MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Move Venus Fire Trap to Fire Piranha (Discuss) Deadline: July 29, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Fire Chomp to Flame Chomp (Discuss) Deadline: August 12, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Document "Regional Differences" in game pages, and create a policy page for them

 * Draft: User:Walkazo/Essays

This project is pretty self-explanatory. Basically, the idea of this project is to document changes made to a game during localization, re-releases, ports, etc. These changes can include anything from different placement of coins or items to drastic gameplay changes or even characters being added in later versions of a game, such as Metal Mario being added for the North American version of the game Mario Golf, for example. As explained on the draft for the policy page and the example following it, we would create sections for "Regional differences" in the pages of games that have them, and further organize them into subcategories that include "Gameplay changes", "Level design changes", "Graphical changes", and "Textual changes". Of course, if there are changes made to other aspects of the game in question, such as changes in the soundtrack of the game, additional sections can be created to properly document them.

Proposer: and Deadline: July 29, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) &mdash; Per proposal, natch.
 * 2) Sounds good, per proposal.
 * 3) - I really like this idea. Per proposal.
 * 4) Nice one. Per all
 * 5) - Per our proposal.
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) per all, hurp. You don't know how long I've been waiting for this.
 * 8) Per all
 * 9) Per proposal.
 * 10) Per all.
 * 11) -- Per all.
 * 12) Per all.
 * 13) Great idea, per all.
 * 14) Per proposal
 * 15) Per all.
 * 16) • heck yes, per all.
 * 17) I like it, per all.
 * 18) Per all.

Comments
Without going full plagiarism, maybe we could use this -
 * I agree, that site (which is a great resource) was where I used to read up on Mario before I found the wiki.

Should unused game files existing in some versions be included as regional differences? The Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine contains message.szs, which is an unused file not present in other versions.--Holyromanemperortatan (talk) 18:53, 28 July 2013 (EDT)
 * I think that kind of information would fit better in the game's beta elements page. --

New features
None at the moment.

Remove references from "Appearances" sections on character pages
(Re-listing this, since it was "no quorum". See here for the archived proposal)

So, I was looking at the appearances section on the Wart page and noticed that for some reason he's listed as having appeared in games that only referenced his name. We include Stickers and Trophies on these sections, but I don't think a character should be listed as having appeared in a game just because his/her name is mentioned/referenced. Then there's his so-called "indirect appearances" in the Animal Crossing games, just because there's a character called Wart Jr. I don't believe these type of references should be included on the Appearances sections on any character pages, so I'm proposing that we remove them.

Of course, this doesn't mean that they should be removed from the articles entirely, per this proposal they should be listed under the "Other Appearances, Cameos and References" section.

Proposer: Deadline: July 28, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per my proposal.
 * 2) - Per Aokage. Makes sense.
 * 3) Per proposal.
 * 4) I supported this the last time, it's a good proposal.
 * 5) Per proposal.
 * 6) Per proposal
 * 7) Makes sense.

Changes
None at the moment.

Separate Broken File Links
When browsing the Category:Pages with broken file links page, I noticed that most of the pages in this category were userspaces. My proposal is simple: either have a subcategory for all userspace pages (User:___, User talk:___, etc.) with broken file links, or have only "real" articles link to this category. This would make it easier for users to fix broken links without having to browse through so many userspace pages. Thank you for reading, and I am open to any suggestions in the comments below.

Proposer: Deadline: August 4, 2013, 23:59 EDT

Create Sub-Category for Userspace Pages

 * 1) I don't think we should keep userspace out of the picture altogether.

Prevent userspace pages from being included in category

 * 1) Per proposal
 * 2) I decided a while back to make this proposal, however I didn't think it is possible. I agree with making Category:Pages with broken file links specific for real articles only. However, I don't think a sub-page for userspace pages is necessary, nor I think it is possible.

Comments
You will need to bring this to Porplemontage. 11:20, 28 July 2013 (EDT)

Please use the Month DD YYYY format for deadline dates per this proposal. Thanks.