The 1993 live-action movie spawned a webcomic fan sequel, but with a twist: it was supervised by one of the original writer of the film:
It's currently mentioned on the wiki on a section of the SMB movie page because well, it's kinda worth mentioning, but here's the deal: if an important staff member of the original film is involved and it's truly a ~canon sequel~, then shouldn't it get full coverage on the wiki?
On the other hand, the thing is still essentially a fanfiction: Even with some writer approval, neither Nintendo, nor the film's directors, nor any of the production companies involved in the original move are ever going to acknowledge it as part of the Mario universe, or as derivative material for the movie.
Being an unimaginative chucklefuck, I thought we maybe could check out how other wikis handle this type of situation, and indeed, the Transformers Wiki has something comparable: The 90's Transformers: Generation 2 comic book was cancelled on a cliffhanger, but its writer later wrote a fanfiction explaining what would've happened after if the comic wasn't cancelled. The wiki decided to make a page about it, but with the caveat that it and mentions of the fanfic on "canon" pages are preceded with a disclaimer among the lines of "This is not canon but we feel it's worth talking about anyway".
The comparison's not perfect though, since that fanfiction was directly written by the original writer unlike the webcomic and there's a pretty big difference in importance: Simon Furman is an important writer who still actively contribute to Transformers fiction today, while nobody's gonna think of Parker Bennet when they think of Mario. Being zealous in fully covering a fanfiction based on the involvement of one cast member in an old and not very relevant film might be seen as kinda silly.
I haven't read the webcomic and I'm not invested in the question of what to do with it one way or another, but this is a very important question okay
It's currently mentioned on the wiki on a section of the SMB movie page because well, it's kinda worth mentioning, but here's the deal: if an important staff member of the original film is involved and it's truly a ~canon sequel~, then shouldn't it get full coverage on the wiki?
On the other hand, the thing is still essentially a fanfiction: Even with some writer approval, neither Nintendo, nor the film's directors, nor any of the production companies involved in the original move are ever going to acknowledge it as part of the Mario universe, or as derivative material for the movie.
Being an unimaginative chucklefuck, I thought we maybe could check out how other wikis handle this type of situation, and indeed, the Transformers Wiki has something comparable: The 90's Transformers: Generation 2 comic book was cancelled on a cliffhanger, but its writer later wrote a fanfiction explaining what would've happened after if the comic wasn't cancelled. The wiki decided to make a page about it, but with the caveat that it and mentions of the fanfic on "canon" pages are preceded with a disclaimer among the lines of "This is not canon but we feel it's worth talking about anyway".
The comparison's not perfect though, since that fanfiction was directly written by the original writer unlike the webcomic and there's a pretty big difference in importance: Simon Furman is an important writer who still actively contribute to Transformers fiction today, while nobody's gonna think of Parker Bennet when they think of Mario. Being zealous in fully covering a fanfiction based on the involvement of one cast member in an old and not very relevant film might be seen as kinda silly.
I haven't read the webcomic and I'm not invested in the question of what to do with it one way or another, but this is a very important question okay
