MarioWiki:Proposals

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Remove the eleventh featured article/list standard
"11. [An article must] be of reasonable length and not marked as a stub."

This is the eleventh and final standard that must be followed for featured articles and featured lists, as described on Featured articles, and it is completely unnecessary. For starters, it is too vague to be of any practical use, and it would be difficult to use our current featured articles for comparison since they have wildly different sizes. Mt. Teapot, Mystic Forest, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and Mario Sports Superstars clearly all have different lengths, and yet they're all featured articles. If we tried to be strict and set a minimum character count or word count, then we're only going to promote articles that have been stretched and padded out solely to meet the minimum count. Needless to say, that is bad. With that in mind, why should we look at the length of an article to judge its quality? There are plenty of articles that are long, but they haven't been featured because they're missing information or their writing isn't good or their images are blurry or they have an improvement tag or for a myriad of other reasons based directly on the article's content, all of which are already covered by the other featured article standards. An article's length has next to nothing to do with its content and quality, so why should it be used to judge articles that, and I quote, "represent the best the Super Mario Wiki has to offer"?

Finally, there's already a proposal that discusses lowering the size requirement for featured articles (which was also my original idea apparently although I genuinely don't remember it), and it passed. Since the proposal was four years ago, it's hard to see how much of it is still in effect today, but my proposal clearly hasn't come from nowhere, and this is to say nothing of the recent forum post and the replies therein that inspired me to make this proposal. Simply put, the eleventh standard is too vague to be useful and is redundant with the other standards, and that is why I want it to be removed.

Proposer: Deadline: June 11, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per my proposal.
 * 2) - Per proposal.
 * 3) Per proposal.
 * 4) Per all.

Comments
So, to confirm, articles of any size would be able to become featured as long as they meet the other ten requirements, right? -- 21:46, 3 June 2017 (EDT)
 * I'll agree with Steve on this point. 22:00, 3 June 2017 (EDT)

Either merge into, or remove the transformation section from
These two navigation templates always confused me, and I'm not sure which one is better over the other. Therefore, I propose that we discuss the purpose of these two templates before any action is taken regarding them.

Proposer: Deadline: June 3, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Remove the transformation section from

 * 1) To be honest, this is my preferred option. It seems that  is mainly focused on providing navigation between different-colored Yoshis, not necessarily different Yoshi transformations., on the other hand, is long enough, and navigates between enough Yoshi transformations to warrant its own template. Of couse, we could merge the templates, but that seems pointless, considering 's sheer size. Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) - I don't think "every" power-up should be removed, just the ones that specifically refer to transformations (i.e. get rid of Car, but keep Mega Yoshi, etc.). Never mind. Wasn't thinking clearly last night, but all of the transformations in the Yoshis template are "morphs" of some kind. So per all.
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) Thought this was a two options vote. This option seems to be moving transformations from  to . I support this if that is the case. Makes way more sense that way.
 * 8) Per all.  We have a  template for a reason.
 * 9) Agreed, it's better to have a more complete list of morphs in a dedicated template.
 * 10) Per proposal
 * 11) Per all.
 * 12) Per all.
 * 13) Per all.
 * 14) This is the most sensible option. The transformations are little more than power-ups and feel out of place in the Yoshi template.
 * 15) Per all.

Comments
@Alex95: ...Then why not vote for that option? Niiue (talk) 21:11, 27 May 2017 (EDT)
 * 'Cause I'm a dunce and can't read. But does that work better? Just rename the "Power-up Yoshis" to "Other Yoshis" or something? 21:15, 27 May 2017 (EDT)
 * @Alex95: I can see your idea working. 16:09, 28 May 2017 (EDT)
 * Actually, never mind. They are all transformations. I was thinking of something slightly different. 18:20, 28 May 2017 (EDT)

@Wildgoosespeeder: I... really don't see how that's similar at all. Niiue (talk) 17:44, 28 May 2017 (EDT)
 * I think I made a mistake with my vote. Misread this as a two vote proposal. Sorry. -- 18:13, 28 May 2017 (EDT)

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