MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Make Diddy's Dash its own page. (Discuss) Deadline: December 24, 2013 23:59 GMT
 * Split Star Coin and (Discuss) Deadline: December 28, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Reorganize List of Mario references in music (Discuss) Deadline: January 2, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Dr. Mario (character) to just plain (Discuss) Deadline: January 4, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Allow Removal of Support/Oppose in Proposals
This is in Featured Articles, so why not Proposals? I've seen silly votes on proposals before.

Proposer: Deadline: December 25, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal

Oppose

 * 1) - The system is fairly different; an oppose in a Proposal doesn't carry the same weight as one in an FA nomination does. No need to do this.
 * 2) Per Tucayo
 * 3) - Per Tucayo. Rule 5 already provides the means to remove bad votes; discussing issues in the comments and giving the admins the freedom to remove truly invalid votes is a much simpler system than some clunky voting setup anyway.
 * 4) No. You're dealing with two completely different sharks here. Proposals are policy changes and the like, Featured Articles are things that we as a community improve upon time to time, solving issues that are brought out via oppose. We vote to remove it because articles are dynamic. Proposals aren't dynamic.
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) Per all, and how would it be decided if an opposition/support is "silly?"
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Considering an admin is needed regardless of whether this proposed addition passes, this is actually really unnecessary especially considering what Walkazo said. Per all.
 * 9) Per Tucayo, Walkazo, and Baby Luigi.
 * 10) I would want to read people's comments.
 * 11) No need to fix something that is not broken. The admins can remove invalid votes, and users may discuss why a vote may be invalid in the comment section.

Removals
None at the moment.

Change all Mario power-up transformations from "Mario" to "Form"
Let me explain (as an example): rename Fire Mario to

Nintendo has lately stop restricting the use of items to only Mario and Luigi and have allowed other characters, Peach and Red Toad for example, to use them to the exact same effect and use.

At first I was okay with the Template:Diff on the top of the article when it says that the power may also extend out to Luigi (only), but now I believe it is looking too cluttered and unprofessional when it lists out that the power-up may extend to not only Luigi but also to Peach, Yellow Toad, Blue Toad, Rosalina, etc.

Think about it guys, Nintendo has been innovative and is currently trying out new things that we have never seen before. Who knows, maybe some time in the future we'll see a Fire Daisy, Tanooki Yoshi, Metal Waluigi, and Ice Wario. And I for one do not want to see that Diff template list grow even bigger because of that.

The proposal is basically saying that all power-up transformation articles of which the said power-up item is not used exclusively by Mario (or by any other single individual [if one does exist now or in the future]) will be renamed from "Mario" to "Form". (e.g. Ice Form, Penguin Form, Tanooki Form, Shell Form, Invincibility Form, Double Form, Cat Form, etc.) And thus call to delete Template:Diff.

It also calls for a change of the info-box photo. The info-box photo will have to be an official Nintendo company artwork (so no screenshots) of the latest exhibition of a group of characters in their power-up form. Example, the group artwork of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad in Cat form for Super Mario 3D World. If a particular power-up form possesses no group artworks, then the latest appearance of the power-up form characters will all have to be pasted onto an artboard and uploaded to the SMW (the artworks all have to be from the same game, and the artboard has needs a transparent background, so it's like a composite).

And, I know this part may be the most obvious of all, all of the renamed articles will have a redirect name of its previous name (Fire Mario, Ice Mario, Tanooki Mario, etc.)

Proposer: Deadline: December 27, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Change It

 * 1) Per proposal. Personally, I think the template just looks ugly at the top of the article, but it was a necessary to some point. Now I just see it as unprofessional-looking.
 * 2) Mario isn't the only person to transform.

Don't Change It

 * I believe this subject has been brought up before. While it can look cluttered, renaming the article to eliminate the use of the template doesn't seem right to me. Maybe a better idea is to simply remove the template itself since the people who use the power up are already listed in the info box itself. But like the previous proposal regarding this situation, Mario is the most common person who uses these forms and has used them more than the other characters have.
 * 1) - We had this conversation before. I'm against. "Form" is conjectural, I don't see why we should replace the template with the conjectural one.
 * 2) Whilst I supported this last time, the reason it failed was because it caused the articles to have conjectural names, whilst pre-existing official names existed. I do agree with Tails here to remove the template completely.
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) Per all.
 * 5) I have opposed this once, and I will oppose it again: I'd rather have this if it isn't conjectural. Conjectural is best to be avoided.
 * 6) Although I supported this cause in the past, it IS conjectural so we really shouldn't.
 * 7) "Fire Mario" is not only official, but standard. Looking up "Fire Peach" redirects to Fire Mario anyway, so this is a nonissue. Per all.

Comments
Wait! A proposal similar to this existed before? Man I've been gone for so long. In that case, whoever has the power to remove proposals may you please remove it?

Have "Name reference" in the infobox for Mario Party minigames
As you may know, most minigames from the Mario Party series have puns, wordplays or references for their names, and these are mentioned right on the article. However, the sentence "The name is a pun on..." or similar things are very repetitive, and more like trivia. But instead of asking it to be moved to trivia sections, I think it would be better to have a "Name reference" area in the minigame infobox, like The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode infobox does. Yes, if we do this we cannot write the meaning of the original term, but the Super Mario Wiki is not a place for learning non-Mario or video game-related terms, and it can be easily found on the internet (if it has a Wikipedia article, we can still link it to there).

Proposer: Deadline: December 29, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) My Proposal.
 * 2) Sounds good.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.