MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge King Boo (Super Mario Sunshine) with King Boo. (Discuss) Deadline: July 2nd, 2014, 23:59 GMT.
 * Split from Paragoomba. (Discuss) Deadline: July 4th, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Split and  from Koopa Kid. (Discuss) Deadline: July 9th, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Gold Mario (character) to Gold Mario (form) (Discuss) Deadline: July 9th, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Kat and Ana's Swords with Kat and Ana (Discuss) Deadline: July 10th, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Removals
None at the moment.

Videos in Articles
Hey guys, I just had a suggestion. I think one way we can improve this wiki is by adding videos to articles about a specific game. We can have anyone take a gameplay video, so that when someone is looking up an article about a specific game, they can see how the gameplay is like. I don't know if you guys will think this is a good idea or not, but I figured, if we have a section where you can listen to a sample of the music, then there should be a section where you can watch a short gameplay. Hope you like the idea.

Proposer: Deadline: June 26, 23:59 GMT

Oppose

 * 1) There's nothing wrong with externally linking the videos in a subsection called "External links". Nobody will revert it if you add a gameplay video of Wario losing in Hop or Pop (I won't, at least). But, if this calls for embedding videos in articles, I am opposing. Pages with embedded videos always take a chore to load.
 * 2) Per Mario. This is going to being more hassle than benefit.
 * 3) There are too many gaming videos on Youtube to do this. Two words: External Link.
 * 4) I'm not waiting ten minutes to actually load a page.
 * 5) Like other say, external link.
 * 6) Per Tsunami.
 * 7) Head down this road, we'll have the title theme of each game in every article.

Comments
We tried this once before and it didn't work out for one reason or another. Several of the .OGG vidcaps uploaded at the time are still on the server and can be found in our unused files directory. I'm not against the idea, I just don't know if it's doable yet. Might be better to just link off to Youtube or something (do we have a dedicated wiki YouTube channel?). -- Chris 18:01, 19 June 2014 (EDT)

I'm not too bright of the idea of embedding videos on pages. These eat up a whole bunch of bandwidth and drastically increase loading times of pages. 18:28, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Hold the phone! There are some game play videos on media pages...List of Super Mario All-Stars media, List of Super Mario Kart media... Why not put some there? -- 22:53, 19 June 2014 (EDT)

Thanks guys for the feedback. I thought a lot of people would think it would take up too much bandwidth. I too, agree with that, though, I'm still in favor of it. I believe it would really enhance the experience of the Mario Wiki. But I know not everyone has the best of Bandwidth. So I suppose for now, we'll forget it, but maybe down the road, things will change so that people can enjoy, rather then having external links. I for one am not in favor of bringing up two webpages, or leaving my page to go to youtube, it is much more slow then having it actually on the page its self. I'm personally surprised people opposed this idea, I have slow internet connection, so I should know if that'll take to long to load or not. I know many websites that have videos on their pages, and are actually really fast to load. Maybe down the road, we can enhance it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and a shout out thanks to Yoshi876 for fixing my Proposal. I accidently placed in the wrong area. --http://www.mariowiki.com/images/5/5d/Bob-omb_PiT.pngLuigidaisy1 (talk) 13:38, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

Add game manual scans to the game galleries
I think we should try our best to add some of the manual scans for most of the Mario games out there in existence as possible.I think we're missing out on it a little bit. It just makes it so that the galleries are fully complete without anything missing. The only exceptions are the 3DS and Wii U games. The console Mario games are the NES,SNES,CD-i,N64,GameCube and Wii games. Handhelds include the Game Boy and GBC,GBA and DS. They are there for reference purposes only. We'll cut out some of the unnecessary crap that is useless.It'll be specially wise to upload the Hotel Mario manual scans and scan the manuals if anyone owns Hotel Mario.

Proposer: Deadline: 26 June, 2014 23:59 GMT.

Add

 * 1) Per my proposal.
 * 2) As long as the scans are relevant, useful, and not fully extracted from the original, there shouldn't be any harm in adding them.

Don't Add

 * 1) This is similar to the game script adding proposal from a few months ago, it crosses the line from encyclopedia to repository and possibly sets up for some legal issues.
 * 2) Per Mario's comment.
 * 3) Per Ghost Jam. This kind of coverage on a game is just excessive.
 * 4) Per the supernatural jelly.
 * 5) Per Ghost Jam.
 * 6) – I found this in the Metroid Fusion manual: "This booklet and other printed materials accompanying this game are protected by domestic and international intellectual property laws."

Comments
I like to support, but I'd like only notable scans. We don't need to reproduce the entire instruction booklet. 18:35, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Oh, damn I don't have a scanner but I will get an all in one printer to scan my Paper Mario TTYD Manual. Besides that's the only Mario game I own that has a manual.
 * The internet has quite a few pdf files about game manuals 18:50, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Do you folks mind waiting till I buy my all in one printer to scan my TTYD manual. Anyways it is the Canadian manual and it is mostly the same as the US manual.
 * My question hasn't been answered... 18:57, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * You didn't even ask a question 19:13, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Personally, I'd just have the cover of the instruction booklet (official name) or action guide. 19:13, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * The manual scans is the thing that makes any Mario game article gallery page complete and I believe they are there for all other people to follow and besides we'll still be an encyclopedia and we'll have every Mario material but not bootleg crap. The bootleg crap games deserve an alternate Wiki called the "Bootleg Mario Wiki''.
 * Our wiki won't be incomplete without manual scans. However, I will accept only a few pages of the manual, especially if they provide interesting artwork, quotations, bios, or any of that stuff. Again, we don't need, nor should we have 100% reproductions of game manuals. 19:31, 19 June 2014 (EDT)

@Koopakoolklub: We have GameFAQs and, god forbid, this wiki, as a good, more detailed stand-in for game manuals. Besides, game manuals in general today are terrible and as exciting as pizza without sauce, pasta without seasoning, tomato caprese without mozzarella... you get my drift. 19:31, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I mean c'mon, in the NES and SNES days they were interesting but then they had became useless.
 * @Mario I do get your drift. The manuals in 3ds games are literally a folded page (ugh). 19:36, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Okay,then we'll use part of the manual and not the entire whole damn thing.
 * Anyways I changed the proposal so that we don't have to include all the other unneeded crap.
 * HEY GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE METROID FUSION MANUAL (and I'm assuming other manuals as well)! "This booklet and other printed materials accompanying this game are protected by domestic and international intellectual property laws." 16:58, 23 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Why do people dislike this idea so much, c'mon we're the Mario Wiki and we need to put it up and we are putting it up for some purposes. Besides who the hell cares about copyright laws. What's wrong with this anyways, does it look like Nintendo may issue a cease and desist order to Steve for the Wiki. Don't mind the disclaimers anyways.
 * Breaking laws is illegal. Heck, the United Nations gave a cease and desist order to Max Barry, the founder of NationStates, for having the United Nations name and emblem without authorization, so yes, it is possible. 17:35, 23 June 2014 (EDT)
 * So even if we were to add the manuals, we would be making a risky decision which would make us in danger of Nintendo finding out and sending that cease and order to Steve. Beside, it is hard to get permission to use the manuals on the Wiki right.
 * Does Fair Use even apply, or are you just parroting the words in the manual? 21:15, 25 June 2014 (EDT)

Create video tutorials for first time users on the Wiki
They are used to explain everything about the Wiki and are used for demonstration purposes to show what to do on the Wiki and what not to do on the Wiki and in clear detail. It may be considered useful to newbies and better explained with visual representations of the do's and don't s and help more new people understand better and make things more serious. The production quality is near professional and must be edited using Sony Vegas or something similar. It should all be available on YouTube. There will have to be Example accounts created for the video's purpose and that is to educate newbies to know the ropes around here in better visual detail. The example accounts can all be deleted after the all the tutorial videos have been created. They will explain the warning/reminder system and the blocking system better and it'll explain the point of views of different user kinds.

Proposer: Deadline: June 26, 2014, 23:59 GMT.

Make

 * 1) Per my proposal.
 * 2) Actually, Its a great idea! Sounds much more helpful than these annoying help pages.
 * 3) I think anything is better than using those help pages, there broken for instance the signature page doesn't tell you how to change font or what fonts you can use, theirs no way to tell witch color 00 or 07 is, and by the time  your finished with this  painful guessing game you've already acquired 2 user space warnings and may or may not be banned. I don't know if this will improve the help pages or not but its better then it`s current state.

Don't Make and Keep Help Pages

 * 1) – We have the help pages for a reason.
 * 2) It seems a bit pointless, in my opinion. Everything that's necessary for an editor to know is outlined in one of the many guideline pages that we have. If there's a certain aspect that someone doesn't understand, they can just ask another user. Even if they don't understand anything that's there, I'm sure that several users would be willing to help them along. Just having another user explain stuff is a lot simpler than going through the trouble of creating guide videos.
 * 3) It's too much work, we could instead rewrite help pages to make them less complicated. In other words, I oppose.
 * 4) Reading is better. And if there was something that you could just "copy+paste", you can't do that with a video.
 * 5) This isn't something complex such as ripping ISOs from discs or soft-modding Wiis. The best way to learn how to edit the wiki is by example and reading guidelines and rules is not hard to do. It's not that hard to understand how a wiki works, and a video demonstrating this is pointless. You don't need a video tutorial for something straightforward like this.
 * 6) Per all. Text is more accessible and videos offer no real benefits.
 * 7) @Green King of Slowpoke Guy: The people issuing the userspace warning half-assedly are the issuers' problem. New users should not be penalized with userspace warnings if they make a couple of edits to their wiki space, trying to figure out what the %#(@! about wikitml. Anyway, that's a flaw within the system, not the help pages themselves. I'm the type of person who prefers written tutorials, so the bias shows; nevertheless, videos are pointless. Just contact an experienced user and they can talk to you one-on-one like a mentor/student thing, which is much better than a tutorial (and if you get a *#%@ing userspace warning from user talk page edits, then the issuer can go jump off a cliff).
 * 8) Per all and my comments below.
 * 9) Do you know how most chemical reactions are worked out? Trying, not watching videos. Per all.
 * 10) Per all.

Comments
I don't think accounts can be deleted without installation of an extension. 22:02, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I think it gives it a better visual representation for first timers on what the expectations are.
 * I know that the help pages are there for a purpose but some don't take it seriously and the video tutorials show and depict what exactly happens and showcase a particular bad act and to demonstrate to new users so that they know our expectations and consequences of how serious some offences are so that it makes sense. Besides the tutorials will contain many example accounts doing some offences in real time for the video and some warnings and reminders will be issued to the example accounts just for the video. It just makes everything more clearer to newbie.
 * We have the ability to delete accounts, we just typically don't. As for the proposal, if you're suggesting that users band together to create this, I doubt it's going to go anywhere. By and large our already existing help and guideline pages serve that function well enough and you can't teach experience, which is what really makes a good editor. If you're asking for permission to make these yourself or you have otherwise already found people willing to work with you, go right ahead and contact an ops if you need something specific for examples. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 23:01, 18 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Another problem is, this wiki used to have such a proposal by, but it failed 3-12 because the help pages were present during the time.  At last, the rock fell.
 * Though in my point of view it works out better with the video guides. I think it shows the newbie about how bad a particular offence is and shows what happens when that is committed. It will have demonstrations on how to do something and have demonstrations about the warning and reminder system and block system. So do you kinda get what I'm trying to say from my point of view

What's hard to understand about the warning and blocking policy? If a user is doing something they shouldn't caution them, if they continue give them warnings and whatever else may be necessary, if they continue than an admin will block them. And how can you give a video tutorial on "other people's points of views"?
 * What I mean is explaining how the wiki looks like in a patroller,admin and bureaucrat point of view and what features do they have access to. It also shows what it feels like to be blocked and it'll talk about all the consequences of being blocked.
 * To be honest I don't think that's something a new user needs to know, it'll probably be a while before they have to worry about stuff like that. The features are explained adequately in help pages. And the consequences of being banned is simple, you cannot edit and will not be allowed to edit again, which is also adequately explained on the help pages.
 * The wiki doesn't change THAT much when you're in a group with more tools. You just have more tabs on the top of the page and a "rollback" thing next to people's revisions, and marking them as patrolled. It's not as sexy as it sounds. It's not like you get a FANCY NEW CSS when you're promoted. 16:30, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * I know that,but the video can shed some more light on all the other policies like how to get the info to add to the articles and all that kind of stuff that we do here. It can be there for simplicity and for convenience in a 40 minute video with a table of continents with annotations to get to a particular section easily without searching individually. It just makes more sense in my opinion and hey it saves some people time that way.
 * It's obvious where to get the information from though, videos, actually playing the game. And these things can be simply explained by someone, a video explaining that is unnecessary.
 * Not to mention the many problems that can occur from videos, such as freezing... it's probably better to read things. It's easier to remember and you can just go right back to it. If you feel the Help pages don't help enough ask an experienced user. 16:47, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * @Pwwnd: A "table of continents" must be some big table. Individual help pages are easier to navigate than a forty minute long video. 21:17, 19 June 2014 (EDT)
 * Why do people hate this kind of idea. It's the one stop source and makes life easy.

Just because people are opposing doesn't mean they hate it. They simply have reasons on why Help pages are a better idea. Also, Green 6017 King of the Slowpoke: We have the Preview button for that kind of problem. Plus, here there's a list of colors you can use, plus a link on that page to look further into it.