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However, the names displayed were unofficialillegitimate and illegitimatefalse, as the site has given many enemies outdated or outright false names (such as naming [[Swoopin' Stu]] as "Gooble" (which was used on the Super Mario Wiki from 2015-2019 due to a hasty rename)), the site has been shown calling enemies either by names that were not for the game they appeared in (such as naming all of the ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' enemies by their names from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''), enemies inconstantly being calledgiven generic names (such as naming the [[Starbag]]s as "Tracks"), or flat out calling an enemy using the name of an entirely separate species regardless of if they are a part of the same species or not. (Asuch couple examples of this include theas [[Monty]] being incorrectly called [[Rocky Wrench]] or [[Prickly Piranha Plant]] being incorrectly called [[Spiny Piranha Plant]]).

It was later discovered that about 89% of the names were taken from the Super Mario Wiki (both old versions and new versions), 4% were taken from MarioWiki (on Fandom/Wikia), and the other 7% were names that are either outright false or names that were lost in translation, a similar thing that happened with the English ''[[Super Mario Encyclopedia]]'' in late 2018.

Despite being proven to be an illegitimate source with multiple errors and pieces of misinformation, the Super Mario Wiki incorrectly renamed some pages for certain enemies based on their incorrect ''Mario Portal'' names (or sourced the ''Mario Portal''it as an alternate name) sometime around mid-[[2022]] (such as [[Swoopin' Stu]] being incorrectly renamed into "Gooble" as well as plenty of enemies from the ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' games having their incorrect ''Mario Portal'' names being prioritized).