Talk:List of merchandise

Whew!
The 2006 Mcdonalds toy section is complete! if you have better pictures of them, or descriptions, feel free to edit them!

Major Editing
The recent Merchanidse articles by 3dejong need some major work. One sentence descriptions just don't cut it. We need to know the name of the companies producing these products, when they were released, where they were released and other notes. A lot of the merchandise seems like something a normal person could make out of clay. We need to know the official manufacturers. Without them, the merchandise has the same valididty here as fan games (i.e. none). -- Son of Suns
 * Unfortunately, I think has been uploading images from a gallery website or such, and that website may or may not have that information. However, I agree – unless information is provided, we may have to delete those pages. ayoshi TC@ http://www.mariowiki.com/images/2/24/Wayoshisig.png 15:21, 14 October 2006 (EDT)
 * If we can't find enough information for each toy to constitute a page, maybe we should create only a few pages for each category of merchandise (ex: a Mario Toys page, a Mario Plushies page, a Mario Figurines page, etc) and add some info about the category of merchandise on the top, and have the rest be a gallery of all the images we have. -- Steve (talk) 15:26, 14 October 2006 (EDT) EDIT: Oh my, I just noticed Wayoshi sorta did that with the Yoshi plushies. Weird, I swear I didn't see that. Guess I'm not as creative as I thought I was.. -- Steve (talk) 15:34, 14 October 2006 (EDT)
 * That's a good idea. We should try to combine similar merchandise. We also need to figure out if the merchandise is legitimate or not. Anything fan-made needs to be deleted. -- Son of Suns

I don't think anything is fan-made, it's all official. But I agree, consolidating the acticles is a good idea, and I do need to work on fleshing them out. In the meantime, I'll keep uploading, but once all the articles are finished, I will work on consolidation. Also, I do have all the dates for the items, if we need to add them. I've been downloading pics and info from this gallery:3dejong


 * OK, on the Toad plush I just added, I put the date in. However, there just isn't much you can say about a Toad doll, so I'm thinking that, like Steve said, we should just have one article, like Plushies, and have a large gallery of all the items, like with the Yoshi plushes. Should I go ahead and upload all the rest of the artices, or should we make a gallery? 3dejong

I made a page for the Mario Land Finger Puppets, complete with manufacturer info and dates. Like it? You can see it here: Finger Puppets. 3dejong
 * That is exactly what we would ask to shorten the number of pages necessary. ayoshi TC@ http://www.mariowiki.com/images/2/24/Wayoshisig.png 20:12, 14 October 2006 (EDT)

Dead-End Pages
It has come to my attention that many of the 63 "dead-end" articles (articles that have no internal links besides categories to another page on the wiki, creating a 'dead-end') are merchandise pages. This is another issue that needs to be resolved. ayoshi TC@ http://www.mariowiki.com/images/2/24/Wayoshisig.png 13:10, 15 October 2006 (EDT)

Final Resolution
We have to compress the very short (less than three sentences) merchandise articles into one gallery, such as Luigi Bobblehead or Blargg Stamp. Although it would be cluttered and messy, we can separate it into sections, and that would be much better than so many short illegimate articles. As stated before, our goal is not to have many short articles but to have expansive articles. We already have a few gallery articles but this is what we'll have to create. It will be set up like this:

Galleries

 * Clothing and Accessories
 * Foods and Treats
 * Promotional Items (includes Promotional Pins, Stationary, and Utensils/Kitchenware)
 * Figurines (includes 3-D Pixelated Figurines and Promotional Figurines)
 * Plushies
 * Toys

Books

 * Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit
 * Super Mario Bros. 3: Happy Birthday, Princess Toadstool!
 * Nintendo Adventure Books
 * Double Trouble (Nin. Adv. #1)
 * Leaping Lizards (Nin. Adv. #2)
 * Monster Mix-up (Nin. Adv. #3)
 * Koopa Capers (Nin. Adv. #4)
 * Pipe Down! (Nin. Adv. #5)
 * Doors to Doom (Nin. Adv. #6)
 * Dinosaur Dilemma(Nin. Adv. #7)
 * Flown the Koopa (Nin. Adv. #8)
 * Unjust Desserts (Nin. Adv. #11)
 * Brain Drain (Nin. Adv. #12)
 * Game Boy
 * Super Mario Advance
 * Warioland 4
 * How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains

Comics

 * Nintendo Comics System
 * Super Mario-Kun
 * Super Mario Adventures
 * Pikkapika Comics (Japan)
 * Mario VS Wario

Official Nintendo Magazines

 * Nintendo Power ADVANCE
 * Nintendo Power
 * Cube

Other

 * Comic Sightings
 * Magazine Sightings

Main reason the short mechandise articles should be merged into a gallery is because it makes editing short pages harder for new users. 3dejong? – Spike
 * OK! 3dejong

The list
Woah, woah, WOAH!!! This list at the article certainly needs improving, since I'm the only one who usually does the List Updating, can anyone help me on this? The list is WAY over from messy, it's pigsti!!!!