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What I'm getting at is that Speedy is the only person who was ever really in dispute about the mentionability of Mario Kart in the Sonic R article (Please remember that while I have shown disagreement with calling the game a ""kart racer"" rather then a ""mascot-based racing game"", I never actually said the comparison didn't belong there entirely), and while the sources certainly touch on the connection between Mario Kart and Sonic R (albeit briefly), and serve well enough to push Speedy's proverbial nose in the facts, they only serve that particular purpose, as no one else really needed the ""proof"" to begin with, making the links on that page feel -in my humble opinion- like cluttering up the page with unneeded external linkage. In this case, citing sources to prove Mario Kart's notability in comparison to Sonic R could just as well have been done in relative privacy on the talk page, without cluttering up the main article. Again, in my opinion, at least.   "