MarioWiki:Proposals

Writing guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
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Removals
None at the moment.

Change how we display staff ghost information in race course infoboxes
Currently, all of the relevant information is plain text, with one line showing the time, player, and game; and another, smaller line beneath it showing their character and vehicle. This worked for some time, but now we're in the age of 8 Deluxe. We have wheels and gliders and the CC to fit down there. The smaller "line" is spilling into two lines. Tokyo Blur's 150cc has so much to convey, it looks like this:

1:36.317 by Nin★Yuya (8 Deluxe) (Blue Inkling Boy with the Splat Buggy, Blue Standard, and Super Glider) (150cc)

At this point, I feel like it no longer makes sense to display staff ghosts this way. I propose we do it like this:

This 2x2 grid shows the game (and CC), the name of the ghost, and the ghost's time. In the bottom right, we show the ghost's character and vehicle combination as a line of icons, similar to how 8 Deluxe shows them. These would go under an expandable header near the music samples and course maps.

Here is a demonstration page where you can see these in action for Yoshi Circuit, as well as see them for other games in the series.

While I'm very open to recommendations for how to improve and better implement these, I think this 2x2 grid layout is the best way to cleanly show many staff ghosts' information in a compact space.

Proposer: Deadline: March 24, 2023, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1)  Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) I honestly can't think of any other way to present ghost information other than yours, per proposal.
 * 4) Per all.
 * 5) Per proposal. I honestly think it would look much better this way. Plus, we have these sprites, it honestly just looks better to use them like this.
 * 6) Per proposal.

Comments
@Ahemtoday: I'm all for this proposal, but wouldn't it make more sense for it to go under the "changes" section? This isn't exactly a new feature to me. It's more of a change. Mari0fan100 (talk) 21:42, March 17, 2023 (EDT)
 * I also agree, this should be probably moved to the "changes" section. 21:47, March 17, 2023 (EDT)

Miscellaneous
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