MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Mario Stadium (Itadaki Street DS) with Mario Stadium (baseball stadium) (Discuss) Deadline: October 18, 2013, 23:59 GMT. Passed.
 * Delete Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars bestiary (Discuss) Deadline: November 12, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Delete Sea Side King (Discuss) Deadline: November 13, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Rename List of enemy stats in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team to (Discuss) Deadline: November 15, 2013, 23:59 GMT
 * Rename List of enemy stats in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story to (Discuss) Deadline: November 15, 2013, 23:59 GMT

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Remove coverage of "cameo" puzzle games
The wiki includes several pages on random puzzle games (Alleyway, Art Style: PiCTOBiTS, Tetris DS... etc) which feature Mario-themed puzzles and cameos from the franchise. We do not feel these games are worthy of their own page.

To take one example, Pushmo, despite having a page, features a limited amount of Mario references; there is only one Mario puzzle out of the first 100 (not counting the NES controller puzzle), and the remaining levels are found exclusively within two Nintendo-themed puzzle sections towards the end of the game. More to the fact, Mario characters do not make cameos outside of their puzzles, the game does not include any additional Mario themes or sounds, and the game’s story and characters do not reference the Nintendo characters much at all. So covering anything else from the game (story, character artwork, and menu icons) and calling it a crossover is not really justified by the amount of references the game has.

The other cameo puzzle games are in a similar bunch; While the ratio of Mario vs non-Mario content may be slightly higher (with Tetris DS, for example, featuring NES Super Mario Bros. sprites prancing around in several modes), the depth of the Mario content featured within is extremely minimal and barely relevant to the actual game.

So why are we giving these games crossover coverage? The answer: we shouldn’t be, and we shouldn’t let new users believe that we are. Some of these articles seem more like bloated references than worthy crossovers, so why have these entire content-creeping articles when the actual references, which only take up about a small percent of their article's length, would not be out of place on the references list.

In short, we propose that we move the Mario-related information, which is the only thing relevant to the wiki, to the references list, and redirect the articles to that, because the cameo puzzle games simply don't have enough relevant content to be given full crossover coverage.

The following games would be affected by this proposal:
 * Alleyway
 * Tetris DS
 * Art Style: PiCTOBiTS
 * Pushmo

Proposers: and Deadline: November 16, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal. I may have contributed a lot to the Pushmo article, but I feel that removing these pages is for the best.

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