MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Delete Category: RPG Characters (Discuss) Deadline: August 19, 2013, 23:59 GMT Passed
 * Delete Template:Sprite gallery (Discuss) Deadline: August 22, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Knight Greenie to and add information (Discuss) Deadline: August 24, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Create a separate page for (Discuss) Deadline: August 27, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Venus Fire Trap to (Discuss) Deadline: August 29, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Delete Template:WarioWareChar (Discuss) Deadline: August 31, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Rename Nimbus Person to (Discuss) Deadline: September 3, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment

Removals
None at the moment

Semi-Protect templates
Recently I have noticed that anons have done stupid things in the templates. Take [|this, for example]. We don't want anons putting fake things in the templates. Or [|what about that?] We don't want them putting DS games in the Wii template either. It may not happen a lot, but it still happens and we don't want it.

Proposer: Deadline: August 21, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per my proposal. I still feel stupid I didn't do this earlier...
 * 2) Per proposal. It does happen and major templates that appear on many pages (such as templates listing games or Paper Mario templates, which appear on every item and recipe page) will change all those pages if the template gets vandalized.

Oppose

 * 1) - Per Megadardery in the comments. A couple bad edits is no reason for blanket protection of the templates: we're more likely to prevent good edits than bad edits from happening.
 * 2) Per Megadardery's comment.
 * 3) A vandal is not so enormous a problem.
 * 4) Template aren't usually targeted by vandals, so I don't think protection is needed.

Comments
I got this idea in my mind before, but it is unbelievable to protect all the templates. If we have to protect some, we would protect high usage/complicated templates, mostly like Formatting Templates, Media Templates and Internal Link Templates. However, Navigation Templates, and Infobox Templates should never be protected, because maybe anonymous user finds a problem and tries to fix it. Beside all that, it is still easy to revert any vandal edit, other than complicated templates, because a vandal may make an edit, and another user fix a code somewhere else in the template. So it become hard -but not impossible- to revert it. This is nothing like the last proposal of semi-protecting the Glitches pages, because a vandal may add unreal glitch, which doesn't become hard but almost impossible because we wouldn't know if it is real or not, that is the reason our admins protected them in the first place. -
 * I agree with Megadardery. The glitch lists were protected because they are often a target for vandalism and false info. It's true that anyone can add false information to templates as well, but it only happens once in a while (much less frequently than glitch pages), and are easy enough to revert. –

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.