MarioWiki:Proposals

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How To
 * 1) Actions that users feel are appropriate to have community approval first can be added by anyone, but they must have a strong argument.
 * 2) Users then vote and discuss on the issue during that week. The "deadline" for the proposal is one week from posting at:
 * 3) Monday to Thursday: 17:00 (5pm)
 * 4) Friday and Saturday: 20:00 (8pm)
 * 5) Sunday: 15:00 (3pm)
 * 6) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it.
 * 7) At any time a vote may be rejected if at least three active users believe the vote truly has no merit or was cast in bad faith. However, there must be strong reasons supporting the invalidation.
 * 8) " # " should be added under the last vote of each support/oppose section to show another blank line.
 * 9) Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM." The original proposer then has the option to relist said proposal to generate more discussion.
 * 10) All proposals are archived. The original proposer must take action accordingly if the outcome of the proposal dictates it. If it requires the help of a sysop, the proposer can ask for that help.
 * 11) Proposals can not be made about System Operator promotions and demotions. Sysops can only be promoted and demoted by the will of Bureaucrats.
 * 12) There shouldn't be proposals about creating articles on a underrepresented or completely absent subject, unless there is major disagreement about whether the content should be included. To organize efforts about completing articles on missing subjects, try creating a PipeProject.

The times are in EDT, and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after work/school, weekend nights). If a proposal is added on Saturday night at 11:59 PM EDT, the deadline is the next Saturday night at 8:00 PM. If it is a minute later, the deadline is a day plus 15 hours (Sunday), as opposed to a day minus 4 hours.

CURRENTLY: , 27 2024 (EST)

Word From a Mario Game of the Day
I propose a "Word From a Mario Game of the Day" feature, or "Word of the Day" I don't care what it's called. It would be sort of like "quote of the day" except it features a unique word. For example, "scintillating" which was said by Professor Frankly in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, is a prime example of a big, juicy word uttered in a Mario game (or Wario game, DK game, whatever is good.) Now a younger, or even an older editor may see these words, be interested in the word (for it came from a game he loves), and look up the word. These words, (be they big, odd, or uncommon words, or even old words like "verily", can stay with the Mario wiki editor forever. It can make them better editors to have a more extensive vocab.  Or it can be just for fun for most words added.  It can even be a Mushroom Kingdomey related type of word.  It can even have words from other languages, i.e., "Fantastico".  Anything big or interesting (such as "chortle" by that Demon Chest from TTYD?).  Mariowikite: "Oh, yeah!  I love that evil creature trapped in a chest from TTYD!  That's right I remember now!  He said, "I can't help but chortle!  I'm gunna look that up and add it to my every day vocabulary!"  It is scientifically proven that the best way to learn something is through association with something you love.  How 'bout it?  A lot of the words might come from Super Paper Mario, as it has more colorful words, such as "discombobulated", than you can shake a stick at! This isn't just some educational thing, more just an interesting feature.

Proposer: Deadline: February 4, 2009, 17:00

Oppose

 * 1) - Frankly, this feature sounds pretty strange, considering we already have a "Quote of the Day." It would also clutter up the main page even more than it already is, and we don't want that, do we? Additionally, it would be extremely hard to implement this feature to be automatic, and users would have to change the word every day themselves. There would be disagreements on the word choice, as well. And I don't want to leave it to the sysops to make a list or always do it themselves, and they would be the only ones who wouldn't argue about stuff.
 * 2) - Per Bloc Partier.
 * 3) - Per Bloc Partier.
 * 4) - Per all.
 * 5) - ... Only one word? That's incredibly pointless.
 * 6) - Per All
 * 7) - Per all. Also, if you want to expand peoples' vocabulary, just inject the fancy language into the articles. If they want, the readers can look the words up, but even if they don't, the context will give them some idea of what it all means, and learning through osmosis can be just as effective.
 * 8) - Per All.
 * 9) - Per Bloc Partier, and my concerns stated in my Comment below.
 * 10) - An unusual proposal, I do believe. As Bloc Partier (a.k.a. InfectedShroom) said, we do have a "Quote of the Day" section on the home page, and a "Word of the Day" section on the home page would merely clog it up. Per Bloc Partier and his opposal of the proposal.
 * 11) Incredibly pointless. Per all. -Canama
 * 12)  -Per ALLLLL.  I hope this makes amends for what I did.

Comments
Note: When creating a Proposal, create a Comments subsection after the Support and Oppose. I had to create this section.

Well, I can't decide whether to Support or Oppose. I don't really think it's necessary to have something similar as well as the already-existing Quote of the Day, and the Main Page is already quite cluttered. Also, if a person who played a game was really intrigued by a word used in a Mario game, I'm sure they would have looked it up at the time. And I think most younger users would already be learning new words by playing a wordy Mario game (the RPGs mainly), as it's necessary to understand the story. So yeah, I can see your good reasoning behind adding this feature, but I just thought I'd point out those things. Until further discussion, I am undecided.

Well I'm surprised it looks like it's not going to pass. You CAN make it automatic; I know atleast a good 100 words that could be used that can randomly generate each day. Oh, someone who doesn't know a big word from an RPG will look it up? No they won't, they are focusing on the game. Unless they have a pen and paper to write down a good word, (Which was implemented most brilliantly by the producers of the game), they're not going to write the word down and remember to look it up! Even if they are interested later on, odds are they won't remember the word! They will just go on playing. But if they see a good word on while online, on their favorite site (Mariowiki), it will be most easy to look the word up right away. Obviously it was important to the game makers and the translator's from Nintendo of America for the language they use to stay with and touch the gamers. To quote dialouge from the games. Who plays with a pen and paper handy to write down interesting words? And it is just one word, and maybe the title of the game it was used in, that is it. Nothing more. Not much space. Hardly no space taken up whatsoever. It will just take up a tiny square. It can go right under the quote of the day. There is nothing wrong with changing your votes, to those who have voted in opposition.


 * I know you wanna win this proposal, but you're losing by 1-7, so it's very difficult to change the opposers' opinions. Also, the one who should decide where in the Main Page this feature would go is Steve. And I understand Dom's point. If someone gets intrigued by a word, they certainly would look it up to see what it means. The "Word of the Day" feature would be a smaller "Quote of the Day" in my opinion. Just it.
 * Yay, a user understood my point.


 * Yeah. I never even look at the quote of the day. Also, If they truly cared about the "interesting" word, they'd remember it. I've never even seen a word I didn't know in a video game, anyway. :\

While many users such as me, Bloc Partier and the others who opposed may be slightly biased against you because we're probably the users who have extensive vocabularies, I can assure you that one would not need pen and paper to remember a word. Seriously, if a word was really that interesting, you would just remember it at least until you look it up later. You'd have to have amnesia if you need to rely on writing implements, unless it was an ultra-complicated word like at a university lecture about astrophysics (which it isn't... it's a video game aimed at young gamers). Oh, and I was actually going to Oppose when I first saw this, but I had a weird feeling that on the off chance it gets supported by many, I would be the only one Opposing. It turns out I would have been safe from embarrassment... so now I've Opposed. Sorry...

Walkazo: Osmosis? Isn't that some process where water travels through a cell membrane? Uh, sorry, I just had to say that. To make this comment relevant, I agree with the opposers; having one word from a Mario game each day sounds kinda strange and pointless, because the word itself doesn't have to do with Mario. And teaching people new words isn't our job as a Mario Wiki.
 * I change my vote! This totally wasn't my idea; some hacker made me make this proposal at gunpoint!!!

Removals
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