MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Frog Mario with Frog Koopa (Discuss) Deadline: May 10, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Remerge Star Hill with Star Hill (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time) (Discuss) Deadline: May 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Mario Kart 8 course table change (Discuss) Deadline: May 15, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Move Rosalina to (Discuss) Deadline: May 16, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Bowser X with each other (Discuss) Deadline May 22, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Split Mario Land into Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins) and Mario Land (Mario Party 2). (Discuss) Deadline May 23, 2014, 23:59 GMT.

Writing Guidelines
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New features
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Removals
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Change the design of Species infoboxes
So, I've been checking out some other NIWA wikis an I noticed that many of them have more informative and organized species templates than this wiki's. I thought of this design that, besides separating the informations by type, it also avoids irregularity.

Just some notes. In the draft I linked above, the right one is for species that appear as enemies and don't live in a single land (like Goombas and Pokeys). The left one is for other species (mostly friendly NPCs) that are shown to be a population of one or more determined areas (like the Flip-Flop Folk and Pi'illos). In this infobox, the headers would not show up if there is not any info under them. I'm also trying to come up with a better word than Location. If anyone's got any ideas, we can change it if the proposal passes.

Proposer: Deadline: May 10, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Change it

 * 1) - Per my proposal.

Don't change it

 * 1) Per Mario in the comments.
 * 2) Also Per Mario.
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) - Per myself and Mario in the comments.
 * 5) I'm surprised people perred me because I thought it's just a little nitpick. Oh well, I'm not liking the new design. Per myself and 'kazo.
 * 6) } &mdash; Per all.

Comments
Infoboxes in general could probably benefit from some work: making blank sections not show up would be a plus, but I think our current row-by-row approach is good (it just needs to be set-up so that the rows always alternate colours, but if it can be done for nav templates, I'm sure infoboxes can be automated like that too). Having sub-headers just adds unnecessary area (extra lines, and more blank space), and the location stuff seems more like speculating or otherwise interpreting the info, rather than just presenting hard facts at a glance. The "related" and "subspecies" also shouldn't be collapsed by default, I think, since having long lists that need collapsing is the exception, not the rule. -

As 'kazo said earlier, I don't like the way the "location" aspect is handled. The article content itself is already adequate to give readers a clue where enemies are typically located. And we have Goombas, which occur nearly everywhere. 14:28, 3 May 2014 (EDT)

The "Type" part is also quite ridiculous. This isn't Pokemon...--Vommack (talk) 19:09, 8 May 2014 (EDT)
 * I suppose it's not very effective. http://forum.mariowiki.com/Smileys/default/dk.gif 16:57, 9 May 2014 (EDT)
 * This change doesn't affect this user.... Why do you want to change it anyway? We can have our own, unique species box. -  17:04, 9 May 2014 (EDT)

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.