MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split Young Prof. E. Gadd from Professor Elvin Gadd (Discuss) Deadline: August 7, 2016, at 23:59 GMT
 * Split the Super Mario Galaxy version of Mecha Bowser off of Mecha-Bowser (Discuss) Deadline: August 7, 2016, at 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Harisenbon with Spiny Cheep Cheep. (Discuss) Deadline: August 9, 2016 23:59 GMT
 * Split from Bramble Scramble (Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest). (Discuss) Deadline: August 16, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Removals
None at the moment.

Change all critic ratings on series pages to display only Metacritic or remove ratings on series pages altogether
Right now a lot of series pages (particularly Mario (franchise)) display ratings critics and these are mostly limited to IGN and Gamesport. While these two are the most well known critics, their reviews are often subjective and are based on one person's opinion. Metacritic (which is mostly not present) on the other hand displays an aggregate score based on all critics and gives a much more accurate view on the actual quality of a game and I believe that if we're going to have ratings listed next to games on these pages then only Metacritic should be displayed because of these reasons.

However I also willing to propose that we remove ratings on these pages altogether if people prefer that.

Proposer: Deadline: August 8, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Only display metacritic

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal.

Remove ratings altogether

 * 1) Honestly, I'd advocate getting rid of the ratings in the table altogether. A lot of entries are created before MetaCritic's inception (until after N64 Paper Mario's release), so a good chunk of games would display the too abundant "Ratings unavailable" statement. Another issue is that different versions of the game can be released and may have different MetaCritic scores, prime examples being games re-released in the Virtual Console, so we have to fit those ratings in that small bar. I personally don't like the formatting of that small bar below the game descriptions in the first place, it meshes pretty badly with the table design. And finally, GameRankings is another reliable review aggregate score and I don't understand why MetaCritic takes priority over it, especially when GameRankings is not far more obscure than MetaCritic.
 * 2) – Per BLOF.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.