Talk:Play Nintendo

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Does anyone have an idea on when the Play Nintendo website was created?

Shokora (talk · edits) 19:49, 23 July 2016 (EDT)

Hi i am helperhand25 and it was created october 1st 2014

I just don't understand why the SVG artworks should be here. 19:34, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

I understand that your SVGs aren't strictly for Play Nintendo, but they are Play Nintendo-related, and that is why they are linked and categorized as such. We can always have pages that use the same artwork as Play Nintendo link to the SVGs and add more categories later, if needed. Take a gander at File:MKDDMushroom.png for a non-SVG example. This artwork is used both for Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart DS. It would be more efficient to link them to two different games and their associated pages. If it makes you feel any better, I think you said they are also used on Club Nintendo. If that is true, we link your SVGs there too. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 19:44, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

So the artworks that they use should be linked and categorized Play Nintendo. 19:55, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

They can be categorized in more than one way. It's not strictly Play Nintendo. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 19:58, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

Yeah, we understand that the artwork has been used for other Nintendo media, as well as Play Nintendo. They can therefore be attributed to at least one image category Category:Play Nintendo Images. We aren't saying that that the artwork was created exclusively for Play Nintendo. But it was used for Play Nintendo. it does have a place here on the article. And it doesn't have to only be labelled with Play Nintendo: you could apply descriptions and categories for other media where the image is used for. Such as Club Nintendo I believe.

Shokora (talk · edits) 19:59, 24 July 2016 (EDT)

I'm not sure if I like having such a hodge-podge of a gallery here. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 13:49, 7 October 2016 (EDT)

Yeah, I never wanted that sort of gallery coverage on the article. I think all the 2D icons can stay, since it's difficult to attribute them as a group to anywhere else specifically. But I'd like to reword what I said above, because someone took it too literally. Artwork can be reused from game-to-game, such as character renders. Unless it's a direct port using most of the same assets anyway (see Gallery:Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D), they belong on both game galleries, because the artwork was used to promote both medias. But this does not translate to website entities promoting the game itself. Artwork made for Super Mario Maker, Mario Party 10 was indeed used on the website, but it doesn't mean that it should be attributed to Play Nintendo as an artwork. Sorry for the confusion.

Shokora (talk · edits) 14:06, 7 October 2016 (EDT)

Yup, it looks better that way. Thanks! It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 19:12, 7 October 2016 (EDT)

Unfinished work

This page needs all play Nintendo Mario related software on it. Games, puzzles, quizzes, polls, personality quizzes. Lord Falafel (talk) 13:55, June 15, 2019 (EDT)

I was the one who added the links to the navigation box. On the main article, someone removed the links to them I added and said we don't need articles on them, but left the links in the navbox. I think a proposal would work best in resolving this issue. (Also, you can always create the articles yourself.) --DeepFriedCabbage 22:58, June 15, 2019 (EDT)

Where are we getting names for some of these activities for?

I'm a bit confused on where the names of activities such as Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?, Which of Peach's Powerful Transformations Match Your Personality?, etc. are coming from. Going off the thumbnails of said activities those two examples, their titles should be "Banana buds" and "Performance of a lifetime". Some activities, like Eek! and Just a splash of Wario have their titles be the ones used on their thumbnails; should this be the case for every activity? Kaptain Skurvy 14:12, January 23, 2025 (EST)

The names for the activities come from the page title that appears on the browser tab, "[activity name] - Play Nintendo". I’m not sure why we use those. 1468z (talk) 14:21, January 23, 2025 (EST)

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the names used on the website? Kaptain Skurvy 14:26, January 23, 2025 (EST)

I don't know who started doing it, but changing it would require a proposal. I don't think it is worth the trouble, as there are tens of quizes that currently use this format. Axii (talk) 15:33, January 23, 2025 (EST)

There is a section missing from the page about the website

I noticed on the play nintendo page on the wiki it dosen't show the new olay nintendo activities ((By helperhand25 )) at 3:47 pm 2/12 2025

Decide how to name Play Nintendo activities

This talk page proposal has already been settled. Please do not edit this section or its subsections. If you wish to discuss the article, please do so in a new section below the proposal.

canceled by proposer
The way we name the Play Nintendo activities is...very strange, in my opinion. Instead of using the names used on the thumbnails, we actually use the names in the URL, which...sorta feels wrong to me? The names in the URLs seem to me more like basic descriptors rather than actual titles, "[insert game here] [insert what it is here]" are what most of those titles are like. I think it'd make more sense to use the names used on the thumbnails, as those names are seem to relate more to the activity itself. For an example, we shall move Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud? to Banana buds.

Proposer: Kaptain Skurvy (talk)
Deadline: August 19, 2025, 23:59 GMT

Use the names from the thumbnails

#Kaptain Skurvy (talk) Per proposal.

Use the names from the URLs

1. Altendo (talk) Counting this as "use the names from the tabs". Often, the names used in both are the same, and for the different ones, I feel like the names used in the tabs are better names, like this poll, which is named "Poll: First racer?" in the thumbnail but "Choose Your First Mario Kart World Racer: Official Poll" in the tab. The former sounds like it could be anything without given context, while the second sounds like an actual Play Nintendo activity. And I'm not concerned about long names, either.
2. Which Super Mario Wiki Editor Are You?: Personality Quiz! (talk) Per Altendo.

Play Comments

I agree with the premise of "why are we using URLs as titles for pages", on the basis of it essentially being development data, but shouldn't the true answer as to what an activity is called be the first line of the page in question? This still results in Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud? moving to Banana buds, but there are in fact some differences between the thumbnail header and the page header which suggest the possibility of the thumbnail header being truncated and thus the page header being the true "title" (in so far as shoving Play Nintendo into a mold that it frankly was never designed to fit, as its headers are designed to attract attention first and serve as identification second where as normal titles are the other way around).

Title (from HTML)	URL	Thumbnail Header	Page Header	Notes
Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?	donkey-kong-country-returns-hd-personality-quiz/	Banana buds	Banana buds
Which of Peach's Powerful Transformations Match Your Personality?	princess-peach-transformations-personality-quiz/	Performance of a lifetime	Performance of a lifetime
Eek!	luigis-mansion-2-hd-ghost-personality-quiz/	Eek!	Eek!
Just a splash of Wario	wario-personality-quiz/	Just a splash of Wario	Just a splash of Wario
Personality quiz: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Cups	personality-quiz-mario-kart-8-deluxe-cups/	Cup quiz	Personality quiz: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Cups
Mario & Luigi: Brothership Friend Group Personality Quiz	mario-luigi-borthership-personality-quiz/	New friends	New friends and colorful characters	The URL has a typo, which demonstrates that the URL is not exactly meant as public facing. No one in the target audience of Play Nintendo is moving to pages using their URLs.
Super Mario Maker Desktop Background Wallpaper	super-mario-maker-desktop-background-wallpaper-2/	There's a Goomba on my desktop	Decorate your desktop	Description and game identifies itself as "Super Mario Maker Wallpaper Maker", which funnily enough is the page name on the wiki.
Mood Matcher with Peach	mood-matcher-peach/	Mood Matcher	Mood Matcher with Peach	Game identifies itself as "Princess Peach Showtime! Transformation Station with Peach" or perhaps "Transformation Station with Peach"
Donkey Kong Country Returns Trivia Quiz	donkey-kong-country-returns-trivia-quiz/	A-peel-ing trivia	A-peel-ing trivia with Donkey Kong!
Wario or Waluigi Trivia Quiz!	wario-or-waluigi-trivia-quiz/	Wario or Waluigi?	Wario or Waluigi quiz!
Terrifying trivia with Nintendo ghosts	terrifying-trivia-nintendo-ghosts/	Terrifying trivia	Terrifying trivia with Nintendo ghosts

I'm doing a little cherry picking with these, many Play Nintendo pages have matching thumbnail headers and page headers, but I don't have infinite time to assemble a spreadsheet and I think the point remains clear. Salmancer (talk) 18:47, August 5, 2025 (EDT)

Wait no, this proposal is flawed. Super Mario Wiki isn't titling these pages based on their URL, Super Mario Wiki is titling them directly as their "title" from the HTML! It's used as what the tab for the page is called in an internet browser, among other things. I've modified my table to account for this. This means this proposal currently lacks a status quo option, which is illegal under Rule 23 of MarioWiki:Proposals. Surely this is a mistake though. Either way, er, I suppose this is an answer, and a public facing one at that, but it does have some drawbacks. Namely that it isn't easy to get document titles on mobile and impossible to copy and paste them into the article without looking at a page's source code.

With this in mind, I think the Wiki is on the right track with using that as they are the most "functional" titles for "trying to wedge Play Nintendo into the structure of a wiki against its design intent". We should override it with a name provided in the app or description of a page where possible, but as is I'm okay with it. Salmancer (talk) 19:52, August 5, 2025 (EDT)

Adding the quizzes from the talk page discussion that set this conversation off, just so we can have a comprehensive answer for the entire issue. Sometimes the title from the HTML is used in other elements of the page, that's why the article titles on the wiki appear to be irregular when they actually all follow a rule. Also @Kaptain Skurvy this needs attention for the reasons written above, but the short answer is that the pages are currently titled after the title used in the pages' HTML. Since you thought they were based on URLs, you accidentally did not include a status quo option in this proposal. Status quo options are required, so you need to edit this proposal to add one.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Salmancer (talk).

It appears as though the status quo does account for activities naming themselves, as I found the article for Super Mario Maker Wallpaper Maker. I assume it beats titles from HTML. Salmancer (talk) 00:13, August 6, 2025 (EDT)

Huh, I didn't realise we were taking the names from the HTML, not the URL...I suppose that makes a bit more sense. I also didn't realise the thumbnails sometimes used different names from the page header, as the few I saw had the same for both. I suppose I'll add more options for both the HTML and page header, but this is definitely an...odd case, for these to have four-ish names. Kaptain Skurvy 08:24, August 6, 2025 (EDT)