MarioWiki:Main Page talk archive 16

Database Error
Help! I can't get back on my userpage! I was trying to put a link to my newly-made spritesheet on my userpage before I showed it to Minimariolover10, but when I did, I got this "database error" saying "A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff::_doquery". MySQL returned error "1030: Got error 127 from storage engine (localhost)"." And now I can't get back on!! Half my life's work is on there! What can I do?? 13:03, 4 November 2007 (EST)

I WANT MY PAGE BAAAAACK!!!

Gaahhh!!! I'm so sorry!! That was all my fault! I have no idea why that happened!! I deserve to be punished!!

Related Links?
Should we start adding these kind of sections into articles?
 * Definitely. Alternatively, somethings can just be linked back to Wikipedia. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 04:13, 14 September 2007 (EDT)

Question
It's ok in events that we have more than on FA put onto FA status at the same time, instead of choosing one and shunning the other for a week, that we use the choose extension so all get the limelight? 02:52, 15 September 2007 (EDT)


 * They are all FAs. One is just spotlighted every week.  Just beacause K. Rool is on the main page does not mean Goomba and Yoshi are not FAs.  They are listed on the FA page and in the FA category.  They are all FAs. -- Son of Suns

Recently Template
Do we need this? There isn't much news normally to warrant a whole section, the sitenotice usually does fine. 05:10, 15 September 2007 (EDT)

FA Banner
The FA banner has been up since FA has been around and i made a new banner. here it is, now before i upload this, i want your opinion if this should go or the old shall stay:

MY NEW FA BANNER

Yes, I added Waluigi ......

-- 17:32, 15 September 2007 (EDT)
 * I like the old one better since it has original poses... 02:41, 16 September 2007 (EDT)

Smash Bros. Article separations
i have noticed the Smash Bros. Info in articles such as Mario, Yoshi, and Wario are very crammed in there along with their trophy info. I was wondering if we could mabey do separate pages for SSB Mario character info. Like call for example this article title: "Wario (SSB)", which would be strictly Super Smash Bros. related to Wario. -- 22:00, 20 September 2007 (EDT)
 * And, you got this idea from SmashWiki, didn't you?
 * No it just looks out of place in the articles. -- 22:22, 20 September 2007 (EDT)
 * This would just create more stub articles, or articles that would eventually be argued into remerging. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 23:26, 20 September 2007 (EDT)
 * I agree with Ghost Jam.

The information does not have to be smashed (forgive me) together. We have sections for stats and in-game information in these articles - trophy info can be moved to this stats section, instead of being in the Super Smash Bros. section. That is perfectly acceptable. -- Son of Suns

Super Smash Bros Brawl Forum
Does anybody know what section should I go to SSBB forums in the MarioWiki Forums?


 * Don't flame me but it'd be the console gaming section.

Thanks for responding because I had trouble searching for it.

No #darkmyst?
I've just been informed from Darkmyst op komies that all users with a host mask of !WikiGuest@ (thus all users using Special:Chat here) are blocked from #darkmyst, because we as a group caused too much trouble (*coughPlumber+Saudycough*). Whether knew this or not, I dunno, but he had to be server killed today for going in there, as the guys in #darkmyst hate our guts now (great........), and now he has been brought down with Uniju for two weeks (if he tries to evade, it's longer...).

I've never heard of this development, maybe I missed something. If it's new to you, then just don't go to #darkmyst, no one talks there anyway. If it's old...keep avoiding it, I guess...feels great to be hated, eh? 18:22, 25 September 2007 (EDT)
 * Well, this is just ducky. So we can't use our chat?
 * Well, you can't go to #darkmyst on chat. 16:13, 26 September 2007 (EDT)
 * OK. So this means that we can use the normal chat server?
 * Yup. By the way, Wayoshi started the hatred, not me! Saudy and I made them hate us more, though. 14:37, 6 October 2007 (EDT)

MPA Icons
Attention: Just to let everyone know, I have recently uploaded images of the Mario Party Advance Map icons. If anyone would like to use them to help out the articles for the Shroom City page before I do, please do. Thank you.


 * Will you be using these by tomorrow? 20:18, 27 September 2007 (EDT)

Well, I might, but I may have to do some important college work. I was hoping that you guys might take advantage of these images too. After all, the articles for the Shroom City Page is quite due for a fixer-upper.

MPA Progress
Well, that's 16 articles made/renewed. Are you guys sure you don't want to help me out on this? Because I'm going to take a nice break now.

18:08, 28 September 2007 (EDT)


 * Ah; I used to work on the Mario Party Advance articles... Until I was too busy, maybe I could take the job for now... RAPstar's taking it, I bet it's the taker of taking it!

Rating Images
I was thinking of a more effective way to list the ratings of a game on the game articles, and I was thinking. Should we use the official Rating Images used on so many boxarts? You know, such as the green box with "G" in it, and the yellow box with "PG" in it.


 * Don't we already do that? We use the official "E", "T" and "M" ratings.  We can add more official ratings for other regions though. -- Son of Suns
 * The MA rating? Wasn't it KA? - 09:36, 5 October 2007 (EDT)


 * Whoops! I meant just "M" (and have changed it).  Although no Mario game has a "M"ature rating, it is another rating example. -- Son of Suns
 * We've already decided to use ESRB, PEGI and CERO ratings in the infoboxes. Would that mean we'd need images for all of them? - 09:43, 5 October 2007 (EDT)


 * We don't need to use the images - just the words and letters so we can save space and list multiple ratings. -- Son of Suns


 * As I recall, we used the rating images in the first place because we thought it would look cool to have them in the info boxes. And, honestly, it did. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 22:03, 13 October 2007 (EDT)

Improvement Drive
Should we put the Improvement Drive on the main sidebar navigation? -- Son of Suns

That would mean it would be a much easier access. Twink approves. ^_^

~
 * Sounds good.

Talk archive
Could I make a template for my talk archives?
 * Use a sub-page of your user page and include it like signatures. 18:40, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Ok,thx Wayo. ( Toadbert101 |[[Image:TBPaper.PNG|30px]]| Give a yell |Sez:) 18:44, 10 October 2007 (EDT)

Table Trouble
I have a little problem. The Gaming Acheivements section in my homepage has been getting a little long, and I have been wanting to make a table out of them. One part being games I copleted, one part finished games, and the third being for other acheivments. I looked at how it's done on the help section, and saw the table in the Shroom City article as an example, but it just looks too complicated for me. Do you have any advice?

DK Portal
WHat happened to the dk portal?
 * KABLOOIE! -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 15:58, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

HUH?
 * HEAD ASPLOSION!

Template:Undead
Should be used on pages instead of,  and ? Or do you think we should keep the separate templates? - 16:34, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Anyone? - 12:16, 15 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Yes. Deleting, and  as you read. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 02:21, 18 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Actually, I think I might have been too hasty with . We normally keep species basted templates, even when we have collection templates. I'ma restore that one for now. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 02:31, 18 October 2007 (EDT)

No more Stub Deletions?
After the outcome of our latest proposal we will no longer delete stubs, so will we stop deleting stubs period or will we only delete one-liners and obvious info filled articles?
 * This is the kind of stuff that should have been brought up in said proposal. >_> -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 23:38, 15 October 2007 (EDT)

Video Bust
Are you guys going to get rid of those videos then?

08:22, 24 October 2007 (EDT)


 * Prolly, especially if they aren't helpful to the article or are of low quality. If someone wants to watch videos, they can easily type the article's name into YouTube or GoogleVideo or whatever. -- Son of Suns

I see you guys have still kept the videos. Perhaps you don't have time to get rid of them right now... 20:17, 1 November 2007 (EDT)
 * Would you be so kind as to help us remove them, in that case?
 * I don't see why we're worried right now. Personally, I can't always find those videos anyway.  They'll come down over time with everyone editing, right?  20:55, 1 November 2007 (EDT)

All right, fine! }(

There! Thy're gone. Happy, DP?

...Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Now everyone who looks here will have to leave the Wiki to wade through the web in the hopes of finding videos again. *tear* (we can't even link them?) 11:13, 4 November 2007 (EST)
 * The videos actually helped me in finding more images for the Doopliss article... - 12:08, 4 November 2007 (EST)

FYI
Check this article out: Apparently Nintendo will be releasing a special Game Card for the DS that will allow for downloadable content, such as GameBoy games, previously unplayable on the system. Normally, I would pass this source as unworthy or misinformed, but IGN.com freatured the same article on their site (they focused on the Animal Crossing bit), so I think we can trust it. Yeah, it doesn't really have any significance to Mario yet, but I thought you all should know. 23:47, 24 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Sounds interesting. Good job on getting this news here. However, like you said, we should wait for Mario content to make it on that game card first. ;)
 * This is awesome news. The GameBoy is number two on my list of favorite systems. -- [[Image:Shyghost.PNG]]Chris[[Image:Shyghost.PNG]] 01:30, 25 October 2007 (EDT)

SSBB talk page
The Super Smash Bros. Brawl talk page Should be archived.
 * That's something that should be talked about on the said Talk Page.

This image needs to be used somewhere...
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/514/mariocharactersizesqe7.jpg Okay, I just found this image on GameFAQs, and I think it should be used.
 * This isn't a very canon image. Bullet Bills, for example, are quite smaller than that in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Also, which article would you put it in? - 17:55, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
 * This image was published before SSBB, which really has questionable canon itself! ;) Besides, Bullet Bills have varied in size forever, and I do believe that having them be about half of Mario's size is acurate, particularly in Super Mario Bros. and Mario Party. Plus, has anyone seen these artworks before?  I think it may be official.  22:03, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

Categories and Sub-Categories
Just a question about categories. So, if I understood the guidelines right, enemies that only appear in the Yoshi series should be placed in Category: Yoshi Enemies but not in Category: Enemies. Now, what about non-game characters? They go in Category: Non-Game Characters, but should one also add Category: Characters to the article? I've seen different ways of handling this. (And, btw, is there any guideline of how to order categories at the end of an article? Sorry if this is written somewhere, I didn't find anything.) 07:14, 31 October 2007 (EDT)


 * I don't believe we have any official rules for either (that is, non-game sub-categories and the order of categories). -- Son of Suns
 * When we have no rule, you can set them up yourself, by the way. Handle the non-game characters how you think it would fit best. When noone disagrees, it's a consensus. - 13:07, 31 October 2007 (EDT)


 * Thanks. In my opinion, it's useless to add "Characters" if there's "Non-Game Characters" already, so that'll be my rule... 13:19, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Is there a category someone could look in to see every enemy from a Mario, DK, or Yoshi game? 17:45, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Category: Enemies, Category: Yoshi Enemies, Category: Donkey Kong Enemies exist, but there's no category for all of them together. - 17:53, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
 * Too bad. I'm guessing we don't want to duplicate Enemies to Mario enemies and then leave the enemies category for everyone?  18:00, 31 October 2007 (EDT)