MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Split the sections Attackathlon, Toad Quiz and Lakitu Info Centre into and  (Discuss) Passed
 * Merge Wooden Block with Hard Block (Discuss) Passed

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Removals
None at the moment.

Move Affiliate Buttons to the Wiki
On Links, there is a section with various affiliate buttons for Super Mario Wiki's affiliates. However, all these images are currently hotlinked from various other places on the internet (sometimes the website in question, sometimes third party image hosts, etc).

This means that when said sites update, the images often break.

So I propose we host these icons on the wiki somewhere, so we know they won't break whenever our affiliates change their file structure or move domain name. We can then delete the respective images if the sites ever close down.

Proposer: Deadline: April 4, 2016, 00:15 GMT

Support

 * 1) This will make it much easier to maintain the page.
 * 2) Per proposal, but this doesn't really need a proposal...
 * 3) Makes sense to me. Tag images with  as an extra step.
 * 4) Doesn't require a proposal. This is pure common sense to link the images appropriately.
 * 5) – Per all, especially.
 * 6) - Per all. And indeed, this could have been done without a proposal.

Comments
I don't really think general maintenance like this needs a proposal. I think just more time dedicated to working that part of the wiki would be good. 22:27, 27 March 2016 (EDT)
 * Makes me wonder why we can't upload images here and use the image link function like how some articles do it (namely Mario Kart 8 and my signature pops into mind). As Bazooka Mario said, there's really no downsides to not opposing this proposal, which can be accomplished by talk page consensus, so in my opinion, I say you just do it. 11:00, 28 March 2016 (EDT)
 * Deadline is tomorrow, so no harm in waiting for this to pass. -- 20:58, 3 April 2016 (EDT)

Rename instances of "Cancelled games and vaporware" to "Unreleased media"
The current name "Cancelled[sic] games and vaporware" does not cover other unreleased media of the Mario franchise. This leaves information such as the failed Mario Archie comic pitch floating out there when it should be covered alongside the games. Fortunately, we can simply broaden the scope of those pages and categories by simply renaming them to "List of unreleased media" so we can find a home for these related media while retaining the focus on covering the dead games and games in purgatory. Also, in the future, we may discover more nongame media that never had the chance to see the light of the day, so it is best we make the change now. The distinction of tech demos will still be made, so there shouldn't be a question of those either.

Articles affected
 * List of cancelled games and vaporware
 * Category:Cancelled Games
 * Template:CancelledGames (please also rename the header of the template from "Vaporware" to "unreleased media"

Proposer: Deadline: April 10, 2016, 23:59 (GMT)

Support

 * 1) - Per proposal. The name even sounds better.
 * 2) Per all
 * 3) Broader scope is good, and I like it to cover also other unreleased media so that its retrieval is easier!
 * 4) Per all
 * 1) Per all

Comments
Question about the category - are you intending for Cat:Cancelled Games to be removed entirely, or made a subcategory of Cat:Unreleased media (possibly renamed to Cat:Unreleased games)? - Reboot (talk) 20:50, 3 April 2016 (EDT)

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.