The 'Shroom:Issue 224/The 'Shroom Spotlight
The 'Shroom Spotlight
Written by: RHG1951 (talk) and Technetium (talk)
Hello, all you readers of The 'Shroom, and welcome to Spotlight. Spotlight is a community project which aims to fix up the articles on the wiki which have issues. These issues can range from poor writing, to a lack of images, to even just needing a credible source.
We hope that your November has been going alright so far. We're that much closer seeing the Mario balloon during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Exciting! Pretty nuts to think about how this is his first appearance when other video game icons were featured way sooner. Pikachu in 2001, Sonic in 1993, and so on. But enough of that, we have other business to attend to. Let's go over last month's focuses.
There was great progress last month, with five of the six focuses completed. Maw-Ray Master (talk) created the article for the Necronomicon and rewrote "Count Koopula" to have an appropriately sized synopsis, Martendo (talk) uploaded a new version of File:Virtual Boo.jpg, BMfan08 (talk) prevented Ashley's wrath by uploading an audio sample for Pumpkin Panic (record), and Goomba Fan2 (talk) has gotten us seeing double by providing a citation for two on-screen Rambis. Well done, all of you! However, it's not as rad that Radical Highway was left in the dust.
And now onto this month's focuses:
| Article | Category | Focuses |
|---|---|---|
| Congratulations to Battle for Dream Island for finally getting a page on Wikipedia! To honor this momentous occasion, it's only fitting that we create the article for Dream Island. You know, the location from the Nintendo DS version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games! | ||
| With winter coming up very soon, we're looking to stay cozy by a fire, preferably one created by a Fire Bro. The problem is that we don't know where to find them in Mario Kart World. Listing their locations in both Free Roam and missions would be fire, bro. | ||
| Excuse our language, but what the shell is going on with this page? "Shell Toss" only refers to the move Koopas perform in the Paper Mario series, not the action of a character throwing a shell. Toss the platformer info into the bin before Koopley sues us for patent infringement. | ||
| As the old chestnut goes: seeing is believing, and we can't believe that this article only has one image. Add images of their various appearances throughout the franchise so that we can see the fruits of your labor. | ||
| For a picture of Mount Bighill, it sure is awfully small. Do the level justice and get a bigger and better screenshot. Just don't make it too big, we're not looking for a 4K image. | ||
| It's bad optics for the opening paragraph of a featured article to have an unsourced statement, let alone three of them. Smash them out of the article by proving their veracity. |
Now just before we leave you, we'd like to tell you about unimplemented proposals. There are currently 39 that need to be implemented, dating as far back as 2021, so think of this as a continuous Spotlight goal until they're all completed. Additionally, there are many unresolved discussions that we would love to see come to some sort of conclusion. Some might have already concluded and just need the template removed, others have been waiting for a response for years. There are also thousands of articles with unsourced foreign names. They are found within this category, so please help out and add sources for them.
Thanks for tuning in to the newest edition of The 'Shroom Spotlight! Be sure to turn up next month, where we'll be reviewing the progress on the above focuses. If you have any questions or suggestions about this month's set of the article focuses, then please get in touch through the dedicated topic if you have a forum account. If not, then please contact us on either RHG's talk page or Technetium's talk page, but you are far more likely to get a quick response if you go through the forums. You are also welcome to make suggestions on what you think we could focus on in our next edition! Thank you, and good luck!
| The 'Shroom: Issue 224 | |
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| Staff sections | Staff Notes • The 'Shroom Spotlight • Poochy's Picks • Awards Director Election • The 'Shroom Spooky Scavenger • Credits |
| Features | Fake News • Fun Stuff • Palette Swap • Pipe Plaza • Critic Corner • Strategy Wing |
