MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/26

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Make standard template names for like friend templates instead of always having to type the code
DON'T CREATE 2-17

Hi. Would it be easier if you had just a simple template name. Like for let's say, Johnny 115's friend template, we could move it to Template:Friend Of Johnny 115 in stead of having to type all those codes. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|Tom The Atum}} Deadline: May 14, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) I mean, have a link, like User:Tom The Atum/Friend Template. Also, for other ones, like This user thinks this is a funny gif or This user can dance very well, and there could be a category marked user templates made for those specific purposes, like when I was at Club Penguin Wiki before my one year four months ban.
 * 2) Per TTA.

Oppose

 * 1) The user-only templates should be located nowhere outside of the userspace.
 * 2) Userboxes do not help the mainspace in any way and they belong only on userspace. Also, it's a waste of space when you can just copy and paste the code for the userbox easily.
 * 3) Per FF65 and SW.
 * 4) And this would help how? Per the three above me, especially Fawfulfury65.
 * 5) Per FF65. If you don't want to type code, you can either copy someone else's and use it as is (as in the case of a friend userbox) or modify it to make a new one.
 * 6) – Per All.
 * 7) Per all. (Lol, how'd I get mixed up in this...?)
 * 8) Per Fawfulfury65 and DKpetey99
 * 9) This is confusing. It's fine the way it is. And you dont have to type it. You can copy and paste them. Its way easier.
 * 10) Per FF65
 * 11) - Sounds kindly useless.
 * 12) COPY AND PASTE.
 * 13) Per all.
 * 14) Per those above and below.
 * 15) If you are referring to your deleted Club Penguin template, we don't cover Club Penguin. This is the Mario Wiki, not the Club Penguin wiki!
 * 16) Per Luigi is OSAM. Besides, we can put the code on our page.
 * 17) It's not that hard to copy and paste the code. There is no need for this.

Comments
I think I fixed the formatting.

I don't really understand this proposal. Clarification?
 * I think he wants for there to be a template for each userbox in existence, so that instead of using the userbox template, you just type in.

They shall only be used for userspace, not main. Club Penguin Wiki does the same thing.
 * Well of course they'd only be used for userspace, what else would we put it in? "Mario is a friend of Phoenix".


 * "Mario is a friend of Phoenix"? Why'd ya type that? 03:33, 8 May 2011 (EDT)

@Phoenix They just mean the username is a friend of Phoenix.

@Phoenix: You seem to have been the unfortunate example listed here...


 * @Bop1996 - Well, you know what they say: "All publicity is good publicity"...or something...like...that...okay, truthfully, I really don't know what "they" say, I just remember hearing that somewhere once... :) 18:48, 8 May 2011 (EDT)


 * Good point... You seem to be getting free publicity, so that's a bonus for you. ;) 

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Add Additional Links For Main Characters
DON'T ADD 1-11

Something that I've noticed for a while is that in the characters section of the wiki, links major characters that appear in most of the games look just like those of minor characters that got one game appearance, making them hard to locate. I think additional links to non-generic characters (For example, Goomba would not be counted) that are either playable or major characters in at least fifteen games should be added at the top of the characters page. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|Vivalahomestar}} Deadline: May 16, at 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) This would make it much more convenient for somebody who just wants to find (for example) Luigi instead of Lumpy.

Oppose

 * 1) We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all characters are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. In short, why put another link to major characters so you can find them better? Use the search bar or something <_<
 * 2) all characters are equal under the watchful eye of the Big Rock Who Watches.
 * 3) The Star Spirits disapprove. Per Bop1996 (also, Skolar googled the Declaration, and it's certain "unalienable rights," not "inalienable rights").
 * 4) "Major"is more of a subjective thing, anyway. What happens if a certain character appeared in 15 games, but only made cameos throughout the game. You get my point?
 * 5) Per all, just edit that yourself.
 * 6) This proposal is way too vauge. (Like mine)
 * 7) Umm...when you think about it, it doesn't matter how major or minor a character is, and you can most likely find a character more easily in alphabetical order than in major-minor order.
 * 8) Per BLOF.
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) Per all.
 * 11) Per all.

Comments
What are you trying to say?

yeah ive never had any problems with finding Mario or any other main character if thats what you mean

Ummm... Well, he (or she) seems to be saying that he wants additional links for main characters in the proposal title, but he goes on to say that he finds other minor characters' links clogging up the link characters section and he thinks that adding links to non-generic characters (???) would solve this problem. All in all, I don't see what he's trying to say either, but that's what I can make out.

Yeah, in, un, both are similar... I need to do more Latin and Greek Roots study...
 * * WARNING--OFF TOPIC CONTENT* Actually, both words mean the same thing, but "inalienable" is only found in earlier drafts.
 * Sue me, I'm a stickler for accuracy.
 * I would if I were a lawyer. ;)

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Protect all talk archives
DON'T PROTECT 1-12

I think we should protect all the talk archives so no one can edit them ecept sysops. For User talk archives we should only let the user who owns the talk page and sysops. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|Superfiremario}} Deadline: May 16, 23:59

Oppose

 * 1) Why do this? It's a lot of unnecessary work. If you want your talk page archives protected, ask a sysop.
 * 2) Per Bop1996.
 * 3) Per all
 * 4) If you want it to be protected, then make it a sub-page of your userpage and not your talk page. Your userpage and any other sub-pages of it (sig, etc.) are already protected.
 * 5) Per Bop and MM64.
 * 6) - Per all.
 * 7) Why? You edit your archives like 10 times, so why protect it?
 * 8) - Worst. Idea. Ever.
 * 9) Bad idea! Per all!
 * Uh, that's pretty unnecessary if you ask me. Per all.
 * 1) Per all.
 * 2) Per meh comment

Comments
A similar proposal was deleted per the agreement of the administration. Therefore, I see no reason for this to stay.
 * No, they're different enough. Unless the admins also find this too tedious then this proposal should stay.
 * Fair enough.

Arend: Please don't insult the idea, just give reasons for your oppose. Can someone delete my proposal?


 * Ask an administrator

I'm going to oppose for this ridiculasly long reason: Many times on this wiki, people edit talk page. You edit your/someone else's/a page's talk page when leaving a message. Also, since VANDALS could write on talk pages and insult you might wish to censor/delete things. I know this is about archives, btw. AND ON THE TOPIC OF ARCHIVES, someone might want to get rid of an offensive past messsage, but insted would have to stare at it, wishing this rule hadn't been made. That is all I have to say. ._.  @Luigi is OSAM: I'm now going to oppose becue I changed mt mind days ago. }}

Merge Game and Non-Game Elements in Games, Characters, Places, Items, Species, Allies, Enemies, and Anything Else I Forgot to Mention
MERGE THE GAME AND NON-GAME CATEGORIES TOGETHER 8-1

What a ridiculously long name.

But what is truly ridiculous is how according to this page, we have to keep non-game stuff and game stuff in the same section, but in the lists like those, it has to be separate? I don't see any coherence. I propose we (insert proposal title) because leaving it separate makes no sense. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|LeftyGreenMario}} Deadline: May 16, 2011 23:59 GMT

Yes

 * 1) Please read my proposal this time! If you object, make a valid reason! Of course I would support my own proposal
 * 2) if every things cannon than everything should be covered under one list, and one category.
 * 3) Per all.
 * 4) I'm all for consistency. If we are required to group something together in the history, what makes listing this any different?
 * 5) - That is a yes to that and per all!
 * 6) Per RightyMagentaWario LeftyGreenMario.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Per them...ALL!

No

 * 1) I think It's easier to find something the way it is.If I was looking for something in the characters section,I wouldnt want to search through hundreds of TV show characters.I'm glad It's the way it is.It's more organized this way.

Other Thoughts
Technically, you don't have to follow that page. It isn't an enforced policy.-- 21:19, 12 May 2011 (EDT)


 * This is just for the sake of consistency.

It would make more sense if we further separated different media information by making a page for the video-game version of a character, and then the specific media versions. But this wiki is so stuck on the crummy old cartoons that they think putting them on the page of the video-game character makes sense. It doesn't, they're to different medias has near totally different portrayals of the elements from each. UhHuhAlrightDaisy 04:14, 16 May 2011 (EDT) }}

Make an article on the Electric Fence.
CREATE ARTICLE 18-6

It appears in all of the stadiums in Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged and in the second Bowser Jr. battle New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Why does it still not have an article? It is a gameplay element and it is important in a boss battle. Any other games in which it appears in? {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|DK and Diddy Kong vs Bowser and Bowser Jr.}} Deadline: May 18, 2011 23:59 GMT.

Create article

 * 1) Per proposal. Part of it is removed in Thunder Island and there is a cheat to turn it off.
 * 2) Per Kongs vs Koopas
 * 3) Per Kongs vs Koopas
 * 4) - Of course we are going to create it! Should I per all?... YES!
 * 5) Per DKnDKvsBnBJr. (what a long abbreviation). And they were known as just electric fences according to a MSC(F) Cheat, named Power Shortage.
 * 6) Why did you ask, just create the article and see if it gets deleted! Per Kongs vs Koopas
 * 7) They are indeed a gameplay mechanic, no matter how "boring" it is. Besides electrifying people in MSC, there are a certain amount of ways to alter the range of the shock, such as if the character simply gets too close to the fence or if it is disabled.
 * 8) Per all. P.S. don't electric fences appear in Mario Galaxy and Mario Galaxy 2 as well?
 * 9) Because per Tails777 and my comments.
 * 10) I have been wanting this article to be created for a while now and they appear in more than one game.
 * 11) It appeared in MSF, MSC, SMG, SMG2, and NSMBW. Seems notable enough.
 * 12) It seems pretty notable in the games that it appeared in. Per all.
 * 13) This wouldn't be too different from the other articles I created, and only one got deleted. Besides, there is some information that wouldn't be redundant with other articles. Per all.
 * 14) Per allllllll
 * 15) Per all. Also they appeared in lots of different Mario games. They should be made into an article.
 * 16) Since there are a lot of appearances, per all.
 * 17) Per all.
 * 18) - Do I need a reason?

Don't change it

 * 1) What's the point? We can't say anything else other than that it shocks players if hit and is used to shock Bowser Jr. in a boss battle.
 * So, you want to create an article that has all that information on a World article and the stadiums? Why do that? Unnecessary, redundant, and probably bland and boring. Per all.
 * 1) Per Bop1996.
 * 2) Per Bop1996.
 * 3) – Per Bop1996.
 * 4) - Per Bop1996.

Comments
Proof that they've appeared in SMG2: http://imageshack.us/m/709/4501/15628540.th.pnghttp://imageshack.us/m/851/8915/98888182.th.png Click for larger ones.


 * You forgot Super Mario Galaxy.
 * Even if they appear in SMG and SMG2, my reasoning still applies. There is not enough information that could be placed on the article that is not redundant with the World aricle, the stadium articles, and the galaxy articles.
 * And why do we have articles like this one on our wiki?
 * Because there is more information on that article than would appear in the articles where Torpedo Teds are mentioned.
 * Torpedo Teds are very uncommon enemies, in fact, the electric fence has made more appearances than Torpedo Teds have done in many years.

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Add a section for Writing Guidelines on this page
ADD SECTION 16-0

Something that really need development on MarioWiki are Writing Guidelines (currently known as Writer Guidelines). First let me explain what they are, since I assume most of you are unfamiliar with this term.

What are Writer Guidelines? Writer Guidelines are pages that belong to this category, with the most notable page being the Manual of Style. Writer Guidelines are enforceable policies to some extent, but with a much lighter enforcement.

You may be wondering what distinguishes Writer Guidelines from Help pages. The difference here is that Writer Guidelines are much more specialized about the subject they pertain to while Help pages just give users a general overview of things. Since this is the case, Writer Guidelines have the ability to be very detailed and specific. This is better explained on my pending policy page, User:Knife/Policy.

What I'm proposing is that we allow regular users join in on developing more Writer Guidelines by making the process much more accessible to them. How do we do this? We should create a page titled "MarioWiki:Writing Guidelines", based off my pending policy page, which explains what Writer Guidelines (henceforth known as "Writing Guidelines") are. As for the nomination process, we can include it to the proposal page in a new section titled "Writing Guidelines". If Writing Guidelines get popular enough we may consider getting a separate page for it, but for now, a section of the proposal page should be sufficient.

Reasons why this system will be beneficial:


 * 1) Increased user interest in editing.
 * 2) Better quality articles.
 * 3) More opportunities for users to get involved in the development of the wiki.
 * 4) More consistency.
 * 5) An aid to help users edit.

Things that will be added if this proposal passes:


 * 1) A section will be added to proposal page for Writing Guidelines
 * 2) A new rule will be added stating that Writing Guidelines will be given two weeks as opposed to one.
 * 3) My draft page (User:Knife/Policy) will be created as an actual MarioWiki: namespace page.
 * 4) Also see User:Knife/Proposal to see what the proposals page will look like.
 * 5) All mention of Writer Guidelines will become Writing Guidelines (including the category).
 * 6) Some existing policy pages will turn into Writing Guidelines, like Naming and Redirect.

Honestly, this system has no real drawback other than potential lack of use, so why not give it a shot? If it doesn't work out, we can always scrap it later. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|Knife}} Deadline: May 28, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) – Per my proposal.
 * 2) its worth a shot per him
 * 3) Great, but what I'm concerned is the arguments of writing style we might come up, like the singular "they" (which doesn't exist), and so on. The phrase "reason why" is also redundant. :) per proposal, though. If it turns out to be bad, we can always delete it.
 * 4) Per LeftyGreenMario
 * 5) Per proposal
 * 6) This would greatly help with edit quality for new users. I see no problem with how to instate this, or any other problem.
 * 7) Per proposal and per LGM.
 * 8) Go for it dude! :)
 * 9) – Per Knife.
 * 10) - Per... you know
 * 11) - Per proposal.
 * 12) - Per all.
 * 13) P-E-R, A double ll. Put them together and you got... PER ALL!
 * 14) Per all.
 * 15) Per all
 * 16) Per proposal. If this doesn't work out, we can just remove it. It will be a good way to make new writing guidelines.

Comments
@LeftyGreenMario: Singular they is he or she.
 * From Wikipedia: Singular they does, in fact, remain morphologically and syntactically plural (it still takes plural forms of verbs). Talmy Givón (Syntax: an introduction, 2001) even provides "If anybody did that, they'd be insane" as an example of non-referring, plural anaphoric they.
 * We use they when the singular pronoun could refer to a male or female. I read somewhere that it is preferred over s/he or she/he.
 * Only if you have to refer to the singular subject multiple times in succession, which we normally don't. I see the singular they as more colloquial than anything. It's generally frowned upon among grammatical experts (and AP Language and Composition teachers), despite its relatively recent resurgence in usage.
 * I think it was in the Manual of Style. I was referring to us as a wiki, not the experts (that's not to say I don't enjoy a pointless discussion over this type of thing).
 * It is in the Manual of Style. I understand the intention behind using the singular they, but it's not found often in standard written English. The problem is that there is no consensus among the grammatical experts (those who come up with all the rules for writing and speaking the English language) concerning its validity. Some think it's fine, while others don't. I find it perfectly acceptable in spoken English and informal writing (such as in dialogue) but not something I would use in formal writing such as would be found in an encyclopedia. I guess I'm a purist that way. It's partly because of that that all references to players in the Augmented Reality Games article, for example, are in the plural.
 * Yeah... To be honest with you, I just took it for granted... Idk, I never gave it that much thought... That's just the way I roll, I give it a lot of thought or nearly none...
 * I wouldn't have taken you of all people as someone who would take anything relating to grammatical structure for granted. ;)

@Knife: Could you elaborate on the difference between an enforced MarioWiki policy and a general suggestion for writing style? I understand the basic idea, but I'm not sure how much we enforce a writing suggestion...

@Bop1996: We will enforce both, but Writing Guidelines will be given a much lighter enforcement. For instance, a user may be given a reminder or warning for breaking one of our userspace policy, but failure to follow Manual of Style will not carry the same consequences (unless the user is intentionally not following Writing Guidelines). @All supporters: Please re-read the proposal and all draft pages since some changes have been made. -- 20:47, 21 May 2011 (EDT)
 * Thank you for elaborating. I see the logic in your change in the proposal, I have no problems with the changes.

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Reception, keep or no keep
KEEP RECEPTION 17-0

I just want to resolve this issue since it looks obscure, should we keep or not keep the reception section?

Note: If Keep is chosen then the game articles with no reception section on them will get a reception section. If No Keep is chosen then all the reception sections of every article will be deleted. {{scrollbox|content= Proposer: {{User|Zero777}} Deadline: May 29, 2011, 22:00 GMT

Keep

 * 1) But were not Wikipedia also i think the reception makes us look more professional since it shows that we have indeed found reliable sources, also featuring reception harms no one especially since reviews from things like Nintendo Power are official sources and there fore should be included as well Famitsu which is considered the most reliable gaming magazine in Japan, also i would like to point out that pretty much every wiki features reception since it shows how good a game is
 * 2) Do we really want to be less detailed than Wikipedia concerning Mario-related content? The Reception section tells the reader how well a given game fares, and I think it's important to have in case games reach certain milestones (such as Super Mario Galaxy 2 receiving perfect scores from almost every well-known reviewer, making it one of the highest-rated, if not the highest-rated game in the company's history thus far). On a more practical note, keeping the section demonstrates that the wiki cares about its subject matter, and we have a standard to include as much information as possible about every subject we cover if it provides readers with a better understanding of that subject.
 * 3) – Per Mario4Ever!
 * 4) Per Mario4Ever.
 * 5) Per Mario4Ever.
 * 6) Per Mario4Ever and Goomba's Shoe!
 * 7) - I see no conclusive reason to remove this information.
 * 8) - Per all.
 * 9) Per all
 * 10) - Per all; especially for major games like the Super Mario Galaxy installments and Mario Kart DS, for example.
 * 11) - The reception section is very useful and needs to be added to every game. It's nice to look at in here instead of search it on Wikipedia <_<
 * 12) Per all.
 * 13) Per all.
 * 14) Definitely keep it.
 * 15) Why not? It definitely provides information from the game (although sometimes unreliable, eh) and I see no good reason to remove it other than it takes up space.
 * 16) - I feel this would work, considering what Mario4Ever said.
 * 17) - Per all. I think this wiki (or any wiki, for that matter) should be extensive as possible to make more and more guests and new users come to this wiki.

Comments
Do you mean reception as in video game reviews
 * I believe that's what it means.
 * @Zero what do you mean by obscure
 * It's not consistent and it was left like that for a long time.

@Zero: Wikipedia's content should have no bearing on our content at all. If we sustained an argument like yours, should we also delete half of our Mario article because Wikipedia covers it? I believe not. Please be a little more alert. -
 * Well I was thinking in my mind, what are we going to make different of the reception? Receptions are just ratings and commentary, there not suppose to be specific, and wikipedia did fine on that, but I guess since it will make us look more professional, I say keep it.

Hey guys, if it pass, should we have a chart like how wikipedia has it?
 * I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I think a paragraph such as we have on the SMG2 article will suffice.
 * I actually think a rating graph would be nice, rather than having to go to Wikipedia to see ratings on Mario games we cna just check here. Of course we'd have to differentiate a bit.
 * Yeah, I think it would be good to have a graph like that, as long as it doesn't resemble the Wikipedia one too much.

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