Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4533965-20140409023013/@comment-2054358-20140410015001

Well, one reason I'm doing this Smash project, well, look at Donkey Kong's history. Like this revision, from March 11 2010. Ignore the giant image, because it wasn't resized until November 22 2011, which is way after the revisions I want to show. Now this is March 11 2010. With that big image, why won't it let me side scroll? Well, back in 2010, Donkey Kong had only two appearances with Sonic: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Yep, Smash Bros. got him a page here, so why not everyone else? And on Donkey Kong's talk page, no one seemed to complain about it. In fact the first comment asked about his inclusion in the London Olympics, Donkey Kong's second playable non-Smash appearance with Sonic (say that ten times fast), and it was posted on June 22 2011. Now let's check the Deletion log for Donkey Kong. He was only deleted twice, one on April 2 2009 for not appearing in a Sonic game (Brawl was the only game he was playable back then). Then on December 28 2009, he was deleted for being poorly written. After that, throughout 2010 when Brawl and Winter Games was the only two games, he did not have a problem at all. Bowser Jr., on the other hand, who was the other newcomer to Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, had a lot of problems. On his Deletion log, he was deleted nine times in 2010! And when you read the reasons for deletion, it's because he had only 1 appearance with Sonic. It became so much of a problem that he was even protected from creation! And while Bowser Jr. kept getting kicked out of the Wiki, Donkey Kong was just here chilling out. Bowser Jr. was finally allowed to stay after the release of Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games. His page was created on November 27 2011 after the game came out on November 15 2011. Donkey Kong, however has stayed here since January 10 2010! If we don't count Brawl as an appearance than Donkey Kong had stayed here for a year and three quarters as a violation of the crossover rule and no one reinforced it.

If Brawl counts for Donkey Kong, it counts for everyone else. And we can't change the fact that Donkey Kong was here before London 2012, even if we delete revisions. What happened happened. And those revisions would be in the deletion log, so I'd know when I check. And it's too late to delete the entire article, because he's about to make his fifth appearance with Sonic (or if you don't count Smash, he already made three appearances with Sonic. So it is impossible to go back on Donkey Kong's existence in 2010. By staying on the wiki while Bowser Jr. kept getting deleted, Donkey Kong proved that we do indeed count Super Smash Bros. for appearances. The reason I'm waiting for Super Smash Bros 4 before we revote is because Bowser Jr. came after his second appearance was released. While he was released before the DS version I wait for both versions because I want to really complete the articles, and without the Wii U game information, their incomplete.