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Following the launch of the English Mario Portal, it was found that those who made the site had taken names (conjectural, foreign, or standard) for enemies from other ''Mario''-related websites such as the Super Mario Wiki and MarioWiki (on Fandom/Wikia). Other names used were either outright false or names that were merely lost in translation. In some cases, it has been shown for the Portal to use names for enemies that weren't used in that game (despite the enemy clearly being named in-game) and sometimes it uses the name of a completely different enemy or gets the names of two enemies mixed up (whether they are related to each other or not), the section below describes all the inaccuracies, their possible origins, and the correct names and terms.

Despite the illegitimacy of the enemy names from the Mario Portal and the amount of errors and misinformation the source had, the Super Mario Wiki itself would later go on to incorrectly use names from the English Mario Portal as either the main names or alternate names for various enemies (even when the Mario Portal names were obviously errors or misnames of the enemies (e.g. [[Monty]] being incorrectly referred to as [[Rocky Wrench]] by the Mario Portal was treated as an alternate name for Monty on their Super Mario Wiki page, despite it obviously being an error)). Additionally, the Super Mario Wiki prioritized the English Mario Portal enemy names over actual legitimate sources such as official Japanese names, filenames, names taken from guidebooks, and even in-game names.