The 'Shroom:Issue 108/Pipe Plaza

Director’s Notes
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Welcome 'Shroom readers to this March edition of Pipe Plaza.

Some bits and bobs for news this month. New Articles is not present in this issue alongside Forum Update and Birthday Wishes. Also, will be writing Anniversary Announcements again. Hooray!

Monthly Report
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Hi, everyone, and welcome to the March issue of Monthly Report!! No news on the section just yet, so let's compare this month's stats to the ones from February!

Credit goes to, , and for the table coding (I based this on Stooben's coding, which was later modified by SMB, myself, and Viper26 when each one of us wrote this section).

*All times EST.

Featured
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Hello 'Shroom readers and welcome back to another edition of Featured, the only place this side of the Mario Wiki where you'll get news about the Mario Wiki Featured Articles.

Featured Articles
No new articles have been featured in the past month.

Re-Featured Articles
No new articles have become re-featured.

FA Nominations
There is one ongoing Featured Article Nomination.
 * Mario Golf: World Tour was nominated on February 7th. It currently has one oppose vote due to a lack of description on the non-playable characters, low quality images for the items, some broken links and the references haven't been properly formatted.

Failed FA Nominations
No new articles have failed the featuring process.

Unfeatured Articles
No new articles have been unfeatured in the past month.

Unfeaturing Nominations
There is one ongoing Unfeature nomination.
 * Wii was nominated on February 12th. It was nominated due to having three maintenance templates on it and missing imformation on the Wii Message Board.

Failed Unfeaturing Nominations
No new articles have failed the unfeaturing process in the past month.

Thanks for reading see you next month, for more Featured Articles news.

Tip of the Month
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Tip of the Month: Have you ever started off a sentence with a few spaces from your space bar? It looks fine in your Microsoft or Mac programs, but on the Wiki, space bar spacing will leave

this lovely box

around your text until you hit the 'enter' key again. Which means if you tried to indent an entire paragraph using your space bar, your entire paragraph will appear in this gray box. Even if it's half a page long. So leave the indenting for your English papers and never begin a paragraph with a space from your space bar!

Poll Committee Discussion
Written by: and the Poll Committee

Hello everyone! Due to a small change to how we write sections in the Pipe Plaza, Baby Weegee is currently writing this month's Poll Committee section! We're going to rotate between our members on who gets to write this section from now on, unless things change back in the future if this new system doesn't work out for us. Baby Weegee hopes you'll enjoy this month's section.

Analysis

 * The Final Hard Levels: The award for the most hair-follicle deaths goes to The Perfect Run of Super Mario Galaxy 2, but Champion's Road of Super Mario 3D World also has done an admirable job at massacring hair-follicles. Some hair-follicle right groups are upset to see that, seeing that the hairs were inhumanely yanked out rather than unethically pulled off. Lots of characters, the majority which consisted of Marios, were also harmed in the process of beating those levels as well.
 * Games you want to see in 2016: Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are hardly representative of the entire universe (which is composed of billions and billions of galaxies), so people want a third one for a slightly more accurate picture of the universe. Will this galaxy be a lenticular, spiral, elliptical, or an irregular galaxy? As long as it avoids collision with the other galaxies and messing up all the star systems within it, it should be fine. Others just want the game to stay in its home planet and have an original new one. Not surprisingly, for a MarioWiki, few people "want" nothing. WELCOME NEW GALAXY.
 * Nintendo Badge Arcade: Most people's Arcade Bunnies are going out of business, but mostly because they didn't advertise the game enough to its consumers. Most people haven't went to the Nintendo Badge Arcade and another good portion aren't interested in it. I guess tacky home menu icons aren't worth time on, and the game does have an army of evil claw machines.
 * Casual or hardcore: According to the results of this poll, a good percentage of human beings require that they get a daily exposure to Mario, and that gives them the energy they need to stay alive. This unique breed of human beings contain extra, specialized mitochondria in their cells that convert time spent playing a Mario game into energy. It is currently unclear to how natural selection favored them to survive in the wild. Some beings have less need for the Mario games energy than others, but a good portion have evolved the mitochondria to an extent.

Well, only four polls this time around, mostly due to the release schedules and whatnot, but it's loads of fun to discuss these poll results! Next month, look forward to Baby Weegee's sockpuppet rerig twin,, writing these.

Community Report
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Hi, welcome to the March edition of the Community Report. It shows our the latest goings-on around the Super Mario Wiki &mdash; the promotions, the demotions, the recently passed and ongoing proposals of the Super Mario Wiki.

Credit to for previously developing this coded table system, with some alterations made by.

PROMOTIONS/DEMOTIONS
 * None

RECENTLY PASSED PROPOSALS:
 * None

RECENT TALK PAGE PROPOSALS:

ONGOING PROPOSALS:
 * None

ONGOING TALK PAGE PROPOSALS: NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of March 11th.

That’s all for this edition of the Community Report! Thank you for taking the time to read it and take the time to look and participate in the only proposal.

Retro Feature
Written by:     First article: A History of Video Games / Monthly Report, Issue XXXII Last article: A History of Video Games / Monthly Report, Issue XXXII  Sections Written: Main Team: 2 Positions held: Contributor

Hello, readers! I'm your Spotlight manager and Pipe Plaza Director, Yoshi876. Welcome to Retro Feature, a section in which I delve deep into the archives to bring you the best blasts from the past. This time I bring a section from.

G.narron joined the wiki on 12 October 2009 and joined The 'Shroom in Issue XXXII which was released on 10 November 2009. G.narron has a short history here with The 'Shroom as you can tell they only contributed two sections and both of them were for the same issue, however, both sections are quite important. Monthly Report is still written today and has its home here in Pipe Plaza, and A History of Video Games was a highly popular section back when it was being written.

However, you're not here for the history of G.narron, you're here to view an old section from years gone by, so today I bring you G.narron's A History of Video Games from Issue XXXII!!

The 'Shroom Report
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HI, everyone! I'm your illustrious Statistics Manager, Tucayo, here with this month's installment of The 'Shroom Report, your one-stop for 'Shroom stats! As a reminder, in the Milestones section, writers will get mentioned every 10 sub-team sections and every 50 all-time sections, teams will get mentioned every 100 sections, and The 'Shroom will get mentioned every 500 sections. All information is based off our Historical Sheets. This section will cover Issue 107.

Tables are based off the End-of-the-Year Awards tables, so credit goes out to.

Since I love stats, and I found the ones above to be very interesting, I will provide some insight this month. It should be no surprise the Main Team has an average that high: after all, that's where most staff and special sections go and it used to host the vast majority of our sections until they were gradually moved to other teams. However, that number will be slowly dropping, as only Special Issues will have more than a handful of sections in the Main Team. To some it may come as a surprise that Fun Stuff has appeared on more issues than Fake News; this is because FN didn't feature on seven issues between Issue X and Issue XXII due to a lack of writers. Critic Corner has the lowest average, which could be due to the fact CC sections are usually lengthier. That's all from me, until next month!

Anniversary Announcements
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Did you stay fresh?

Hello there, welcome back to Anniversary Announcements! To quickly recap on what this section does, Anniversary Announcements serves to inform you about the behind-the-scenes developments that drive the Awards. This involves everything from changes in the Awards and nominees to tournaments and prizes.

Lets meet the important people of the Awards Committee first. A full list of all members of the Committee can be found here. You can contact any of these people if you have questions, if they don't know the answer, they will pass it through as needed. For questions or suggestions relating to Anniversary Announcements, you can contact me.
 * – Co-director since last year and Userpedia host since 2013, this man knows the job and gets it done.
 * – New co-director for the Awards and Sub-director for The 'Shroom since 2011.
 * – New sub-director and active in the AC since 2011, Programming Manager for The 'Shroom.
 * – Fail Awards host, past Director and active in the AC since 2011.
 * – 'Shroom Awards host and Director for The 'Shroom since 2013, with a pause in 2014, as well as a past Awards Director.

So what happened in February and the first half of March. Some general ideas and suggestions were coined, such as back-upping all images and other materials used in presentations should they go offline. Also coined is how to deal with favourite courses and levels from various different kinds of games. Super Mario 64 was released 20 years ago and has its courses put together with Super Mario Sunshine from 2002, galaxies from both Super Mario Galaxy games are put together in one award, and there are 117 levels in Super Mario 3D World, too many to make an easy or outstanding choice.

Several tournaments have also been mentioned, and some are already half-confirmed. and have indicated that they are going to host a Minecraft tournament,  is planning on hosting Yu-Gi-Oh again,  is planning a scavenger hunt,  has mentioned Pokémon,  plans to do Mario Kart 7 again and  is going to host Super Smash Bros. 4. Also listed are the Art Contest and Awesomenauts, hosted by, and Guess the Results. During the first meeting, Mafia was also confirmed by, to be co-hosted with. Other suggestions include Splatoon, Super Mario Maker, Mario Kart 8, several card games and Love Live School Idol Festival.

Now for the meetings that occurred in the last month. In the first meeting the bigger overall idea's were discussed first, before going on to the individual awards. A25 Favorite Super Mario 64/Sunshine Level is going to be exploded/removed in its current form, potentially taking A13 Favorite Galaxy with it, the reason of which is mentioned two paragraphs up. Tournament dates and durations are going to be enforced in such a way that everything is done before prize awarding starts. This is to prevent situations like last year where tournaments got extended too much and many. After this, the Mario Awards could begin to be discussed. See the table below for detailed listings of additions and removals. Refer to this document for a full list of nominees. All that is marked in yellow in this document is yet to be discussed.

In the second meeting the Mario Awards were continued, immediately removing Favourite Galaxy for the reasons mentioned earlier. The favourite levels for Super Mario 64, Sunshine and 3D World were also removed. Favourite Koopaling is now in the dangerzone. https://ltquick.nl/e4aXCd1.png

And that will be it for this year's first Anniversary Announcements! I hope I got to inform you well and I look forward to seeing you in April. Be careful for Cake-in-the-boxes on the first of that month. Ciao!

All information above was correct as of 2016-03-15.