MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/37

Split Nintendo 2DS from Nintendo 3DS
DON'T SPLIT 4-10

It's not the same console right? The Nintendo 2DS should have it's own article because it's a video game console.

Proposer: Deadline: October 28, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per Proposal.
 * 2) - How is the lack of the iconic stereoscopic 3D technology of the Nintendo  3D S not a significant hardware difference? It seems pretty radical to me - a far cry from a mere change in size (GB Micro) or shape (GBA SP). Plus it got its own unique name, rather than having something affixed like the other remodels, and it's just plain interesting: readers could easily type in "Nintendo 2DS" in hopes we have a page - that hope is not unreasonable. Obviously the page won't have a list of games and whatnot, but Wikipedia's 2DS page is still pretty beefy without that sorta stuff, and we could easily make a read-worthy page here too.
 * 3) Per Walkazo.
 * 4) I agree with the proposer and would second the proposal.

Oppose

 * 1) The reason we split Nintendo DSi from Nintendo DS and Game Boy Color from Game Boy because they have significant hardware differences. The Nintendo 2DS is simply a redesign of the 3DS, much like the Game Boy Micro and Game Boy Advance SP from the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS Lite from the Nintendo DS (my god I put too much links)
 * 2) Per Baby Luigi.
 * 3) Per Baby Luigi.
 * 4) Per Baby Luigi.
 * 5) It doesn't have many information, and like BLOF said: it is just a redesign, no changes in the hardware.
 * 6) Well, technically, it is the same console. Only a redesign, and no 3D. You can't say much about it in a separate article, anyway.
 * 7) Per Baby Luigi
 * 8) The premise of this proposal is "It's not the same console". The 2DS functionally is the same console, just lacking the obvious feature. It's as much of a separate system as the Wii mini.
 * 9) Per Baby Luigi and Glowsquid
 * 10) Per all.

Comments
@Walkazo: The GBA revisions do feature notable hardware differences from the base model (such as a backlighted screen and the removal of backward compatibility in the Mcrio's case) and unlike the GBC or the DSi, the 2ds has no Mario universe-branded games that can't be played on the base model. Making a separate page for it when it has no relevance to Mario as a franchise would be coverage creep. --Glowsquid (talk) 14:39, 22 October 2013 (EDT)
 * Besides, I wouldn't use the Wikipedia page. Most of the information in there pertains to the 3DS itself; only the history and the reception sections are unique to the 2DS. Everything else is already covered with the 3DS itself.
 * Precisely. The 2DS has, apart from design and no 3D, nothing different with the 3DS. What we would get as a result would be probably something like this compared to that.

Create writing guideline for reception and sales sections
CREATE GUIDELINE 12-0


 * Draft: User:Glowsquid/Brain Palace

Another week, another writing guideline! Kids love those, right?

Anyway, the few sections about the critical and commercial performance of a given game have no consistent format and they are (as usual for "real world" subjects) rather weak. As such, I think it would be a good idea to create a guideline page to give an idea of how they should be organised and pointers on how to write them.

I've made a draft for such a guideline page here. I've been told it looks ok. What do you think?

Proposer: Deadline: November 3, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) - per proposal
 * 2) – Par propusel.
 * 3) I think it's fine.
 * 4) Per proposal.
 * 5) Por prapasal.
 * 6) - Per Glowsquid.
 * 7) - Per proposal and Baby Luigi's comment.
 * 8) - Per Baby Luigi's comment. The table makes everything more organized.
 * 9) - Per proposal
 * 10) It has always bothered me that we don't have a consistent format for reception on the games, so this proposal addresses this.
 * 11) - Per Glowsquid (including in the comments).
 * 12) Per Glowsquid.

Comments
Maybe we could use Wikipedia as inspiration as what to the reception section looks like? This looks nicely organized, and it has a great table to boot. Before y'all shoot me down for saying, "WE'RE NOT WIKI PEDIA BLAH BLAH BLAH" at least take my suggestion into consideration: there's a reason they do this and I don't see why not: I like the nicely organized table and I think it would improve the section more.
 * It looks great!-- 17:09, 20 October 2013 (EDT)

Should we include reception for subjects other than games? Again, looking at Wikipedia, they have reception towards some of the characters and the game consoles.

@table suggestion: That's something I considered, though I'd rather have "our" own template rather than copying Wikipedia's, for various reasons.

@reception for things that are not games: That's something I didn't think of, and I think it could be workable, but more on a case-by-case basis.

The problem with Wikipedia's reception sections for characters and other fictional elements is that they, most of the time, only exist to establish the notability criteria required by Wikipedia policy and thus are little more than a ridiculous collection of inane statements of no use or interest to anybody. However, illustrating Mario's popularity and relevance to pop culture is certainly something that should be done. Additionally, if someone at Nintendo comes out and say something like "We changed Birdo's characters due to the criticism it received" or "We redesigned the Blue Shell due to players feedback", giving exemples of audience reaction to provide context to the statement would also make sense. --Glowsquid (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2013 (EDT)

Remove coverage of "cameo" puzzle games
REMOVE 10-1

The wiki includes several pages on random puzzle games (Alleyway, Art Style: PiCTOBiTS, Tetris DS... etc) which feature Mario-themed puzzles and cameos from the franchise. We do not feel these games are worthy of their own page.

To take one example, Pushmo, despite having a page, features a limited amount of Mario references; there is only one Mario puzzle out of the first 100 (not counting the NES controller puzzle), and the remaining levels are found exclusively within two Nintendo-themed puzzle sections towards the end of the game. More to the fact, Mario characters do not make cameos outside of their puzzles, the game does not include any additional Mario themes or sounds, and the game’s story and characters do not reference the Nintendo characters much at all. So covering anything else from the game (story, character artwork, and menu icons) and calling it a crossover is not really justified by the amount of references the game has.

The other cameo puzzle games are in a similar bunch; While the ratio of Mario vs non-Mario content may be slightly higher (with Tetris DS, for example, featuring NES Super Mario Bros. sprites prancing around in several modes), the depth of the Mario content featured within is extremely minimal and barely relevant to the actual game.

So why are we giving these games crossover coverage? The answer: we shouldn’t be, and we shouldn’t let new users believe that we are. Some of these articles seem more like bloated references than worthy crossovers, so why have these entire content-creeping articles when the actual references, which only take up about a small percent of their article's length, would not be out of place on the references list.

In short, we propose that we move the Mario-related information, which is the only thing relevant to the wiki, to the references list, and redirect the articles to that, because the cameo puzzle games simply don't have enough relevant content to be given full crossover coverage.

The following games would be affected by this proposal:
 * Alleyway
 * Tetris DS
 * Art Style: PiCTOBiTS
 * Pushmo

Proposers: and Deadline: November 16, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal. I may have contributed a lot to the Pushmo article, but I feel that removing these pages is for the best.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) par prapsel.
 * 4) Purr proposal.
 * 5) Wario approves of this proposal. I always found pages like Pushmo to be questionable.
 * 6) Per proposal.
 * 7) Definitely, if we do this for all the games then we'll end up having full in-depth articles for games that have nothing to do with Mario like Lego City Undercover, Rayman Legends, Angry Birds Space, Animal Crossing, Banjo-Kazooie, Cave Story+, Epic Mickey: Power of- oh you get my point.
 * 8) Makes sense. Per all.
 * 9) True indeed! Per all.
 * 10) Per proposal. I never got why we covered these.

Oppose

 * 1) Cannot support in current form, see comment below for full opposition.

Comments
I assume that any sub-pages the games have will also be deleted.


 * In the case of Gallery:Pushmo? Should all the images contained there also be deleted, asides from the ones which may be used elsewhere, such as on the references page. – 09:40, 9 November 2013 (EST)
 * I can't think of any reason to keep them.
 * Except for the 8-bit Mario one, but I don't know if it's an actual level or just a creation.
 * Yeah, that one does count as an image that can be used elsewhere, but the images of Mallo and the game's logo should go.

What about Captain Rainbow, whilst it has Mario references more frequently than the puzzle games, but they do have a role in the story?
 * This proposal's not applicable to that game at all. Captain Rainbow is not a plotless puzzle game and Birdo's got a pretty meaty role, not to mention we're not even trying to give it full coverage as a crossover anyway, unlike the puzzle games. It's considered a "guest appearance" with partial coverage only, and it should remain that way. -
 * Oh yeah. This also applies to those NBA games as well.

I agree with the main bulk of this proposal with one exception that prevents me from supporting it in its current form: Alleyway. As shown on the boxart and apparently in-game, Mario controls the paddle and is thus, in a somewhat indirect fashion, the playable character in this game. Compare to Golf. Other than the fact that you play as a very un-Mario looking Mario (and only in North America, to boot), this game has no connection to the Mario series. Yet it has a full article, as it should. Why is Alleyway any different?

I would almost argue for keeping Tetris DS as well due to the depth of content (its Puzzle mode is basically a remake of Yoshi's Cookie, from the sound of things), but I don't have as strong of feelings or support for that objection.