MarioWiki:Proposals

List of talk page proposals

 * Stop calling Sky-Blue Spinies relatives of Buzzy Beetles. (discuss) Deadline: September 10, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Mini Bob-omb with Bob-omb. (discuss) Deadline: September 10, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Stop referring to the Koopalings with their full names. (discuss) Deadline: September 10, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge List of Sammer Guys with Duel of 100. (discuss) Deadline: September 11, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Either rename Duke, Lulu and Rockman to The Dino Riders or split the three characters into separate articles. (discuss) Deadline: September 18, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Fred (boss) to . (discuss) Deadline: September 24, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Writing guidelines
None at the moment.

Implement Reminder Template About Categorizing Images By Game
Some people forget to add an additional category when uploading images, such as those from Category:Images by game. We have. I propose, where the contents will be from here. Why have this template? Categorizing images helps us keep track of uploads better and allows us a little easier time identifying duplicates. can probably express more reason than what I can infer. He issues s about this sort of thing. It becomes a hassle to type the same sort of thing over and over again. Also, months ago, mostly and I went through a bunch of images to get the missing image category inserted for affected images, with the help of.

Proposer: Deadline: September 10, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) – Per proposer and my reasons here. Pre-written user notices for bulk issues, such those involving files, are a good thing to have, and don't normally require specific examples or elaboration for individual users (unless they ask for further help, which should be done with any reminder pre-written or not).
 * 3) Per all!
 * 4) Per
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) Per proposal.
 * 7) per all.

Oppose

 * 1) people only forget to categorize images by accident.  Most people are not purposely forgetting to categorize images.  I can see a reminder template about failing to categorize images having the effect that people feel discouraged from uploading images, which of course would mean that there would be less images on the wiki, and more pages that need images missing said images, rather than making it more likely that people remember to categorize their images.

Comments
, that is why this proposed template will function similarly to and, as those templates are for accidental mis-edits or for people unaware of how we do things here. If the actions become deliberate or our reminders get ignored after issuing them, then we use and. In all cases, we have to use our best judgment before issuing. If our judgment might be wrong, it can be reviewed by sysops using Appeals. -- 14:55, 3 September 2016 (EDT)

Would it be a good a idea to just add an extra clause about categories to the aboutfile reminder? 21:05, 3 September 2016 (EDT)
 * I think the message of both those templates (active and proposed) should focus on one thing instead of two. Two different templates with two different colors sends a very clear message that both messages differ in their content. -- 23:22, 4 September 2016 (EDT)

Out of curiosity, would it be possible to implement a category selection in the page used to upload the files? Categories are definitely important, but having to edit every upload to add it might not be straightforward for new users.--Mister Wu (talk) 17:52, 4 September 2016 (EDT)
 * It would probably be *possible*, but it would be a huge list to navigate through if it was a straight selection. Some sort of multi-step upload wizard would probably be needed to make it practical. - Reboot (talk) 18:14, 4 September 2016 (EDT)
 * I assume yes. Just as we have an aboutfile template, we can have text right after that template saying and have instructions for replacing the "uncategorized images" part, but some part of me feel like a lot of people would just overlook it and don't carefully read the instructions.  23:03, 4 September 2016 (EDT)
 * , I did have discussions with back in May about that and opinions were generally mixed how to implement such a thing because of the complexity of it, at least with, , Porplemontage, and I. The best idea to come out of that discussion is to modify MediaWiki:Uploadtext to link to Category:Images by game, which Special:Upload transcludes. That would be far easier. I argued that the page is more fluff and poorly structured than something to pay attention to and needs to be rewritten. -- 23:10, 4 September 2016 (EDT)

Nice idea, a quick thing though is that the example in the draft should be changed to another game, just because that '.' could be confusing for certain foreign users and it wouldn't hurt to change it. The name of the template could also be easier for easy remembering, maybe like -- 19:07, 5 September 2016 (EDT)
 * Maybe on changing the image category for an example. As for name, the page name of my user subpage doesn't reflect the final name I want for it. voiced that concern before proposal and I made adjustments. The name you see currently was the first iteration. Next iteration became . -- 15:48, 6 September 2016 (EDT)

Removals
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Changes
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Miscellaneous
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