MarioWiki:Proposals

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r149/Deadringerforlove/dessert1.jpg A proposal section works like a discussion page: comments are brought up and replied to using indents (colons, such as : or ::::) and all edits are signed using the code.

This page observes the No-Signature Policy.

How To
 * 1) Actions that users feel are appropriate to have community approval first can be added by anyone, but they must have a strong argument.
 * 2) Users then start to discuss on the issue. 24 hours after posting the proposal (rounding up or down to the next or previous full hour, respectively, is allowed), the voting period begins. (The proposer is allowed to support their proposal right after posting.) Each proposal ends at the end of the day one week after voting start. (All times GMT).
 * 3) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it. Agreeing or seconding a previously mentioned reason given by another user is accepted.
 * 4) Users who feel that certain votes were cast in bad faith or which truly have no merit can address the votes in the Comments section. Users can ask a voter to clarify their position, point out mistakes or flaws in their arguments, or call for the outright removal of the vote if it lacks sufficient reasoning. Users may not remove or alter the content of anyone else's votes. The voter can remove or rewrite his/her own vote at any time, but the final decision to remove another User's vote lies solely with the Administrators.
 * 5) All proposals that end up in a tie will be extended for another week.
 * 6) If a proposal has more than ten votes, it can only pass or fail by a margin of three votes. If a proposal reaches the deadline and the total number of votes for each option differ by two or less votes, the deadline will be extended for another week.
 * 7) Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM." The original proposer then has the option to relist said proposal to generate more discussion.
 * 8) No proposal can overturn the decision of a previous proposal that is less than 4 weeks (28 days) old.
 * 9) Proposals can only be rewritten or deleted by their proposer within the first three days of their creation. However, the proposer can request that their proposal be deleted by a Sysop at any time, provided they have a valid reason for it.
 * 10) All proposals are archived. The original proposer must take action accordingly if the outcome of the proposal dictates it. If it requires the help of a Sysop, the proposer can ask for that help.
 * 11) There shouldn't be proposals about creating articles on a underrepresented or completely absent subject, unless there is major disagreement about whether the content should be included. To organize efforts about completing articles on missing subjects, try creating a PipeProject.
 * 12) Proposals cannot be made about System Operator promotions and demotions. Sysops can only be promoted and demoted by the will of Bureaucrats.
 * 13) If the Sysops deem a proposal unnecessary or potentially detrimental to the upkeep of the Super Mario Wiki, they have the right to remove it at any time.
 * 14) No joke proposals. Proposals are serious wiki matters, and should be handled professionally. Joke proposals will be deleted on sight.

The times are in GMT, and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after work/school, weekend nights). If a proposal is added on Monday night at 23:59 GMT, the deadline is the night of the Tuesday of the next week at 23:59 PM. If it is posted a minute later, the deadline is 23:59 PM of the Wednesday of the next week, since midnight is considered to be part of the next day, as 00:00 AM.

Basic Proposal and Support/Oppose Format
This is an example how your proposal should look like, if you want it to be acknowledged. If you are inexperienced or unsure how to set up this format, simply copy the following and paste it into the fitting section. Then replace the [subject] - variables with information to customize your proposal, so it says what you wish. If you insert the information, be sure to replace the whole variable including the squared brackets, so "[insert info here]" becomes "This is the inserted information", not "[This is the inserted information]". - ===[insert a title for your Proposal here]=== [describe what issue this Proposal is about and what changes you think should be made to improve how the Wiki handles that issue]

Proposer: Voting start: [insert a voting start time here, f.e. "2 January, 2010, 14:00". Voting start times are 24 hours after the time at which the proposal was posted, as described in Rule 2 above.] Deadline: [insert a deadline here, 7 days after the voting start, at 23:59 GMT.]

====Support====
 * 1) [make a statement indicating that you support your proposal]

====Oppose====

====Comments==== - Users will now be able to vote on your Proposal, until the set deadline is reached. Remember, you are a user as well, so you can vote on your own Proposal just like the others.

To support, or oppose, just insert " # at the bottom of the section of your choice. Just don't forget to add a valid reason for your vote behind that tag if you are voting on anoother user's Proposal. If you are voting on your own Proposal, you can just say "Per my Proposal".

Talk Page Proposals
All proposals dealing with a single article or a specific group of articles are held on the talk page of one of the articles in question. Proposals dealing with massive amounts of splits, merges or deletions across the Wiki should still be held on this page.

How To

 * 1) All active talk page proposals must be listed below in chronological order (new proposals go at the bottom). All pages effected must be mentioned in the brief description, with the talk page housing the discussion linked to directly via "". If the proposal involved a page that is not yet made, use to communicate its title. The Deadline must also be included in the entry. Linking to pages not directly involved in the talk page proposal is not recommended, as it clutters the list with unnecessary links. Place  under the heading.
 * 2) All rules for talk page proposals are the same as mainspace proposals (see the "How To" section above), with the exceptions made by Rules 3 and 4 as follows:
 * 3) Voting in talk page proposals will be open for two weeks, not one. There is no 24 hour delay between the posting of a talk page proposal and the commencement of voting.
 * 4) Talk page proposals may closed by the proposer if both the support and the oppose sides each have fewer than five votes.
 * 5) The talk page proposal must pertain to the article it is posted on.

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split / from Goomba. (Discuss). Passed
 * Change Sunglasses Salesman into (Discuss). Deadline: July 29 2010, 24:00
 * Merge all the Rocs into the Roc article. (Discuss). Deadline: July 31, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World into Super Mario World. (Discuss). Deadline: August 2 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 into Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. (Discuss). Deadline: August 2 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Super Mario Advance into Super Mario Bros. 2. (Discuss). Deadline: August 3 2010, 24:00
 * Split from Monty Mole. (Discuss). Deadline: August 3 2010, 23:59
 * Merge Davy Bones' Locker into Davy Bones. (Discuss). Deadline: August 3, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge all Status Ailments. (Discuss). Deadline: August 3, 2010, 24:00
 * Split from Krow. (Discuss). Deadline: August 4 2010, 23:59
 * Merge Fire Necky's Nest into Fire Necky. (Discuss). Deadline: August 4, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Star Coin Sign into Star Coin. (Discuss). Deadline: August 5, 2010, 24:00
 * Delete Princess Peach's Crown. (Discuss). Deadline: August 5, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge all Super Strikes into the Super Strike article. (Discuss). Deadline: August 6, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Risky Reef into Aqua World. (Discuss). Deadline: August 8, 2010, 24:00
 * Split 1-Up Super from 1-Up Mushroom. (Discuss). Deadline: July 10 2010, 24:00 August 8 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Star Power (Paper Mario) to Star Power. (Discuss). Deadline: August 8 2010, 24:00.
 * Merge Shroob Castle Cellar into Shroob Castle. (Discuss). Deadline: August 10, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Puzzle Panel into Puzzle Panic. (Discuss). Deadline: August 11, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge Offensive Power Shots into Offensive Power Shot and Defensive Power Shots in Defensive Power Shot. (Discuss). Deadline: August 11, 2010, 24:00
 * Merge all of the fields in Super Mario Strikers into one article. (Discuss). Deadline: August 11, 2010, 18:30
 * Merge Save Album into Save Block (Discuss). Deadline: August 11, 2010, 24:00
 * Delete Engine Size OR merge it into the Mario Kart series aticle. (Discuss). Deadline: August 12, 2010, 18:30

New Video Page
I don't know if this is really a proposal (it is more like an idea) but why not make a page where Users can post videos of gameplay etc. I think it would be cool to show people new skills, action, and ideas.

Proposer: Voting start:12:15, 28 July 2010 (UTC) Deadline: 24:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

I like it

 * 1) I think this is a great idea. It may be a lot like youtube but, some people don't go on youtube.
 * 2) That is a really good Idea!
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) The channel will be called MarioWiki:Videos and per all.
 * 5) Good idea anyway.
 * 6) Great idea! We could have rules on what content you can and can't put in videos (i.e. you can say "crap" but not any cuss words). If someone puts something offensive in a video people can flag it. If the video gets flagged sysops can review the video, delete it and give the user who posted it a warning.
 * 7) Per all.

I dislike it

 * 1) This idea has been suggested before and opposed to. We have YouTube for this. Go to YouTube and upload videos there. If people also want to view videos, they shouldn't be here.
 * 2) Horrible idea to have Youtube videos on our wiki per BLOF.
 * 3) I hate Youtube, though. Per all.
 * 4) We had this before. Stupid idea. Mariowiki isn't as famous so it NEEDS a youtube page anyways. People can just create individual accounts.
 * 5) I am Zero! That is a horrible idea, why do we need that; the SMW is not a chat/forum to share stuff on large scales. Zero signing out.
 * 6) Basically per BLOF. Though the OTHER one had 3 users vote for to have it, that (I think) was outmatched by 16. And my comment as well goes for a matter... (The LOADING TIME! Videos would more or likely slow to a browser time-out.)
 * 7) If we do this, I will probably not be able to browse the wiki as much on my DSi Browser (it can't load videos very well). And per all.
 * 8) Per All.
 * 9) Well, we do not need a page of YouTube videos, we are not a social website, we are an encyclopedia. If we were to make a page like that, it would be decremental to our quality as an encyclopedia.
 * 10) Per 4DJONG.
 * 11) Per all.
 * 12) You could just have another window.

Comments
I don't actually dislike the idea, but the idea of the video is not needed here. You should change the headers.
 * Or delete this proposal and put the youtube videos onto your userpage.
 * @KS3: What makes you think those places allow youtube videos? I know ZW and youtube do and IDK about WK but I know UP doesn't.

I am Zero! Would this be considered a joke proposal? Zero signing out.

Seems pointless...and if we even HAD one, the loading time would go haywire...

Why just youtube though? Youtube is a worse source than wikipedia, and admins call wikipedia a bad source for things like release dates and the such.
 * That's the only video site I know. There are tons of others out there. The internet is not only limited to YouTube.

No, this is a horrible idea because there are A MILLION videos of Mario out there, and people will try to post a million different videos on the page; its just not worth it. Go on youtube itself and search it up.

Set a day for the DYK section to be updated
The original proposer got his account banned and his proposal deleted because of that privilege. However, this proposal brings up a good point, that's why I'm reproposing this. It's just as exactly the same as the last one, just that I'm proposing this. What day shall we update the DYK?

Proposer: Voting start: 23:29, 29 July 2010 (UTC) Deadline: 24:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Comments
BLOF, you still have to describe it in the descriptions, so people who haven't read the old one can understand this.

Saturday, the school-free day. Definitely the best choice for most users when summer is over.

Not for everyone, I heard alot of people have school on Saturday too. How about Sunday? Or do people go to church too much on that day?

I'm usually busy on Sundays. Also, I've never heard of anyone who goes to school on weekends.

Are you serious? Most european people do, and asian people do too. Plus American people who want to be really successful in life do too, but those are like 4% of America.

I've never heard of that, I'm not European or Asian. But I did hear of very few schools that have classes on weekends. Most of the users here are from North America, though, so most of us don't have school on weekends.

Still, though its a international wiki and some of our own sysops came from places other than North America. (Grandy02}


 * Yeah, I heard Europeans don't go to school on Wednesdays or Sundays, but go there every other day, but then again, I could be wrong. People that have school on Saturday (in USA) are usually (not ALWAYS!) failing students.

Not those people who are "nerdy" and work their buttocks off 7 hours a day.

Removals
None at the moment.

Merge all sport moves for each character to their respective articles.
People have been asking this for a long time so I'll just put it here. All individual sport moves each character has like Iron Hammer should be merged into their respective article that the sport move is, which in this case is Offensive Power Shot. This will help prevent stubs and can make navigating alot easier. The main thing is to prevent stubs however, and most of them can't be expanded anymore.

Proposer: Voting start: : 7/30/2010 1:00 GMT Deadline: 8/6/2010 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal
 * 2) I'll say yes

Revamp PAIR system
Not really sure where to put this... Anyways, some of you old users might know that we used to have a way to review articles known as PAIR. However, it was put on hiatus for some reason. It was a really great way to review articles for FA, and, due to the lack of good FA nominees latley, I am proposing we restart the PAIR system with a whole new team of users.

Proposer: Voting Start:21:36, 29 July 2010 Deadline:23:59, August 5, 2010

Support

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) Sounds great even though I haven't done it before.

Comments
What are we going to revamp? (P.S. If this proposal passes, make sure the list thingy follows the No-signature policy.
 * We're revamping PAIR.
 * I know we are revamping it, but WHAT part of PAIR is needing a revamp?
 * Pretty much all of it. You guys know how many articles KS# nominated....

...This is incredibly old. Saudy is there and hes been banned for more than 2 years.
 * Thats cause its OLD. If you will do something as big as this, then you have to say what you will do to improve it.

What about new users like me? What is the PAIR system?
 * Read this to find out.