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== Flip-Flop Folk category ==
The article "Flip-Flop Folk" and its category were deleted as a result of [[Talk:Flip-Flop Folk#Determine whether to rename or delete this page|this proposal]], please can you run a bot to remove "Category:Flip-Flop Folk" from all articles? {{User:Nightwicked Bowser/sig}} 20:25, October 29, 2024 (EDT)
:Actually, can you wait on that? It's a lot easier for me to keep track of who needs the new categories with the Flip-Flop Folk one. I'll let you know when I'm done moving everything over, then you can run it. [[User:Technetium|Technetium]] ([[User talk:Technetium|talk]]) 20:27, October 29, 2024 (EDT)
::Ok, you're all good to run it now! [[User:Technetium|Technetium]] ([[User talk:Technetium|talk]]) 21:08, October 29, 2024 (EDT)
:::Actually I'm stupid, there is no bot to run now that all instances of the category were manually removed by me, lol. [[User:Technetium|Technetium]] ([[User talk:Technetium|talk]]) 21:19, October 29, 2024 (EDT)

== Recent proposal ==

As a result of [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/71#Decide how to prioritize PAL English names|this proposal passing]], I'm requesting that some links be changed. IF any more should be, I will add more, but for now, here are my requested changes:

*[[Mini Bowser (toy)]] to [[Mini Bowser]] (I checked [[Special:Whatlinkshere]] and no page that is supposed to link to [[Koopa Kid]] links to Mini Bowser, so that is fine)
*[[Bowser Party]] and [[Bowser Party (mode)]] to [[Mario Party 10#Bowser Party]] (reduces extra time, electricity, and internet bills that redirects require to load)

Thanks! [[User:Altendo|Al]][[User talk:Altendo|ten]][[Special:Contributions/Altendo|do]] 12:25, November 19, 2024 (EST)

== Mario Bros. Returns ==
The title of ''[[Mario Bros. Returns|Mario Bros. have returned]]'' has been changed to ''Mario Bros. Returns'', would you be able to change all the image categories for the game? {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 08:11, November 21, 2024 (EST)
:Thank you! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 10:03, November 21, 2024 (EST)

== A little more help with the "Multilang profile" template ==

I appreciate the contributions you have made to {{tem|Multilang profile}} over time.

I just logged a new edit on the template that seeks to prioritize English descriptions over the others by making the latter collapsible. However, due to the various set-ups of this template, many instances of it on the wiki are displaying content improperly. Specifically, the non-English descriptions will not go inside the collapsible space when the template (a) shows the type of description and (b) has both English and non-English descriptions. You can see an example [[Spin Drill#Profiles|here]]. I would like to know why this happens.

However, it works as intended when:
*The template doesn't show the type of description and has both English and non-English descriptions ([[List of Wario profiles and statistics#WarioWare, Inc. Official Site]])
*The template doesn't show the type of description and has only non-English descriptions ([[Big Boo (character)#Super Mario Pia]])
*The template shows the type of description and has only non-English descriptions ([[World 1 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)#Profiles]])

I decided not to make the non-English descriptions collapsible when there aren't any English ones because the purpose of this change would be moot--there's no sense prioritizing English text that isn't there. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 17:07, December 8, 2024 (EST)

:Happy to help. So... the parser didn't like combining asterisks from multiple different functions within the columns div. For whatever reason. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 21:44, December 8, 2024 (EST)

== How to merge accounts ==

Hi, on Triforce Wiki LTL's lost his account credentials and needs to make a new one, how would I go about merging his edit history to the new one? [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 13:48, December 29, 2024 (EST)
:You would need the [[mw:Extension:UserMerge|UserMerge]] extension to do that. But I would forget that and just manually [[mw:Manual:changePassword.php|change the password]] on the account. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 13:52, December 29, 2024 (EST)
::Great, thanks! That sounds a lot easier. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 14:11, December 29, 2024 (EST)

== Bug on the to-do list ==

For whatever reason, the bubble for [[:Category:Articles with too many disambiguation links]] fails to display its text, just leaving it as an ominous number. No idea why this is, unfortunately. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 23:04, December 31, 2024 (EST)

== Create a new !) template ==

I was wondering if you can create a new template called {{plain link|https://www.mariowiki.com/Template:!)|Template:!)}}. This is what the template will look like:

<pre>
<includeonly>|}</includeonly><noinclude>[[Category:Formatting templates|!]]</noinclude>
</pre>

Don't forget to protect the template after you have created it. Thanks! {{User:GuntherBayBeee/sig}} 16:29, January 14, 2025 (EST)

==Thanking==
I want to thank you for [[Special:Diff/4516560|these]] [[Special:Diff/4516583|edits]], but the new thanking system doesn't seem to work there. I get the following box:<blockquote>Thank action failed (error code:<br>internal_api_error_Wikimedia\Assert\PostconditionException).<br>Please try again.</blockquote>And all I can do is click OK. I did try it again later, and it seems to work as intended for others. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 12:32, January 17, 2025 (EST)

== [[Template:Lost]] ==

How do you make this template visible while logged out? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 15:34, January 26, 2025 (EST)
:Thank you so much for solving this issue. I have one more request; I think it would be useful if the "documented" parameter was used to split articles into a category called "Lost media with advanced wiki documentation". Setting these articles aside would make it easier for people with an interest in such things to navigate the subjects that are in a more dire need of attention. If you agree, I'd like to ask if you can add this function to the template. I would have performed this action on my own, but the template is currently protected. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 16:57, January 26, 2025 (EST)

== Trivia to Notes ==

Hello. I'm new editor here. I was wondering why "Trivia" was changed to "Notes"? [[User:Sprig Plantar|Sprig Plantar]] ([[User talk:Sprig Plantar|talk]]) 19:20, February 2, 2025 (EST)
:This [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/73#Rename Trivia section to "Notes" and allow broader coverage in their contents|proposal]] to do so just passed. [[User:Technetium|Technetium]] ([[User talk:Technetium|talk]]) 19:31, February 2, 2025 (EST)

== Gallery Background Conundrums ==

Heya! Sorry to bother, but we had a question. On the [[Gallery:Super Mario Bros. Special|''Super Mario Bros. Special'']] gallery, we wanted to give some of the entries there (namely, a good portion of the sprites) a #00F background, like how they appear in-game. Kinda like how the [[Gallery:Super Mario Bros.|''Super Mario Bros.'' gallery]] uses the in-game sky colors. However, uh, it turns out that it's not that simple, as it relies on classes, and using style is seemingly out of the question as well. Do you have any potential ideas for a more dynamic version of the classes we already have, like something that allows one to manually specify hex code (that way, if a similar issue like this crops up, we don't need to keep updating the CSS sheet for every new class we need for every new unique background); or failing that, just adding #00F to the available colors for classes? {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 14:10, February 9, 2025 (EST)
:Clear your cache and take a look at [[Help:Gallery#Custom backgrounds|this]]. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 14:56, February 9, 2025 (EST)
::That's perfect for our purposes, thank you very much!! {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 15:01, February 9, 2025 (EST)

== Math in tables ==

Does WikiMedia have a feature for tables where, say, one cell displays a value based on a math formula that uses values entered in other cells, like in Excel? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 14:09, February 12, 2025 (EST)

EDIT: For instance, a three-column table where the third column displays the result of 2x+y, where x and y are variables shown in the previous two columns, like so, except automated somehow:

{|class=wikitable
|-
!Variable x
!Variable y
!Result
|-
|2
|2
|6
|-
|10
|2
|22
|}
{{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 14:17, February 12, 2025 (EST)

:There is this, but it's not exactly Excel level of simplicity:

:{|class=wikitable
|-
!Variable x
!Variable y
!Result
|-
|{{#vardefineecho:x|2}}
|{{#vardefineecho:y|2}}
|{{#expr:2*{{#var:x}}+{{#var:y}}}}
|-
|{{#vardefineecho:x|10}}
|{{#vardefineecho:y|2}}
|{{#expr:2*{{#var:x}}+{{#var:y}}}}
|}

:--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 15:06, February 12, 2025 (EST)
::Thank you so much! I would like to ask you one more math-related question: how do I check if a number is a natural number using MediaWiki syntax? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 19:10, February 12, 2025 (EST)
:::Something like this? <pre>{{#ifeq:{{#expr:trunc abs(X)}}|X|is|is not}}</pre> --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 19:53, February 12, 2025 (EST)

== Donkey Kong Card Game images ==

Hello! I renamed [[Gallery:Donkey Kong Country (television series) trading cards]] to [[Gallery:Donkey Kong Card Game (trading cards)]] (per [[Gallery talk:Donkey Kong Card Game (trading cards)#Rename|proposal]]), and I created a new [[Donkey Kong Card Game (trading cards)|article]] for the gallery.
*Could you rename [[:Category:Donkey Kong Country (television series) trading card images]] to [[:Category:Donkey Kong Card Game (trading cards) images]] and move all files as well?
*Could you also replace links to [[Gallery:Donkey Kong Country (television series) trading cards]] with links to the mainspace [[Donkey Kong Card Game (trading cards)]] article? I replaced all occurrences on mainspace, galleries, and templates, but it still has to be done for a hundred files. 

{{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 08:12, February 13, 2025 (EST)

== Dark Mode ==
Would it be possible to enable this feature for non-logged-in visitors? I ask because of [[MarioWiki:Proposals#Make Dark Mode available to everyone|my dark mode proposal]].--{{User:Pizza Master/sig}} 17:38, February 13, 2025 (EST)
:It's better to keep it to logged-in users for server performance, but I guess we can give it a try if that proposal passes. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 11:03, February 14, 2025 (EST)



I would have to agree with STEVE 
  [[User:Joseph5678|Joseph5678]] ([[User talk:Joseph5678|talk]]) 20:50, March 6, 2025 (EST)

== Text replacement: MC Ballyhoo, Big Top ==

currently working on redirecting all the formerly-separate [[MC Ballyhoo & Big Top]] links to the merged page. is this something that can be automated? {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 13:41, February 14, 2025 (EST)
==I have a idea==
I saw that you are the inaugurator of this site. I don't know if you will accept, but you will need to put the date of the [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=4511526&oldid=23 inauguration] of this site on the [https://www.mariowiki.com/ main page]. Here's an example to [https://mario.fandom.com/pt/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal help you] and a [https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Template:Age template] to install. <br>--[[User:ChristopherPAraujo|ChristopherPAraujo]] ([[User talk:ChristopherPAraujo|talk]]) 22:27, February 15, 2025 (EDT)

== "English (United States)" in game infoboxes ==
So [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/74#Standardize_the_use_of_.22English.22.2C_.22English_.28United_States.29.22_and.2For_.22English_.28United_Kingdom.29.22_as_languages_in_game_infoboxes|this proposal of mine]] recently passed. I was thinking the best way to implement it is by running a bot to replace all instances of "en_US" in game infoboxes with just "en" whenever "en_GB" is not present. Assuming that's possible. [[User:PaperSplash|PaperSplash]] ([[User talk:PaperSplash|talk]]) 18:58, March 1, 2025 (EST)

== Dark Mode Shenanigans ==
For one: VERY nice to see a proper Dark Mode added to the wiki. From just mucking about for an hour or so, we've found two things that we felt were worth acknowledging on a talk page, rather than on Discord (and figured we'd mirror a sillier remark over here for good measure):
* The big one is that Navboxes lack colors altogether on Dark Mode. This is certainly a far cry from the [[MarioWiki:Navigation templates#Chart|meticulously-created color chart]] we've got!
* The edit field's background is this rather bright light gray, rather than something closer to the background of the actual article body. Admittedly, this is moreso a matter of preference, though it feels weird that there's such a high contrast there.
* This is a bit silly, but we wonder if it's possible to change the image for the moon icon on the header. The obvious suggestion is to make it a [[3-Up Moon]], since, well, 16x16 sprite of a Mario-related Moon. Maybe in light mode, it could be recolored to be white, and in dark mode it's the proper yellow?
{{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 02:53, March 5, 2025 (EST)
:Addition to this; maintenance templates and infoboxes ''also'' lack color, in addition to Navboxes. Would adding dark mode colors to these also be possible? {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 21:09, March 5, 2025 (EST)

::Dark mode needs to override the original colors because they're too light, but custom dark colors can slowly start being applied to some areas. I need help getting dark mode colors. Let's start with [[:Category:Notice templates|notice templates]]. For each template background color, please give me a dark mode background hex color that looks good with white text. Thank you --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 22:13, March 5, 2025 (EST)
:::Using inspect element to imitate things, we've come up with a few colors. The associated templates isn't a complete list by any means, but this should cover the colors used by most common templates we've seen.
:::* Red (abandoned/lost): #800
:::* Orange (construction): #a40
:::* Yellow (image): #a70 (note: it's... pretty hard to make a dark yellow that doesn't look Bad. would honestly suggest either a different color entirely.)
:::* Seafoam Green ('shroom spotlight) #454
:::* Green (just released/upcoming): #060
:::* Light blue (stub): #049
:::* Indigo-ish blue (damage): #44B
:::* Light Purple (move/split/merge): #4F0A87
:::* White (dev data): #777 (note: that's about as bright as you can make it before it starts to impact readability)
:::* Light Gray (delete-request/delete-revision/delete-template): #555
:::* Delete looks perfectly fine as-is, as it's already dark with white text.
:::{{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 23:01, March 5, 2025 (EST)

Can I also report on some weird things in Dark Mode? The wiki editor field still appears to be set with light colors still for the most part (especially the bright white editing space itself as well as the UI above the editing space; and while the edit options space below the editing field is darker than usual, it's still a light gray. I dunno what the rest of our contributors think (I don't visit the wiki Discord that often), but I personally think the editing field should be dark as well, given that it's a ''really large'' space that takes up most of the screen.<br>And I also want to point out that when you view a page in portrait mode (whether in mobile view or desktop view with responsive mode enabled in the settings), opening a sidebar menu will have a white transparent space cover the rest of the page, which is also an eyesore that takes up most of the screen. Viewing a page in portrait mode while having responsive mode disabled also shows a weird bug with the sidebar menus, as they will appear white and have their rounded corners changed back to squared ones.<br>Here's some screenshots that showcase these issues:<br>[[File:DarkModeIssues.png|x200px]]<br>{{User:Arend/sig}} 15:28, March 8, 2025 (EST)

Adding onto this ourselves, a lot of [[Template:Button]] images behave... strangely with Dark Mode. Especially those for the NES, GB, and GBC; the poor CD-i even suffers actual readability issues. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 15:38, March 8, 2025 (EST)
:I think that's done intentionally: looking in the source editor, the files for the button images include the <code>class=invert-dark</code> in the embedding code; explaining why they look so strange with the inverted shading (also I think the CD-i buttons look unreadable regardless of mode). {{User:Arend/sig}} 15:49, March 8, 2025 (EST)
::If we had any idea how dynamic elements in .svg files worked, we would honestly probably make a version that adds an outline or otherwise chooses more... reasonable colors, depending on if Dark Mode is enabled. <s>also yeah the CD-i icons were already rather strange before darkmode but like it was at least somewhat readable</s> {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 15:52, March 8, 2025 (EST)
:::This isn't an SVG-exclusive thing, as most of the files that <code>class=invert-dark</code> is applied to are actually PNGs. It can work with any file. [[File:SMPJ Yoshi.png|thumb|right|class=invert-dark|See?]] {{User:Arend/sig}} 16:19, March 8, 2025 (EST)

Sorry to only follow up on this a few weeks later, but we guess this is our de-facto "hey, we caught something strange with darkmode" thread now. The "Syntax Highlighter" tool in Preferences -> Gadgets reverts the edit box ''back'' to the light gray version. To be fair; you'd likely need to implement a bunch of dark-mode specific colors for the highlights. as well, so we can understand if this takes a bit to implement... ;P {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 11:09, March 20, 2025 (EDT)

Related, I don't know if this is a dark mode issue as well, but I will make an educated guess that it is. Looks like the gallery background color thing no longer takes for dark mode, but still gets blackbg and whitebg classes. Notice [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick/Projects/SMB3 sprites|here]]. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 13:31, March 20, 2025 (EDT)

Tangentially related, but can the Dark Mode toggle icon use different images for light and dark mode? It currently uses the same baseline moon image for both and recolors it live for light mode. Would like to know ASAP, as it'd be the crux of a proposal we're working on. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 17:07, March 21, 2025 (EDT)

== [[Template:Ranking]] ==

I have a few problems with this template. I was wondering if you could help out.
*When there are multiple charts that float next to each other, dividing them with gaps improves readability. However, the syntax I used to that end is an improvisation made with glue, sticks, and stones. Is there a better way to handle this?
*When you create a chart with this template, some size inconsistencies appear between rows. In the example chart provided on the template's page, the 5th ranked player's row is much wider than the others. On [[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe European Championship 2023#Standings|this page]], when multiple charts are placed side by side, many rows are not uniform with each other. Where this issue stems from is pretty clear: in the template's source code, there is an "if" function for each row, separated from the other "if"'s with line breaks; since the line breaks are outside the conditionals, they "stack", creating some ugly-looking free space on the last row depending how low it is in the chart. However, if I somply try removing the line breaks, the template stops being effective--the syntax used to generate spaces between neighboring charts is suddenly turned into plain text. What can I do?

{{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 20:02, March 5, 2025 (EST)
:I'm also grateful that you added Dark Mode for guest users! {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 20:03, March 5, 2025 (EST)

Building tables with templates is sort of a nightmare and it's something we've been [[:Category:Articles with deprecated templates|moving away from]]. Is this not acceptable for your needs? :)

{| class="wikitable" style="float:left;margin-right:1em"
! colspan="100%" | March tournament
|-
| '''1st''' || Mario || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 310
|-
| '''2nd''' || Luigi || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''2nd''' || Peach || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''4th''' || Bowser || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 302
|-
| '''5th''' || Donkey Kong || {{flag|UK|link=y}} || 300
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="float:left;margin-right:1em"
! colspan="100%" | March tournament
|-
| '''1st''' || Mario || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 310
|-
| '''2nd''' || Luigi || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''2nd''' || Peach || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''4th''' || Bowser || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 302
|-
| '''5th''' || Donkey Kong || {{flag|UK|link=y}} || 300
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="float:left"
! colspan="100%" | March tournament
|-
| '''1st''' || Mario || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 310
|-
| '''2nd''' || Luigi || {{flag|USA|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''2nd''' || Peach || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 309
|-
| '''4th''' || Bowser || {{flag|Japan|link=y}} || 302
|-
| '''5th''' || Donkey Kong || {{flag|UK|link=y}} || 300
|}

{{br}}

--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 22:13, March 5, 2025 (EST)

:Yes, I concede that this is better. My logic when I made the template was that, unlike the charts created through those other deprecated templates, the rankings have a fixed, predetermined order, and that the parameters consequently wouldn't need to be shifted around. But I agree that a basic syntax for these charts is generally easier to manage. Appreciate that you still made an effort to correct the template! {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 18:21, March 6, 2025 (EST), edited 18:25, March 6, 2025 (EST)

== Category link replacement ==

Hey Porple, [[:Category:Year of Luigi images]] was just moved to [[:Category:The Year of Luigi images|add the "The"]] to match [[The Year of Luigi|the article]]; can you run a text replacement to change the links? Thanks! {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 09:36, March 30, 2025 (EDT)

== Text replacement ==

Can you replace the links to [[:Category:Mario Kart (Nintendo Switch 2) screenshots]] with [[:Category:Mario Kart World screenshots]]? Thanks! - [[User:RHG1951|RHG1951]] ([[User talk:RHG1951|talk]]) 22:17, April 2, 2025 (EDT)

Sorry to hijack this, but it's roughly to the same effect. Can you swap out [[Princess Daisy]] with [[Daisy]] (and [[Princess Daisy (film character)]] to [[Daisy (film character)]], of course), per [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/75#On the leading "Princess" for Peach/Daisy/Rosalina, and/or lackthereof|the poll proposal]]? {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 17:52, April 3, 2025 (EDT)

== Revisiting Image Crops ==

Do you think [[MarioWiki:Image use policy]] should be revised since {{tem|CSS image crop}} is now a thing?

 If a screenshot needs to be cropped from the hardware output to remove black borders or have transparency added (if a game element overlaps the border), this should be noted in {{tem|aboutfile}} parameter #4.

I've always had my gripes with this policy but eventually I just left the subject alone, until I saw someone with similar gripes wanting to have consistent dimensions to uploaded images without creating unnecessary duplicates just for a crop. {{user|Doc von Schmeltwick}}. Eventually, they had a passed proposal. I even did a trial run of the new template with [[Super Mario's Wacky Worlds]]. Looks great! We can even pair this up with {{tem|multiframe}}. Here's what I am suggesting:
 If a screenshot needs to be cropped from the hardware output to remove black borders, use {{tem|CSS image crop}} to perform the crop, on articles where necessary. If transparency needs to be added (if a game element overlaps the border), this should be noted in {{tem|aboutfile}} parameter #4.

What do you think? --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 16:07, April 5, 2025 (EDT)

:I dislike CSS image crop because the images can't be scaled. Compare your example before and after on mobile phone. Before, the images auto-scaled down and the table had no horizontal scrolling. After, the second column becomes more cramped and the third column you see half the image with horizontal scrolling required to see the second half. With the majority of readers on phone, I still prefer actual cropping. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 16:20, April 5, 2025 (EDT)
::Wow. Didn't consider that! Kind of glad I kept it exclusive to an obscure piece of media article. However, what is allowing the images to scale? --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 16:30, April 5, 2025 (EDT)
:::Some basic CSS is used to scale images on mobile to help them fit within the user's narrow screen. Unfortunately, as soon as you try scaling an image with pixel-precise cropping, the pixel values will no longer be accurate and so the crop will be messed up. So scaling is just turned off for CSS image crops. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 16:43, April 5, 2025 (EDT)
::::I would either blame the rendering engine for mobile Chrome or {{SITENAME}} being better optimized for landscape mode than portrait mode. People tend to use their phones in portrait mode, but getting people to hold their phones 90 degrees left or right compared to how they are used to holding it is easier said than done. Reminds me of this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo old video]. Sadly this video aged like fine wine. Heh. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 17:16, April 5, 2025 (EDT)

==The Great Pinball (game) Purge==
Hi! Can you please run the bot to replace all the links to [[Pinball (game)]] with [[Pinball]], per the passing of [[Talk:Pinball#Remove the identifier|this proposal]]? Thanks! [[User:Nelsonic|Nelsonic]] ([[User talk:Nelsonic|talk]]) 20:56, April 6, 2025 (EDT)

== Cancel proposal ==

There's a [[MarioWiki:Proposals#Use the cross-generation data for the video game console generation label|proposal]] that's about to be declined tomorrow. Can you please cancel it for me? Thanks! {{User:GuntherBayBeee/sig}} 10:53, April 11, 2025 (EDT)
:Since the proposal is going to end tomorrow anyway, there's no reason to cancel it early. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 11:04, April 11, 2025 (EDT)

==Golfing stars==
Hi! Per the passing of [[Talk:Golf: US Course#Decide on the periods|these]] [[Talk: World ★ (Super Mario Run)#Move to World ★ (Super Mario Run)|proposals]], can you please run the bot to change all instances of {{fake link|World Star (Super Mario Run)}} and {{fake link|Golf: U.S. Course}} to [[World ★ (Super Mario Run)]] and ''[[Golf: US Course]]''? Thanks! [[User:Nelsonic|Nelsonic]] ([[User talk:Nelsonic|talk]]) 09:54, April 12, 2025 (EDT)

== 4-3-0 but consensus reached ==

Regarding this [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=MarioWiki:Proposals&diff=prev&oldid=4842865 proposal]: the result for the first poll is 4-3-0, but there are only six voters because Camwoodstock voted twice. As such, the outcome is:
{{proposal check|4|3|6}}
{{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 07:32, April 16, 2025 (EDT)
:Oops, I'm sorry. My mistake! --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 07:36, April 16, 2025 (EDT)

== Maintenance ==

Hey, Porple! Just wanted to congratulate you with another succesful maintenance. I noticed the addition of a night mode (and a night mode icon) and I think it's very cool. Thanks for keeping this wiki alive and making it better! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 03:02, April 17, 2025 (EDT)
:My pleasure! --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 10:17, April 26, 2025 (EDT)

== Infobox entries proposal ==

Per [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/75#Change_previous_and_next_entries_cell_in_infoboxes_to_include_actual_entry_names_and_change_directory_link|this recently passed proposal]], is it possible to run the bot to change the directory links for the infoboxes? Thanks in advance. [[User:Power Flotzo|Power Flotzo]] ([[User talk:Power Flotzo|talk]]) 14:55, April 19, 2025 (EDT)
:Hmm. There is enough variation with how the parameters are used that I worry the bot would mess up the articles. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 10:17, April 26, 2025 (EDT)

== Gallery File Red Links ==

Over at [[Sandbox]], I tested file red links for the gallery tag. [[Bulbapedia:Pokémon|Bulbapedia]] now produces red links when using the gallery tag. Maybe {{SITENAME}} can do the same now? --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 15:23, April 19, 2025 (EDT)
:I believe we will get this after I update MediaWiki in a few months. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 10:17, April 26, 2025 (EDT)
::I just remembered this. Nope, didn't work? --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 16:01, September 27, 2025 (EDT)
:::Sorry, the update is being pushed back. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 15:27, October 9, 2025 (EDT)

== Template:Ref ==

Hi! Is it OK if I create a {{tem|ref}} template (equivalent to Wikipedia's [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Refn Refn template]) for specific use cases? Notably, it would allow adding references to footnotes, which cannot be done with <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags because they cannot nest. {{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 02:51, April 26, 2025 (EDT)
:Sure, sounds good! --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 10:17, April 26, 2025 (EDT)

== Template moves ==

Hey, since Template:Mario Kart Wii and Template:Mario Kart World were recently moved to Template:MKWii and Template:MKWorld respectively, can you run a bot to replace all instances of those templates? Thanks! [[User:Power Flotzo|Power Flotzo]] ([[User talk:Power Flotzo|talk]]) 22:40, May 11, 2025 (EDT)

== The move to "Multimedia:List of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! media" ==

Bro, why did you move the page from the already fine "List of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! media" to "Multimedia:List of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! media"? And yes, it's just an example, because all other media pages have been moved to use the "Multimedia:" prefix! Why did you do this if the "media" in the title of the article is already clear about the fact that it's a page for example, WarioWare Inc. multimedia? You should've done a proposal before doing so because if you do, then we know why you moved it in the first place, but nope, you didn't!
[[User:Alphabetlorefan2003|Alphabetlorefan2003]] ([[User talk:Alphabetlorefan2003|talk]]) 21:05, May 12, 2025 (EDT)

== Poll template punctuation problem ==

I would do so myself if I was authorized, though I can't, but please add a period after, "Bros" because it's an abbreviation on the second choice, "Super Mario Bros 2 / Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins" on the latest [[Template:Poll|poll template]]. --[[User:Jjrapper100|Jjrapper100]] ([[User talk:Jjrapper100|talk]]) 21:58, May 15, 2025 (EDT)

== Move ==

Per [[Talk:? Candy#Move to "? Candy"|proposal]], the page "Candy Area" was moved to "? Candy". Can you update the following, ''in order'' so that the text shown down the line doesn't overlap with the existing code? My specific updates, from first to last, are:
<pre>
[[Candy Area]]s -> [[? Candy|? Candies]]
Candy Areas -> ? Candies
Candy Area -> ? Candy
[[Candy Space]]s -> [[? Candy|? Candies]]
Candy Spaces -> ? Candies
Candy Space -> ? Candy
</pre>
That should update all of the code, but in case it doesn't, I would recommend also changing this, if it ''doesn't'' get updated, again preferably in order:
<pre>
[[Candy Area]] -> [[? Candy]]
[[Candy Area| -> [[? Candy|
[[Candy Space]] -> [[? Candy]]
[[Candy Space| -> [[? Candy|
</pre>
Thanks. [[User:Altendo|Al]][[User talk:Altendo|ten]][[Special:Contributions/Altendo|do]] 20:15, May 16, 2025 (EDT)

== Auto-Patroller ==

Hey [[User:Porplemontage|Porplemontage]]! Can you upgrade me to patroller status, please? Because I want to get to the nitty gitty!--[[User:Wariowarefan100|Wariowarefan100]] ([[User talk:Wariowarefan100|talk]]) 16:19, May 23, 2025 (EDT)
:Hi {{@|Wariowarefan100}}, thanks for asking. Review [[MarioWiki:Administrators]] and [[MarioWiki:Patrollers]]. You will need to dedicate plenty of time to the wiki through major contributions and community participation before we can even consider a position for you. Keeping this in all in mind, you will not require the tools to carry out the vast majority of tasks the wiki requires. If you have further questions, please contact any active administrators, such as me rather than respond on this talk page. Thanks!  {{User:Mario/sig}} 16:30, May 23, 2025 (EDT)

== Text replacement: double “the” ==

There are [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=insource%3A%22the+the%22&ns0=1&ns102=1&ns106=1 57 occurrences] of “<code> the the </code>” on the wiki. Can you change them to a single “<code> the </code>” with a bot? (The extra spaces on both sides rule out false positives like “the theater”. Other case combinations like “the The” are best handled manually.) --[[User:Dine2017|Dine2017]] ([[User talk:Dine2017|talk]]) 10:08, June 1, 2025 (EDT)

==Full list of To-Do Bar categories?==
So, we definitely know a thing or two about the to-do bar, but we do also have a question that would be really helpful for one thing (our 'Shroom column) and actively allow us to work on a rather overdue other thing. When there's no valid entries in a maintenance category for the to-do bar, it vanishes. What's, uh, the full list of items for the to-do bar, in the order that they appear in the to-do bar? This would not only let us create a rigid table for our column's template, but we could use that information to potentially finally make those 16x16 icons that we know people suggested back when the to-do bar was first pitched. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 13:36, June 6, 2025 (EDT)
:If you view the source of [[Template:ToDoList]], all of the numbered/unnammed parameters are the categories. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 14:38, June 6, 2025 (EDT)

== Music link changes ==

Hi Porple, I wanted to ask if you could please have PorpleBot update links to some music pages, Nintendo Music moves have left a lot of redirects behind on these.
*Ground Theme (Super Mario Bros.) -> Ground BGM (Super Mario Bros.)
*Ground Theme (Super Mario World) -> Ground BGM (Super Mario World)
*Underground Theme -> Underground BGM (Super Mario Bros.)
*Underground BGM -> Underground BGM (Super Mario Bros.)
**Underground Theme currently redirects to Underground BGM as a disambiguation page, not sure if that can be added as an exception beforehand or if it has to be undone manually.
*Super Mario 64 Main Theme -> Main Theme (Super Mario 64)
*Inside the Castle Walls -> Peach's Castle (theme)
Thanks! --{{User:Waluigi Time/sig}} 19:54, June 24, 2025 (EDT)

Hi again, I have a few more of these:
*Player Down -> Player Down (Super Mario Bros.)
*Lost a Life -> Player Down (Super Mario Bros.)
*25m Theme -> Round 1 BGM (Donkey Kong)
Thanks! --{{User:Waluigi Time/sig}} 13:06, July 22, 2025 (EDT)

==Mario Kart identifiers, part 1==
With all ''Mario Kart'' pages renamed, and with template adjustments on their way, it's time to start tackling the giant beast that is changing every link to the pages. There are many nuances to this problem, so it is best to tackle it in steps. The easiest step is links to courses without identifiers, as there's no issue of leaving those identifiers exposed when replacing. This would probably require multiple waves of edits from porplebot, so I'll try to be as helpful as I can. 

The list of courses without identifiers in their name is:
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Expand"data-collapsetext="Hide">
*Mario Circuit 1
*Ghost Valley 1
*Mario Circuit 2
*Choco Island 1
*Ghost Valley 2
*Mario Circuit 3
*Koopa Beach 1
*Choco Island 2
*Vanilla Lake 1
*Mario Circuit 4
*Ghost Valley 3
*Vanilla Lake 2
*Luigi Raceway
*Moo Moo Farm
*Kalimari Desert
*Toad's Turnpike
*Frappe Snowland
*Choco Mountain
*Mario Raceway
*Royal Raceway
*DK's Jungle Parkway
*Yoshi Valley
*Banshee Boardwalk
*Big Donut
*Block Fort
*Double Deck
*Skyscraper
*Peach Circuit
*Shy Guy Beach
*Riverside Park
*Bowser's Castle 1
*Boo Lake
*Cheese Land
*Bowser's Castle 2
*Cheep-Cheep Island
*Sunset Wilds
*Snow Land
*Ribbon Road
*Yoshi Desert
*Bowser's Castle 3
*Lakeside Park
*Broken Pier
*Bowser's Castle 4
*Peach Beach
*Baby Park
*Mushroom Bridge
*Mushroom City
*Yoshi Circuit
*DK Mountain
*Wario Colosseum
*Dino Dino Jungle
*Cookie Land
*Block City
*Pipe Plaza
*Tilt-a-Kart
*Figure-8 Circuit
*Yoshi Falls
*Cheep Cheep Beach
*Desert Hills
*Delfino Square
*Shroom Ridge
*DK Pass
*Airship Fortress
*Twilight House
*Palm Shore
*Tart Top
*Moo Moo Meadows
*Mushroom Gorge
*Toad's Factory
*Coconut Mall
*DK Summit
*Wario's Gold Mine
*Daisy Circuit
*Koopa Cape
*Maple Treeway
*Grumble Volcano
*Moonview Highway
*Block Plaza
*Delfino Pier
*Funky Stadium
*Chain Chomp Wheel
*Thwomp Desert
*Galaxy Colosseum
*Toad Circuit
*Daisy Hills
*Shy Guy Bazaar
*Wuhu Loop
*Music Park
*Rock Rock Mountain
*Piranha Plant Slide
*Wario Shipyard
*Neo Bowser City
*Maka Wuhu
*Rosalina's Ice World
*Honeybee Hive
*Sherbet Rink
*Wuhu Town
</div>
Replacing all the links like <nowiki>[[SNES Mario Circuit 1]] and [[SNES Mario Circuit 1|Mario Circuit 1]] to [[Mario Circuit 1]]</nowiki> should be simple. If this isn't doable, please let me know, thank you! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 15:14, June 29, 2025 (EDT)
:Thank you! I noticed you even managed to get a few other courses included in this batch of changes as well! However, even after you adjusted the [[Template:MKT cup table2 row]], it seems like the CN, CC, CT and CO fields are still setting up links to redirects. Also, a few other courses seem to still be linking to redirects in the regular fields, like any Tour course, Koopa Troopa Beach (Super Mario Kart), Kalimari Desert 2, maybe others I couldn't find.
:Apart from those templates, I noticed a few regular links managed to slip past undetected, mainly those with identifiers, such as Luigi Circuit GBA Luigi Circuit, GCN Waluigi Stadium, SNES Rainbow Road, you can see a few of those here [[Green Comet (kart)]], for example. Thanks again for the help! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 19:46, June 29, 2025 (EDT)
This is part 2 of the big move, but I feel I shouldn't make extra sections in hindsight. A [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/69#Figure out how to handle .7B.7Bclassic.7D.7D and .7B.7Bclassic link.7D.7D templates when discussing Mario Kart Tour classic courses|proposal]] passed a few months ago determining we should use [[Template:Classic]] and [[Template:Classic link]] in text regarding ''Mario Kart Tour'', meaning every instance such as "3DS Mario Circuit and Wii Coconut Mall T" should now be changed to "{{classic|3DS|Mario Circuit}} and {{Classic link|Wii|Coconut Mall|Coconut Mall T}}". Maybe this would've been easier before the previous batch of changes, but I've been so wrapped up in this course prefix mess that it completely slipped my mind, so I apologize.And thank you again for your help, it is very appreciated. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 09:09, June 30, 2025 (EDT)

== Replace "Mǎlìōu" with "Mǎlì'ōu" ==

Per [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/77#Clarify Mandarin Chinese romanization|my proposal]] that clarifies the use of apostrophes in Mandarin Chinese romanization, could you please have PorpleBot replace every occurrence of "Mǎlìōu" with "Mǎlì'ōu" (EDIT: and "Wǎlìōu" with "Wǎlì'ōu") in the main namespace? {{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 02:47, July 3, 2025 (EDT)

==Mario Kart identifiers, part 2==
I guess this is part 2 now. When we last handled the Mario Kart prefix maintenance, a specific template slipped past unchanged. The last column of the [[Template:MKT cup table2 row|MKT cup table2 row template]] is still pointing to identifier redirects. Would you be able to edit it like you did the other ones? Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 12:01, July 22, 2025 (EDT)
:The links for those are being set by the <code>CT</code> parameter directly in the articles, with <code><nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki></code> used to pipe the links. [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Mario_Cup&diff=4992023&oldid=4992014 For example]. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 12:34, July 22, 2025 (EDT)
::Oh that will be a pain to fix, but thank you for showing me how! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 12:36, July 22, 2025 (EDT)
::Sorry to ask again but would that be able to be automated? There are a lot of links across over 50 pages. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 14:09, July 22, 2025 (EDT)

== Which license to use? ==

Certain images on the wiki that depict a product, such as {{file link|Unilever Prodent paste Mario.jpg|this one}}, aren't actually a photograph of the subject, but a computer render. In that case, do you recommend using {{tem|photo}} (which invokes the Fair Use law vis-a-vis product images), {{tem|artwork}}, or both? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 17:18, August 18, 2025 (EDT)
:Legally they both invoke fair use, so the question really becomes which category is it more useful for these images to be in, [[:Category:Photos]] which contains mostly real-world subjects or [[:Category:Artwork]] which contains all sorts of random artwork? I would go with {{tem|photo}} since while not technically accurate it makes more sense to me to group it with the other depictions of real-world products and people. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 19:30, August 18, 2025 (EDT)

== About the SVG US flag ==

This morning I found the SVG version of the US flag to be deleted and then I saw it apparently doesn’t scale well. Any idea what prevents it from scaling well? --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 07:07, September 2, 2025 (PDT)
:It's just the nature of SVG and how browsers scale all the stars to such a tiny resolution. PNG is blurrier and SVG is sharper but in the case of the stars, the sharpness was actually working against it and it just didn't look as good. [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Template_talk:Flag_list&diff=4234191&oldid=4116675 Relevant comment]. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 22:08, September 2, 2025 (EDT)
::Note sure if there is a better way to get the SVG to scale good.
::I was initially suggesting to upgrade all the PNG flags to SVGs (in fact, some of the new flags added, like Quebec, Scotland and US territories have been added as SVGs), but even if it happens what are the chances the US flag is the only one that remains a PNG? --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 19:48, September 2, 2025 (PDT)
:::I've restored the USA SVG flag as a test. You know, I really don't think it's that bad: [[File:Flag of USA.svg|25px]]SVG [[File:Flag of USA.png|25px]]PNG. Which do you prefer? --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 08:39, September 3, 2025 (EDT)
::::To differentiate it from the PNG one I would call the SVG’s filename “Flag of the United States.” That’s what I did when I initially uploaded it. Lemme take care of that. --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 06:12, September 3, 2025 (PDT)
:::::Well it needs to be "Flag of USA.svg" for the flag list template to use it. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 09:17, September 3, 2025 (EDT)
::::::I see. I’ll change it back.
::::::EDIT: Oh so that’s why it didn’t appear in the template last time I added it. I actually was about to ask if there was a way for the template to use it with the file name “Flag of the United States.svg” or “Flag of US.svg” --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 06:29, September 3, 2025 (PDT)
:::::::The template's country parameter is whatever comes after "Flag of" in the filename and checks for SVG and PNG. If you wanted to use "Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg" then you would have to call <code><nowiki>{{flag list|the United States Virgin Islands|May 24, 2004}}</nowiki></code>. It's best to use short names, and the file extension differentiates the file type well enough imo. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 09:44, September 3, 2025 (EDT)
::::::::Would something like US Virgin Islands or USVI be more acceptable? --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 06:47, September 3, 2025 (PDT)
:::::::::I think "Flag of USVI.svg" is good. And then on the template page you put: United States Virgin Islands (type "USVI") --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 09:53, September 3, 2025 (EDT)
::::::::::As for American Samoa and Puerto Rico are they fine the way they are? --[[User:CarlosYoshiBoi|CarlosYoshiBoi]] ([[User talk:CarlosYoshiBoi|talk]]) 07:03, September 3, 2025 (PDT)
:::::::::::Yeah I think those are good. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 16:59, September 3, 2025 (EDT)

== Template:Person infobox ==

Any way you can readd the sub_header on [[template:person infobox]], but format it right? I'm trying to do what Wikipedia does when a person has a musical career or other profession, see {{wp|Rob Zombie}}. As you can see, there's a sub header for his musical career, and I'm trying to get the same thing on Koji Kondo's article. Sorry to bother you, but I tried for 20 minutes, but can't do it myself. {{User:Sargent Deez/sig}} 22:03, September 14, 2025 (EDT)

==Mario Kart brands==
Per proposal, all sponsor pages for ''Mario Kart'' have been renamed (e.g. "List of sponsors debuting in Mario Kart Wii" -> [[List of brands debuting in Mario Kart Wii]]). Would you be able to run a bot to replace all instances of those links with their new names? This applies for all pages in the [[Lists of brands]] page. Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 11:08, September 20, 2025 (EDT)
:Thank you! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 07:25, September 21, 2025 (EDT)

== Mario Kart Wii Trading Cards category ==

Several images were erroneously categorized using [[:Category:Mario Kart Wii Trading Cards]]. Can you change them to use [[:Category:Mario Kart Wii trading card images]] instead? Thanks! - [[User:RHG1951|RHG1951]] ([[User talk:RHG1951|talk]]) 21:38, September 26, 2025 (EDT)

== A fun little idea ==

Porplemontage. I have an idea. how about we change the wiki's logo for holidays, like for example: Halloween=Vampire mushroom. {{User:Colin's world 3 YT/sig}} 19:30, October 1, 2025 (EDT)
:so what do you think of it? {{User:Colin's world 3 YT/sig}} 11:54, October 5, 2025 (EDT)

== Table question ==

So, for the ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'' page, we're trying to decrease the overall size (in terms of pixel space) of the course table. We got it in a state where it only barely displays under our own personal arbitrary guide of "should fit decently on a 720p display". Problem is, it's ''extremely'' volatile--even just 8 pixels thinner, and it doesn't display right, cramming in a scrollbar. You can observe this with this excerpt of what we're working with:
{|style="text-align:center; padding:0px" class="wikitable spinoff mk" 
|-
![[Mushroom Cup]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Donut Plains.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Donut Plains 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Donut Plains 1 (race course)|Donut Plains 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Ghost Valley.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Ghost Valley 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Ghost Valley 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Bowser Castle.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Bowser Castle 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Bowser Castle 1 (Super Mario Kart)|Bowser Castle 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 2 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 2]]
|}
We already shrank the map images to fit, and we'd rather not shrink them further--192px is a perfect balance of clarity and size. To us, the obvious solution would be to just decrease the padding in the cels themselves, at least in regards to the main "body" cels. The problem is that, no matter how hard we try, any attempts to specify a <code>padding</code> value doesn't apply to the contents of the cels--it applies to the ''table itself.'' We feel like the solution would probably involve some child-related trickery, but on the off-chance you have any better solution, we'd like to know. :O {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 14:40, October 9, 2025 (EDT)
:Try using the <code>wikitable lesspad</code> or <code>wikitable nopad</code> class. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 15:27, October 9, 2025 (EDT)
::Would it perhaps be possible to apply the padding classes to specific cels? As, otherwise, the cup column can end up a bit cramped. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 17:07, October 9, 2025 (EDT)

If you want to work cell-by-cell then you can just specify the padding without using the class:

{|class="wikitable spinoff mk" style="text-align:center"
![[Mushroom Cup]]
|style="padding:0.1em 0.2em"|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 1]]
|style="padding:0.1em 0.2em"|[[File:SMK BG Donut Plains.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Donut Plains 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Donut Plains 1 (race course)|Donut Plains 1]]
|style="padding:0.1em 0.2em"|[[File:SMK BG Ghost Valley.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Ghost Valley 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Ghost Valley 1]]
|style="padding:0.1em 0.2em"|[[File:SMK BG Bowser Castle.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Bowser Castle 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Bowser Castle 1 (Super Mario Kart)|Bowser Castle 1]]
|style="padding:0.1em 0.2em"|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 2 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 2]]
|}

Or you can use the class and add more padding back to the cup cell:

{|class="wikitable lesspad spinoff mk" style="text-align:center"
!style="padding:0.2em 0.4em"|[[Mushroom Cup]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Donut Plains.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Donut Plains 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Donut Plains 1 (race course)|Donut Plains 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Ghost Valley.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Ghost Valley 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Ghost Valley 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Bowser Castle.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Bowser Castle 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Bowser Castle 1 (Super Mario Kart)|Bowser Castle 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 2 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 2]]
|}

--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 17:21, October 9, 2025 (EDT)

Let me try excluding the header cells.

{|class="wikitable lesspad spinoff mk" style="text-align:center"
![[Mushroom Cup]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Donut Plains.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Donut Plains 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Donut Plains 1 (race course)|Donut Plains 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Ghost Valley.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Ghost Valley 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Ghost Valley 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Bowser Castle.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Bowser Castle 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Bowser Castle 1 (Super Mario Kart)|Bowser Castle 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 2 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 2]]
|}

{|class="wikitable nopad spinoff mk" style="text-align:center"
![[Mushroom Cup]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Donut Plains.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Donut Plains 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Donut Plains 1 (race course)|Donut Plains 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Ghost Valley.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Ghost Valley 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Ghost Valley 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Bowser Castle.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Bowser Castle 1 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Bowser Castle 1 (Super Mario Kart)|Bowser Castle 1]]
|[[File:SMK BG Mario Circuit.png|192px]]<br>[[File:SMK Mario Circuit 2 Lower-Screen Map.png|192px]]<br>[[Mario Circuit 2]]
|}

--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 17:32, October 9, 2025 (EDT)

== Template:SMG ==

Could you replace all instances of <nowiki>{{SMG2 boss</nowiki> with <nowiki>{{SMG boss</nowiki>? I added extra parameters to make sure the template can be replaced (the "dome" and "world" parameters, the only difference between the two templates, has been combined into a single parameter) and to add pluralization to the template if multiple imputs are shown in a single parameter. Thanks! [[User:Altendo|Al]][[User talk:Altendo|ten]][[Special:Contributions/Altendo|do]] 09:52, October 15, 2025 (EDT)

== People images category ==

What would be an ideal name for an "[[:Category:Images by subject|images by subject]]" category for images of real-life people? I would have gone with "Category:People images" but it seemed like a strange title; my next thought was to call it "Category:Images of people", which is a little better, only minor issue is it'd make the naming inconsistent with the other categories. This would be a broad category so I thought I'd ask your opinion (it's mainly to place photos of people not part of or exclusively affiliated with a specific company, like a lot of the voice actors, which are currently just under [[:Category:Nintendo images]] and other company categories). {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 08:57, October 20, 2025 (EDT)
:Hmm. I would still go with "Category:People images" to prioritize the consistency for brevity, alphabetization, and so editors can anticipate where to find it. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 09:33, October 20, 2025 (EDT)

== Question about text alignment ==

Let's say you have the following table:

{|class=wikitable
|-
!Column 1
!Column 2
|-
!Row
|A<div style="text-align:right">B</div>
|}

Both "A" and "B" occupy the same cell, as you can see. I want to align "B" to the right while "A" stays on the left. Is it possible to make it so "B" doesn't go down one row? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 16:06, October 21, 2025 (EDT)

:How about this?
:{|class=wikitable
|-
!Column 1
!Column 2
|-
!Row
|A{{align|right|B}}
|}
:--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 16:35, October 21, 2025 (EDT)
::Thank you! [[File:Sweet Smeech.png|50px]] {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 16:37, October 21, 2025 (EDT)

== Donkey Kong Barrel Blast to Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast ==

Could you rename most instances of "Donkey Kong Barrel Blast" to "Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast" per [[Talk:Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast#Spell the game's name with a colon|this proposal]]? I will change some other things if needed (like reviews and other languages) if those cannot be left alone. Thanks! [[User:Altendo|Al]][[User talk:Altendo|ten]][[Special:Contributions/Altendo|do]] 20:20, October 27, 2025 (EDT)

== [[Event]] to [[Event (Mario & Sonic series)]] ==

I would like to request this change throughout the main space, as there is now [[Event (Donkey Kong Bananza)|another, different subject called "event"]] in the ''Mario'' franchise. (Excluding the events from ''Smash Bros.'' games, which the current proper ''Mario''-related counterpart is prioritized over.) {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 16:21, October 28, 2025 (EDT)

==Tic-Tac==
I think a better decision would have been to check what I was doing in the List of Games by Date first before restricting this template so that only you can edit it — but what do I know?. --[[User:Conradd|Conradd]] ([[User talk:Conradd|talk]]) 13:29, November 4, 2025 (EST)
:I see what you did; I just happen to disagree with the changes. The template doesn't appear on mobile phone, only desktop and tablet. It's somewhat wide so that it takes advantage of the space available to it on these wider screens. I don't want to make it taller and narrower, creating more white space on the sides and pushing the content further down the page. In addition, I don't think labeling the decades really adds any value. I think the decades are sort of obvious and self-evident. All the other TOC templates are protected; the only reason this one wasn't was so that the visible years could be updated as time passes; it wasn't my intent that it is open for redesigns. However, I implemented a way to automate the years so it can now be protected like the others. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 13:47, November 4, 2025 (EST)

== Category replacement ==

For the files that have these categories: <code><nowiki>[[Category:Game images]] [[Category:Game sprites]] [[Category:Donkey Kong Bananza images]]</nowiki></code> (e.g. [[:File:DKB Perk 002.png]]), can you replace them with just <code><nowiki>[[Category:Donkey Kong Bananza images]]</nowiki></code> (e.g. [[:File:DKB Perk 104.png]])? Thanks! - [[User:RHG1951|RHG1951]] ([[User talk:RHG1951|talk]]) 22:49, November 14, 2025 (EST)
== Testing Forced Stretch ==
[[File:MPT Japanese title screen.png|thumb|right|Source image]]
<span style="background-image:url('{{filepath:MPT Japanese title screen.png|nowiki}}'); background-size: 854px 448px; background-repeat: no-repeat; width:854px; height:448px; float:left;">'''''There is CSS code surrounding this text with a span HTML tag.'''''</span><br>The CSS code does work on [https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_default_default W3schools], without using [[wikipedia:Help:Magic words|MediaWiki Magic words]], like filepath ({{filepath:MPT Japanese title screen.png|nowiki}}, <nowiki>{{filepath:MPT Japanese title screen.png|nowiki}}</nowiki>). The goal is to on-the-fly stretch the image as a proof of concept. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 22:26, November 20, 2025 (EST)
:MediaWiki doesn't allow you to set backgrounds within the style attribute. However, you can do it with TemplateStyles:

:{{MPT stretch}}

:--{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 12:02, November 21, 2025 (EST)
::Now I just need a way to pass in variables instead of using an unchanging value. {{tem|MPT stretch}}{{tem|MPT stretch/styles.css}} --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 18:42, November 21, 2025 (EST)
:::I did see a class attribute for [[wikipedia:Help:Images|image embedding]]. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 18:46, November 21, 2025 (EST)

==Mario Kart World stickers==
I've just reuploaded all of the [[:Category:Mario Kart World sticker images|''Mario Kart World'' stickers]] as ripped assets from the game's website, would you be able to batch replace all of their descriptions with:
<pre><nowiki>== Summary ==
{{aboutfile
|1=A [[List of stickers in Mario Kart World|sticker]] from ''[[Mario Kart World]]''
|2=[https://www.nintendo.com/jp/games/switch2/aaaaa/online-events/online-challenge01/result.html Official ''Mario Kart World'' Japanese website]
}}
[[Category:Mario Kart World sticker images]]
== Licensing ==
{{game-asset}}
</nowiki></pre>
Keep in mind I've also replaced the licensing template here, from screenshot to asset. Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 17:29, December 4, 2025 (EST)

== Remove baked-in "ref needed" tags for infobox dates ==

The dates of the [[Battle Tour]] are already noted and sourced in the article's body, with the infobox linking to their section, so the [?] thingies aren't needed any more. Is there a way to remove them on that particular article? {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 16:12, December 11, 2025 (EST)

== Series titles ==

Per [[MarioWiki talk:Article naming#"Series" identifer Re-proposal|this proposal]], every series page that doesn't share its name with another page was voted to have its identifier removed. After the appropriate pages are moved (shown below), here are some conversions I would like you to make (in order, to avoid breaking code):

<pre>
[[Mario Kart (series)|''Mario Kart'']] to ''[[Mario Kart]]''
[[WarioWare (series)|''WarioWare'']] to ''[[WarioWare]]''
[[Mario + Rabbids (series)|''Mario + Rabbids'']] to ''[[Mario + Rabbids]]''
[[Mario & Sonic (series)|''Mario & Sonic'']] to ''[[Mario & Sonic]]''
[[Famicom Grand Prix (series)|''Famicom Grand Prix'']] to ''[[Famicom Grand Prix]]''
[[Mario Artist (series)|''Mario Artist'']] to ''[[Mario Artist]]''
[[Super Mario Stadium (series)|''Super Mario Stadium'']] to ''[[Super Mario Stadium]]''
[[Mario Strikers (series)|''Mario Strikers'']] to ''[[Mario Strikers]]''

[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]] to [[Mario Kart]]
[[WarioWare (series)|WarioWare]] to [[WarioWare]]
[[Mario + Rabbids (series)|Mario + Rabbids]] to [[Mario + Rabbids]]
[[Mario & Sonic (series)|Mario & Sonic]] to [[Mario & Sonic]]
[[Famicom Grand Prix (series)|Famicom Grand Prix]] to [[Famicom Grand Prix]]
[[Mario Artist (series)|Mario Artist]] to [[Mario Artist]]
[[Super Mario Stadium (series)|Super Mario Stadium]] to [[Super Mario Stadium]]
[[Mario Strikers (series)|Mario Strikers]] to [[Mario Strikers]]

Mario Kart (series) to Mario Kart
WarioWare (series) to WarioWare
Mario + Rabbids (series) to Mario + Rabbids
Mario & Sonic (series) to Mario & Sonic
Famicom Grand Prix (series) to Famicom Grand Prix
Mario Artist (series) to Mario Artist
Super Mario Stadium (series) to Super Mario Stadium
Mario Strikers (series) to Mario Strikers
</pre>

Thanks. [[User:Altendo|Al]][[User talk:Altendo|ten]][[Special:Contributions/Altendo|do]] 19:44, December 15, 2025 (EST)

==Koopa Troopa Beach==
Would you be able to replace links of <code><nowiki>[[SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2]]</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>[[Koopa Troopa Beach (Super Mario Kart)|SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2]]</nowiki></code>? For some reason this one escaped the first wave of Mario Kart prefix removal. Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 15:16, December 23, 2025 (EST)

== Reflist template ==

Hello! Is it okay if I create a <nowiki>{{Reflist}}</nowiki> template (see [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=User:Jdtendo/Sandbox&oldid=5148240 the code in my sandbox])? It would automatically apply the CSS <tt>lower-alpha</tt> list-style to the references list when used for footnotes, so that it matches with the letters used for the new style of footnotes. {{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 07:19, December 27, 2025 (EST)
:Absolutely, please do create it. It will be great to fix the footnotes list style. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 09:32, December 27, 2025 (EST)
:What is this template about and how does it work? {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 09:52, December 27, 2025 (EST)

==MarioWiki:Article Naming==
To avoid confusion with the new "Naming" sections on articles, "MarioWiki:Naming" has been renamed to [[MarioWiki:Article naming]]. Would you be able to replace all links to the previous with the new name? Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 14:16, January 1, 2026 (EST)

==Bowser's Challenge==
Back once again, sorry for all my requests!

[[Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge]] has been expanded into its own article. Could you please replace instances of <code><nowiki>[[Super Nintendo World#Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge|Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge]]</nowiki></code> with regular links to the page, and also change the hidden links (<code><nowiki>[[Super Nintendo World#Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge|hidden link]]</nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>[[Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge|hidden link]]</nowiki></code>? Thank you for your patience. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 22:41, January 5, 2026 (EST)

==Super Nintendo World stamp license==
Hello, it's me once again...
The main [[:Category:Super Nintendo World images]] was getting cluttered, so I've moved them all to [[:Category:Super Nintendo World stamp images]]. We've noticed that these images should have the {{tem|photo}} template, but most have {{tem|character-artwork}}, {{tem|web-screenshot}}, {{tem|artwork}} or a variety of other templates. Would you be able to do a batch edit and replace them all with {{tem|photo}}? Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 16:15, January 10, 2026 (EST)

== Club Nintendo images ==

Hey Porple, could you replace <code><nowiki>[[Category:Club Nintendo images]]</nowiki></code> links with <code><nowiki>[[Category:Club Nintendo (rewards program) images]]</nowiki></code>? Thanks! {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 10:23, February 4, 2026 (UTC)

==Reception tables?==
We have no idea if PorpleBot can be used to automate changes that'd be made on a multiple line basis, but we've had to untangle a ''lot'' of reception tables as part of the whole "make sure every game's tables use the wikitable colors" thing, and while we could definitely keep fixing the reception tables by hand, it'd be very nice to just. Be done with that, and focus on the actual tables in the page that matter.

We're specifically curious if you could replace these:
<blockquote>
!colspan="4"style="font-size:120%;text-align:center;background-color:silver;"|Reviews <br>
|-style="background-color:#E6E6E6" <br>
|Release <br>
|Reviewer, Publication <br>
|Score <br>
|Verdict <br>

!colspan="4"style="font-size:120%;text-align:center;background-color:silver;"|Aggregators <br>
|-style="background-color:#E6E6E6" <br>
|colspan=2|Compiler <br>
|colspan=2|{{nw|Platform / Score}} <br>
</blockquote>

With these:
<blockquote>
!colspan="4"|Reviews <br>
|- <br>
!Release <br>
!Reviewer, Publication <br>
!Score <br>
!Verdict <br>

!colspan="4"|Aggregators <br>
|- <br>
!colspan=2|Compiler <br>
!colspan=2|{{nw|Platform / Score}} <br>
</blockquote>

Just removing the weird hard-coded banner that no longer fits the standard, and using the proper <code>!</code> headers. Much obliged if it's possible! {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 20:53, February 6, 2026 (UTC)

== Botting some category changes ==

heyo! i just moved a bunch of categories, and i was wondering if you could help replace the links. the categories are:
*[[:Category:Pottery]] → [[:Category:Vessels]]
*[[:Category:Super Paper Mario important things]] → [[:Category:Super Paper Mario Important Things]]
*[[:Category:Dark enemies]] → [[:Category:Super Paper Mario Dark enemies]]
thank you very much! {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 14:54, February 13, 2026 (UTC)

== DK contents existed in wiki since the foundation ==

Since ''[[Donkey Kong Bananza]]'' contents appear as a cameo in ''[[Super Mario Run]]'', but neither of ''The Legend of Zelda'' characters nor contents appeared as a cameo in ''Super Mario Run''. Considering that how the Mariowiki has had included full of the ''Donkey Kong'' contents since the foundation. You're a winner. There was once an independent wiki named DKwiki, but it was merged into Mariowiki. It's still amazing to see that Mariowiki was established as an integrated Mario and DK universe wiki from the beginning. [[User:Windy|Windy]] ([[User talk:Windy|talk]]) 17:08, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot request ==

Thank you for deprecating archive.today links. I would like to further request that PorpleBot make this change across the wiki (think it's the only recurring Mario Portal archive to have more than 25 instances here): <code><nowiki>archive.today/2022.08.13-135145/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/land2/?lang=en</nowiki></code> → <code><nowiki>web.archive.org/web/20251221193203/https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/land2/index.html</nowiki></code>{{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 17:30, February 14, 2026 (UTC)

== Accidental double summary ==

Hey Porp I accidentally bulk uploaded about 50 files that ended up with two <code>==Summary==</code> headers on them. Would you be able to fix that? Here's an example: [[:File:MTO Gear Racket Mario.png]]. Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 17:13, February 21, 2026 (UTC)
:Oh also I've used the User template incorrectly, resulting in a double User:User: space. Please replace those as well, thanks again! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 17:14, February 21, 2026 (UTC)

== Gear assets ==

Could you fix every link of <code><nowiki>[[Category:Mario Golf: World Tour gear asset]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[Category:Mario Tennis Open gear asset]]</nowiki></code> to <code><nowiki>[[Category:Mario Golf: World Tour gear assets]]</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>[[Category:Mario Tennis Open gear assets]]</nowiki></code>? Thanks again. {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 11:02, February 24, 2026 (UTC)

== Re: out-of-order NIOL template entries ==
whenever i edit a foreign name and i notice the entries don't match the displayed language order, i always make sure to reorganize them to match. i was wondering if this is something that would be possible to automate across the entire wiki, or if it is too complicated? it's worth noting that the entries being out of order makes the citation numbers get screwy. {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 18:07, March 3, 2026 (UTC)
:Does an avenue exist for other users to make similar large-scale edits to multiple articles? When this topic was previously discussed, I created a list of the affected articles. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 18:36, March 3, 2026 (UTC)
:Hey I always do that as well! High five (insert high five below)! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 19:02, March 3, 2026 (UTC)
:With the order currently being applied, articles that cite both the name and meaning for a given language will have incorrectly numbered citations. [[Donut Plains]] and [[Buzzy Beetle]] are two affected articles. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 05:11, March 5, 2026 (UTC)"
::{{@|B700465189a9}} we can just undo things the bot does wrong. Using the bot still goes '''''MUCH''''' faster than doing it manually. {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 21:23, March 5, 2026 (UTC)
:::The automated edits worked as designed, even though the design did not address very specific edge cases. Reverting specific edits would not resolve an issue inherent to the canonical order of parameters and could result in the same automated edits being eventually reapplied. The imposed solution instead seems to be to place the name citations in a new column after the meaning and notes columns. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 21:34, March 5, 2026 (UTC)
::::I don't really like how the citations are shoved to the end of the table, instead of being appended right after the names. I think this makes finding whether a name is unsourced harder (as the citation placeholders are aligned with the citations), and takes up more space than necessary. This is especially noticeable if the boxes for the previous parameters are long; see [[Lava Bubble]] for example. This is also noticeable when comparing the format of the template on the editor end to that of the visitor end, where the template is the same as before. I think the template should be reverted back to mostly how it was before, but with the Notes section being left as "Note(s)" (or at least after all of the citations have been moved to the citation parameters). {{User:Maw-Ray Master/sig}} 00:12, March 6, 2026 (UTC)
:::::Hmm. Evie likes the C parameters to be last to act as separators between the entries. But that causes the numbers to be in the wrong order if there if a ref in Meaning, which B700465189a9 doesn't like. The new column fixed the Meaning column ref issue ([[Donut_Plains#Names_in_other_languages|now it goes 1,2]]) while allowing the C to be last, but you don't like the new column. Should we get rid of the C parameters altogether and put the refs right next to the names? We will no longer have the pseudo separator but the Meaning refs will be in the correct number order. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 00:23, March 6, 2026 (UTC)
::::::I think that the template should be reverted to how it was before, with the citations appearing in front of the names while having their own parameter. It makes things a lot easier and will make things more consistent across both the visitor and editor ends, as they will both have the citations appear directly after the names. The only thing that will be different between the two ends is the "Note(s)" header, which I believe should be kept in the case that there is only one note in the template. I just feel that editors might not see that a name needs a citation with the citation column shoved to the right side of the template. While I do believe that getting rid of the C parameters altogether would also resolve the issue, I feel that it will become too unwieldy if multiple citations are added directly in front of a name, and we won't have a consistent separator between the names. Therefore, I feel that what we had before was the best compromise, having the citations appearing directly after the names while having their own parameter, and I would rather have incorrectly-ordered citations than citations shoved to the end of the template or directly appended to the names (without their own parameter). {{User:Maw-Ray Master/sig}} 03:06, March 6, 2026 (UTC)
:::::::per Maw-Ray Master, except i don't feel too strongly against the dedicated Ref. column. as long as it doesn't require running the bot to reorder the internal parameters once again, i'll be okay with any solution. that's my priority here. {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 03:47, March 6, 2026 (UTC)
:::::::Weighing in - I personally prefer references next to the part being cited as it has traditionally been presented. Moving it after meaning can give the impression that it is also part of the citation (note that citations are occasionally used within other parameters independent of C - [[Template talk:Foreign names#C|I once brought up]] that I felt C was a little superfluous but it seems most other contributors generally like it). The way it was before, with extra parameters after citations, better conveys that those boxes are mainly wiki analysis of the cited name portion. (On the other hand, the previous implementation with uncolored "[{{hover|?|blah}}]" next to uncited names looked a bit rough and sometimes messed copypasting.) [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 16:14, March 10, 2026 (UTC)
::::::::I think this can be solved just by specifying "Name ref." in the reference column header. It would still be short enough. I prefer the references at the end, myself... {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 21:35, March 10, 2026 (UTC)
:::::::::Or maybe just mention "Name reference(s)" in the hovertext if you want to keep the "ref." part concise, I guess. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 01:08, March 11, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot request: Triple Mushroom edition ==

howdy! "Triple Mushrooms" was just moved to [[Triple Dash Mushrooms]]. would it be possible to bot the remaining redirects, ideally preserving the actual text while fixing the link? {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 22:32, March 8, 2026 (UTC)
:thanks {{User:EvieMaybe/sig}} 22:50, March 8, 2026 (UTC)

== ''Mario Tennis'' courts ==

I have a large batch of court types that were renamed for ''[[Mario Tennis Fever]]''. Would you mind mass editing links to them? The changes are as follow:
*Court (Mario Tennis series) -> [[Court]]
*Grass Court -> [[Grass (court)]]
*Hard Court -> [[Hard]]
*Clay Court -> [[Clay (court)]]
*Carpet Court -> [[Carpet]]
*Wood Court -> [[Wood (court)]]
*Mushroom Court -> [[Mushroom (court)]]
*Ice Court -> [[Ice (court)]]
*Sand Court -> [[Sand]]
Thank you! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 18:21, March 14, 2026 (UTC)

== To-do list section category ==

Wouldn't it be a good to have a category of {{fake link|Articles with sections with to-do lists}} for articles tagged with {{tem|todo|2=section=yes}}? This would be easier to navigate than those kind of articles being in [[:Category:Articles with to-do lists]], and also match up with the older templates. {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 11:55, March 17, 2026 (UTC)

== WAV File Format ==

Why are [[Special:MIMESearch/audio/wav|WAV files]] permitted on {{SITENAME}}? That's like uploading {{wp|BMP file format|bitmaps}}, and that's already an image format not allowed to [[Special:Upload|be uploaded]] because no compression has taken place. I can understand [[Special:MIMESearch/audio/flac|FLAC files]] if no audio quality is to be lost because of its lossless compression, since we encourage PNG (lossless format) or lossless WebP (not lossy mode). See [[:Category:Media files to be reuploaded with higher quality]]. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 02:23, March 19, 2026 (UTC)
:All non-MP3 audio files are converted to MP3 for playback by the wiki. When you use the audio player for those WAV files, you're actually hearing a compressed MP3 file. MP3 is the preferred format for new audio file uploads, but we allow non-MP3 formats as well basically for flexibility. If the user provides a non-MP3 audio file, the wiki will accept it and do the conversion itself rather than just shut them out. This is why there is no need to do any sort of manual re-upload conversions. We can keep OGA files even though Apple doesn't support them because we play them as MP3 which works on Apple. We can keep uncompressed WAV files because they are played as compressed MP3. etc. And we can keep our OGV files even though they don't work on Chrome because the wiki converts them to WebM for the video player. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 20:25, March 19, 2026 (UTC)
::I was looking at it from a quality and reduced storage cost problem. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 23:46, March 19, 2026 (UTC)
:::I was out of the loop for quite some time about the OGV video standard dropping support. Had to explain myself to [[User talk:LadySophie17#Re: Video reuploads|LadySophie17]] why I uploaded WebM replacements. Learned a lot about WebM over the past week. At the time when I was supporting OGV years ago here, it seemed OK, but with my newly obtained knowledge on WebM, it tends to be the better open format. I won't be going on a replacement spree, but it is something to contend with. For example, found [[Special:Transcode statistics|4 completely broken OGVs where transcodes are failing]]. --{{User:Wildgoosespeeder/sig}} 02:56, March 20, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot request: Captain Goomba ==

Hi, per a [[Talk:Captain Goomba#Remove identifier (second lap)|proposal]], I moved Captain Goomba (Mario & Luigi series) to just Captain Goomba. Could it be possible to remove the "Captain Goomba (Mario & Luigi series)" in all the remaining links to avoid redirect? It would be very useful. {{User:Sorbetti/sig}} 00:05, March 25, 2026 (UTC)
:thanks. {{User:Sorbetti/sig}} 17:18, March 26, 2026 (UTC)

==Yeah, another CSS thing==
Silly question. Would it be possible to add an X-property (similar to <code>--bgX</code> or <code>--borderX</code>) for (non-redlinked) link colors in a given column? While pretty fringe, it would save a ''lot'' of time (and bytes!) for tables like the ones on ''[[Mario's Tennis]]'' or ''[[Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon]]'', where the leftmost column is, for one reason or another, some color that doesn't read well with the standard blue link color (in those two's cases, it's because they need a black background.) {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 07:19, March 26, 2026 (UTC)

==Toad Brigade names==
A bunch of Toad Brigade characters have been renamed and need their links updated. If you could bot those changes, it'd be greatly appreciated. 
*Hint Toad -> Brigade Blue Toad
*Banktoad -> Brigade Green Toad
*Mailtoad -> Brigade Purple Toad
*Yellow Toad (Toad Brigade) -> Brigade Yellow Toad
Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 16:42, March 26, 2026 (UTC)

== Category renaming ==

Hello, I'm about to move [[:Category:Space themes]] to [[:Category:Cosmic themes]], would you mind running a script to replace the former with the latter, please? [[User:SuperGamer18|SuperGamer18]] ([[User talk:SuperGamer18|talk]]) 21:56, April 3, 2026 (UTC)

==Thanks==
I want to thank you for the recent changes on the file that I uploaded,and again thank you, also I will be more careful next time of uploading the .oga files.

Att. [[User:TT9200|TT9200]] ([[User talk:TT9200|talk]])- 2:41 p.m., 10 April 2026 (UTC-5).

== Super Mario RPG categories moved ==

Hello! I just moved all Super Mario RPG categories from "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars" to simply "Super Mario RPG". Could it be possible for your bot to edit all the pages that still use the original "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars [insert subject]" category to change it to simply "Super Mario RPG [insert subject]"? Thanks in advance! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 21:15, April 11, 2026 (UTC)
:Hello. Before I do that - What proposal indicated that this should be done? --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 21:16, April 11, 2026 (UTC)
::I just noticed this talk post and the one [[Category talk:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars|here]] after I moved them back, but it seems to be based on [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/63#Rename_pages_with_the_full_Super_Mario_RPG:_Legend_of_the_Seven_Stars_title|this proposal]], but that was only concerning articles with the title as the identifier. I don't believe categories were within the scope of the proposal; that's why the question was raised on the category talk page and more discussion was required (there was no response at all) before going ahead with the move. {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 02:54, April 12, 2026 (UTC)

== New license template ==

Could you please make a template for the [https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Apache 2.0 license], please? I don't think I can create that kind of template myself as it would need to be protected. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_ASF_Oak_Leaf_Logo_(2025).svg Here's the logo image as a little help.] [[User:SuperGamer18|SuperGamer18]] ([[User talk:SuperGamer18|talk]]) 21:26, April 11, 2026 (UTC)

== Assist Trophy characters to Assist Trophies ==

Hello! It's me again! Can I ask for a favor (again)? Regarding [[Talk:List of Assist Trophies|this talk page suggestion]], I moved [[:Category:Assist Trophy characters]] to [[:Category:Assist Trophies]] and [[List of Assist Trophy characters]] to [[List of Assist Trophies]]. Could your bot help replace the category and links on the pages that now use the redirect? Thanks in advance! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 18:18, April 12, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot request ==

The [[Conveyor belt]] redirect was tagged for immediate deletion recenty. It was later changed to a requested deletion because it requires its links to be updated. Is it alright if you run PorpleBot to fix this? Thank you in advance. --[[User:TheCatLover738|TheCatLover738]] ([[User talk:TheCatLover738|talk]]) 15:56, April 19, 2026 (UTC)

==Bulk moves?==
Is it possible to have PorpleBot move pages in bulk? If so, per a recent proposal, we'd like to rename every page starting in <code>MarioWiki:BJAODN/April Fool's </code> to have them start with <code>MarioWiki:April Fool's Day/</code>. If not, that's fine, but if this is an automatable task, we'd appreciate it! {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 15:39, April 22, 2026 (UTC)

== SMBW Locations ==

Hi! Many articles for ''Super Mario Bros. Wonder'' worlds and levels have an infobox with a directory that links to [[Super Mario Bros. Wonder#Locations]], but that section has been renamed to "Worlds", which means that the links don't work properly anymore. Could you have PorpleBot replace uses of <code><nowiki>[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder#Locations|</nowiki></code> with <code><nowiki>[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder#Worlds|</nowiki></code>? {{User:Jdtendo/sig}} 16:24, April 23, 2026 (UTC)

== Text replacement request ==

To enact [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/82#Establish_a_standard_for_formatting_links_to_series_and_franchise_pages|this proposal]]:
*<code><nowiki>[[<name> (series)|''<name>'' series]]</nowiki></code> → <code><nowiki>''[[<name> (series)|<name>]]'' series</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>[[<name> (franchise)|''<name>'' franchise]]</nowiki></code> → <code><nowiki>''[[<name> (franchise)|<name>]]'' franchise</nowiki></code>
Thanks in advance. {{User:Dive Rocket Launcher/sig}} 04:41, April 24, 2026 (UTC)
:I also remembered these:
:*<code><nowiki>[[<name> (television series)|''<name>'' television series]]</nowiki></code> → <code><nowiki>''[[<name> (television series)|<name>]]'' television series</nowiki></code>
:*<code><nowiki>[[<name> (book series)|''<name>'' book series]]</nowiki></code> → <code><nowiki>''[[<name> (book series)|<name>]]'' book series</nowiki></code>
:{{User:Dive Rocket Launcher/sig}} 05:27, April 24, 2026 (UTC)

==Bot request (game)==
Hi! Could you please run the bot to replace all instances of "Mario Bros. (game)" with "Mario Bros." and all instances of "Mario Bros." with "Mario Bros. (disambiguation)" per [[Talk:Mario Bros.#Move to Mario Bros. and move Mario Bros. to Mario Bros. (disambiguation)|this proposal]]? Thanks! {{User:Nelsonic/sig}} 03:38, April 27, 2026 (UTC)

== Account deletion ==

Since five days I'm waiting for deleting my account. Please delete it as soon as possible. This should have been taken care of long ago, and I explicitly stated that I waive any potential waiting periods. 

--[[User:Wild Blacksmith|Wild Blacksmith]] ([[User talk:Wild Blacksmith|talk]]) 17:39, May 8, 2026 (UTC)

== History and General Info ==

Per [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/82#Move "General Information" above "22History"|this proposal]], the "General information" and "History" sections should be swapped (e.g. [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Wiggler&curid=1963&diff=5337315&oldid=5336330 Wiggler]). Per [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/81#Establish a "character article" structure|my previous proposal]], all articles with both of them ''should'' already have them consistently next to each other and with the correct names. This makes me wonder if it would be somehow possible to automate this process with porplebot. If not, then please let me know and we'll work to swap the two sections manually. Thanks! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 14:23, May 12, 2026 (UTC)

== Broken redirects ==

Can you run the bot to fix all of the redirects in [[Special:BrokenRedirects]]? Specifically:
*<tt>List of implied entertainments</tt> to <tt>List of implied entertainment</tt>
*<tt>List of implied peoples</tt> to <tt>List of implied people</tt>
Thanks in advance. - [[User:RHG1951|RHG1951]] ([[User talk:RHG1951|talk]]) 02:07, May 16, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot request ==

I would like to request that PorpleBot changes the following string (across file pages):

<nowiki>archive.today capture: <code>archive.is/X</code>; Y. As of January 2026, due to archive.today leveraging user traffic as part of a {{wp|Denial-of-service attack|distributed denial-of-service attack}} against a blog, visitors are advised to use an ad blocker or avoid the website altogether. Details at {{wp|Wikipedia:Archive.today guidance}}.</nowiki>

with

<nowiki>{{AT note|X|Y}}</nowiki>

where X and Y are variables that should remain unchanged.

Thank you. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 12:45, May 17, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot Request ==

Hey! Just wondering but can you let your boy add a dot after every game title that ends with a dot (e.g., ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'')? The wiki never adds a dot after these titles (if the titles appear at the end of a sentence), because the titles already end with a dot, but this is technically incorrect, because the dot is part of the game's name and is short for "Brothers". Thanks in advance! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 14:00, May 17, 2026 (UTC)
:Doubling punctuation like that wouldn't be correct. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 16:31, May 17, 2026 (UTC)
::Still. The name is technically "''(New) Super Mario '''Brothers'''''", which needs a dot after the name. {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 19:56, May 19, 2026 (UTC)
:::Are you suggesting that "New Super Mario Bros.." is correct? --[[User:Illuminoid|Illuminoid]] ([[User talk:Illuminoid|talk]]) 00:41, May 20, 2026 (UTC)
::::Well, yeah, because: 1. It's the name of a game and 2. "Bros." itself is an abbreviation of which the full meaning doesn't end with a dot. {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 17:08, May 20, 2026 (UTC)

==?si= Tags==
Off-and-on for the past bit now, we've been going through YouTube links with those pesky SI tags that do nothing but track who linked the video and bloat the links, and peeling them away. We're wondering, is there some way to do this via PorpleBot and Regex? Y'know, take any YouTube link with <code>?si=</code>, peel it away, and if there's a <code>&t=</code> timecode, truncate it down so it's just got the <code>?t=</code> timecode directly, not bothering with the <code>?si=</code> junk. {{User:Camwoodstock/sig}} 18:37, May 18, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot Request ==
I hope I'm not requesting too much but can you let your bot change the links of [[Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development|Nintendo EAD]] and [[Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development|Nintendo EPD]] on articles to no longer link to the redirects (which use "and" instead of "&") as these articles were recently moved? Thanks in advance! {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 19:58, May 19, 2026 (UTC)

== Company infobox ==

As I am revamping our documentation on infoboxes, I noticed that {{tem|company infobox}} has the image formatting baked into the template itself. That is inconsistent with every other infobox I checked so far, and it makes the template require separate parameters for the image's caption and width, which is also inconsistent and a lot less convenient. Would you be able to update every page that uses the company infobox so that it uses a single <code><nowiki>|image=[[File:logo|width]]<br>caption</nowiki></code> format while I update the template itself? I believe the bg field would remain unchanged, unless you have a better idea. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 01:08, May 23, 2026 (UTC)
:That was quick, thank you! {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 01:36, May 23, 2026 (UTC)

== Bot Request: level categories ==

The following categories have been moved per [[Talk:Level#Move level categories to use game-dependent terminology|this poll]]:
*Category:Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis levels -> Category:Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis rooms
*Category:Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! levels -> Category:Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! areas
*Category:New Super Mario Bros. series levels -> Category:New Super Mario Bros. series courses
*Category:New Super Luigi U levels -> Category:New Super Luigi U courses
*Category:New Super Mario Bros. 2 levels -> Category:New Super Mario Bros. 2 courses
*Category:New Super Mario Bros. levels -> Category:New Super Mario Bros. courses
*Category:New Super Mario Bros. U levels -> Category:New Super Mario Bros. U courses
*Category:New Super Mario Bros. Wii levels -> Category:New Super Mario Bros. Wii courses
*Category:Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker levels -> Category:Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker courses
*Category:Hotel Mario levels -> Category:Hotel Mario stages
*Category:Princess Peach: Showtime! levels -> Category:Princess Peach: Showtime! plays
*Category:Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition levels -> Category:Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition courses
*Category:Super Mario 3D Land levels -> Category:Super Mario 3D Land courses
*Category:Super Mario 3D World levels -> Category:Super Mario 3D World courses
*Category:Super Mario Bros. 2 levels -> Category:Super Mario Bros. 2 courses
*Category:Super Mario Bros. 3 levels -> Category:Super Mario Bros. 3 courses
*Category:Super Mario Bros. levels -> Category:Super Mario Bros. courses
*Category:Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins levels -> Category:Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins courses
*Category:Super Mario Land levels -> Category:Super Mario Land areas
*Category:Super Mario Bros. Wonder levels -> Category:Super Mario Bros. Wonder courses
*Category:Badge Challenge levels -> Category:Badge Challenge courses
*Category:Break Time! levels -> Category:Break Time! courses
*Category:KO Arena levels -> Category:KO Arena courses
*Category:Super Mario Maker 2 levels -> Category:Super Mario Maker 2 courses
*Category:Super Mario Maker levels -> Category:Super Mario Maker courses
*Category:Super Mario Maker for the Nintendo 3DS levels -> Category:Super Mario Maker for the Nintendo 3DS courses
*Category:Super Mario Run levels -> Category:Super Mario Run courses
*Category:Super Mario World levels -> Category:Super Mario World courses
*Category:Super Princess Peach levels -> Category:Super Princess Peach stages
*Category:Virtual Boy Wario Land levels -> Category:Virtual Boy Wario Land stages
*Category:Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 levels -> Category:Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 courses
*Category:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island levels -> Category:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island stages
*Category:Yoshi's Crafted World levels -> Category:Yoshi's Crafted World courses
*Category:Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 levels -> Category:Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 stages
*Category:Yoshi's Story levels -> Category:Yoshi's Story courses
*Category:Yoshi's Woolly World levels -> Category:Yoshi's Woolly World courses
*Category:Donkey Kong (Game Boy) levels -> Category:Donkey Kong (Game Boy) stages
Thank you in advance! --[[User:Illuminoid|Illuminoid]] ([[User talk:Illuminoid|talk]]) 20:53, May 31, 2026 (UTC)

==PipeProjects implementation==
Regarding the implementation of PipeProjects:

*Could the [[MarioWiki talk:PipeProjects|talk page for PipeProjects]] be unarchived now that PipeProjects have been restored?
*On the Discord server, the forum channel for PipeProjects is currently open to posts from any user. There's already a post in the channel not related to PipeProjects. I was reluctant to create a post since the initial message is always shown in the list of posts, and I would rather have that message be controlled by a neutral owner. Would it be possible to use a bot to create the post? I don't think that we need any specific content in the message other than the title "PipeProject Music" and a link to the PipeProject's page, but I would like the {{file link|SMBW Trottin' Piranha Plants Artwork.png|Trottin' Piranha Plants artwork}} to be included as an image. Afterwards, post creation in the channel can be restricted with the existing non-PipeProject post being cleared out, and the bot would be used during the implementation of any further PipeProjects.

Thank you! [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 02:26, June 1, 2026 (UTC)

:Hi! I don't know anything about Discord bots, sorry. I think it's OK for any interested person to create a post for an active PipeProject. We could say you have to be the one who proposed it but I can imagine a scenario where a wiki-only person starts a PipeProject and Discord folks want to work on it there. Anyway, if anyone should have the OP tag I think it should be you. So if you would like to create the post yourself, I will delete the existing posts. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 03:09, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
:If I may, I was actually thinking of asking to archive the talk page when someone posts something new onto it. {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 06:08, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
::If you're willing to [https://discord.com/developers/applications create a bot] to get a token, you would be able to run the following command to create the post:

<pre style="margin-left:3.2em;">
curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bot <TOKEN>" -X POST --data "{\"name\":\"PipeProject Music\",\"message\":{\"embeds\":[{\"color\":13697536,\"title\":\"PipeProject Music\",\"description\":\"Focuses on covering the music of the *Super Mario* franchise.\",\"url\":\"https://www.mariowiki.com/PipeProject:Music\",\"thumbnail\":{\"url\":\"https://www.mariowiki.com/images/e/e0/SMBW_Trottin%27_Piranha_Plants_Artwork.png\"}}]}}" https://discord.com/api/v10/channels/1510479090509942834/threads
</pre>
::If not, though, I can go ahead and create the post. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 04:23, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
:::I'm not planning on doing a bot. You can go ahead and create the post. It's all cleared out now. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 04:40, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
:::Would it maybe be a good idea to have a separate Discord server for PipeProjects as well or is a forum in Discord enough? {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 06:08, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
::::Forum is good. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 21:07, June 1, 2026 (UTC)

== Redirect question ==

Just curious, but aren't redirects with different capitalization technically useless? I mean, I tried it myself and I saw that, doesn't matter if you write [[Nintendo GameCube]] as "nINTENDO gAMECUBE", "Nintendo Gamecube" or "Nintendo gameCube", it will automatically redirect you to the article itself (instead of using the redirect). This makes these kind of redirects technically useless, right? {{User:Yoshi18/sig}} 20:33, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
:The URL <code>https://www.mariowiki.com/gamecube</code> taking you to the [[Nintendo GameCube]] page is a very minor thing, but it is cool that it does that. So why should we remove that functionality? Someone may try to get to the page that way at some point, and even if they don't, it's no harm to us. Deleting these kinds of redirects doesn't benefit us anything. It doesn't save storage space; it actually uses ''more'' storage space because you're creating new edits and deletion logs. So you're using up more storage space to give the website less functionality. Plus you're spending your time tagging pages, and an admin's time hitting the delete button. I think they should just be left alone. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 21:07, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
::Isn't that just the normal case for redirects? The issue is that both [[Special:Redirect/page/1967|Page 1967 "GameCube"]] and [[Special:Redirect/page/3671|Page 3671 "Gamecube"]] exist, but any capitalization of "GameCube" would resolve to whichever capitalization exists as a page anyways. The issue becomes more clear when search results only show the incorrect "Gamecube" capitalization. [[User:B700465189a9|B700465189a9]] ([[User talk:B700465189a9|talk]]) 21:49, June 1, 2026 (UTC)
:::Yes exactly so the URLs https://www.mariowiki.com/gamecube and https://www.mariowiki.com/GameCube redirect perfectly due to both redirects existing. And there is no benefit to us deleting them and breaking those URLs. --{{User:Porplemontage/sig}} 21:52, June 1, 2026 (UTC)