MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split Fire Flower (the Special Attack) section of Mario & Luigi series into a new article named . (Discuss) Deadline: December 19, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Rearrange List of power-ups to sort by power-up, not debuting game. (Discuss) Deadline: December 26, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Decide if Spikes are a derived species of Koopas. (Discuss) Deadline: December 28, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split from Rope (Discuss) Deadline: December 29, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split The Brain from Poltergeist (Discuss) Deadline: December 31, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split from Sales Bunny, or remove Sales Bunny altogether (Discuss) Deadline: January 1, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Split the Trophy information from Super Smash Bros. into a new page named (Discuss) Deadline: January 1, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Removals
None at the moment.

The Wording on Proposals Archived by Their Proposer
As you know, nowadays, whenever someone archives their own proposal, it is filed under "DELETED BY PROPOSER." It used to be the case that it would say "WITHDRAWN BY PROPOSER" instead. I bring this up because saying "deleted" is wrong. Deleting is more along the lines of removing altogether; this wording is odd in the case we're using it with. Here are some scenarios:

Deleted: Removed entirely from the wiki. Removed: Removed entirely from the wiki. Withdrawn: Voluntarily archived.

I'm sure there are others that could work but these are the only ones I can think of.

The two on top are misleading. The proposals aren't being obliterated from existence, except for some cases. When someone archives a proposal voluntarily because they don't want it up, they aren't really deleting it per se, only withdrawing it.

Finally, this wouldn't affect proposals vetoed by the admins and archived; they always have the wording "VETOED BY THE ADMINISTRATION." This would only affect ones removed by the proposer.

Proposer: Deadline: December 26, 2015, 23:59 GMT

Change the Wording

 * 1) My proposal.

Do Nothing

 * 1) - Seeing as most pass/fail messages are customized and unique, I feel like it's not worth bending over backwards to make the cancellation messages uniform. "Deleted" is by far the most popular choice, especially in older archives, and it works perfectly well unless you want to be really pedantic; "cancelled" and "removed" have been used as well and are also fine (but really, as long as it's grey, that's what matters most). It's simpler to just let users continue to choose whatever wording they want as long as it's clear, concise and professional, regardless of whether their proposal passed, failed or was taken down early.

Comments
For such administrators actions, it's better to contact them directly. I don't think it's important to move this thing through the slow process of proposals.-- 17:01, 19 December 2015 (EST)

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.