MarioWiki:Proposals

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r149/Deadringerforlove/dessert1.jpg A proposal section works like a discussion page: comments are brought up and replied to using indents (colons, such as : or ::::) and all edits are signed using the code. This page observes the No-Signature Policy.

How To
 * 1) Actions that users feel are appropriate to have community approval first can be added by anyone, but they must have a strong argument.
 * 2) Users then vote and discuss on the issue during that week. The "deadline" for the proposal is one week from posting at:
 * 3) *Monday to Thursday: 17:00 (5pm)
 * 4) *Friday and Saturday: 20:00 (8pm)
 * 5) *Sunday: 15:00 (3pm)
 * 6) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it.
 * 7) At any time a vote may be rejected if at least three active users believe the vote truly has no merit or was cast in bad faith. However, there must be strong reasons supporting the invalidation.
 * 8) " # " should be added under the last vote of each support/oppose section to show another blank line.
 * 9) All proposals that end up in a tie will be extended for another week.
 * 10) If a proposal has more than ten votes, it can only pass or fail by a margin of three votes. If a proposal reaches the deadline and the total number of votes for each option differ by two or less votes, the deadline will be extended for another week.
 * 11) Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM." The original proposer then has the option to relist said proposal to generate more discussion.
 * 12) No proposal can overturn the decision of a previous proposal that is less than 4 weeks (28 days) old.
 * 13) Proposals can only be rewritten or deleted by their proposer within the first three days of their creation. However, the proposer can request that their proposal be deleted by a Sysop at any time, provided they have a valid reason for it.
 * 14) All proposals are archived. The original proposer must take action accordingly if the outcome of the proposal dictates it. If it requires the help of a Sysop, the proposer can ask for that help.
 * 15) There shouldn't be proposals about creating articles on a underrepresented or completely absent subject, unless there is major disagreement about whether the content should be included. To organize efforts about completing articles on missing subjects, try creating a PipeProject.
 * 16) Proposals can not be made about System Operator promotions and demotions. Sysops can only be promoted and demoted by the will of Bureaucrats.
 * 17) No joke proposals. Proposals are serious wiki matters, and should be handled professionally. Joke proposals will be deleted on sight.

The times are in EDT (UTC -4:00), and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after work/school, weekend nights). If a proposal is added on Saturday night at 11:59 PM EDT, the deadline is the next Saturday night at 8:00 PM. If it is a minute later, the deadline is a day plus 15 hours (Sunday), as opposed to a day minus 4 hours.

CURRENTLY: , 27 2024 (EDT)

New Features
''None at the moment.

Remove Featured Image Template From Main Page
Well, I'm am removing my other proposal and replacing it with this. Although I don't think we should get rid of the F.I. completely, I think that we should instead put it on the 'Shroom, which I would be glad to put it under my section (The Music & Artwork Team). We could still have the voting, and we could possibly link to the voting page on the sidebar, but it should go off of the Main Page (it will reduce loading time). A link to what the page would look like after can be found here. Proposer: Deadline: Thursday, 13 August 2009, 17:00

Remove Template

 * 1) Per my reasons above.
 * 2) Sure, I'll support Super Mario Bros.!  Never really liked it.

Comments
I'm not sure. On the one hand, unlike the Featured Articles, what we're featuring here is NOT an achievement of our wiki and our editors, but rather of Nintendo, or whoever made the images. So the FIs are a bit pointless. On the other hand, I think they do make the main page more attractive, and we shouldn't undervalue that. They could attract new editors. If we wanted to clean the main page of all things that are not directly useful for the wiki, not much would be left. So I'd say, before removing the FIs, rather get rid of the Poll and Tournament thingies.


 * Also, the FI''s change weekly, and the Shroom monthly, so should we out the 4 images?

per Tucayo. the whole consept of the FI would need to change. You can't have a monthly FI that would kill it! Lu-igi board 16:59, 7 August 2009 (EDT)

Splits & Merges
''None at the moment.

Do Not Allow Newbies in Voting
When browsing the Luigi nomination page, I saw that many are fan votes of newbies who dont even know what a FA is! So I propose we delete votes of accounts 3 weeks or younger in ALL voting pages (Proposals, FA's, FI's...) becuase many of them ahve been here very few time to know how the wiki works, so we should wait until they know better.

Proposer: Deadline: Thursday, August 13th, 17:00 EDT

This is the support section

 * 1) - Per me, I suppose

This is the oppose section

 * 1) Tucayo, although I agree with you that it is very annoying to see terribly reasoned votes, this might scare off newbies. We already have rules on the Proposals page that eliminate the problem here. The Featured Images we can't help, as anybody can provide any reason, whether they are new or not. For the Featured Articles, there is no need to enforce these proposed measures as there is the remove vote feature (that is, for removing oppose votes), and for the support votes, all you need to do is oppose and the nomination can't pass.
 * 2) - While it can be annoying to see people join simply to vote on FAs or whatever, some of them will move on to become active users, and blocking them from voting may turn potential help away. The thought of discriminating against new users like this is wrong.
 * No, just no. As Walkazo said, this is wrong. Even if we could prevent some "useless" votes this way, we would punish lots of users who actually want to make constructive contributions to the wiki. Also, three weeks is a long time, Proposals last only for one week, so those users wouldn't have a chance to participate in them.
 * 1) - Per Walkazo
 * 2) - Per all. Whats the harm? Right now, newbies who vote on proposals and make uneducated decisions are vastly outnumbered by more experienced voters. Per SMB for articles..... and the images are just for fun. It is annoying for me too, but its not gonna hurt our wiki, right? In addition, I remember the community (That includes proposals and Fa's) was one of the reasons I joined, so this rule would have discouraged me.
 * 3) do you have no heart? per all Lu-igi board 16:55, 7 August 2009 (EDT)

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.