MarioWiki:Proposals

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Standardization of Species Templates' Endings
This is a simple issue: when it comes to navigation templates based on species, some are pluralized (e.g. and ), and some are singularized (e.g.  and ). A majority of them are already plural, but most of the singular templates are for the well-known species. There's no reason why we shouldn't have consistency, so enough's enough. I personally think that it makes much more sense to pluralize all of them, but considering the number of templates that are singular, I'm including both options for fairness. Obviously, this is not even close to a major issue, but at the same time, for such a minor issue, it has yet to be cleared up, and having a uniform system makes the wiki seem all the more professional.

Proposer: Deadline: August 7, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Pluralize

 * 1) Makes the most sense to me.
 * 2) Per. I assume a bot will take care of this. If not, I'm willing to help.
 * 3) Having them in singular at all is confusing, and there's only a few singular as it is, instead of the large amount of plurals there is. Less bot work.
 * 4) The templates that are singular have plural names on their headers. Also, I should point out that you didn't include an oppose. Which, I would have chosen if I didn't look at the templates.
 * 5) Singular just sounds wrong.
 * 6) Per all.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) Per all.

Comments
Full list of covered templates:
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 * Already singular:
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@Alex: The plan is to have a bot take care of the dirty work. 00:25, 31 July 2017 (EDT)

Do Something With Game-Specific Species Categories
So, Time Turner noticed a while back that Category:Super Mario Bros. 3 Species (and most games' species categories as a whole) are basically duplicates of their enemy categories, with maybe one or two different pages. Overall, species categories as they currently stand are useless and redundant. I've included a few options on how to fix this:

Use species categories only for non-hostile, non-item, non-object species: This would redefine species categories to only count creatures that aren't enemies, aren't items, and aren't objects. In other words, they'd only be for things like Egg-Plants, Humans, Piantas, and the like.

Use species categories only for non-hostile species: Similar to the previous option, except it would also include things like Fire Flowers and Beanstalks. The problem I see here is that items and objects already have their own categories, so we'd just end up with another set of redundancies.

Delete species categories: One of the simpler options. Just get rid of every game-specific species category on the wiki, and leave articles like Bird (Super Mario Sunshine) in categories like Category:Real World Animals.

Do nothing: The simplest option. As this would involve not changing anything, I feel it'd be the most detrimental option.

Proposer: Deadline: August 8, 2017, 23:59 GMT

Use species categories only for non-hostile, non-item, non-object species

 * 1) Per proposal.

Comments
Obligatory list of affected categories:

Category:Donkey Kong Species Category:Donkey Kong 64 Species Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns Species Category:Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Species Category:Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Species Category:Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Species Category:Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Species Category:Mario Power Tennis Species Category:Mario Strikers Charged Species Category:New Super Mario Bros. Species Category:New Super Mario Bros. 2 Species Category:New Super Mario Bros. U Species Category:New Super Mario Bros. Wii Species Category:Paper Mario Species Category:Paper Mario: Color Splash Species Category:Paper Mario Series Species Category:Paper Mario: Sticker Star Species Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Species Category:Super Mario 3D Land Species Category:Super Mario 3D World Species Category:Super Mario 64 Species Category:Super Mario Bros. Species Category:Super Mario Bros. 2 Species Category:Super Mario Bros. 3 Species Category:Super Mario Galaxy Species Category:Super Mario Galaxy 2 Species Category:Super Mario Strikers Species Category:Super Mario Sunshine Species Category:Super Mario World Species Category:Super Paper Mario Species Category:Super Smash Bros. Series Species Category:Wario Species Category:WarioWare Series Species Category:Yoshi Species

A lot of these could probably be deleted, since a lot of them (especially platformer ones) have pretty much 100% overlap with their games' respective enemy categories.

Also: wut Niiue (talk) 20:44, 31 July 2017 (EDT)