MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Create a separate page for Koopa Clown (Discuss) Deadline: December 11, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Pink Donkey Kong Jr. to Donkey Kong Jr. (Discuss) Deadline: December 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Split Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U into and  (Discuss) Deadline: December 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Young Professor E. Gadd with Professor E. Gadd (Discuss) Deadline: December 13, 2014 23:59 GMT
 * Merge Toad with Toad (species) (Discuss) Deadline: December 20, 2014 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
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New features
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Removals
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Split all Smash Bros. special moves into separate articles
The first article that really brought this to my attention was Falco Lombardi's section, because jesus, but with five individual games to grab information and images from, the special moves for the Smash characters are starting to become a bit bloated. Not to Falco's extent, mind you, but nearly all of them have the potential to be as disorganized. The newest installment introduced two variant special moves for every special move as well, which just further stockpiles more words and images to the sections. It's gotten to the point where having individual articles for them is simply better for tidiness, but individual pages will also allow more fleshed-out explanations of the moves, including images from all the games, more detailed explanations of the moves' intricacies (without seeping too much into SSBWiki's level of detail), better explanations of differences between installments... Besides the fact that we're giving articles to every other Smash Bros. element under the sun, and the fact that we are certainly no stranger to special moves (case in point, we've given articles to everyone's individual basketball dunks), and as mentioned in the coverage policy, "everything appearing in the games gets articles"... This is basically the next step. I'm aware of the previous proposal to merge them all, but as evidenced by recent proposals, our standards for importance have changed.

Proposer: Deadline: December 6, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per my proposal.
 * 2) I've been wanting to do this for years. As 'kazo said at one point, the more articles, the better. We cover Smash Bros. fully. We should cover all special moves and Final Smashes, especially since all are major aspects of Smash Bros. that are given a name. Hell, Air Dodge, Shield, and Footstool Jump all have articles. This category shouldn't be bare as it is right now, and this proposal will answer questions our potential readers have raised. Also, for those who think we're becoming SmashWiki 2.0, actually, that's a slippery slope argument. SmashWiki talks about strategies, character viability, move viability, combo potential, DACUS, wave-dashing, SHFFL, famous competitive players, famous tourneys, palette swaps, Sakurai angles, and a ton other Smash Bros. jargon and nitty bitty mechanics we won't even breahte on. Special moves, on the other hand are a crucial aspect of Smash Bros. that all players are familiar with unlike the aforementioned crap I've listed. So, yeah, full support for this.
 * 3) - Per proposal, per policy. The 5th-level header clutter in History sections caused by the SSB Special Moves has bugged me for years, and now that we're giving all the SSB subjects articles again, splitting them out fixes both the clutter and the coverage gap. It ain't 2008 no more: the times have changed.
 * 4) If we are doing special moves from Mario:Rpg, we should do these games too.
 * 5) Yes please, per all.
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) Per all
 * 11) Per all.
 * 12) Per all.
 * 13) &mdash; Per Time Turner and Walkazo. This proposed policy falls within our coverage and will serve to better organize the wiki.
 * 14) Per all.
 * 15) Per all.

Split the Badges of Paper Mario and The Thousand-Year Door into separate articles
'''Note: This proposal is not advocating to split the lists from the Badge article into separate articles. It is advocating for every single badge in those lists to have their own, respective articles. This is to prevent any confusion.'''

I'm well aware that I'm going on a bit of a splitting spree with these proposals, but stick with me for a second.

Yes, we already have lists on the main Badge page that seemingly sets up all of the badges' info in a tidy manner, but there are quite a few elements that could be added. Names in other languages, in-game descriptions (both on pick-up and in the journal), synergies/conflicts with other badges, better explanations of where they can be found besides "this whole area"... Besides, is there any real reason why they shouldn't have articles besides consistency? I mean, they're basically regular items that have permanent effects instead of one-off effects (there are quite a few that also act as special moves), and we have plenty of articles on items that are basically masquerading as keys to the next level, or even literal keys. I feel like there's certainly enough information to substantiate each and every one of these badges. For this proposal, the badges from Paper Mario and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will be the only ones covered (though discussion could lead to changes), since there are notable differences between the PM badges and the M&L badges and I'd like to take baby steps before diving in.

Proposer: Deadline: December 13, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Articles For All

 * 1) Per.
 * 2) I agree. It's a good idea.

Comments
@Baby Luigi: I think you've misread what this proposal wants to do...
 * Well crap. 16:31, 6 December 2014 (EST)

Miscellaneous
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