Category talk:The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episodes featuring Mario

Mario's absence in Life's Ruff

How come Life's Ruff isn't mentioned on this page?
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carlitosbug (talk).

(Intensely stare at the page title) -- Mariuigi Khed 16:15, October 10, 2022 (EDT)

Why does this exist?

I don't understand why we need this category. It's just a list of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episodes with the only exception being Life's Ruff just because Mario isn't in it. In fact, Life's Ruff is the only Mario related cartoon episode ever created to not feature Mario (not counting the Donkey Kong Country show). And just because of that fact, this category exists. This is barely useful and I don't understand why anyone would need this. Rykitu

Delete this

This talk page section contains an unresolved talk page proposal. Please try to help and resolve the issue by voting or leaving a comment.

Current time: Friday, April 18, 2025, 01:19 GMT

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Like, do we actually need this? All this category is is a list of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episodes with the exception of Life's Ruff just because Mario isn't in it. It isn't really useful, and the only reason this exists is because of that one piece of Mario trivia.

Proposer: Rykitu (talk)
Deadline: April 27, 2025, 23:59 GMT

KILL IT

1. Rykitu (talk) Per proposal and above discussion.
2. THE DEATH (talk) your time has come!
3. Maw-Ray Master (talk) Per all. This category is pointless.
4. Jdtendo (talk) Per all.
5. Kaptain Skurvy (talk) I think all of the "X episodes featuring Y" categories should be deleted, to be honest.
6. Nelsonic (talk) IT MUST DIE.
7. SolemnStormcloud (talk) Per all.
8. PrincessPeachFan (talk) It's basically Mario appears in almost every episode but Life's Ruff.
9. Ahemtoday (talk) OBEY WARIO, DESTROY Category:TheAdventuresofSuperMarioBros.3EpisodesfeaturingMARIO
10. Platform (talk) Delete

EXECUTION COMMENTS

We probably should also delete Category:Episodes featuring Hip Koopa and Category:Episodes featuring Candy Kong; only a few characters have categories including every episode they appear in and not others. Maw-Ray Master (talk) 01:11, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

We feel like mentioning these two were originally articles, which was meant to serve as a history section... we still regret those proposals to be honest because as it's made the coverage for characters as they appear in specific episodes very confusing ~Camwoodstock ( talk • contribs ) 01:46, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

Category:Donkey Kong Country episodes featuring Donkey Kong should be deleted too. It's literally an exact copy of Category:Donkey Kong Country episodes. Kaptain Skurvy 03:21, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

I agree with all of these deletions. Rykitu

While we're at it, Category:Super Mario World episodes featuring Mario is also an exact copy of Category:Super Mario World episodes! — SolemnStormcloud (talk) 12:39, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

Here are links to the proposals that Camwoodstock brought up: first proposal; second proposal. — SolemnStormcloud (talk) 12:39, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

Thank you. We feel like these filmography have merit, but like. A category is not the way forward, because it's just kind of confusing and doesn't do the one thing you'd really want in something like this; even just a single sentence that illuminates what they actually do in the episode. Sure, in cases like "the protagonist is in every episode except maybe one or two of them", a list doesn't make much sense and you can probably just convey the few episodes they do not appear in via prose, but for more specific characters like, say, the Hip Koopa example, we could see a bullet pointed list of episodes fitting in fairly reasonably. And the worst part of this all is, we made them categories. We're not kidding when we say this has irked us for awhile. ;P ~Camwoodstock ( talk • contribs ) 12:54, April 14, 2025 (EDT)

I voted in those proposals with the idea that removing the articles would result in the information from them being moved to each character's history section. I'm still not sure where the idea came from that descriptions of a character's role in each episode and categories listing the episodes they appear in are somehow mutually exclusive. Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 05:29, April 16, 2025 (EDT)

Quick note: I checked and this is one of those relic articles. It was created in 2010. PrincessPeachFan (talk) 13:06, April 14, 2025 (EDT)