MarioWiki:Proposals

Writing guidelines
None at the moment.

Create a "character/species" infobox
So as time has gone on, we've gotten to where entities can be interchangeably considered characters and species. Some of these, like Yoshi, Toad, and Kamek/Magikoopa, have enough respective information they can stay split relatively soundly. Others, like Draggadon, Dorrie, Koopa Kid, and Wiggler (to an extent) are not split, and doing so would be inconvenient both to read and to write and would more than likely require fancrufting to decide where the distinction lays. Others, like Birdo, Boom Boom, Krusha, and Klump probably should be merged due to how their creators treat them wholly interchangeably as a character or species, but are still split nonetheless. The main reason I see preventing that (as well as making the already-merged ones a bit awkward) is having to decide which infobox to use: character or species?

My proposed solution is simple: just have a combined infobox for wider-interpreted entities. This way, we can say other members of a species and their relatives while still acknowledging the "character" aspect exists to whatever extent it does in that particular case. I have code below, view page source to see. It includes all the main important facets (including the "relatives" parameter I didn't realize we'd implemented...) without any redundant parameters like "species."

Proposer: Deadline: April 16, 2020, 23:59 (GMT)

Support

 * 1) Per proposal
 * 2) Per Doc's reasons, he's already done something similar on a wiki we've been working on. This isn't completely related, but one reason I'd support is because the current species infobox have parameters like   which displays "Variant of"--this makes the source name inconsistent with the displayed name. It would be great if we could change these parameters, which I've been wanting for a while.
 * 3) Well, I think having a unified template can help as an initial step in trying to approach this character/species oddity, even though at the beginning it might be used just for a few cases like Draggadon and Dorrie
 * 4) Sounds like a good idea, and honestly, Boom Boom should have just been merged a long time ago as the two separate articles are pretty much duped: we can easily make a general Boom Boom article and note discrepancies in their general information section surrounding the inconsistency.
 * 5) Per proposal.
 * 6) I don't really want to go down the "merging characters and species" rabbit hole, but admittedly that's just me clinging to nostalgia and this would probably be better for organization.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) Doc's got the right idea, it's a small step at the moment but it'll be something.
 * 10) Per all.
 * 11) As they say, "why can't we do both"?

Comments
Not sure how I feel about this right now, but this got me thinking - why don't species infoboxes already have a section for portrayals? Shy Guy and Wiggler come to mind as enemies that could benefit from it, and it's a lot neater than just throwing it in the opening somewhere, or worse, neglecting to mention it at all. -- 12:03, April 9, 2020 (EDT)

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