MarioWiki:Proposals

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Make Mario Kart course naming rules consistent with the general naming rules
According to Naming, this is how we handle the naming of Mario Kart courses that share a name with other subjects:


 * For Mario Kart courses, console abbreviations are used as the identifier whenever possible to match the retro course naming convention (e.g. Daisy Cruiser (GCN)).
 * Due to the Mario Kart 8/Deluxe multi-console situation, the identifier "MK8" is used until confirmation of anything else (e.g. Rainbow Road (MK8)).

The guideline enforces a compromise between our general naming rules and Nintendo's own in-game convention of affixing a console abbreviation to classic courses. In the case of Mario Kart 8 courses, it specifically requests using a game abbreviation as an identifier whereas other articles generally use the expanded form of the game's title. Neither part of this guideline appears to be justified, and reads like a remnant of the wiki's bumbling pre-2010 days.

This proposal aims to make our naming rules consistent across the board, applying a "race course" or expanded game-of-origin identifier to Mario Kart course articles instead of the aforementioned.

Proposer: Deadline: May 28, 2021, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) per proposal.

Oppose

 * 1) I don't really see anything wrong with the way we do it right now, I think having an exception in the policy to name things like how Nintendo does is fine and I would prefer it to using generic identifiers. The way I see it, this is the least confusing because it uses terminology found in the games themselves. As for using 'MK8', I think it's a good compromise since the games haven't given an official console identifier to those tracks yet, though I would consider changing it to 'Wii U' or something similar.

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