MarioWiki:Proposals

Proposals that have not been implemented

 * Split Spoing, Sprangler and Klamber from Scuttle Bug - (November 3, 2012)
 * Create boss level articles for Donkey Kong Country and Land series - (January 3, 2015)
 * Create a template for the PM:TTYD badge drop rates - (August 17, 2016)
 * Create a Mini article - (August 20, 2016)
 * Split all remaining courts and boards from their parent articles - (September 25, 2016)
 * Clean up species categories to only include non-hostile species - (August 8, 2017)
 * Clean up Category:Artifacts - (August 22, 2017)
 * Trim down Category:Fire Creatures and Category:Ice Creatures - (September 7, 2017)
 * Create an article on Arcade Archives - (September 23, 2017)
 * Split all Starbeans Cafe items from the Starbeans Cafe article - (September 30, 2017)
 * Merge Mouser (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!) with Mouser - (November 15, 2017)
 * Create separate articles for online Flash games - (November 25, 2017)
 * Reorganize the board table in Mario Party: Island Tour - (December 15, 2017)
 * Expand the Behemoth King article - (December 23, 2017)
 * Delete Category:Villians - (December 24, 2017)

Writing guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Removals
None at the moment.

Do not require main templates to be placed on pages alongside auxiliary templates
MarioWiki:Navigation templates § Game-specific templates: These auxiliary game-specific templates only need to go on the articles of subjects that concern them (e.g. the NSMB2 level articles) and the game page itself, however the main template has to go on the subject pages along with the auxiliary template.

My problem is with the bolded sentence (emphasis mine). What's the point of placing a navigation template on an article if the article itself isn't in the template? It's not as if the opposite is true, where, for example, needs to be placed on every non-item page. What's the point of even splitting subjects into separate templates if we're just going to throw them all together anyways? It's extraneous and self-defeating.

Proposer: Deadline: December 29, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) - The Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels level articles all have the  template, despite the levels themselves not showing on it. Conversely, the Super Mario Sunshine missions do not have the main  template, creating an inconsistency. Considering I worked on both of those, I suppose that would be poor planning on my part, but regardless, per proposal.
 * 3) Per proposal.

Comments
"What's the point of placing a navigation template on an article if the article itself isn't in the template?" The missing article could always be added to the template if it's relevant. 16:20, 24 December 2017 (EST)
 * That's not relevant for this case, as the link should have been there in the first place. Here, however, the links are being specifically placed in another nav template. 19:53, 24 December 2017 (EST)

The Secret Courses of Remix 10 in Super Mario Run
In Super Mario Run's Remix 10, there are three kinds of levels: regular courses, Secret Courses (labelled with question marks), and Special Remix Courses (labelled with exclamation marks). The Special Remixes are wholly based on existing levels, so they're not of particular interest, but the Secret Courses are completely unique. All of them ( 25 27?) even have individual names, and although those names may be generic, that hasn't stopped us with World 1-1, World 1-2, and all of the rest. Considering our new article policy that strives to give articles to every level, it seems like we should make articles for the Secret Courses. However, they're short, and noticeably shorter than the other Super Mario Run levels. All of them are certainly distinct from each other, but considering the last level-based snafu, it'd probably be best to settle this by proposal.

If this proposal passes (i.e. if you support it), all twenty-five Secret Courses would receive individual articles (I'd make a mock-up, but I don't have enough information on-hand to do so). If this proposal does not pass, they would be concentrated into a single table (ditto).

Proposer: Deadline: December 26, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) - They are levels, and we have plenty of short articles. As long as the information given is as accurate and as much as we have, then I think it's fine. Before anyone uses that information against me to describe the Power Moon articles, I'll repeat that I think they are more along the lines of collectables (albeit important ones) than actual levels or missions, sans a few story-relevant ones. In this case with the Super Mario Run levels, they are full levels, at least as far as I can tell.
 * 2) - per Time Turner and Alex

Oppose

 * 1) We may or may not have seen all of the Secret Courses' layouts. And considering the mode it is in, it would be very difficult to write these levels. For now, a table would work best for these if we want to include them. I'm saying if due to how they are. Like regular and Special Remixes, they are short levels (parts of levels even) with variety of different set ups, but usually repeatable throughout the Areas. Considering their current state, they can't be level articles, yet. If Nintendo decides to add those levels in where we can actually play the whole thing and all of them without going to Remix 10, then they will be worth having articles.
 * 2) per SSM.
 * 3) Per Yoshi the SSM.

Comments
You forgot to vote in your own proposal. 11:43, 19 December 2017 (EST)
 * No, I did not. I want to see how other people vote first. 11:48, 19 December 2017 (EST)

@Yoshi the SSM: To paraphrase Alex, every level or mission, no matter how short, is required to have its own article. And there's a video compilation of all Secret Courses on YouTube, so problem solved but apparently no compilation with "!" courses. Maybe separate gameplay videos will help? -- 04:21, 20 December 2017 (EST)
 * We should find them out. I think they're likely going to be one possibility of the whole level (and they can actually be compared with the levels, these can't), but I could be wrong. 10:12, 20 December 2017 (EST)
 * The "!" courses aren't a priority for this proposal, but they're something that we should definitely look into for the future. 17:10, 20 December 2017 (EST)
 * But seeing them will help me out on this. 17:12, 20 December 2017 (EST)

Add anchor links to Power Moon lists
Recently, I've had a small talk with on the removal of anchor links from the Power Moon lists for each kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey. Some lists actually had anchor templates, but Legomariofanatic removed them because someone suggested that anyone looking for a specific Power Moon can use the CTRL+F function to find it in a list. Here's my discussion with Legomariofanatic.

Thing is, I think it's less probable that a user will look up "List of Power Moons in whatever Kingdom" and then do some search on that page to find the location of a Power Moon, than they will simply search that name of the Power Moon. In the game, Talkatoo tells you the names of uncollected Power Moons, so there's how someone could learn their names. The Hint Toad locates them directly on the map, although in some cases the locations may not be exact--that's where the Internet comes to help.

Because this might spur a quarrel, seeing as how someone saw anchor links as useless, I think a proposal is necessary to settle it. Should we use anchor links or not?

Proposer: Deadline: December 31, 2017, 08:53 GMT

Support

 * 1) per proposal
 * 2) - I think the anchor template was created for this sort of thing, so sure, per proposal.
 * 3) Per proposal.
 * 4) Clearly a no-brainer, per all.

Comments
I honestly think this is a no-brainer. Like other pages with a list of searchable names like the Things from Sticker Star and Color Splash, obviously it'd be faster and more convenient for people to be taken directly to the specific Power Moon they're looking for (this applies to both searching and linking to Power Moons on other pages). They shouldn't have to use CTRL+F to find the name themselves in this situation. It's better to have the anchor links than to not have them at all. 00:29, 25 December 2017 (EST)
 * There are many lists that use anchor links, like the treasure lists from different Wario games. So yeah, the proposal is apparently a no-brainer. But I thought someone could step forward and argue why those links wouldn't be needed. We need to be cautious! -- 06:55, 25 December 2017 (EST)