MarioWiki:Proposals

 http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/9/9/17/f_propcopym_9045f2d.png A proposal section works like a discussion page: comments are brought up and replied to using indents (colons, such as : or ::::) and all edits are signed using the code. Signing with the signature code (~) is not allowed due to technical issues.

How To
 * 1) Actions that users feel are appropriate to have community approval first can be added by anyone, but they must have a strong argument.
 * 2) Users then vote and discuss on the issue during that week. The "deadline" for the proposal is one week from posting at:
 * 3) Monday to Thursday: 17:00 (5pm)
 * 4) Friday and Saturday: 20:00 (8pm)
 * 5) Sunday: 15:00 (3pm)
 * 6) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it.
 * 7) At any time a vote may be rejected if at least three active users believe the vote truly has no merit or was cast in bad faith. However, there must be strong reasons supporting the invalidation.
 * 8) " # " should be added under the last vote of each support/oppose section to show another blank line.
 * 9) Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM." The original proposer then has the option to relist said proposal to generate more discussion.
 * 10) All proposals are archived. The original proposer must take action accordingly if the outcome of the proposal dictates it. If it requires the help of a sysop, the proposer can ask for that help.
 * 11) There are two topics that cannot be decided on through a proposal: the first is sysop promotions and demotions, which are decided by Bureaucrats. Secondly, no proposals calling for the creation of Banjo, Conker or Sonic series articles are allowed (several proposals supporting them have failed in recent history).

The times are in EDT, and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after work/school, weekend nights). If a proposal is added on Saturday night at 11:59 PM EDT, the deadline is the next Saturday night at 8:00 PM. If it is a minute later, the deadline is a day plus 15 hours (Sunday), as opposed to a day minus 4 hours.

CURRENTLY: , 27 2024 (EDT)

New Features
''None at the moment.

Removals
''None at the moment.

Captain Rainbow
As you know, we have an article on the game Captain Rainbow. I think we should merge it with Video Game Refrances. I think we should do this, because of the following:
 * 1) Birdo is playable charcter, but she's orginaly from Doki Doki Panic. Since the game is from Japan that means that is the game she intended on being from.
 * 2) The Pirranna Plant is just making a cameo apperance.
 * 3) Mario is not playable, he just makes a cameo as a picture a him appears in the game.

With those reasons above I think we should merge Captin Rainbow with Video Game Reffrances

Proposer: Deadline: November 13th, 2008,17:00 (5pm)

Merge

 * 1) - Per my resons above.

No Merge

 * 1) - A character from the Mario series playing a major role in a game is very different from a reference to a Mario character.  References are for cameos, official or otherwise.  If you want us to merge Captain Rainbow, we would also have to merge many other games as well, starting with the entire Super Smash Bros. series by the same logic.
 * 2) - Per Stumpers.
 * 3) - Per Stumpers; he stole the words right out of my mouth...or out of my keyboard as the case may be.
 * 4) - Per All
 * 5) - Per Stumpers.
 * 6) - Per Stumpers.
 * 7) - Birdo's role is big enough in this game for an article on it. But it's not enough for covering all the other characters. In this way it's similar to Captain N: The Game Master, that has Donkey Kong, but not enough relevant content for making articles on single episodes and other characters. It also goes for SSX on Tour, with Mario, Luigi and Peach as playable characters. I think we should also have an article on NBA Street V3 (but not about the unrelated characters and courts, again).
 * 8) This is what I have to say. No just no because there characters that have a major role in the game. Like Birdo!!! The Video Game reference page list of cameo that Mario or some other Nintendo charater has appeared. For goodness sake (I spelled it right this time instead of slake. Anyways back to were I was.) Birdo has a major role and she is a Nintendo character if she was then that different.
 * 9) - As usual, Stumpers takes the words out of many mouths, of which the people cannot explain it as clearly as he does. Per Stumpers of course.
 * 10) - Birdo just as large of a role in that game as Mario plays in the SSB series, and you don't see us merging that with Video Game References.
 * 11) Stumpers,you ROCK! Per Stumpers.

Comments
Though Birdo is originally from Doki Doki Panic, the official website of Captain Rainbow tells that she is from Super Mario USA (Super Mario Bros. 2). But I don't think that matters in any way, Birdo, the Shy Guys and more beings from the named game are an inherent part of the Mario universe today, even if they first appeared in an originally unrelated game.

About the comment regarding NBA Street V3 and SSX on Tour (I believe those are the two games, right?), I would support that as well, for the same reason I support Captain Rainbow. Let's put a proposal together for that?
 * Hm, if Captain Rainbow and the other articles I named are allowed, then I think there is even no proposal needed. 17:41, 7 November 2008 (EST)
 * Agreed. It seems like it would be pretty redundant.

Crystal Stars
Though this isn't the case of my last proposal, the Waffle Kingdom Locations merging proposal, it is a similar situation: I think the Crystal Star individual pages should be merged into the Crystal Stars page. The pages themselves are short and are an estimate of about 10 sentences long or so. If all of the Crystal Star pages were merged, the article would be fairly long, but it would be more regular sized, which is better than having lots of individual little pages.

Proposer: Deadline: November 16, 2008, 15:00

Merge

 * 1) - For the reasons above.
 * 2) - Hey, I think so too.
 * 3) - There's already articles about the special moves the Stars enable, so explaining them in the Stars' articles is a bit repetitive (for example, Art Attack and the corresponding section of Ruby Star are nearly identical). The attacks are officially named as well, and the information pertaining to them are best placed in their articles (currently, Earth Tremor puts Diamond Star to shame). Without that information, the Star articles are pretty barren, and the plot elements could easily be incorporated into the Crystal Stars article: each Star would get a section, and the article would look much better and be much more useful than it is now. Yes, the Crystal Stars are officially named, do different things and are important to the plot, but merging them will not make them any less important, and their combined article will be much stronger than any single one of them is now.
 * 4) - Per Walkazo.

No Merge

 * 1) - They were officially named, so the best thing is to just leave it IMO.
 * 2) - The stars are each officially named, require different tasks to be completed in order to be received, give the player access to another location, have their own special move, etc. They may just be the same sprite colored differently for each star, but they affect gameplay much differently than each other.
 * 3) Per all! St00by right. All 7 of the Crytals Star different just like the Pure Heats and the Star Sprits.
 * 4) Booster - Per Stooben Rooben.
 * 5) - I feel like a broken record, so I'm really sorry!  But, it needs to be said: we merged Smash Bros. content because we want our focus to be the Mario series proper and its spin-offs, but we also appreciate the fact that Mario and friends have played quite a large role in the series.  But, content from Paper Mario is completely different: we do want to focus on that, and therefore merging is the opposite of what we're trying to do.
 * 6) - per all. they are different items, with different powers, and different names...How are they the same?
 * 7) - Per All!

Comments
@Stumpers: ... Wrong proposal? --Blitzwing 06:45, 11 November 2008 (EST)

Um. . . Stumpers this is about PM:TTYOD Crytal Star not SSB.
 * Exactly my point. When we merged the special moves from Smash Bros., we did so because we wanted to reduce our focus on it, not because the articles were too short (remember the Final Smashes?  Longer than some Mario series moves).  These articles are definitely not to short and are part of what we want to focus on. Let me see if I can't clarify my vote.
 * Oh okay.

Changes
''None at the moment.

Add a Pipe Plaza link
How many users dont even know about the Pipe Plaza, because ther're almost no links to it, so i say we should add a link to it in the left-side bar. So, who's with me?

Proposer: Deadline: November 13, 2008, 17:00

Support

 * 1) - Per me

Oppose

 * 1) - Until we can actually update the page, it will seem unprofessional to link it to the main page, but I agree it should be there soon... and if it were to be updated by the deadline I will take back this vote.
 * 2) Per Stumpers and St00by comment show below.
 * 3) - Per Stumpers and my comment below. If the time comes when the Sysops will regularly update the page, I'll be more than happy to volunteer. Until then, it should stay off of the Sidebar and Main Page.
 * 4) - Per all.

Comments
If we could get some Sysops to actually update the page regularly, I would see no problem with it. That page hasn't been updated in 18 months, which is rather disappointing. I'd gladly volunteer to keep the page updated. Also, maybe just a link on the Main Page would suffice?


 * I remember when Pipe Plaza was created. It was a good way to keep track of things going on in the Wiki. However, it became hard to constantly update. There actually used to be a link on the sidebar, but it has long since been removed. 14:52, 7 November 2008 (EST)

I've never even heard of the thing. I typed it into the Search bar and found an article about the battle course in Mario Kart... is that saying something?


 * It was a MarioWiki page intended to be a place to find more about happenings around the wiki(This article is too short, etc.)... but it hasn't been updated since 2007. :p

The Main Page talk and Maintenance pages have replaced the function of this, and no one seems to want to change the community portal to a MarioWiki page...

Add a Superstar Link
I saw that, well, the Yoshi's Island series' item Superstar does not have a link, and its "page" is one paragraph on the Super Star page, which is mostly about the one in Mario Party 2. So, who is with me for splitting it into Superstar (MP) and Superstar (YI)?

Proposer: Deadline: November 18, 2008, 17:00

Add

 * 1) - Per me

Comments
I'm sorry, but what do you mean by link? Do you want to divide the Superstar page into two different pages, say, "Superstar (MP)" and "Superstar (YI)," or is there another article that currently exists that you want us to link to?
 * Yeah, you might wanna make your proposal more specific.
 * I believe the article in question is Super Star, though all the "Superstar"/"Super Star" articles could use some sorting-out, actually. -

List of Quotes Pages
If you search for "List of Quotes" in the Search bar of this Wiki, you'll find many pages of this sort. Now, are these necessary? I have many reasons to think they are not needed. 1. They are overly long and many of the quotes are just in-game tips which the player can read themselves by playing the game. 2. These pages look very unprofessional. 3. The Mario Kart quotes pages just look like a joke - have you seen the 'quotes' there? 4. The quotes don't generally convey any information when compared to the information itself on the pages the quotes refer to (if they even refer to anything - the Mario Kart ones don't...). 5. They all seem to be "Under Construction" but no-one works on them much, probably because people realize these pages are useless. 6. One example of a lack of work is the Super Mario Galaxy quotes page - that shows how many are incomplete. 7. If only the useful quotes of these pages were used, there would be only a few, which could easily be merged into the appropriate game articles.

I could go on - but I think you see by now - I think we could maybe merge just the useful quotes into the articles of the games they are from, and the character pages of who said them, where necessary. I think all the Mario Quotes are useless and should not be merged at all.

Proposer: Deadline: November 19, 2008, 17:00

Support
This means delete most of the useless quotes, and keep the decent ones but put them into the appropriate existing articles, and delete the List of Quotes pages.


 * 1) - I've made my points above.

Oppose
This means you either don't like me, or have reasons which you must explain clearly why you disagree.
 * 1) - No because i dislike you, no its not true, idisagree because if wikipedia has wikiquote, why shouldnt we have the quotes?
 * 2) - As the proposal is currently written, I cannot support it: to remove Mario's quotes would remove information about The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Nintendo Comics System, The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach, and many other sources.
 * 3) Quotes are hilarious! Why get rid of them??
 * 4) - I'm really sorry about this Dom, but I have to oppose. If people actually put effort into making the articles aesthetically pleasing, they won't be so bad.
 * 5) Per all. (Mostly Per Stumpers)
 * 6) - Per myself below.
 * 7) Quotes have to belong, or else like Stumpers said, we would have to remove info about some movies and comics and whatnot. Besides, they are under construction, it will be completed soon. It won't take so long, with everyone from Mariowiki contributing to one part time by time.
 * 8) - Per Stumpers. Quotes are also essential for understanding characters themselves, and if you can't get your hands on certain sources, the MarioWiki's quotes are a Godsend, especially for fanfiction writers.
 * 9) Mmm...nah.
 * The quotes should stay for the reasons that the users above have mentioned.

Comments
I'm not sure if I got the Deadline date correct (I'm in a way-ahead time-zone in Australia)
 * The deadline is fine, but can I just clarify something? Are we talking about quote pages for characters as well?  If that's the case, I must disagree, even for Mario.  The little guy was quite the talker in the anime, American television shows, and comics all over the world.
 * Perhaps a show/hide option for long pages should be added?

Just FYI, these quote pages were the result of two proposals, the reason for these is that some quote sections are ginormous and made long pages like Mario even more tedious to load.

Um CoinCollecter can you please (and thank you) state why yoy're agreeing with Dom or put per Dom. ( there nothing there next to your user name. )

Yeah, I'm pretty offended by this proposal. I am the only person ever to work on those pages, because everyone else was either too lazy or not interested enough to do it. I started that proposal to make the dang things. And oh, yeah, I forgot how much frickin' talking there was in Super Mario Galaxy! Oh my dear heck, Mario was so dang talkative in that game! And Bowser, whew, those four lines he said each time you battled him were so terribly full of quotable information! And what's your definition of "overly long?" Let's go and split Bowser and Mario while we're at it! And how the heck are we supposed to make it more professional? Put in images of people talking? OOOOOOOH!!! SO EXCITING! Also, shut up about the Mario Kart Quotes. If I made those pages, it was simply because I didn't want to be screamed at by, say, ForeverDaisy09, who had those proposals about Nonsensical Quotes at the time. I never saw you working on them, by the way. Maybe they would be more complete and useful if people contributed to them. Woah, I know, big, crazy idea there. Sorry. So yeah, I say no.

It shows.
 * lolwat.
 * For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myseeeeeeelf... Yarly.