The 'Shroom:Issue 106/Pipe Plaza

Director’s Notes
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Happy new year! And what could be a better way to start off 2016 than reading through the brilliance that is Pipe Plaza? Nothing, that's what.

So we have four new writers this month!! is now writing Monthly Report, is now writing Community Report,  is now writing New Articles, and  debuts a new section: The 'Shroom Report. So make sure to check all of them out! Sadly, however, Late Night Interviews are not available in this issue.

Monthly Report
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In loving memory of Lana (February 16th, 2004 – October 19th, 2015), the Robin to Lili's Batman, the jelly to Lili's peanut butter, and a doggy heroine on her own.

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 are no ongoing Featured Article Nominations.

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.
 * Honeyhive Galaxy was nominated on December 18th.

Failed Unfeaturing Nominations
One new article has failed the unfeaturing process in the past month.
 * Kolorado failed on December 28th.

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

New Articles
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Tip of the Month
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Tip of the Month: When you're putting an image in an article, look at how the article flows. Will the placement of your image make the formatting look disrupted? You can change what side of the page your image will appear on with a simple change to the image's code. Here's what your code should look like if you want to put an image in a specific place:



Specifically, where you see 'left,' you can put 'right' or 'center,' although you wouldn't ever put an image in the center of a proper Wiki article.

Poll Committee Discussion
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Happy 2016! Welcome to Poll Committee Discussion, where we analyze questions we polled the community on. Packy is still not here, which has been my introductory sentence for pretty much every issue, but is nevertheless noteworthy. So yeah, I'm doing this again. Once he returns, I’ll probably continue to do this anyway. I like power.

There's nothing too eventful this time. However, we still encourage the public to submit external poll ideas! Since our current committee started in August, we have had a record of 0 externally given polls, which is kind of sad, really. We're working on a better suggestion system, but for the time being, feel free PM me on the forums (my username's Andymii) or here on my talk page.

Anyhow, we have the results from the holiday poll and others from last month, so you might want to check them out!

Analysis
Mario Maker levels: This poll's pretty self-explanatory. Not much to say here.

Cloud in Smash Bros: I do not know who Cloud Strife is. Apparently, nor do 20% of you people. It really shows how many young/casual video game players visit this site, and it also shows that I really need to start playing non-Mario games.

NSMB Debate: This poll was inspired by this proposal. While voters of the proposals absolutely agreed that New Super Mario Bros. is not its own series, our Main Page Poll showed a completely different story, with 67% of voters saying that is its own series. This is actually really interesting, as it shows what type of people are drawn into formal wiki matters, such as the proposal system.

Christmas!: From the start, we knew it would be a close race between Paper Jam and Mario Maker. Paper Jam was leading for a long time, but Mario Maker caught up near the end, fulfilling 's mystic prediction. Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash and Mario Party 10 are as low as expected, though I wasn't expecting Puzzles and Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition to be so unpopular. It didn’t even get that bad reviews!

…And, that's about it. It's pretty short this time. Thank you for reading this month's Poll Committee Discussion, and please check back next month!

Forum Update
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Welcome to the first Forum Update of 2016! I'm MCD and I'm here to provide you with all the stats, quotes and those two other things I do.

So, join me on a magical journey through time, going back to the far-off, long-gone year of "2015", where we will see what happened on the forum in December.

Stats

 * 157 topics were created in December, bringing the total amount of topics created in 2015 to 2876.
 * The largest amount of topics created in one month was 254, in January. The smallest was 109, in September.
 * 9119 posts were made in December - 165052 were made in 2015 as a whole. (Last year, that total was 313150.)
 * The largest amount of posts made in a single month was 22293, also in January. The smallest was 6891, also in September.
 * 19 new users joined in December, which brought the year's total to 194.
 * July had the most new users (24), while June had the least (10).
 * The most users online at once in December was 194; the highest amount in 2015 (and in the history of the forum) was 891, back in March.

(Bold means new entry and Italics means inactive for at least the past month.)

Thread of the Month
Thread of the Month went to Tucayo's The official "Look at our old selves and cry" thread, which inspired me to dig through pages of my old posts: an absolutely daunting, yet eye-opening, experience.

Other candidates for Thread of the Month included Crocodile Dippy's Official MarioWiki TransUser Club, Turboo's Mario Boards Secret Santa III: The Reckoning: Infinite (in which one of the gifts was a download link for GIMP) and Joseph's Mario Wiki.

Quotes

 * "I had my first drunk experience last night. Found out that when I get drunk, I give people lap dances." - Yoshi876
 * "Don't compare that thing to the mighty Pink Gold Peach." - Cirdec, on the Mercedes Benz
 * "Don't compare that thing to the mighty Mercedes Benz." - Glitchy, on Pink Gold Peach
 * "all of my miis have likely starved to death" - Time Turner, on Tomodachi Life
 * "I'm just passing by to warn the public that what Dippy is neglecting to mention is that Australian kittens are extremely venomous." - Snack

Mafia
Currently underway are Stooben's 'Shroom Mafia III, Meta Knight's Paper Mafia 64 and Nysic and Stargazing's ''[http://www.marioboards.com/index.php?topic=35927.0. Undertale Mafia].

Thanks for reading.

Community Report
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Hello, it's me, LudwigVon, who is here today to present the Community Report, which shows you the latest goings ons around the Super Mario Wiki. Now it 's time to present it to you.

The Community Report show to our readers 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

RECENTLY PASSED PROPOSALS:
 * No proposals was made between issue 105 and now, other than talk page Proposals.

RECENT TALK PAGE PROPOSALS:

ONGOING TALK PAGE PROPOSALS: NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of December 29th.

That’s all for this edition of the Community Report! Thank you for taking the time to read it.

Birthday Wishes
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Retro Feature
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    First article: Fake TV, Issue XXIII Last article: Random Image of the Month, Issue LXII  Sections Written: Main Team: 20 Fake News: 97 Palette Swap: 12 Pipe Plaza: 15 Positions held: Fake News Director, Statistics Manager, 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 a previous Fake News Director, and Statistics Manager: Ralphfan.

Ralpfan joined the wiki on 13 November 2008 and he joined The 'Shroom in Issue XXIII, which was released on February 14th 2009, writing Fake TV, he would go on to write this section seven more times. Other sections he would write for Fake News included: Cooking Guide (9), Director's Notes (23), Fake Games (3), Fake Music (3), Fake Sports (31), Fake Weather (3), Interview (5), Obituaries (4) and Updated Info (11). He also wrote an Awards Committee Commentary, a Monthly Mulligan and several reviews of games for the Main Team, a Special Section as well as a Special Interview, and in 2012 he covered the World Cup with. In Palette Swap he wrote Random Image of the Month for 12 issues and wrote the Anniversary Annoucements and Forum Update for Pipe Plaza.

However, you're not here for the history of Ralphfan, you're here to view an old section from years gone by, so today I bring you Ralpfan's Review Corner from Issue LII!!

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Hello again! This month I will be reviewing a game that has captured the Best Remake award every single year in the Mario Awards, Super Mario 64 DS! This game was released in the US in November 2007 as a remake of Super Mario 64, a game released in 1996. Many changes were made between the original and the remake.

Plot
Yoshi arrives at Peach's Castle. Not only is Peach missing as usual, but Mario is too! Yoshi has to find Mario, and the two then have to work together to find Luigi and Wario over the course of many 3D levels. Super Mario 64 was the first 3D platformer in the Mario series, and Mario was the only playable character. The game includes multiple battles with Bowser and other bosses and a total of 150 stars to collect. 80 stars must be collected to reach the final boss fight. The game is broken up into 15 worlds of 7 stars each, and there are also 30 secret stars scattered around the castle. Each level also includes a star that can be earned by collecting 100 coins, which all adds up to 150.

Gameplay
This game has a tough learning curve, but it becomes more and more fun as you unlock more levels. I prefer the camera angles in this game over the angles in any of the other 3D platformers just because it's easier to adjust (holding the L button and pressing the D-pad). Players can easily pick the camera angle of their choice.

Changes
Of the many changes between the original game and the remake, the most notable are: -The inclusion of Yoshi, Luigi and Wario as playable characters -Items that can only be used by specific characters -The introduction of new stars -The ability for Yoshi to put on a cap and imitate one of the human characters -A room to switch between characters

Overall
This is a fun game because it has lots of original bosses, interesting level layouts and creative puzzles to complete. I give it a 9.5/10. The only drawback is the learning curve.


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The 'Shroom Report
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HI! I'm your informative writer, Tucayo, here with a new section called The 'Shroom Report! On this section I'll give you the news regarding our first-time writers, writing milestones, records for most sections written, as well as some 'Shroom trivia. All of that with the help of our wonderful Writer History, which was created by and then later maintained by, , , and myself. To further explain: in the First-time Writers section, I will mention those writers who had their first ever section featured in our last issue; for 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; and, for Most Sections Written, every single section ever written by that user is counted. Since this the first edition of this section, I will be covering Issues 104 and 105.

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