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 start to discuss on the issue. 24 hours after posting the proposal (rounding up or down to the next or previous full hour, respectively, is allowed), the voting period begins. (The proposer is allowed to support their proposal right after posting.) The "deadline" for the proposal is one week from voting start at: (All times GMT)
 * 3) *Monday to Thursday: 23:00 (11pm)
 * 4) *Friday and Saturday: 2:00 (2 am) of the next day. A proposal posted on a Thursday ends the following Saturday morning; a proposal posted on a Friday ends the following Sunday morning.
 * 5) *Sunday: 21:00 (9pm)
 * 6) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it.
 * 7) Users who feel that certain votes were cast in bad faith or which truly have no merit can address the votes in the Comments section. Users can ask a voter to clarify their position, point out mistakes or flaws in their arguments, or call for the outright removal of the vote if it lacks sufficient reasoning. Users may not remove or alter the content of anyone else's votes. The voter can remove or rewrite their own vote at any time, but the final decision to remove another User's vote lies solely with the Administrators.
 * 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 cannot be made about System Operator promotions and demotions. Sysops can only be promoted and demoted by the will of Bureaucrats.
 * 17) If the Sysops deem a proposal unnecessary or potentially detrimental to the upkeep of the Super Mario Wiki, they have the right to remove it at any time.
 * 18) No joke proposals. Proposals are serious wiki matters, and should be handled professionally. Joke proposals will be deleted on sight.

The times are in GMT, 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 Monday night at 11:59 PM GMT, the deadline is the next Monday night at 11:00 PM. If it is posted a minute later, the deadline is a week Tuesday, since midnight is considered to be part of the next day, as 00:00 AM.

Basic Proposal and Support/Oppose Format
This is an example how your proposal should look like, if you want it to be acknowledged. If you are inexperienced or unsure how to set up this format, simply copy the following and paste it into the fitting section. Then replace the [subject] - variables with information to customize your proposal, so it says what you wish. If you insert the information, be sure to replace the whole variable including the squared brackets, so "[insert info here]" becomes "This is the inserted information", not "[This is the inserted information]". - ===[insert a title for your Proposal here]=== [describe what you want this Proposal to be like, what changes you would suggest and what this is about]

Proposer: Voting start: [insert a voting start time here, f.e. "2 January, 2010, 14:00". Voting start times are 24 hours after the time at which the proposal was posted, as described in Rule 2 above.] Deadline: [insert a deadline here, f.e. "8 January, 2010, 23:00". Rule 2 above explains how to determine a deadline.]

====Support====

====Oppose====

====Comments==== - Users will now be able to vote on your Proposal, until the set deadline is reached. Remember, you are a user as well, so you can vote on your own Proposal just like the others.

To support, or oppose, just insert " # at the bottom of the section of your choice. Just don't forget to add a valid reason for your vote behind that tag if you are voting on anoother user's Proposal. If you are voting on your own Proposal, you can just say "Per my Proposal".

Talk Page Proposals
All proposals dealing with a single article or a specific group of articles are held on the talk page of one of the articles in question. Proposals dealing with massive amounts of splits, merges or deletions across the Wiki should still be held on this page.

How To

 * 1) All active talk page proposals must be listed below in chronological order (new proposals go at the bottom). All pages effected must be mentioned in the brief description, with the talk page housing the discussion linked to directly via "". If the proposal involved a page that is not yet made, use to communicate its title. The Deadline must also be included in the entry. Linking to pages not directly involved in the talk page proposal is not recommended, as it clutters the list with unnecessary links. Place  under the heading.
 * 2) All rules for talk page proposals are the same as mainspace proposals (see the "How To" section above), with the exceptions made by Rules 3, 4 and 5, as follows:
 * 3) Voting in talk page proposals will be open for two weeks, not one. There is no 24 hour delay between the posting of a talk page proposal and the commencement of voting.
 * 4) Talk page proposals may closed by the proposer if both the support and the oppose sides each have fewer than five votes.
 * 5) After two weeks, a clear majority of three votes is required. Without the majority, the talk page proposal will be listed as "NO QUORUM".
 * 6) The talk page proposal must pertain to the article it is posted on.

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge information pertaining to generic Blue and Yellow Toads into Toad (species) and Toad Brigade, leaving the separate Blue Toad and Yellow Toad pages for the specific Toad characters that appeared in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Whether or not these pages will be named "" and "" or "" and "" is also being voted on. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Nintendo GameCube Microphone into Nintendo GameCube. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Banana Bunch into Banana. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Special Kit 1 and Special Kit 2 into Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. (Discuss) Passed
 * Split SSX on Tour from Video game references. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Triple Bananas and Giant Banana into Banana. (Discuss) Passed
 * Split Mushroom (Super Mario RPG info) into Mushroom and (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge M into Graffiti. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Mushroom (SMRPG info), Bad Mushroom, Mid Mushroom, Max Mushroom onto one page. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Standard Bike M, Standard Bike L, and Standard Bike S into Bike. (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Standard Kart S, Standard Kart M, and Standard Kart L into Kart. (Discuss) Passed
 * Split Dark Koopa into Dark Koopa and . (Discuss) Deadline: 2 March 2010, 23:00
 * Merge Turtle (Super Smash Bros.) into Trophy Descriptions (Super Smash Bros. Melee) (Discuss) Deadline: 7 March 2010, 2:00
 * Merge King Bulblin and Lord Bullbo into Bridge of Eldin (Discuss) Deadline: 7 March 2010, 2:00
 * Merge Special Kit 3 into Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. (Discuss) Deadline: 7 March 2010, 2:00
 * Split Pauline's items into, , and . (Discuss) Deadline: 9 March 2010, 23:00
 * Delete Spipoopy. (Discuss) Deadline: 10 March 2010, 23:00
 * Merge Dragonfly (Mario Paint) into Mario Paint. (Discuss) Deadline: 10 March 2010, 23:00
 * Merge Rainbow Boost into Boost Pad. (Discuss) Deadline: 11 March 2010, 23:00
 * Split Dragon in and . (Discuss) Deadline: 13 March 2010, 2:00
 * Split Entei's info and bring it to Pokémon and . (Discuss) Deadline: 13 March 2010, 2:00

Table Button On Editing Screen
You know that making tables is a hard thing to do? Well, I was thinking on that bar on the top of the edit screen? I think that we should add a table button to this, so when clicked, a box will pop up like the one in Microsoft Word, and you can choose how many rows and columns. Then the table appears in the edit box, and all you have to do is change the colour and content. Easy as pie (although not the Pie Button!) I beleive this will save ages trying to remember how to make a table, and new users will find this helpful for their first contributions.

Proposer: Deadline: March 1, 2010, 23:00

Support

 * 1) LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 13:30, 22 February 2010 (EST)
 * 2) Per Proposal, of course!
 * 3) Per proposal.It will be very helpful.
 * 4) I am Zero! I usually copy paste a table but this idea is more better. Zero signing out.

Oppose

 * 1) Sorry, but until we figure out a way we can implement the table button into the appropriate section, I will be forced to oppose.
 * Seems like we can't implement that. (Maybe we should remove the proposal then...)
 * 1) - Per Time Q. And yes, I think we should...
 * 2) I'm afraid that as well as this is good, (stupid) microsoft can't find out a way to make this work, so I will have to oppose. PS: Microsoft doesn't have the money to make it because we are in a economic crisis.
 * 3) What's wrong with just copying and pasting an already existing table and fixing it up to match the correct topic? This seem pretty worthless to me. Anyway, per all.
 * 4) Per all, I don't think it is possible, or practical if it is.
 * 5) - Per all. Also, if it really is impossible to implement a table button, it would probably be best to archive the proposal as "cancelled".

Comments
This would surely be helpful, but I doubt it's realizable technically.


 * Yeah, it would be a good idea, but how would we implement this into the edit page?

WikEd has a button to create tables, it inserts the coding and you change it to your liking :)

The "Not Pie Button" section reminds me of the Virtual Pie for Everyone proposal.
 * Couldn't you just insert the coding on your own? It's what I do and I like it much better as it's much easier to use a preformatted template than doing it on your own. This is sounding a little bit too much like wikia's wikicoding beta for my liking - that's one of the reasons I left wikia. Another option is to copy/paste - that's what I do for the longer templates.
 * I don't like having to resort to look somewhere else to copy and paste the table. And I'm still confused at this process, even I've been here for a while.

How the heck will the sysops implement this? You can't just say "Abra, Kadabra, Alakazam" and expect everything to work for you.

KS3 that is exactly what i was thinking when I put that! Baby Luigi on fire I agree, my current method is copy/pasteing, and it is very hard. and reversinator I was hoping a Sysop would edit the edit bar to make a table button. What else would I mean? LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 10:43, 23 February 2010 (EST)
 * I'm fairly certain that would have to edit some files in the database to make this work. That's the only way this would work. --
 * Some questions that should be answered if we do this. 1 - For the button, wouldn't you have diffulty with more typing when it gives you the basics for it, and you need like 60 sections or something? 2 - Most users cut and paste for templates too, and they are like tables. 3 - Also, there are different versions of tables (like this one used here and this other one.), we can't have many buttons for the varied tables. That is about what I have to say.
 * Remember this wont be obligatory to use, people would be able to make the tables they want by inserting the coding themselves, this is for people who just want a basic table.
 * @BMB After you click the table button then a window pops up saying what kind of table you want. Then the number of columns and rows you want window appears and you choose how many columns and rows. Then the exact table you imputed into the windows will appear.
 * Good summery KS3! LucariosAura (used to be specialk) 11:08, 25 February 2010 (EST)
 * I checked here and didn't find any extensions that could do anything like that. And the one extension that I found that could make a very simple type of table isn't even compatible with our version of MediaWiki. --

Add Quote of the Week (or Featured Quote) to the Main Page
There are a lot of quotes out there that are great. If we have the featured Articles and the Featured Images, there are a lot of quotes that are wise and this might make our wiki seem that there is more than "this weird person who rides on ugly froglike creatures killing people just to save his girlfriend" (I was just giving an example Sorry if I insulted Yoshi but that's what some people actually think). We can put it under the Featured Images and move the Did You Know section down. There will be a separate page for voting to see which ones are the best (like the FA and FI)

Proposer: Deadline: March 2 2010, 23:00

Add new feature

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) Per Proposal (But don't say that of Yoshi...people he's a dinosaur!)
 * 3) Per proposal.
 * 4) LucariosAura (used to be specialk) I agree with MATEOELBACAN, yoshi is cool. And per proposal.
 * 5) - Per. We have a template for this . Perhaps the look will be something like this.

Don't add

 * 1) Didn't we knock the quote of the day thing down a few months ago because it slowed everything up? Besides, many of the quotes that end up on this are pretty bad, and it doesn't add much to the page anyway. +Oh, and per Time Q and Marioguy1, below.
 * 2) -- Per all. Plus, no one ever puts the quotes in right so we always have to edit the pages themselves to keep the Main Page template working. My bad. Voting is an even worse idea than using the template. It will make (like FI's) another complicated, annoying page for things to go wrong.
 * 3) - I knew people would come over to the don't add side. Anyways, we got rid of the quotes for many reasons (like I said in the comments): 1 - Takes forever to get to the Main Page, plus all the broken links it can cause. 2 - It can glitch a lot when doing some quotes that is more than one sentence, making it not that useful. 3 - We have plentiful things about our wiki that tells info on the Mario things.
 * Nah, don't add more to the Main Page before removing something from it. Also, I'm opposing this for the same reason I opposed the Featured Images for: quotes are not our work, so it makes little sense to "feature" them.
 * 1) - We had this quote before, it slowed loading time and showed a different quote every time someone looked at it - that isn't even a "Featured" quote! I definitely don't think we should create Mariowiki:Featured Quote as we  have enough featured content already, besides - a quote is too minor to be nominated and then we go through a whole process over about 10 words.
 * 2) It will make the main page take longer to load. And do we really need it? I mean, are we gonna like choose a featured quote or something? I don't think this will really help anything.
 * 3) I am Zero! There was a reason it was removed, it caused a seven second delay to load up the main page for a fast computer, seven seconds for fast ones but longer for slow ones. Zero signing out.
 * 4) -- Per all.
 * 5) - I could get one as short as Fawful's "I have FURY!" or you can get one as long as a paragraph, like Wario's. It's all random, and my crappy computer likes freezing on me. :/ Per all.
 * 6) It's pointless.
 * 7) - Per all.

Comments
Can I see what the new main page would look like? The main page is half informational, half aesthetic (probably the only page that is).


 * LOL, LeftyGreenMario said that. Anyway, did you know that there was a proposal to remove that Quote of the Day thingy because of loading time? Just for your information.
 * Just like BLOF said above, the loading time took forever to get onto MarioWiki, and for many users like me it caused the broken link to appear more often. Also, wasn't there a glitch with the template for the quotes when it used more than one quote?

@LucariosAura Can you please use the form We don't need to know that You used to be specialK. -


 * @Baby Mario Bloops: Yes. That was the glitch that I was talking about in my vote.
 * @KS3: Actually, he doesn't have too - according to the no-sig policy, he's allowed to do XYZ.

@Baby Mario Bloops: We aren't going to use the template. We are going to vote on the quotes like the images for the FI, so 1. we won't get any bad quotes, and 2. this won't cause the glitch.

Opposers, Read the Proposal!!! Only Marioguy1 has a valid vote (and the ones that says per all). Which is 3. The Proposal says that we are going to vote on quotes on the page MarioWiki:Featured Quote.
 * KS3 is correct. He doesn't propose to bring the old template back that caused slowdowns.
 * Not entirely correct. I do, in fact, have a legitimate vote. "Per all" constitutes a real vote. But I'll change it for you anyway.

Bring back Weekly Polls
We used to have weekly polls, and they are very good. We still have this page. But instead of doing only one poll, we will be doing 3 polls. The reason why is because let's say the poll is "What is the easiest stage in Platformer games", and you only own Spinoffs and RPGs, then you can't answer the poll, while if you have 3, then you can at least answer one.

Proposer: Voting start: 25 February 2010, 23:00 Deadline: 4 March 2010, 23:00

Bring them back

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) - Per Proposal, I mean, They were funny :D.
 * 3) I am Zero! Although I don't know the reason why it was removed in the first place I will LOVE it if comes back, that what made the SMW fun that time and it will most likely still be fun if this pass (you notice I said love with all capitals, as most people know Zero NEVER used all capitals except for that one). Zero signing out.
 * 4) Per proposal.

Don't bring them back

 * 1) - Sorry, but no. Your proposal doesnt propose anything to make them better, they will fall into chaos again. They were rmeoved for a reason.
 * Per Tucayo.
 * 1) Per Tucayo.
 * 2) - Per Tucayo, you can't force someone to vote on a certain poll, people will vote on any poll they want. The more rules there are, the more they will get broken is my frame of mind - I'm afraid this rule falls right under that category.
 * 3) - Per Tucayo.

Comments
It got removed because it was too bustling with activity ONLY with that Poll page. I may be fond of the Poll of the Day, but we don't get it our way all the time.

Maybe if the whole poll process was completely revamped, it would be easier to maintain. But I still think it should stay off the wiki for the time being. --
 * Per Stooby. WHats with all the "bring back" proposals... I think people are getting nostalgic

I am Zero! If this proposal does pass I think all the previous polls should be deleted and the page should start new and fresh. Zero signing out.

Removals
''None at the moment.

Proposals Should End At The end of the day one week after voting starts (In GMT)
It's a really long title, but here's what it's trying to say. Currently, after proposals are posted, there's a 24-hour delay, and then voting starts. Depending on when the voting period starts, the voting could end anywhere from 7 to 8 days from when voting starts. I don't like this, because I realise that the times (5 p.m. and 7 p.m. I think they were) were adjusted for the GMT proposal, but now the times are 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. of the next day. I believe the proposals, from the beginning of voting should end at 23:59:59 of the same weekday 7 days later. (i.e. From the proposal itself, +8 days and however many hours until 11:59 p.m. GMT). So, for instance, (for our purposes, let's just pretend that today is a Friday.) the voting for this proposal (it is currently 23:16, 23 February 2010), would end at the end of the day (23:59 or 0:00 depending on how you see it) of 2 March 2010, rather than 2:00 of 3 March 2010. I believe this would simply the process a lot more, not to mention that the whole ending time difference was so it's more convenient for people living on the East Coast to vote for. I apologize if the whole "end-of-the-day" thing is confusing; I tried my best to explain it. Feel free to ask questions in the comments before and after voting starts.

Proposer: Voting start: 24 February 23:16 Deadline: 3 March, 2010, 23:00

Support

 * 1) -- Per proposal.
 * Sounds like a good way to make things much less complicated.
 * 1) - Per Time Q
 * 2) It should really be 23:59:59.99999999999999... . Per all (and proposal.
 * 3) - Per all.
 * 4) - Per all.

Comments
Actually, there is no difference with the GMT time, proposals end at exactly the same hour. Sorry if I didn't understand the proposal.
 * He's proposing we scrap those ending hours and simply use midnight as the deadlines. I never liked how different days of the week had different ending times - it always seemed superfluous, and now that the conversion to GMT has pushed the weekend times into the following day, it's even more confusing. The proposal's example is a little hard to follow too, but if I understand correctly, simply put, Garlic Man is saying that the new system will be: "Proposal written on Day 1 at X:AB o'clock, voting starts on Day 2 at X:00 o'clock, deadline at Day 8 at 24:00 o'clock (which is also Day 9, 00:00); the day of the week doesn't matter." ...right? -
 * Thanks Walka :) I udnerstand now. Seems a good idea

Yes, that is correct. --
 * OK, this is kinda related - what will we do when voting opens? Remove the Voting Opens thing? Cross it out? Leave it as is?
 * Uh, leave it as is. There would be no reason to change it. This proposal says nothing about changing it, so we would be unable to touch it.

Deciding Birdo's Sex
We had 2 Proposals about deciding Birdo's Sex (here's one). This is an international wiki, not an American Wiki. In Japan, people call Birdo male, and in the US, people call Birdo female. I propose that we call Birdo he. Don't forget that multiple birdos appeared in crowds and in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! In the Birdo (species) article, it says that it is common for male birdos to wear ties on top of their head. In Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, Birdo attempts to be a girl, therefore Birdo is a man. And also per the old reasons.

Proposer: Voting start: 26 February 2010, 23:00 Deadline: 5 March 2010, 23:00

Comments
Another issue dealing with Birdo's gender? Look, Birdo wants to be treated as a female, as she states in her description, so we better call her a "she". Besides, we're dealing with a single Birdo, Birdo, the character who appears as playable in spin-offs. Besides, does she look ANYTHING like a man? She wears a large, red ribbon, has some lipstick, has feminine team names, wears rings, etc? Besides, Nintendo wouldn't make transsexual characters anyway, despite their craziness. They always make genders obvious. Why should Birdo be any different?
 * This is Birdo's Sex, not gender.
 * Sex and Gender are the same thing.
 * No, not necessarily.

On the other proposal we agreed that calling Birdo an it was discriminatory.

This looks like BJAODN material to me.

"This is an international wiki, not an American Wiki."

No, it's an English wiki (English as in the language, not the country). In all the English games, Birdo is a female. Infact, I think Japan is the only country that calls her a he.

What, this proposal again? :\ As I stated the last time this came up, calling a male-to-female transgender person "he" just because they were born male is offensive and nobody profits from it if we start doing that anyway. The gender issue is already being addressed in the article, I don't think there's any need to emphasise it like that. This has nothing to do with the internationality of the Wiki, but simply with what makes sense and what doesn't and what can be taken as offensive and what won't.--vellidragon 10:17, 26 February 2010 (EST)

I don't see the point in this proposal. Proposals made on this issue have turned out in favor of calling Birdo a female consistently in recent times. 17:16, 26 February 2010 (EST)
 * Can we move this to BJAODN now? I mean, do we really need a whole proposal just for the gender of a character?
 * Um...this is the third one of that type...

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.