MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Make its own page (Discuss) Deadline: January 31, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Delete the Mushroom Universe page (Discuss) Deadline: February 04, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Change the board table layout for Mario Party: Island Tour back to the original one (Discuss) Deadline: February 5, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Stop considering Mattermouths as Dry Bones (Discuss) Deadline: January 16, 2014, 23:59 GMT Extended: January 23, 2014, 23:59 GMT, February 6, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Nicknames
Lazy people, rejoice! Nicknames are redirects to your userpage, so if your name is super-long and you are impatient to get to yours (or someone else's) page, you can just type in the nickname and it'll redirect you there. Ok, everyone keeps opposing, and you have good reason, so limit 3 nicknames.

Proposer: Deadline: January 24, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) P p.

Oppose

 * 1) To be honest, it seems more like it'd just create an unnecessary excess of userspace redirects. You have a link to your userpage while you're logged in, and the search bar shows any possible userpages you could be looking for as you enter in the page name, meaning you can access the userpage of a person with a long name without typing the full name, so there wouldn't be much benefit out of this as the system feels convenient enough.
 * 2) This is an unnecessary idea. As Icemario would say, people would be free to create a great amount redirects to their userpage. So this means that the administrators or something have to approve it first, which is already another unnecessary workload they have to contend with. If you think your name really is too long, ask for a rename, if you're qualified for it.
 * 3) Per Icemario, this just takes up a lot of space. Also, why the heck does a few extra seconds of typing matter, and why do you even have to type a lot if letter matches come up in the search bar anyways? Also, chances are that if a username is long, it'll also be uncommon. (I often go by just "Drift", but I don't even have to type that whole until my page comes up)
 * 4) Completely unneeded, and potentially bad in the long-run. As Driftmaster130 said some people call him Drift, a new user may want to join under that name, and I highly doubt they'd be trying to impersonate Drift, when they go to create their userpage they can't because Drift will be used as a redirect and user pages are formatted so only the user and wiki admins can edit it so a request would have to be made and it'd take up unnecessary time.
 * 5) - Per all.
 * 6) doesn't this violate the Userspace Policy? We have DISPLAYTITLE for this.
 * 7) Sorry, I'm going to oppose. Displaytitle sounds like a good idea, if you have a nickname. I have tons of nicks, and I'm sure they would be a bother for other users.
 * 8) Sorry, but DISPLAYTITLEs like this is better then adding nicknames templates that redirect to your name. Per all.
 * 9) Per all. Plus, If a user have tons of nicknames, will be hard know who is.
 * 10) Per all. What's the point?

Comments
BTW, no one searches for users via search bar anyway. And even if you do, you have to use the advanced settings, which no one would really user either, except for users...maybe?

OK. I give up. Cancel this, please. But I have a WAY better proposal coming up.
 * Is the next proposal dealing with the same subject matter? Because unless you're avoiding Rule 7 from preventing you from trying again with a modified proposal before the 1-month waiting period is over, "I give up" isn't actually a valid reason to have it pulled. It's better to let the proposal run its course. -

Don't worry, it isn't. And you guys have a point, so that's why I gave up.

Removals
None at the moment.

Changes
None at the moment.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.