MarioWiki:Proposals

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Determine coverage status of Tetris (NES) and F-1 Race (Game Boy)
This is primarily based on our current coverage of Alleyway, Baseball, and Pinball, which have decidedly low actual Mario-centric content but are given a (relatively) large amount of coverage regardless. In both the (official) NES version of Tetris and the Game Boy version of F-1 Race, a troupe of Nintendo characters - mostly Super Mario ones - appear on congratulatory screens, being part of a gradually expanding band in the former and individually appearing waving among the grid girls between races (and then all in a row at the end) in the latter. They are made up of Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess, Donkey Kong, and Bowser, intermixed with Link, Samus, and Pit. What I want to determine here is whether we follow the above examples and give these articles despite the small nature of the appearances, and if so what level of coverage is considered.

Proposer: Deadline: July 28, 2023, 23:59 GMT

Guest appearance (articles get limited coverage)

 * 1) These most definitely seem to have the Mario characters in them, though only in a minor appearance. I'm in support.

Cameo (no articles; unchanged)

 * Opposing because the reason why those few things got full coverage is because mario is physically playable in them to some capacity. these two are only passerby cameos and a perfect example of what would go onto a List of mario References article
 * 1) Alleyway: you play as Mario for the whole game, Baseball: US manual description: Has a strong cleanup and ace, MARIO. One offensive team!, and Pinball: you also play as Mario, at least on Screen C, but it's very Mario-themed, so it gave it a boost. These two games on the other hand, only have Mario characters appearing among other non-Mario characters at the end screen, they serve no gameplay purpose and can be easily cut out, I don't see how this is any different than Punch-Out!! for NES.
 * 2) If we had still existed in the world where Qix on Game Boy had its article, we'd be inclined to agree. Unfortunately, that was merged awhile ago, and much for the same reasons that splitting this article is being opposed. Unfortunately, it'd take an overt change to how we handle first-party cameos for a split like this to make any sense; that is a debate for another day, though, and if you really must do it now... Do it up on the List of references in Nintendo video games article, not an already in-progress proposal. ;P
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) Per.
 * 5) Upon seeing these other examples given that contain cameos on par with this, I'm inclined to think these don't need their own articles. They should definitely be added to the List of references page though, per Camwoodstock.

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