MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split Star Coin and (Discuss) Passed.
 * Move Dr. Mario (character) to just plain (Discuss) Deadline: January 4, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Deciding Rosalina's Infobox Picture (Discuss) Deadline: January 9, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Make a Hisstocrat's Minions Article (Discuss) Deadline: January 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Stop Considering Mattermouths as Dry Bones (Discuss) Deadline: January 16, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Semi-protect galleries of high traffic pages
If popular pages such as Mario and Yoshi that are often targets for vandalism are protected, then shouldn't their galleries be as well? Because I've seen them get vandalized enough times and besides, anons/new users can't upload images.

Proposer: Deadline: January 10, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Protect

 * 1) Per what I said.
 * 2) Per Proposal.
 * 3) That last part makes sense.
 * 4) Well, I'm over those mixed feelings, as I can't really see any long-term downsides to going through with this.

Keep as is

 * 1) what if there is a typo and an anon sees it and wants to fix it?
 * 2) Per the reasons the templates weren't semi-protected, they're not a common target for vandals so semi-protection is probably likely to hurt in the long run.
 * 3) Per Yoshi876.
 * 4) While I don't love anon editing idea in the first place, protecting or semi-protecting everything wouldn't help. As known, vandal can be reverted very easily, actually more easily than doing the vandalism itself. In all cases, I don't like the idea of protecting the Yoshi article either.

Comments
Mixed feelings on this. I haven't seen many galleries targeted by persistent vandals (though that's just personal experience speaking), and in the event such vandalism exists (which it likely does) it's far less frequent then 'attacks' targeting the main page itself. @WooftheChomp, admirable as that sentiment is, a typo is just that: a minor misspelling that someone is due to notice at some point and fix. If the anon's so intent on having it fixed, they could just inform another user or something (since I'm assuming semi-protection also prevents new and unconfirmed users editing the page). Lord Grammaticus (talk) 13:13, 3 January 2014 (EST)
 * @Yoshi876 Yeah, but what about the reason the While those are a good source, they've also been under heavy vandalism. While I'm not saying that every popular page should be protected to stop vandals, at least the really important ones should.
 * Whilst yes they were protected to stop vandalism, it's a bit harder to decide whether certain edits on a glitch page are bad. I could go along and write a perfectly detailed glitch, but make it up. If someone tries it you can just say they didn't do it correctly.
 * Adding to what you said, If I were a vandal, I wouldn't make an account and make 5 edits and wait for 4 days so I can just add a fake glitch. The fact that the Mario article is protected, is mostly because it likes the main cover of our wiki. You know the first page you visit is mostly Mario, you can't find vandalism there.. it just won't be nice :P
 * Well what about galleries? They're like a spinoff or extension of the article itself, as well as the only example of said form. If a vandal finds out they can't edit the Mario page, they'll just hit the gallery because that's the only page that has equal value, as pictures are just as important as words in encyclopedias. My point is, if we're going to protect the common vandalism targets, then why leave their subpage unguarded?
 * Because they're not targeted, just went through the revision history of Gallery:Mario, and yeah sure they had been reversions, but it was a normal user taking out a random image, there was barely any IP contributions in there at all, and unless you count this as vandalism the page wasn't vandalized at all in the past year.

Removals
None at the moment.

Changes
None at the moment.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.