficulties or it doesn't exist. Is the server down or something? I even tried clicking on links leading there. Didn't work. What is going on?

Well at least the Nintendo Wikia had character articles, unlike us who have to rely on our affiliates. Well, I guess we can keep Genesis as a Virtual Console.

Ok, so, this is the updated list:
*Full coverage of hardware.
*Full coverage of history.
**Achievements: Awards Nintendo (or one of its properties) has received, like "Game of the Year".
**Legal: lawsuits by or Against Nintendo, etc.
*Full coverage of Events: E3, Spaceworld, etc.
*Full coverage of Nintendo Employees.
*Single article for competing companies.
*At least one article for every series.

Competing companies get articles? Why would Sony and Microsoft get articles on a Nintendo Wiki?

Well, you haven't voted on Pikachu or those other characters yet.

I made a userspace page for Pikachu. Do you think it should go in the mainspace? I also made a mascot infobox.

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Then maybe Jigglypuff can be notable? This notability thing is hard Bulbasaur and Meta Knight being examples of what not to cover. Bulbasaur is the very first Pokémon in the national Pokédex and one of the three Kanto starters, and is a very nostalgic Pokémon. And it is what our affiliate Bulbapedia named themselves after. Meta Knight is popular in Brawl, and is on top of the competitive tier list. Well, the tier list is not that important as people deny the existance of tiers and it is based on popular opinion. However, the Kanto starters Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle were very popular. And their final evolved forms Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise have appeared on boxarts for Green/LeafGreen, Red/FireRed and Blue respectively as the only characters on the boxart. The legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, Lugia, Suicune, Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Xerneas and Yvetal are on the boxarts of Gold/HeartGold, Silver/SoulSilver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, Black2/White2, X and Y respectively. These Pokémon on the main games' boxarts are called version mascots. And there are famous characters from the Mario series such as Mario (who we already have a page on), Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario, Yoshi, Toad, Goomba, Bullet Bill. And we have Captain Falcon to thank for the Falcon Punch meme. And a lot of company wikis on Wikia including Wikia's version of Nintendo Wiki have character articles. And Super Mario Wiki has full coverage on Donkey Kong and Super Smash Bros. despite the existance of Donkey Kong Wiki and Smash Wiki in the NIWA. The characters are a major part of Nintendo. Don't see why we can't just cover all of them. We have game pages even though the appropriate wikis have them too.

Well I think the character can have a page. Mario has a page and his first appearance was in Donkey Kong's page. If we can have more characters like Pikachu or Kirby, the Donkey Kong character can use the "Donkey Kong" title. Otherwise, the disambiguation would get that title. We are currently discussing what characters can be on the wiki and Donkey Kong may be a good mascot. It just feels strange to have Mario as the only character when there are other important Nintendo characters.

And even with that Wikipedia article, it doesn't have any sources. Could Olimar be a mascot despite having only three games? I don't think so. And Pikachu is more of a mascot than Jigglypuff. Pikachu made more appearances in advertising than Jigglypuff. Pikachu can have an article, but I don't think Jigglypuff needs one.

And what about characters? We have a page on Mario, and while he may be the primary mascot of Nintendo, I don't think he should be the only one to get his own article. Pikachu appears everywhere on Pokémon merchandise. Kirby has a bigger role than Mario in the Subspace Emissary of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. And Legend of Zelda starring Link is very popular. The rules clearly say certain characters like Bulbasaur and Meta Knight don't get articles, but what about the ones almost as popular as Mario? More of this discussion can be found at Mario's talk
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