Mariopedia:Censorship

Mariopedia is an online encyclopedia that provides coverage on Mario and its related franchises. As a wiki, our goal is to provide as much information, but there are cases when censorship is required for obscene and certain inappropriate content, especially images. We especially take on this responsibility because Mario and most of its related franchises (except Conker) were designed for a family-friendly audience in mind. The censorship policy mostly applies to Mature-rated titles (namely Conker's Bad Fur Day) and certain fanon content.

• In articles, profanity can only be used in quotes.
• Images depicting minimal blood are allowed, but decapitation and other gory pictures are not allowed.
• Images of nudity are allowed unless it shows genitalia and/or is pornographic in nature.

Article that have mention of sensitive topics, such as race ("True Colors"), war (e.g. It's War), or sex (Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō), can have the offending material collapsed within {{inappropriate}}. In some cases, such as Vivian or Birdo, the tag can be used specifically for the section discussing their gender. In Bob Hoskins's case, the only part that is not family-friendly is when he used profanity in a quote to describe how the Super Mario Bros. film was the worst thing he ever did.

During both the Nintendo Entertainment System era and the early Super Nintendo Entertainment System era, before the Entertainment Software Rating Board was founded in 1994, Nintendo would often censor or outright change content when releasing their games outside of Japan. Due to the historical nature regarding this subject, images relevant to it that violate one or more of the aforementioned rules are allowed, especially if it compares changes between different versions of the same game.