The 'Shroom:Issue 114/Pipe Plaza

Director’s Notes
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Hello and welcome back to Pipe Plaza! I know I thanked you last month, but in this Awards special it'd seem silly not to thank you voters again for voting us as third best sub-team. As we were one vote short of Critic Corner we have goals for next year. Also, I'd like to thank you all for voting me joint 'Shroom person of the year, it truly is an honour.

Anyway, we have news for Pipe Plaza, is writing Projects Seeking Contributions (he started again last month, but I forgot to mention him :P), and  is our new New Articles writer. There still a few vacant Pipe Plaza positions, so if you want to apply for any of those send an application to and hopefully you'll get the job! Sadly, was unable to write his section this month, but don't worry he will be back next month.

Featured
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Hello 'Shroom readers and welcome back to another edition of Featured, the only place this side of the Mario Wiki where you'll get news about the Mario Wiki Featured Articles.

Featured Articles
One new article has been featured in the past month.
 * Super Mario (franchise) was featured on 30 August 2016.

Re-Featured Articles
No new articles have become re-featured.

FA Nominations
There are no ongoing Featured Article Nomination.

Failed FA Nominations
One new article has failed the featuring process.
 * Donkey Kong Barrel Blast failed on 7 September 2016. It failed due to tense and image quality issues.

Unfeatured Articles
One new article been unfeatured in the past month.
 * Shadow Mario was unfeatured on 30 August 2016. It was unfeatured due to padding, image quality, among other issues.

Unfeaturing Nominations
There is one ongoing Unfeature nominations.
 * Kart was nominated on 31 August 2016. It was nominated due to the article mainly being an inconsistent gallery.

Failed Unfeaturing Nominations
No new articles have failed the unfeaturing process in the past month.

Thanks for reading see you next month, for more Featured Articles news.

Tip of the Month
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When interacting with others on the Proposals page, you should always be respectful. This page is for discussion and decisions, not an edit or flame war. Don't be rude when posting a comment, and be open to new ideas from others. Make sure to stay on discussion as well, and keep in mind the criteria for posting on the Proposals page versus a Talk Page Proposal.

Community Report
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Hi readers and welcome back to the Community Report section. It shows our the latest goings-ons around the Super Mario Wiki – the promotions, the demotions, the recently passed and ongoing proposals.

(credit to for previously developing this coded table system and to  for the alterations made)

NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of September 8th.

That’s all for this issue of the Community Report. Thanks readers to take your time to read this section and remember to participate to ongoing proposals. See you again in October.

New Articles
Written by: Hello everyone! here, ready to give you an up to date look at all the new articles created within the past month.

And that’d be it! A lot of pages made within the last month. Excellent! That’s what we want to see! Keep in mind the writing guidelines for new articles when you create a page. We don’t want any one-line articles, you hear?

Projects Seeking Contributors
Written by: G'day 'shroomers, YoshiKong here. I would like to welcome you to a new edition of Pipe Plaza's Projects Seeking Contributors, a monthly section which summarises the latest projects, collaborations and important discussions which concern the MarioWiki. All readers, regardless of experience or position within our community, are invited to share their opinions and valuable input on the following projects and discussions.

This section of Pipe Plaza is designed to make it easier for you to quickly identify different types of available projects. All projects are organised under three different headers, as presented below. Each header contains a neat table which provides the name of the topic concerned, with a brief summary of what that topic is about and what you can do to help. The sections are further split into projects being discussed on the wiki or respectively.

Projects Seeking Contributors
The following are a selection of projects or special requests which are taking place on wiki talk pages. Please see here for a complete list.

The following have been taken from the.

Discussions Seeking Input
The following are a selection of discussions on the wiki which are in need of input from users. Please see here for a complete list.

The following have been taken from the.

Pinned Projects [[File:Post Sticky Icon.png]]
These are long-running projects, areas of discussion or collaborations which are continuously being worked on towards achievement. They will feature in this section every month.

And that concludes a new edition of Projects Seeking Contributors. I hoped you enjoyed viewing the section. I want to know what you think of the design and arrangement in how projects are presented, so therefore I invite all readers to leave me feedback. You can send me a personal message, or simply fill out this form (external website). My goal is to continuously improve the section's presentation.

Thank you! – YK

Poll Committee Discussion
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Hello! This is Freakworld speaking, and this is the first time I'm writing the Poll Committee Report, and also my first time writing a Pipe Plaza section in general. Yay!

Before we get into last month's polls, I'd like to direct your attention to the fact that we have finally introduced the much wanted "Submit a Poll" feature on the front page of the wiki (It's directly under our weekly poll, if you want to check it out!). Every poll submitted through this feature gets posted on the Committee Staff board, and is reviewed and adjusted, before getting added to the poll queue once we think its of sufficient quality. It is our pleasure to feature the best polls made by the community, for the community, on the Mario Wiki, along with the usual handpicked polls made directly by the committee, plus some special wiki-related polls developed specifically by the Wiki Administrative Staff that will continue to show up once a month.

Now, without further ado, let's discuss some polls!

Analysis

 * "Mario & Luigi" vs. "Paper Mario": With the recent developments in the Paper Mario series that have led some long-time fans to lose confidence in the series, it stands to no surprise that the Mario & Luigi series with its consistent quality wins over the Paper Mario option, albeit by a relatively small margin. However, a lot of Mario RPG fans love all of their RPGs (save for one or maybe two famous examples) equally, and thus the option where nobody is the loser emerges as the second most popular one.
 * Gameplay for the next Mario platformer: Since the person who has written this Poll Committee report was also responsible for designing this poll, I feel obliged to share some background information here. It doesn't surprise me at all that the Super Mario 64-esque option dominated this poll, because that was what I expected upon creating it. My main reason for adding the other options was giving the options to try something fresh (2D-Metroidvania style), or stay with the established linear 2D or 3D formats. This poll clearly shows that many people are not happy with the current direction of the series (or at least not as happy as they'd be if we got another Mario 64), on the other hand it also shows the great amount of people who just seek and find their fun in any type of platformer gameplay, which is of course perfectly alright as well.
 * What do you normally search for on the MarioWiki?: This was actually the first in a monthly series of mostly statistics based polls about the Wiki itself, which are aiming to aid the Wiki Staff in understanding the needs and demands and interests of their community better. This particular poll was also the first one in this term to be designed by an user who is not currently a member of the Poll Committee, being made by Sysop . I think this poll shows very well what our community is most interested in, that being Games, Characters, and News, and will greatly aid the Staff in continuing to develop the Wiki.

In other words, there's some huge things going on in the Poll Committee right now, everyone here is motivated to manage this project for the coming months, and I'm personally especially thrilled to see more community-made polls in the future. Next month you will be blessed by the presence of in this spot here, so be sure to come right back for more stunning Poll News!

Forum Report
Written by: Welcome back to the Forum Update! In this issue, we're looking back at August in some ill-fated attempt to scrape those last drops of enjoyment off the summer.

News
The Awards took place in August. If you want to check out the presentations (which you definitely should), the threads can be found here:


 * Mario Awards X
 * Fail Awards VIII
 * 'Shroom Awards VII
 * User Awards IX

There's more still to come from the Awards, including Awards Mafia and the prizes.

Usernames now appear between a member's avatar and personal text, if it's not the same as their display name.

Statistics
In August, 162 new topics were made, and 7408 posts were made. 25 new members joined. The most online was 266 - the most so far this year - on August 20th.

(Bold means new entry and Italics mean inactive for at least the past month.)

Thread of the Month
August's Thread of the Month went to Anton's I just sent a letter to general mills, documenting Anton's quest to find out what happened to Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Mix. But there's a tragic twist at the end...

Guiliant's official 2016 tier list of the store kitties i saw on my vaycay and MST3K's Daily Mustelid thread were this month's runners-up.

Quotes

 * "I can lose on every other artistic award but a story I wrote three years ago is going to keep raking in the gold for me" - Toadbert101
 * "my only regret for my final year of school was that i didn't slack off enough" - Crackin355
 * "PK Fire is symbolic of the burning down of the corrupt bourgeois elite." - GalacticPetey, on this Miiverse post

Mafia
Currently ongoing are BMB's Steven Universe Mafia and CountBonsula's Rick and Morty Mafia.


 * GBAToad's Hammer Mafia (Lounge) was won by the Mafia.

Thanks for reading.

Retro Feature
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    First article: Entertainment Section; Mario, Non-Mario; Wanted Poster, Issue XXVII Last article: Fake Movies, Wanted Poster, Issue XXXV  Sections Written: Main Team: 8 Fake News: 10 Palette Swap: 1 Positions held: Contributor

Hello, readers! I'm your Spotlight manager and Pipe Plaza Director, Yoshi876. Welcome to Retro Feature, a section in which I delve deep into the archives to bring you the best blasts from the past. This time I bring you a section from Luigi 128.

Luigi 128 joined the Super Mario Wiki on 10 November 2008 and joined The 'Shroom in Issue XXVII, which was released on 10 June 2009. When he joined The 'Shroom he was writing three section which I have detailed in the infobox above. He would go on to write Entertainment Section four more times; Mario, Non-Mario two more times and Wanted Poster four more times. Whilst writing for The 'Shroom he also wrote Fake Movies three times, Fake TV twice and contributed one Sketch Related to Mario.

Anyway, you're not here to hear about the history of Luigi 128, so instead I'll just have you enjoy one of his Mario, Non-Mario sections, more specifically the one from Issue XXIX.

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Mario, Non-Mario by

Hello wikians, we all know the videogame heroes, but, have you ever see who's on his side? yeah the sidekicks, this month I'll compare two sidekicks... VS. =Luigi= At fisrts he was only a recolored palette of Mario but later Luigi will get his own personality and even his own game

Role in games
Luigi is seen in varius games as a coward (Luigi's Mansion, Mario & Luigi Series, etc) but sometimes he gets the role of hero (most times when Mario is in risk) before he was in the mario adventure games as the second player but in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine he doesn't appear and only appeared in spin-off games

In the shadow of Mario
As I sayed in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine Luigi din't appeared but that's not the only reason that makes Luigi bein in Mario's Shadow also in almost all the Spin-off games he is exactly like Mario but weaker another proof is the number of Luigi in Mario Strikers Series Luigi is #2 when Mario is #1

=Tails= He appeared in Sonic 2 as a Sonic fan who began to follow him after he was saved by him

Role in games
He appeared in the first Sonic games as Sonic's sidekick and always followed him but in later Sonic games he appeared only as a support character (minus Sonic Heroes) 'cause Shadow, Silver, Blaze and many other characters came to follow (or confront) Sonic and since then Sonic left behind his friend

In the shadow of Sonic
As I sayed before at first he was always behind Sonic but later he was left behind appearing only as a support character or in Spin-offs as a playable character (That sometimes follows Sonic like in old times) but is considered a weak character in these games

=Winer=

WINNER __HIDER__  Yeah I know what you gonna say "He only let Luigi win 'cause he is his fan" but I swear that this dessision is %100 pure just think it Luigi is Mario's Shadow but at least he wasn't left behind by Mario like Sonic left behind Tails =Score= Mario: 2

Non-Mario:1

Whoa now Mario is winning but there are still to many character to compare

Well 'till next month


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The 'Shroom Report
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HI, everyone! I'm your affectionate Stats Manager, Tucayo, here with another installment of The 'Shroom Report! I want to take this space to thank you for having voted this section as your Pipe Plaza SOTM for July 2016; your votes mean a lot to me! And now let's get to our section; as a general reminder, in the Milestones section, writers will get mentioned every 10 sub-team sections and every 50 all-time sections, teams will get mentioned every 100 sections, and The 'Shroom will get mentioned every 500 sections. All information is based off our Historical Sheets. This section will cover Issue 113.

Tables are based off the End-of-the-Year Awards tables, so credit goes out to.

Anniversary Announcements
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Good evening gents and ladies. Especially the latter and former. Did you have a nice weekend? Nice weather? Boy it was like 32°C out here last week, you wouldn't believe how ho… wha..? Oh, yeah, Anniversary Announcements.

Let's see, most if not all news is to do with tournaments the past month. Let's see which ones are still rolling.

Awards Mafia VI
Hosts: Stooben Rooben and Superchao · Date: TBA · Forum Topic

The game is in final planning stages and will start soon. The sign-ups have closed a little while ago, but due to a recent number of people leaving all replacements have been used and one spot has opened! You can still sign up as a replacement after that spot is filled. If someone drops out for any reason, you can then replace them in the game.

Guess the Results
Closed · Host: Awards Staff · Forum Topic

The results are still being tallied as of writing this, but you can compare your own or other's guesses with the results of the Awards in the meantime.

Mario Kart 7
Finished · Host: Stargazing · Forum Topic

The tournament has finished and has resulted in a winner! Congratulations to Cirdec for winning! Running up are Turboo and NSY.

Minecraft
Hosts: Uniju and Toadbert101 · Date: TBD · Forum Topic

While the exact date for this tournament is to be determined, plans are for 22 September or 24 September.

Pokémon
Finished · Hosts: Crocodile Dippy and Palkia47 · Forum Topic

This tournament has also finished and has pushed forward Timmy as the winner! Following up are Cirdec and Hooded Pitohui.

Splatoon
Host: The Pyro Guy · Date: Canceled · Forum Topic

This tournament has been officially canceled this year.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Host: Groden · Date: 1 July to early August · Forum Topic

Three rounds have been finished and the fourth is currently going, although no matches have been reported in the past month. Currently leading is Timmy.

Now for a quick word from our sponsor about prizes. For every tournament, you can earn tokens, which you can then later exchange for prizes. These don't come out of Yoshi Eggs, so if you are interested in donating such prizes, please contact Hypnotoad, Mr. Edo or Twentytwofiftyseven on the Boards. Recommended items include all sorts of gift cards and Steam items. We are grateful for any donations! Keep in mind that certain items impose a region lock, but you can buy most items for another region. Past years have pointed out that there are mostly North America gift cards, but European cards are welcomed as well!

Also, if you don't want to exchange your tokens for prizes, because none of prizes interest you, you have an excess of them or for any other reason, you may also donate your tokens to a special pool, which will then be converted to a monetary value and donated to the Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station, where late bureaucrat and friend Walkazo volunteered to study and protect birds. You can also directly donate to Hypnotoad via PayPal to help fund this. Please contact him for information on this.

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That was Anniversary Announcements for this month. Because of the calmness after the storm we have going currently, I'll probably not be here next month, so until next time, keep y'alls Control Sticks smokin'!

All information above was correct as of 2016-09-14.