I'm willing to bet my next paycheck that Sakurai could do the nice Nintendo equivalent of proceeding to sit down, stare you straight in the eyes, and scream at you all that they're one and the same, but it wouldn't matter to Kaialone and his faithfuls because they did the same to Lady and they fucked up Pauline, you WILL see them come out of the woodwork to plead to the wiki admins not to merge the articles.