MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Toad Brigade Captain and Captain Toad (Discuss) Deadline: January 20, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Move information on Shy Guy Ghosts from Mario vs. Donkey Kong to Polterguy (Discuss) Deadline: January 21, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Stop considering Mattermouths as Dry Bones (Discuss) Deadline: January 16, 2014, 23:59 GMT Extended: January 23, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Make its own page (Discuss) Deadline: January 31, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Nicknames
Lazy people, rejoice! Nicknames are redirects to your userpage, so if your name is super-long and you are impatient to get to yours (or someone else's) page, you can just type in the nickname and it'll redirect you there.

Proposer: Deadline: January 24, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) P p.

Oppose

 * 1) To be honest, it seems more like it'd just create an unnecessary excess of userspace redirects. You have a link to your userpage while you're logged in, and the search bar shows any possible userpages you could be looking for as you enter in the page name, meaning you can access the userpage of a person with a long name without typing the full name, so there wouldn't be much benefit out of this as the system feels convenient enough.
 * 2) This is an unnecessary idea. As Icemario would say, people would be free to create a great amount redirects to their userpage. So this means that the administrators or something have to approve it first, which is already another unnecessary workload they have to contend with. If you think your name really is too long, ask for a rename, if you're qualified for it.
 * 3) Per Icemario, this just takes up a lot of space. Also, why the heck does a few extra seconds of typing matter, and why do you even have to type a lot if letter matches come up in the search bar anyways? Also, chances are that if a username is long, it'll also be uncommon. (I often go by just "Drift", but I don't even have to type that whole until my page comes up)
 * 4) Completely unneeded, and potentially bad in the long-run. As Driftmaster130 said some people call him Drift, a new user may want to join under that name, and I highly doubt they'd be trying to impersonate Drift, when they go to create their userpage they can't because Drift will be used as a redirect and user pages are formatted so only the user and wiki admins can edit it so a request would have to be made and it'd take up unnecessary time.
 * 5) - Per all.
 * 6) doesn't this violate the Userspace Policy? We have DISPLAYTITLE for this.
 * 7) Sorry, I'm going to oppose. Displaytitle sounds like a good idea, if you have a nickname. I have tons of nicks, and I'm sure they would be a bother for other users.
 * 8) Sorry, but DISPLAYTITLEs like this is better then adding nicknames templates that redirect to your name. Per all.
 * 9) Per all. Plus, If a user have tons of nicknames, will be hard know who is.

Comments
BTW, no one searches for users via search bar anyway. And even if you do, you have to use the advanced settings, which no one would really user either, except for users...maybe?

Removals
None at the moment.

Split Bowser's Inside Story/Dream Team X Bosses from the original bosses
A while ago there was a proposal to merge the R enemies in Dream Team to their original enemies. It failed for the reason that even if the enemies look the same and only have different colors, they were still different enemies and are to be classified as such. X Bosses in Bowser's Inside Story and Dream Team should be no different so they should be split off as well.

Proposer: Deadline: January 23, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal
 * 2) I'm afraid I have to agree with this. A while ago, I created the merging proposal. It failed, because you said there were different enemies, despite the fact that they only had a color change and attack speed as difference. So technically, X bosses should be different enemies, for the reasons I stated. So I'm pro splitting this.
 * 3) - Per all; per the opposition votes in the "R" enemies proposal.
 * 4) I support consistency
 * 5) Per all
 * 6) Per proposal
 * 7) Per all.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.