MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Mario Stadium (Itadaki Street DS) with Mario Stadium (baseball stadium) (Discuss) Deadline: October 18, 2013, 23:59 GMT. Passed.
 * Delete Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars bestiary (Discuss) Deadline: November 12, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Create writing guideline for reception and sales sections

 * Draft: User:Glowsquid/Brain Palace

Another week, another writing guideline! Kids love those, right?

Anyway, the few sections about the critical and commercial performance of a given game have no consistent format and they are (as usual for "real world" subjects) rather weak. As such, I think it would be a good idea to create a guideline page to give an idea of how they should be organised and pointers on how to write them.

I've made a draft for such a guideline page here. I've been told it looks ok. What do you think?

Proposer: Deadline: November 3, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) - per proposal
 * 2) – Par propusel.
 * 3) I think it's fine.
 * 4) Per proposal.
 * 5) Por prapasal.
 * 6) - Per Glowsquid.
 * 7) - Per proposal and Baby Luigi's comment.
 * 8) - Per Baby Luigi's comment. The table makes everything more organized.
 * 9) - Per proposal
 * 10) It has always bothered me that we don't have a consistent format for reception on the games, so this proposal addresses this.
 * 11) - Per Glowsquid (including in the comments).

Comments
Maybe we could use Wikipedia as inspiration as what to the reception section looks like? This looks nicely organized, and it has a great table to boot. Before y'all shoot me down for saying, "WE'RE NOT WIKI PEDIA BLAH BLAH BLAH" at least take my suggestion into consideration: there's a reason they do this and I don't see why not: I like the nicely organized table and I think it would improve the section more.
 * It looks great!-- 17:09, 20 October 2013 (EDT)

Should we include reception for subjects other than games? Again, looking at Wikipedia, they have reception towards some of the characters and the game consoles.

@table suggestion: That's something I considered, though I'd rather have "our" own template rather than copying Wikipedia's, for various reasons.

@reception for things that are not games: That's something I didn't think of, and I think it could be workable, but more on a case-by-case basis.

The problem with Wikipedia's reception sections for characters and other fictional elements is that they, most of the time, only exist to establish the notability criteria required by Wikipedia policy and thus are little more than a ridiculous collection of inane statements of no use or interest to anybody. However, illustrating Mario's popularity and relevance to pop culture is certainly something that should be done. Additionally, if someone at Nintendo comes out and say something like "We changed Birdo's characters due to the criticism it received" or "We redesigned the Blue Shell due to players feedback", giving exemples of audience reaction to provide context to the statement would also make sense. --Glowsquid (talk) 15:38, 22 October 2013 (EDT)

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