The 'Shroom:Issue 117/Pipe Plaza

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Director’s Notes
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas 'Shroom readers! I hope you enjoy this "festive" edition of Pipe Plaza, because we certainly enjoyed writing it for you.

Like I mentioned last month resigned from New Articles, well his position has now been taken by. was unable to contribute Projects Seeking Contributors this month, and Forum Update is back in the paper.

Monthly Report
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Hello, readers, and welcome to the last Monthly Report of 2016!! Things are pretty much the same here, so let's see the wiki stats for December, along with a comparison between them and the stats from last month.

(Credit goes to, , and for the table coding (I based this on Stooben's coding, which was later modified by SMB, myself, and Viper26 when each one of us wrote this section)

*All times EST.

I hope you all have enjoyed this section as much as I did while writing it!! Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Featured
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Hello 'Shroom readers and welcome back to another edition of Featured, the only place this side of the Mario Wiki where you'll get news about the Mario Wiki Featured Articles.

Featured Articles
Two new articles have been featured in the past month.
 * Wiggler was featured on 23 November, 2016.
 * Mario Party: Star Rush was featured on 20 December, 2016.

Re-Featured Articles
No new articles have become re-featured.

FA Nominations
There is one ongoing Featured Article Nomination.
 * Equipment was nominated on 11 December, 2016.

Failed FA Nominations
No new articles have failed the featuring process.

Unfeatured Articles
No new articles have been unfeatured in the past month.

Unfeaturing Nominations
There are two ongoing Unfeature nominations.
 * Super Mario 3D Land was nominated on 16 December, 2016. The article was nominated because it is mainly just comprised of lists and paragraphs, with little to no details. There are also issues with the power-up table, empty staff section, and overly long trivia section.
 * Kiddy Kong was nominated on 23 December, 2016. It was nominated because the article has a rewrite template on it.

Failed Unfeaturing Nominations
No new articles have failed the unfeaturing process in the past month.

Thanks for reading see you next month, for more Featured Articles news.

Tip of the Month
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When your talk page grows too long, it can be difficult to find important messages and sort through any you may not have responded to yet. There is a way to de-clutter your talk page. You archive the contents of your talk page into a new page, something like "User:XXX/Archive1". To do this, simply copy everything on your page, then paste it onto the new page. You can delete everything on your current talk page after you save the archive, unless you have conversations that are still active.

Community Report
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Hello, readers! Welcome to December's Community Report. It shows our the latest goings-ons around the Super Mario Wiki – the promotions, the demotions, the recently passed and ongoing proposals.

(credit to for previously developing this coded table system and to  for the alterations made)

NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of December 16th.

That’s all for this issue of Community Report. See you again next year.

New Articles
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Hello! Welcome to New Articles. I’m LudwigVon, the new writer of this section, and I’m here with an up to date about all the new articles created within the past month. So, we got plenty of new articles and it’s great. Be sure to keep in mind Super Mario Wiki’s Manual of Style when you create an article.

Forum Update
Written by: Welcome back to the Forum Update! This month, we're looking back at September, October and November - that's an entire autumn's worth of forum updates you're getting! And if you think that's not a suitably festive gift for Christmas, then yyyyyeah you're probably right

Temporary

 * Topmaniac: Banned for 30 days for spamming and using racial slurs. His ban expired on December 10th.

Permanent

 * mikethedude4002: Banned on October 19th for being a joke account.

October

 * 332 is the most online so far this year.

November

 * 80 isn't just the lowest amount of topics created so far this year - it's the lowest since January 2008, when the forum was created - and only existed for four days. Try harder, guys.
 * Also, 5771 is the lowest amount of posts made since February 2010.

Bold means a new entry. Italics mean inactive for at least a month. Bold and italics mean there's a glitch in the Matrix.

Thread(s) of the Month(s)
Baby Luigi's Do you prefer Waluigi's classic or modern design? won September's Thread of the Month - an exploration of the history of Waluigi and his vast characterisation. Runner-ups included SiFi's Today I went to this arcade game-type exhibit thing. (long story with pictures) and Freakworld's THE YEAR OF POOCHY.

Thread of the Month for October goes to Freakworld's THE MOST BROKEN THREAD ON THE FORUM, containing use (and, eventually, an explanation) of a glitch in the forum's BBCode that was discovered during 'Shroom Mafia III. NSY's proof that marioboards is dying was a runner-up (despite attempting to do my job for me), as was Nabber's post javelin quotes.

November's Thread of the Month goes to Anton's Since not all of you have me on facebook and can't see my late-night ramblings, a few funny observations on his own life. I didn't want to give it to an election-related thread, but Stargazing's If you feel at all threatened because of the results of this election... was a runner-up, as well as Nysic's just hell.

Quotes

 * "who needs 1080p when your screen is going to get cracked anyway" - Nabber, on the iPhone 7
 * "well like they say in brooklyn, early to youtube, early to catch the meme" - SiFi, on 2007
 * "Once I saw a guest deleting a topic on WhosOnline. I didn't sleep that night." - YoshiKong
 * "CNN: *inception noise* ONLY 38 MINUTES UNTIL ONE HOUR UNTIL WE HAVE A CHANCE TO START MAKING PREDICTIONS *10 minutes of ads* *dramtic music* *anderson cooper squinting* LETS LOOK AT EXIT POLLS *inception noise* BREAKINGG NEWS KEY RACE ALERT *Its kentucky* 1% HAS BEEN COUNTED TRUMP HAS WON MAYBE" - GBAToad, on the election
 * "no, see, it was the coveted Mario Fanbase Vote that put trump over the edge to win" - Superchao

Mafia

 * CountBonsula's Rick and Morty Mafia hasn't been updated since October, but still seems to be ongoing.
 * Awards Mafia VI was placed on an indefinite hiatus.

Thanks for reading.

Poll Committee Discussion
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What better way to write for the polls of this month than having a literal child in green write a 'Shroom section for the month of Holli Jolli Christmas? Uh, maybe Santa Claus himself but we all know he has a very busy schedule, and I guess I contribute it for having a particularly large wishlist filled with a bunch of toys.

Anyway, I'm here to talk about polls and stuff. Not sure if it's on anyone's actual wish list (and if it is, please give me a call and I'll say you're welcome) but here we go.

Committee News
I don't think anything in particular happened aside from hot delicious egg nog being served. We did host the usual Christmas-themed poll in the week of Christmas so I hope you voted what you want, and we'll make sure we mail the results to Santa so you can get the game you want.

Analysis

 * Future Paper Mario titles: Unsurprisingly, people prefer that the Paper Mario series would stick back to its original roots than the series continue to be a experimental mash-up of different colors to see which color looks the best. Paint and stickers should be kept as part of the aesthetics, not be part of the central gameplay.
 * Do you tend to agree or disagree with Metacritic scores of Mario games?: Despite how much publishers love to advertise Metacritic scores on the front of their boxes and how much internet wars have been started over brightly colored numbers in boxes (I mean seriously, just look at the user review scores for some games, namely Mafia III and No Man's Sky), the vast majority of people simply do not care about the quantitative value the game has to random reviewers. It's nice to agree to disagree, isn't it?
 * How often do you buy Downloadable Content (DLC)? The ever so controversial practice of including DLC has only been in a select few Mario games. According to the poll results, people are lukewarm to the idea of DLC, but they're not frothing at their mouths at the opportunity to pay for much additional content. More people apparently don't ever buy DLC than people love to buy it but it's only by, like, a hair or so.
 * How often do you patrol our MarioWiki Recent Changes?  The results of this poll indicates that the majority of users who vote in these polls are not regular editors and therefore, do not ever need to check our highly addictive drug so you can watch like a hawk to see which useless prey to devour and undo their edits. Lucky ducks, I say.

Conclusion
None of these poll results are particularly surprising, but it's still always interesting to see the results of mindsets of random people who vote in our convenience sampling poll because you never know when you'll achieve surprising results which does happen.

We'll be looking forward to what Mario game you want the most for Christmas. And if not, maybe a nongame Mario product like various amiibo will suffice. I know for sure that I want some new Mario amiibo. So uh, have a great Christmas, with the closing of 2016, and we all hope your cookies and milk will be gone by sunrise of December 26th. Check out next year, 2017, with and he'll show you what he's got.

Retro Feature
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Hello, readers! I'm your Spotlight manager and Pipe Plaza Director, Yoshi876. Welcome to Retro Feature, a section in which I delve deep into the archives to bring you the best blasts from the past. This time I bring you a section from a previously featured writer: Marioguy1.

I'm not going to delve into the history of Marioguy1, as I've done that before, instead I'm going to let you enjoy one of my favourite sections from The 'Shroom: Fading Into Obscurity. Sadly, that section seems to have faded into obscurity.

The 'Shroom Report
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HI, everyone! I'm your gift-wrapped Statistics Manager, Tucayo, here with a very festive version of The 'Shroom Report! What's festive about it, you ask? There will be Christmas trees 🎄. To refresh your memory, here's how this section works: in the Milestones section, writers will get mentioned every 10 team sections and every 50 all-time sections, teams will get mentioned every 100 sections, and The 'Shroom will get mentioned every 500 sections 🎄. All information is based off our Historical Sheets 🎄. This section will cover Issue 116 🎄.

This is the perfect place to mention an error that was pointed out to me in the Writer History spreadsheet and other mistakes that were noticed by me after learning of that error. and were mistakenly credited with five Main/Staff sections written in 2009 (before they were both registered). This error was due to the cell coloring being accidentally copied from 's row, which had happened before. When counting all of the remaining sections, the totals are brought to 47 and 19, respectively. Similarly, was credited for a nonexistent section in 2007 and  had one in 2009. These errors have been corrected, I apologize for this situation. If you see any errors in any of our spreadsheets, please let me know.

Tables are based off the End-of-the-Year Awards tables, so credit goes out to.

From Issue I (January '07) to VIII (October '07), it was WarioLoaf who held the record for most sections written; from VIII to XXIII (February '09) it was Xzelion; then came Stoob to tie on Issue XXIII; then it was myself from Issue XXIV (March '09) to 116 (November '16); and now, starting with Issue 116, it's going to be none other than Yoshi876, and there truly is no one more deserving of this honor than him. From his first section in Issue LXXVI (July '13), he has gone on to write a staggering 306 sections, having written a substantial amount of sections for each of our teams and over 120 sections this year alone. That's an average of over ten sections per issue, which is more than most teams have each month. And don't think for a second they're short sections, I can assure you they are detailed, well-written, and interesting sections. Congratulations to 876, may we have many more of his sections!

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