User talk:Wandering Poplin

Howdy!

First of all, welcome! (Though, maybe with the amount of contributions you made as an anon, it's more of a "thanks for signing up!", but that doesn't roll off the tongue as well.) As a heads-up, only Autoconfirmed users (people with 10 or more edits and have been around for 1 week) can vote in proposals, though new users are free to comment. If you got the notice about the vote being reverted, that's why. And, even with that said, considering the pace of the contributions you made before even being registered, you're already well on-track to being autoconfirmed if you keep up the pace, so don't worry. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 20:44, November 24, 2025 (EST)

Italics

Hello, Wandering Poplin! Thanks for your contributions. When writing titles for media like games, films, TV shows, and publications, please remember to italicize them. This is done by placing two straight apostrophes (not quotation marks or curly apostrophes) on both sides of the title, or clicking on the I icon above the text box and typing out the title. For example, typing out ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' generates Super Mario Bros. If you are using a device that uses curly ("smart") punctuation, you may need to disable this function in your device's settings to be able to type out the correct apostrophes.

Mario JC 07:29, November 27, 2025 (EST)

Unused files

Please make sure to use your files soon after you upload them; you've uploaded a bunch of files that have yet to be included to a page. In the future, if any uploads aren't used within 24 hours of uploading them and we can't find a place for them, they'll be deleted. Mario JC 06:43, December 16, 2025 (EST)

Edits

Avoid splitting sentences in a paragraph with line breaks like this; it makes no visible difference from separating them with a space and only breaks up readability. If you're trying to start a new paragraph, add two line breaks.

Also, make sure that words and punctuation that aren't part of a game title are not italicised. "(Nintendo Switch)" or any commas or periods that come after are not part of the title, and should go outside the apostrophes. So these:

''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)''
''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)]]''
''Paper Mario,''

should be formatted like:

''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (Nintendo Switch)
''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' (Nintendo Switch)
''Paper Mario'',

Mario JC 19:38, December 24, 2025 (EST)

Understood, I'll keep an eye out for these mistakes going forward. It's difficult to notice these kinds of things in a sea of letters and symbols at times... Wandering Poplin (talk) 19:54, December 24, 2025 (EST)

You're still doing both these things in your edits. Please keep these in mind in the future. I'd also appreciate a response to my question regarding FP-Up and to eviemaybe's question about it being under construction (you should tag with {{construction}} if you or someone else intend to work on it in the near future, not to flag it for other editors to come by and expand on it, which is what {{stub}} is for). Mario JC 12:54, February 21, 2026 (UTC)

Daisy gallery split

I placed delete tags on both of the split gallery pages for Daisy since your split was carried out with zero discussion. We didn't split the galleries for other characters like Mario or Bowser because of prominence, but because they were growing to the point where they were too large to be all-encompassing. If you believe Daisy's gallery should be split off, I'd heavily encourage you to raise a proposal for it. Power Flotzo (talk) 21:10, December 27, 2025 (EST)

Well, we'd had the "Split suggestion template" sitting there for a few months and I had assumed it was simply a task nobody had gotten to yet. Upon further researching the matter now, it seems the proposition (If you could even call it that) had been shot down fairly early, and nobody had ever remembered to remove the tag. There goes an entire hour of my life, though... Wandering Poplin (talk) 21:23, December 27, 2025 (EST)

Question about the oppose on my UTC proposal

I just realized something. Hey, why wouldn't UTC work for you? And what's the thing that makes it that EST does work for you guys? Like, what is it that makes EST work better for you guys than UTC. As I (and @LadySophie17) said; EST is inherently American (or in other words: too American) and this is an international wiki. Besides, UTC is better recognized than EST because UTC is equal to UTC+0, which makes it easier to understand how late it is in UTC compared to your timezone (except if you live in UTC of course). So let me ask again: what is it that makes EST work better for you (and just the whole wiki in general) than UTC? Yoshi18 (talk/contribs) 13:42, January 7, 2026 (EST)

Hey, umm, it's been three days since I posted this haven't you noticed? Not being a beggar or anything but I'm just still waiting for an answer. Yoshi18 (talk/contribs) 17:23, January 10, 2026 (EST)

Ankoopa

Actually, the remake info is still on the Big Koopa Troopa page thanks to a proposal from before we knew "Ankoopa" was indeed an official name, though I think at this point someone should propose to merge the remake info back to the Ankoopa page. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 23:20, January 20, 2026 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with the M&LSS+BM info being on Big Koopa Troopa's page., the issue I had was with the quote at the top of the article: ("Aaaah! How did THAT happen??? You guys are no slouches!")

Because of the 3DS remake, Big Koopa Troopas have said that phrase before, but the line itself is still pretty specific to the Ankoopas.

My understanding of the the general purpose of the quotes at the beginning of these articles is that they're meant to give a general insight into the character's personality, (or just an iconic catchphrase in the case of Mario,) but with that context in mind... I don't think that the M&LSS+BM quote really makes for the best option for Big Koopa Troopa's page in particular.

It also means we don't have to deal with two different articles sharing the exact same quote at the start of the page. Wandering Poplin (talk)

HP/FP-Up

You mentioned the in-game sources you found for these two status effects called them "HP-Up" and "FP-Up". Can you specify where you found them? Mario JC 12:59, January 25, 2026 (UTC)

Re: Koopa Scepter

is this page still "under construction"? the Construction template is currently not very useful because so many pages have it, so i want to comb through them and see which ones can have it removed. — eviemaybe (talk) 22:05, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

actually, asking the same thing about FP-Up. — eviemaybe (talk) 13:13, February 16, 2026 (UTC)

why

did you remove my edits? 174.178.119.207 07:53, February 18, 2026 (UTC)

Updating file description

When updating file descriptions please make sure no information is lost. In your recent edits to the Mario Golf: Super Rush files (such as File:MGSR icon player wiggler.png) you removed the mention of the file being an asset ripped from the game, which is important context for the file’s source that should not be left out. — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 01:55, February 21, 2026 (UTC)

Star Power / Countdown Timer

Hi! I'm here to note that not all move templates can necessarily be resolved only by moving the page and changing the intro. In specific, Star power (Yoshi's Island series) very much needs to be rewritten to match the article's name, as it currently is written to be about a user interface element named Countdown Timer when the phrase "star power" refers to something that isn't a user interface element. The article really needs a complete overhaul to be about star power first and the Countdown Timer second before it can be moved to "star power (Yoshi's Island series)". I'm going to stick a rewrite template on Star power (Yoshi's Island series) for now, but I would really rather not do a page move if the content isn't going to match. Salmancer (talk) 02:09, February 26, 2026 (UTC)

Ok. I'll keep that in mind going forward. I'm still a bit new to moving mainspace pages, so there's definitely a few things I might've overlooked regarding the process. Wandering Poplin (talk) 05:11, February 26, 2026 (UTC)

Re: closing inactive discussions

while i definitely appreciate the effort you're putting into the cleanup, i want to ask: are you taking into account whether the discussion has been settled, or just if it's inactive? if it hasn't been settled, removing the Talk template is an active detriment, because it makes the issue harder to find. — eviemaybe (talk) 22:26, March 7, 2026 (UTC)

Lumas in the Toad Brigade

Lumas' membership in the Toad Brigade is made explicit by a Recruit Report from Recruit Poplin and implicit by their participation in Camp Central. As Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park has been released, I do not believe the information requires separate citation. B700465189a9 (talk) 18:46, March 28, 2026 (UTC)

It really does. The game only released two days ago, and not everybody has access to it yet. (Especially given the console's higher price tag compared to its predecessor.)

At this point, I believe it's still reasonably justified to have a citation verifying the legitimacy of the new additions to the Toad Brigade made by that game. Similar to the citations for the new names of the Brigade [color] Toads. Wandering Poplin (talk) 19:20, March 28, 2026 (UTC)

Lemmy's Showdown!

Thanks for the correction you've made in the article, I think that I might haved typed an extra letter. Att. TT9200 (talk)- 5:33 p.m., 6 May 2026 (UTC-5).

Edit warring/reverting

Hey, just a friendly, informal reminder that edit wars are strongly discouraged. Even if you are reverting someone else's edits, unless they are vandalism, include incorrect information, or are done by ban-evaders, it is best to ask/talk to the user why they made their edits instead of going back and forth with the edits. This is with regards to what happened on the King Hisstocrat article. Thanks! Mari0fan100 (talk) 07:03, May 15, 2026 (UTC)

Reverting vandals

In the future, if a vandal makes more than one detrimental edit to a page, you can contact a patroller or admin because they can revert all the vandalism and detrimental edits more quickly than regular users. If the page(s) have a history of vandalism, admins can also protect them. Mari0fan100 (talk) 16:48, May 16, 2026 (UTC)

Pinball Land

Mario does have a temporary large form from a red mushroom in that game, might have been yet another straggler from when a lot of those were on Mega Mario. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 19:39, May 18, 2026 (UTC)

World 2-3's theme

Pardon my vagueness in my summary of my edit to World 2-3's theme. To clarify, per MarioWiki:Article naming § Musical theme titles, titles that don't fit the first appearance of a musical theme cannot be used as the article's title, or even mentioned in the starting paragraph. Since the name "Rainbow Run" does not belong to any of Super Mario 3D Land's levels (that game names its levels generically), and instead corresponds to the theme's appearance in Super Mario 3D World, it should not be used as the article's title. The same currently applies to the castle theme from Super Mario 3D Land, which currently lacks an official title corresponding to its original appearance. The Dab Master 22:45, June 25, 2026 (UTC)

From what I see, this doesn't really apply to Main Theme (Super Mario 3D Land). Yoshi18 (talk/contribs) 22:52, June 25, 2026 (UTC)

Clown cars and koopa cars

Your point can mean that lakitu cloud isnt a power up either, same with yoshi 172.56.2.106 19:41, June 26, 2026 (UTC)

Yes. And I stand by that, although that's a matter to address another time.

It's also worth noting that in Super Mario Maker 2, Koopa Clown Cars and their fire-spitting variants are not classified as "powerups" ingame, instead being placed in the "enemies" category. (The "gizmos" category would've made more sense, but I digress.) Compare that with Yoshi Eggs (not to be confused with Yoshi himself) which are indeed considered to be items. Wandering Poplin (talk) 19:59, June 26, 2026 (UTC)

Opinion On Your Undo

The Info That You Undo For Thinking That It Was Real, It Was True. Watch This Video If You Want To Understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0YQNnaS8n0
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by ScanGado (talk).

@ScanGado, I've already seen that video weeks ago. That's not the problem. The issues are:

1. Nintendo never officially called it a "Golden Mushroom". It certainly resembles one, but if Nintendo never officially called it a "Golden Mushroom", we cannot consider it the same subject, no matter what the fandom calls it.
2. Improper, unprofessional formatting. This is an encyclopedia, not a fandom forum. Inserting passages such as "In [name of Youtube video], John Doe found a hidden power-up in [name of location]." is very much not allowed.
3. It is literally not even a Golden Mushroom. The video itself mentions that the alleged "Golden Mushroom" is actually a 1-Up Mushroom with palette errors. It's not the only incorrectly colored 1-Up mushroom in the game either. We aren't going to call it a "secret power-up" just because it's using a glitched color scheme.

At best, the glitched 1-Up Mushroom may warrant a mention on List of Super Mario Bros. 3 glitches, or perhaps a very brief acknowledgement in the notes section, but it is simply not the kind of info which belongs in the main body of the page.

It's also important to note that YouTube can sometimes be a rather... dubious source for information. Many videos, such as the one you mentioned, are often (sometimes unintentionally) exaggerated for entertainment purposes. It's just a mildly interesting glitch, not a secret item. Wandering Poplin (talk) 21:33, July 3, 2026 (UTC)

Removal of {{talk}} on Category talk:Yoshi's themes

According to Template:Move § About, the accompanying discussion of a {{move}} should not be tagged with {{talk}}. --Illuminoid (talk) 21:35, July 4, 2026 (UTC)

My edits have been reverted

Why did you revert my edits for the James Blond and Indiana Joe pages? GuntherBayBeee 23:23, July 10, 2026 (UTC)

Neither article is currently large enough for them to receive much benefit from having a "General information" section. It kind of breaks up the flow of reading, and isn't adding much of value to either page at the moment.

Mind you, that is just my personal opinion and not necessarily indicative of what other users on this wiki may or may not say. Wandering Poplin (talk) 23:30, July 10, 2026 (UTC)

Re: Piranha Plant Pipeline and Remix courses

I saw your undo edits for Piranha Plant Pipeline and the Remix courses becoming unplayable after Mario Kart Tour's shutdown. While we don't have to use the full paragraph on each page, I believe the discontinuation of them is notable enough to mention in some way on these pages, since any viewer who comes to them in the future that isn't familiar with Tour's shutdown won't have any idea they can't play it, unlike the majority of Mario Kart courses (or Mario games in general). Other discontinued content of live service or online games on the wiki is mentioned as such, like Galaxy Colosseum, Mario Kart Wii tournaments, and various content from Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Nintendo Network, and Miiverse. If it's a matter of they're not inaccessible yet, 8 of the 10 remix courses already appeared in their final tour rerun so they are expected to not return before the shutdown. -- It's Meester Tweester! 13:06, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

Like I said before, Mario Kart Tour's shutdown is not that serious, and the fact that its courses become unplayable post-shutdown doesn't need to be mentioned on pretty much every single article related to the game. And if so, it needs to be done in a more heavily abridged format, and moved to a section that is not in the main body of the page.

Otherwise... It kind of comes across as editors panicking/complaining about the game's shutdown, which isn't a very professional look for a wiki. Wandering Poplin (talk) 17:02, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

I don't quite understand this perspective here. At least as a newbie, I want to be made aware of any discontinued content as much as possible, and don't mind repetition of it mentioned across articles. From a user/fan perspective, saying that the shutdown is not a big deal is subjective. For a wiki, I argue it is objectively a big deal. The shutdown permanently and negatively affects its capacity to be documented. Being more clear about the shutdown now can also encourage others to cover the game as much as possible before it's gone. Primative (talk) 18:56, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

Not on every page it doesn't. There's been a tendency lately for various users to add excessive and unnecessary info to various Mario Kart-related pages regarding Tour's shutdown beyond what is actually needed.

This is not the first time Nintendo has discontinued a game and rendered its content completely defunct after its shutdown, and it undoubtedly will not be the last*.

Attempting to document all available information related to the content in the remaining time is a good idea, but we don't need to excessively bring up the game's discontinuation on practically every page related to the Mario Kart series. We don't make special mention of how mainline Mario courses became unplayable for the first time after the discontinuation of Super Mario Maker 1's online functionality, and we don't need to excessively spam shutdown info related to Tour on the Piranha Plant Pipeline/Remix courses either, perhaps aside from a very abridged footnote.

Unless there is a very, very specific reason to bring it up on those pages in particular, the majority of this info should be left to the broader articles. Because other than that... yeah. It mostly comes across as overexcited editorial panicking. (*I'm assuming Super Mario Run will likely be the next to go. The game itself is almost ten years old, and still likely not very profitable.) Wandering Poplin (talk) 19:40, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

I think the wiki should make it clear that a given course is currently unplayable by official means or is bound to become so. Mario Kart courses very often appear across multiple games, making Piranha Plant Pipeline and the remix tracks particularly glaring exceptions, especially since courses from Mario Kart Tour have been brought forward into another game (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe). This reasoning wouldn't apply to Mario Maker or Dr. Mario World, as neither of the two games' respective series have strong precedents of reusing levels. Their levels becoming unavailable is not as unusual, and is immediately implied by the fact that their services were discontinued. -- KOOPA CON CARNE 19:59, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

• "Since the course does not appear outside of Mario Kart Tour, it, along with the other RMX tracks and Piranha Plant Pipeline, are the only race courses in the series that were only playable during specific time periods. With the game ending its services on September 30, 2026, they are also the first race courses to become completely unplayable in any way once the 2026 rerun concludes, and the first courses in general to become unplayable since the tournament arena Galaxy Colosseum in Mario Kart Wii."

We really don't need this repeated over and over on nearly twelve different pages. As mentioned, Mario Kart Tour's end of service isn't exactly a world-shattering crisis.

Piranha Plant Pipeline's page already mentions the fact that it did not return in the two subsequent releases. The fact that it will become unplayable following the shutdown of its origin game could merit a brief mention in notes or in a hypothetical Availability section, but it should not a repeatedly emphasized point in the opening paragraph.

As for the RMX courses... I think this issue can be mentioned once in passing on the main page for those courses, and left at that. This is also not the first time Nintendo introduced a feature/gameplay mode/whatever else in a game, and promptly abandoned the idea for most of its successors. Wandering Poplin (talk) 21:25, July 13, 2026 (UTC)

In regards to asset reuse stuff

Figure you should know this sooner rather than later; there was a proposal to, rather than outright cut asset reuse "references" from the page, to move them to proper a more proper "recycled assets from other games" section. It's... Technically our own proposal, but we've been way too entrenched in tables to really work much on it. If you'd like to help re-sort that information rather than outright culling it, be our guest, we are not particularly picky about making this just our project. ;P ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 06:40, July 17, 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I remember. I was one of the voters during that proposal.

Admittedly, I probably shouldn't have procrastinated on implementing the "recycled assets from other games" section on those pages, but I suppose that's water under the bridge now. I'll see if I can address that over the course of the next two days. Wandering Poplin (talk) 16:56, July 17, 2026 (UTC)

There! All taken care of. Wandering Poplin (talk) 17:17, July 17, 2026 (UTC)