Template talk:Featured

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OoOoOoOoOhhh... Nice idea! 3D

Look out for a featured star image and a MarioWiki:Featured articles page soon. Wa _T^C_@^Y 16:49, 11 December 2006 (EST)

Mario Superstar Baseball is a sports title for the Nintendo GameCube and is the first installment of the Super Mario Stadium series, being the first dedicated baseball game with characters of the Super Mario franchise. Like most sports games of the Super Mario franchise, Mario Superstar Baseball is based on the traditional rules of the sport, in this case, but is differentiated with various Super Mario-themed gimmicks and other mechanics. These include characters using Star Skill abilities to cause the ball to behave differently; team captains have unique Star Skill abilities that cause a wide variety of special effects, such as attacking outfielders if batting or causing the pitched ball to behave erratically. Characters also have field abilities to differentiate themselves from other teammates. Chemistry is a feature unique to the Mario Baseball games, in which characters perform differently depending on whether they like, dislike, or are neutral to another character they are cooperating with. Additionally, most fields in the game include hazards that can affect outfielders, such as the Piranha Plants serving as obstacles in Yoshi Park. In addition to the main Exhibition mode, in which baseball can be played freely with up to two players, the game features a single-player oriented Challenge mode that has the player controlling a designated team captain and their preset team, recruiting other captains and team players to face off against Bowser. The game also features the Toy Field mode, in which individual characters play on an interactive baseball field and get coins based on where the ball lands. Finally, the game includes several Super Mario-themed minigames with baseball mechanics, such as hitting Bob-ombs to create fireworks or collecting gems in a baseball diamond while avoiding a Chain Chomp. Toy Field and Minigames are the only modes that can support up to four players.

Could we try putting a box around it? User:Yoshi Time/sig 13:13, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

Steve doesn't want the FA to take up all the space and distract all the important links on the Main Page. I'm afraid a table would do just that. I did preview it, but it looked a bit messy. Wa _T^C_@^Y 13:37, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

Image

Feel free to mess around with the image size to see what looks better on the front page. -- Son of Suns

Hmm, I tried any comments? Xzelion^ETC

Huh... Shouldn't the featured article be K. Rool? Glowsquid

*Blink*

Didn't mean to mess up the rotation (still a couple FAs to go before SSBM), I apologize. But how are we so far behind on the rotation, anyways? Wa _T^C_@^Y 11:34, 1 January 2008 (EST)

I don't know, I think we somehow forgot about the FAs in the last days and weeks (Luigi's Mansion and SPM should have been featured earlier). That's why there are some articles waiting in the queue. Time Questions 11:42, 1 January 2008 (EST)

Spoiler Tags

Just a quick question, since we have a final boss up today: what's our policy on spoiler tags for the FA template? I'm trying to remember back from when the boss of Super Paper Mario was up. Stumpers! 12:19, 24 May 2008 (EDT)

Dimentio? This article has no spoiler tags. As for Tabuu, in my opinion we certainly don't need spoiler tags in the template. I mean, if we actually considered putting them there, we should rather consider not to feature the article at all. Good question though, 'cause featuring article that are spoilers seems like a contradiction. Time Questions 12:29, 24 May 2008 (EDT)

Ok, not technically a spoiler template, but here you go: Check out the history page. Stumpers! 12:35, 24 May 2008 (EDT)

Thanks. I could live with such a notice. But do we actually need it? Is the fact that Tabuu is the final boss a spoiler? (I'm just asking, because I have no clue.) Time Questions 12:39, 24 May 2008 (EDT)

Font

I think we should make the FA the same font as the rest of the Main Page so the Main Page looks more organized. We want our guests to have a good first impression when they see the Main Page. --Clay Mario (talk)

Featured Image

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the image in this template linking to the Featured Article rather than the image itself? What do you think? Time Questions 08:30, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

I have an idea

Lets use {{random}} so each time the page's purged it's changing to another Featured Article and we no more need to change it every week! I think it's a good idea, but I'm need to discuss it before I do so. SWFlash

Protection

Why is this template 100% protected?

"Please read: If you are going to replace the current information on the Featured template, please see here before doing that and look at which order our next FA's will be put on this page. "

"Help us maintain the page"

Who, me? Why should I care if I can't do that?

Besides, isn't it weird that the other main page templates aren't protected?

It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 14:08, 15 April 2012 (EDT)

Moving risk

Shouldn't this template be protected for preventing page move, but still allowing editing? --NewSMBU (talk) 05:51, 19 April 2012 (EDT)

Rotation

Does the FA rotation every Saturday go by UTC time?

Shokora (talk · edits) 22:14, 21 December 2012 (EST)

Believe it's by EST time.

L151

Okay, thanks. Should it be mentioned on the template or {{UpcomingFA}} to avoid future confusion?

Shokora (talk · edits) 22:21, 21 December 2012 (EST)

April Fools!

Time for April Fools Day 2014!

For April Fools Day, we need to have fake news (presumably good news that will get excitement) with links to pages that would be created, fake or bad trivia, bad poll, and a fake featured article. Please post some ideas below that can be used tomorrow! M a r i oredgoldred 18:38, 31 March 2014 (EDT)

Wait

Shouldn't the current featured article on the main page be Super Mario 3D World? It looks like it got skipped to me. Xiahou Ba^{(the Nasty Warrior)} 18:03, 30 April 2017 (EDT)

Questioning about something

I've recently found out from fellow user RickTommy that the article excerpt on the template can be changed slightly compared to the original article. I heavily oppose that finding for several reasons. Every single time before now, he/she/it would make the slightest adjustment and then it's usually reverted for the simple reason that is "it must match the original article exactly." I honestly wonder if there should be a rule that effectively discourages changing even the slightest bit of information from the template. It would discourage making things slightly different on the front page and the article in question, and to maintain consistency and all that. What do the rest of you think? – Owencrazyboy9 (talk) 21:32, June 23, 2019 (EDT)

If an improvement can be made to the text in the featured article, the same improvement can be made to the actual article. Not much of a problem here. 21:34, June 23, 2019 (EDT)