MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split Mario Party information from Item Shop into . (Discuss) Passed
 * Split Fire Flower (the Special Attack) section of Mario & Luigi series into a new article named . (Discuss) Deadline: December 19, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Rearrange List of power-ups to sort by power-up, not debuting game. (Discuss) Deadline: December 26, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Decide if Spikes are a derived species of Koopas. (Discuss) Deadline: December 28, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split from Rope (Discuss) Deadline: December 29, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split The Brain from Poltergeist (Discuss) Deadline: December 31, 2015, 23:59 GMT
 * Split from Sales Bunny, or remove Sales Bunny altogether (Discuss) Deadline: January 1, 2016, 23:59 GMT
 * Split the Trophy information from Super Smash Bros. into a new page named (Discuss) Deadline: January 1, 2016, 23:59 GMT

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Create a Account creation encouragement template
Sometimes there are great ip users who make tons of useful contributions that help this wiki grow. Those ips are extremely welcome contributors who unfortunately, are ineligible to do advance things such as editing semi-protected pages, moving pages, creating new pages, and various other useful contributions due to their non-registered status. I think we should create a template to encourage them to join as registered. The template would be placed on ip user talk pages. I have drafted a design for this template:

Hello [ insert ip address here ], have you considered creating an account here. Your contributions to this wiki have been very appreciated but in order to unlock various other useful feature in this wiki, you will need to have an account. Having an account will increase your tool options by allowing you to create new pages, edit protected pages, vote in proposals and other discussions, upload new file media, rename pages, have a personal username and userpage. We strongly recommend you create an account to unlock these feature. Proposer: Deadline: December 25, 2015, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) per proposal.

Oppose

 * 1) Per the arguments that were brought up the last time this idea was proposed: it's tedious and frankly unreasonable to have someone or even several people keeping track of every IP that pops up, IP's can be accessed by numerous individuals, and a blanket template probably won't convince them to sign up if they hadn't done so already.
 * 2) There are two main reasons this probably wouldn't work: 1.) Most IPs edit once and leave, others edit about once every few months. I haven't noticed all that many IPs who make enough edits (that is, within a reasonable time period) to make an account in the three years I've been here. 2.) Rather than a template, couldn't we just tell them in an informal message?
 * 3) Just leave it up to the individual operating the IP to see if they want to have an account or not, no need to nag them with an unnecessary template. Per Time Turner.
 * 4) - Per all here, and per the opposers of the last proposal. Also, that template is garish and painful to look at.
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) I think this template will actually discourage users. If there are anons that are being super active and helpful, then it's better to thank them formally to encourage their signing up than to give a less caring, automated template.
 * 7) – Per all.
 * 8) Per all. I really don't think this is something we'll ever agree to doing.
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) IPs can be IPs if they WANT to, they don't need an account to edit. per all.
 * 11) Per all; If an IP doesn't want an account, they don't need to make one.
 * 12) I don't see this going well. A lot of IP's make useful edits, but a lot of them also make edits that are very unnecessary. If we incourage them to make an account, especially the bad ones, we're going to have a problem. A lot of IP's only make one edit and leave anyway. Plus, why can't we just say it in an informal message?
 * 13) While I usually dismiss such arguments like "no one can do it" as laziness, in this case, it really is near impossible to keep track of all the IPs. No one is going to be like, "hey, I recognize that IP before!" Additionally, it's highly unlikely for IPs to check their talk pages; most just edit casually. And if the IPs really want an account, they will choose to do it themselves; I doubt that many people who acceses this site are actually aware of the account feature. They're staying an IP for a reason.