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Director’s Notes
Good day to you ‘Shroom readers. Welcome to Pipe Plaza, here we will handle all of your statistics and other wiki-related things. Unfortunately, we do not extend this service to pipes.

As you may be aware a new section debuted last month, and this month the new writer for it, is debuting, make sure to give him a warm welcome. We also have as our new Anniversary Announcements writer. Let’s hope that Pipe Plaza can continue to expand!

If you wish to join Pipe Plaza, look over here, pick a section you think you could do, so long as someone doesn’t already write for it, and PM me here.

Section of the Month
Last month we had a voting increase, so let’s keep that trend going. Six of you folk voted, and three of you voted for New Articles written by myself to be SoTM. came in second with two votes and got the final vote for a third place finish.

Community Report
Hey folks, this is Driftmaster130, here with the LUCKY (:v) March issue of Community Report.

Again, no significant changes in policy, so let's move onto the recently passed proposals:

(credit to YoshiKong for previously developing this coded table system)

The TPP's currently in progress:

NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of March 18th.

And that's all for the the March edition of Community Report! Stay tuned for next month.

Featured ()
Hello, Shroom readers. Welcome to this edition of Featured. We have goings on in nearly all of the Featured parts, and we even have some articles unfeatured due to being deleted, which is a first!

Featured Articles
One new article has been featured in the past month.
 * list of Zess T. recipes was featured on March 15th.

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

FA Nominations
There is one ongoing Featured Article Nomination.
 * Mario Kart 8 was nominated on February 27th.

Failed FA Nominations
One new article has failed the featuring process.
 * Super Mario Galaxy failed on March 7th after being inactive for a month.

Unfeatured Articles
Three new articles have been unfeatured in the past month.
 * was deleted on February 28th.
 * was deleted on February 28th.
 * was deleted on February 28th.

Unfeaturing Nominations
There are two ongoing Unfeature nominations.
 * list of Bonuses in Super Smash Bros. Melee was nominated on February 15th.
 * Kirby was nominated on March 13th.

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 ()
Templates can be tricky to use, especially for character boxes. Get one character wrong and the whole thing turns into a mess. I would definitely recommend that preview button, and also having a separate tab open to make sure your finished template codes just like the original, only with the information you needed to put in it.

New Articles ()
It's Party Time!

Welcome to this month's issue of New Articles. I am your new writer, Lumastar (or Luma for short). Before we begin, I might as well give a short introduction. I joined last June, I am on the forums, and I am a member of the Poll Committee, which handles the polls that appear on the wiki's main page. Anyway, the big thing on the wiki has been the upcoming release of Mario Party 10, the 13th/16th entry in the Mario Party series. As such, it has contributed and will contribute in the upcoming months many new articles. It's not the only Mario release this month, as cross-buy title Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars enters the ring with its many free star levels. This month has also featured the creation of articles for Mario Party: Island Tour, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U, and even Paper Mario. In one sentence, it has been a busy month for new articles. While only time will tell what the future will bring, I expect wiki-active users to continue to create needed pages on the wiki in the months and years to come. We still need a ton of pages to be started, and any help is welcome here.

Anniversary Announcements ()
I hear you thinking, "Anniversary Announcements? But it's March!" And you are right, it is! But the Awards Committee is already busy making sure there are enough paper planes folded preparing for our ninth celebration, which happens to celebrate our 10 years of existence.

To quickly recap on what this section does, Anniversary Announcements serves to inform you about the behind-the-scenes developments that drive the Awards. This involves everything from changes in the Awards and nominees to tournaments and prizes.

We already were busy in February, discussing necessities about Favorite Portrait Ghost, SM64/SMS/SM3DW Level, and Galaxy, with more new and more relevant things available to choose from. Also, Favorite Game has been discussed to be split in two, Classic and New. Where exactly the border will be is not entirely sure yet, it is either around the year 2000 or systems of around that period.

For tournaments, ideas have popped up for Pokémon, Team Fortress 2, Yu-Gi-Oh, Minecraft, Super Smash Bros. 4 and Mario Kart 8. Mafia and new concepts on other things have also been mentioned. Nothing is finalized yet on that department.

During the first meeting we have mainly discussed the Mario Awards, details can be found in the table below. The most notable things are the removal of Favorite Luigi Game and Rosalina's upgrade from Supporting to Major Character. Also, a heated discussion arose about the identity of Toad. You can find full logs here, and the complete list of Awards right here (undiscussed Awards are marked beige).

The second meeting started with Galaxy. Most notable are the change of A14, from Favorite Enemy to Favorite Species, and the addition of Super Smash Bros. 4 newcomers to A19. Also unlike previous meeting, Smasher's (talk • boards) Internet didn't die.

The Userpedia Staff has started discussing their respective Awards over at their forum.

And that's all folks! Until next month, keep that Control Stick smokin'! Or that Touch Screen.

All information above is correct as of 18 March.
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