MarioWiki:Featured articles/N3/Super Paper Mario

Super Paper Mario

This is an archive of a successful featured article nomination. If this page is unprotected, do not modify its contents, as it is an archive of past discussions.
Super Paper Mario was nominated to be a featured article at 10:48, 21 September 2025, and passed at 17:33, 26 October 2025.

Support

1. Paper Plumm (talk) Is it fully detailed? Yes, yes it is! It features a thorough run through of the story and fully stocked item lists and bestiaries, with not nary a missing photo in sight! It features references to the past games as well as future references, AND a highly comprehensive comparison of its elements to previous games. It features a solid opening and is very well written, no red links and a vast library of photos. I see no reason why we can't welcome back Super!
2. Zaku (talk) I've reviewed the notes that Xiahou Ba and Camwoodstock have comprehensively discussed about the quality of this page and issues relevant to that point. I've also reviewed the requirements for Featured articles as well as other examples of currently featured articles. Given the number of renovations which have taken place since these opposed comments, the majority of which address the issues that were initially brought up, I do support the Super Paper Mario page's nomination. The writing has been given more depth in various sections, tables and sections have been expanded or added, pictures have been appended to areas such as comparisons between games, promotional material was covered in more depth, the page's organization was tweaked, and all instances of dead links, unsourced dates and other maintenance categories have been addressed. Dark mode has also been accounted for throughout the page from my scans through it. I wouldn't say the page is perfect, I do have some additions in mind for the future when I am less busy, however those are adjustments that would improve an already good page, comparable to the tweaks that continue for other already featured articles, at least in my opinion.
3. Camwoodstock (talk) Holy cow. Literally every maintenance tag we were alarmed about was taken care of--we've seldom seen a page this picked clean of its sourcing problems across the board in a push such as this--there's been some rephrasing across the board to make the page flow a lot better, and literally the only real "flaw" we can think of being that the reception section could stand to be a bit longer, and the page doesn't yet fit our current table style guide, as there's plenty of odd bits and bobs of formatting... But we're the ones that are primarily rolling that out. That is, quite literally, an "us" problem, unless someone else feels like pitching in and helping us fix it. Tentatively changing our vote to a rather shaky support; once those tables are dealt with, and if the reception section could be more fleshed out, however, consider our support changed from "shaky" to "wholehearted."
4. Mario (talk) I'm impressed by the measures Zaku took to try to get the article in a very good shape to be featured. I'll vote support because the article seems very well put together overall. I do suggest that in the meantime, the reception section can use a twee bit of an exception and there should be mention on the sales of this game, especially when the game is the best selling game in the series. The tables here are also inconsistent, and they should not be layout, such as in the Chapters section where information is cluttered but at least it's usable. But these parts I'm pointing out should no way prevent this article from being front-page material, only that they're to improve what's there.
5. Conkdor (talk) Do I like this game? No. But Wowie! This article has no maintenance tags! The parts Mario mentioned should be fixed.
6. Rykitu (talk) Woah. Didn't expect the article to be fixed this quickly. I believe the featured status is deserved.
7. Xiahou Ba, The Nasty Warrior (talk) Good job, Zaku!
8. Sparks (talk) Per all!
9. Killer Moth (talk) Per all. Article looks great!

Oppose

#Xiahou Ba, The Nasty Warrior (talk) Scanned the article and I already detected some problems. First, the intro mentions "Super Paper Mario is a platformer game. It isn't an RPG, but a platformer..." which should be altered. The intro goes into visual aesthetics but I think should also discuss how the soundtrack complements it. Headers should not be linked, the story section needs to be reformatted to fix this. The story at points may need a rewrite as it immediately has flowery formatting in the second sentence (italicizing "preparing"). I can't revise the story section all that much having not played the game, but here you go. The paragraph of the Gameplay section remains skeletal, being only a single paragraph long, as well as some colloquial language (using "ditching" gameplay element instead of something like "foregoes"). Why is there a "See also" list of unnamed NPCs linked under playable characters, they aren't even playable...?? The sentence, "There are thirteen in total, four of which are optional. However, only twelve can be carried, since Tiptron is only available after Tippi disappears." is confusing wording based on some technicality that Tiptron serves purely as a replacement Pixl. "List of shops in Super Paper Mario" is awkwardly listed twice in this article, once under the items section and another in its own dedicated Shops section. Organization in general is a mess, with the Audience section somehow parked all the way at the end of the Gameplay section right after having sections dedicated to items while having a more of a consistent presence throughout the game than a random list of objects and items. Bosses are then just listed, right after any list of any of the common enemies, while Obstacles are also awkwardly listed right after bosses, having a more common appearance than them. The Sidequests section has a lack of images and needs them, plus possibly an expansion on the summary of the Pit of 100 Trials as the description of it as is is a little too bare. BTW Piccolo doesn't even need to be mentioned here, because he's already mentioned earlier in the Pixl section). Similarities between Paper Mario games can also use images and may use a rewrite and a reorganization so the list doesn't appear a hodgepodge of random elements: referencing and having several recurring characters from the past titles isn't considered a "similarity". Again, the bestiary is way too far down the article, it should be similar to how platforming games handle their bestiaries in terms of organization, as well as other aspects such as Reception, Development, Glitches, we should maintain consistency between articles. Plus I think the reception section should be expanded on, and I don't think interests in making a movie should be buried in the Reception section. Regional Differences can use images as well as Pre-Release and Unused content. Anyway, I still think this article has quite a bit of issues that should be looked at, mostly organizational and formatting, but there's also some expansion here and there, especially the Gameplay section. #Camwoodstock (talk) In addition to what Xiahou Ba said about more specific aspects of the page (which, frankly, is far more comprehensive than we could ever be), the page has many maintenance categories running about. There's unsourced dates, unsourced ratings, unsourced foreign names, dead external links without any attempt to replace them... These would all need to be taken care of before we'd consider supporting the nomination.