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#'''Name provided in-game or in the enclosed instruction manual''' – Ideally, the subject is named in the game itself, but whatever instruction material is enclosed with the game is also considered a primary naming source. If there is inconsistency between the manual and the game itself regarding a name, the game's version takes precedence.
#'''Name from a Nintendo Player's Guide, ''Nintendo Power'' magazine, or a Prima Games guide from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''-onward''' – A name from a Nintendo Player's Guide (also commonly known as a Nintendo Power guidebook) or a ''Nintendo Power''
#'''Name from a pre-''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' Prima Games Strategy Guide or any other third-party guide''' – A name from an officially-licensed Prima Games Strategy Guide (when they were published concurrently with ''Nintendo Power'') is also an acceptable alternative, though in case of contradictions, the Nintendo Power name takes priority. This also applies to other official third-party guides by companies such as Bradygames. For Japanese names, guides published by [[Shogakukan]] (Nintendo's official guidebook licensee) take priority over other publications.
#'''Name used in officially licensed media''' – A name from any officially Nintendo-licensed non-video game media source. This includes cartoons, movies, magazines, comics and web content. Like games, North American media names get priority, followed by the first international English name and finally, the first non-English source.
#'''Development name''' – Any name used during the development of a video game or other Nintendo-licensed media source. This type of name usually comes from unused data, developer interviews or development documents.
#'''Name derived from a file name on a Nintendo-hosted website''' – A name from an image file on a website run by Nintendo such as the [[Play Nintendo]] or game promotion websites. As file names are not directly shown to users of websites, the names of image files do not need to follow proper naming conventions. This can lead to names which contain typos or other oddities. Should an alternate name for a subject originate from a file name, it should be mentioned using the [[:Template:Internal names|internal names template]] or as trivia.
Please note that ''regardless of the source'', the '''official North American name''' takes priority, followed by the '''first international English name''' if no North American name is available, and finally the '''first international non-English name''' if no English name is known. For example, if a subject is given a name in-game in the Japanese version only, and not in the English localization of the game, but an English strategy guide names it, that English name is used, rather than the Japanese.
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