MarioWiki:Featured articles/Unfeature/N1/Super Mario 3D World

Remove featured article status

 * 1) The intro is extremely short, several tables are incompatible with mobile, and the images are distractingly inconsistent between each other, alternating between actual artwork and screenshots both with and without HUDs (not to mention how quite a few images are low quality).
 * 2) Per Time Turner. The intro needs to be expanded a lot more than this, the bare bones amount of information especially for the infobox, as it was one of the shining examples of bad intros in this thread. The enemies and objects table is especially incompatible with mobile, if you want to make it less of a scroll fest, the best you could do is to decrease sizes of images.
 * 3) Per Time Turner.
 * 4) Per all.
 * 5) Per all on this one.
 * 6) Per all.

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The table for the characters seems to exist solely so that they can have a fancy table. I'm also reasonably confident that the star ratings for all of them are entirely made-up. 15:02, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * We could just delete the stars altogether and no information would be lost. I also hate the recent trend of stuffing tables one long line (another example is the boss listings in Super Mario Odyssey, as if all computers were wide-screen and could handle it without sidescrolling issues.). I mean, if the numbers were uneven, I'd see the point but for both articles, the lists are perfectly divisible, with Super Mario Odyssey's bosses being able to fit in a 3x3 table and this one a 2x3 one. 15:04, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * I have a couple of examples of the character table I was working on here during the conversation that happened on Discord days ago, if any of those are good. 15:06, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * We have to nix the star ratings altogether since Time Turner is confident they're made up. We should keep the written "advantages" and "disadvantages" in there, since they relay confirmed information unlike the star ratings. 15:08, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * To add onto that (to not make it seem like I'm just making my logic up), there's an edit revision that bumped up the number of stars from three to five for "a more 'detailed' comparison." I don't think they'd be arbitrarily changed like that if they were based on an existing source. Earlier revisions also show this for the character table, and that seems perfectly fine.
 * (Incidentally, the edit that added the stars in the first place had its summary removed, which is... odd.) 15:15, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Well that edit summary is from Mechawave, probably saying something very condescending with bad language in there since he does have the attitude for that. 15:19, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Summary was removed because of inappropriate reasons. Anyway, a number system was also discussed, like 3/5 for Mario's jump, 1/5 for Peach's speed, etc. or something. imo, there's nothing exactly wrong with whatever system we use as long as it details the highs and lows, be it stars, numbers, or words. 15:21, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Having a gauge system implies that there is an official stat system out there when there is not. We should not use a stat system if one does not exist. Words are more descriptive and meaningful than made-up stats on the spot. 15:23, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Per. Just tell people what's different instead of using overly simplistic stats. 15:24, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Ah, I see. 15:25, 24 November 2017 (EST)
 * Well, here are the actual stats of the characters, which will likely require a new page if you want them to be in (they are mainly useful for speedrunners, which admittedly are a focus of this wiki now). The stars are indeed not correct, even the advantages and disadvantages aren't, actually, as for example Peach and Rosalina sprint at the same moment and have the same speed.--Mister Wu (talk) 12:13, 25 November 2017 (EST)
 * Yeaaahhh some of these have to be explained. 17:47, 25 November 2017 (EST)
 * Do we really need to go in-depth on every single one of these? Just saying "this character jumps higher" and whatnot would suffice for me. 14:08, 28 November 2017 (EST)
 * We did went ridiculously in-depth with the Mario Kart stats articles, though. 14:25, 28 November 2017 (EST)
 * At the very least, that ridiculousness isn't easily readable, and a more concise summary would be more helpful to readers. The in-depth stats could be included on another page, like the Mario Kart 8 in-game statistics. 14:35, 28 November 2017 (EST)
 * That's what I want to do should we go that route. Keep the general, easy to read information on the main article, allocate the more technical stuff to its own dedicated article. 18:21, 28 November 2017 (EST)
 * Just so you know, I absolutely don't want to include all stats in the table or in the main article, it would be too much vertical scrolling with little benefit to many users who would find it difficult to read the most important information among the stats. My point was just that the actual statistics revealed that the stars and the current descriptions are indeed incorrect, and must be corrected according to the now-known stats. Regarding the page with the actual statistics of the characters, I'm open to making it, if it might be useful for speedrunners.--Mister Wu (talk) 19:05, 28 November 2017 (EST)

Added improvement tags to the article. Also, shouldn't the purple-media needed template be another strike against this article's feature status? 17:32, 5 December 2017 (EST)

@BabyLuigi: No, there is not. If there was a lot to say in the intro, then why in the world did it never get expanded for a long time, or even get fixed on in the first place? It is only now that we actually address the issue, and that is not good. 21:25, 16 December 2017 (EST)
 * The same reason we even have the ability to unfeature articles. Oversights happen, humans are not perfect, and when an article is reanalyzed for flaws, some more can pop up that weren't caught the first time. It's why we write multiple drafts for papers. 21:27, 16 December 2017 (EST)
 * @Lcrossmk8, that's a good start, but again, I've linked to you examples of how other pages do intros if you want to take inspiration from them. Develop it some more to be on par, the intro still needs expanding. 21:37, 16 December 2017 (EST)

Would it be better to replace the enemies/obstacles and items tables with glossaries like we did on Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy 2? These would be mobile-compatible and would take up less space. I also don't think the descriptions are necessary. Here is what that would look like. Should this also be done for bosses and power-ups? -- 20:10, 19 December 2017 (EST)
 * Perhaps so. In articles that have lots of enemies, it's annoying scrolling down long lists of characters. Though on the other hand, I do enjoy small snippets of information for each enemy. 19:47, 20 December 2017 (EST)

Okay, come on now. What the heck can I put in the intro? I've put all I think I should in the intro, and it is still not satisfying anyone. Number one, what should we put in the intro that deserves to be there, and number two, if no one is going to help with the intro more than they already have, then does that mean we are all letting this article get dropped into the unfeatured article status? That sucks. 20:37, 20 December 2017 (EST)
 * This is the third time I've said this: look at the other articles that I've linked to you again and take examples from that. Take inspiration even from Super Mario 3D World's Wikipedia article, which has a better intro than this (though please don't plagiarize it). And no, the intro isn't the only thing very wrong with this article, please reread everything else that we said. 15:16, 21 December 2017 (EST)