Give full coverage to the Kinoppe Forever manga?

Eh?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 25.0%
  • No

    Votes: 3 75.0%

  • Total voters
    4

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(the poll is informal and isn't a substitute for a wiki proposal.)

-the character Kinoppe was specifically created for a Mario manga. The Kinoppe Forever manga was her next appearance in a comic series, decades later. Given the large span of time between the two publications, and the fact that she appears in a starring role in the latter publication, I'd say that it can be reasonably considered a spin-off of the Mario franchise. (in contrast to what happened with Banjo and Conker, who may have debuted in Diddy Kong Racing, but appeared in that game largely to promote their upcoming starring entries, which were in active development at the time.)

-in addition, she derives from a species in the Mario franchise (Toad).

-both the Mario manga she originated from and her spin-off are copyrighted by Kazuki Motoyama. (see page below as proof for the former; imgur link). He has authority over both works (not the Mario IP itself, however--there's a difference!), including the character Kinoppe, so IMO the official capacity of the Mario manga is passed on to the spin-off, contradicting what the wiki currently claims ("Due to their self-published nature, [the Kinoppe doujin books] are not considered official Super Mario material.") Her spin-off can't be considered adjacent to fan-art, like the comic sequel to the '93 Mario film.
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-the spin-off being extremely far-removed from the Mario franchise, with Kinoppe being their only tie, isn't, I think, a great argument against this giving it coverage. Consider that Wario is similarly the only piece connecting the Mario franchise with the game Wario: Master of Disguise, which is probably the furthest a work fully covered by Mario Wiki has gone from the Mario franchise in terms of scenario and characters.
 
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I suppose this was made with Diddy Kong Racing in mind, but I feel there's a stronger case to be made if this spinoff manga had still Mario's name tied to it, like say "Mario's Vacation Time" and Kinoppe was a major character, similar to Diddy Kong Racing having "Diddy" be spelled out.

That being said, Zelda Wiki still has Tingle's games on there, but I'm not sure how removed from the Link series these games are. Maybe we should be seeing it more from that angle.
 
Sorry to revitalize a thread dormant for 8 months or so (wait, seriously? 8 months? time flies.), but we've actually been curious about this for awhile and only just learned there's a thread for this. Over on Kinoppe's talk page, a good while ago, someone brought up the idea of potentially broadening the policy for what counts as "official material only", by allowing for pages to be created for pieces of media made by former Nintendo employees and featuring Mario or related characters, but were not created with Nintendo's direct involvement. We were curious if anyone knew any instances of something like this outside of Kinoppe-chan Forever, as that could potentially strengthen the argument to even give Kinoppe-chan Forever an article if it turns out to not be alone in this situation.

So! Out of curiosity and trying to be thorough; uh, does anyone have any other known instances of something like this happening? A piece of media featuring Mario characters (or otherwise characters we give full coverage to for non-crossover reasons), created by someone who was employed by Nintendo or a company involved with Nintendo, but the piece of media in question was not created by or for Nintendo, it was just its own thing.
 
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