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.

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
 * Create an additional category called "Category:Unreleased media" and nest Category:Cancelled Games (please rename it to "Category:Canceled Games") under there.
 * 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
 * 5) - Per all.
 * 6) Sure, sounds good. Easier to type and remember too.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) 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)
 * Good question, but for the time being, we'll have to rename it to "unreleased media" because the only nongame stuff I'm aware of is the Super Mario Archie pitch so there's no point in having two nearly identical categories for the time being. 10:05, 4 April 2016 (EDT)
 * I was suggesting having Cat:Unreleased media containing Cat:Unreleased games (or Cancelled games), not double-catting. Doing this would allow the unreleased games category to be sorted in Category:Games (specifically, continuing to be in Category:Games by misc. status) without putting the Archie comic under Cat:Games or losing that part of the category tree. - Reboot (talk) 15:06, 5 April 2016 (EDT)
 * Hm, my concern would be the amount of media. From what I'm thinking, we're going to get a category with one known item and a link to Category:Unreleased Games, and by category standards, it doesn't contain enough items to be its own category. It's definitely worth thinking about, although I do think Category:Games by misc. status could stand to lose unreleased games just for the sake of a neater inclusion of nongame media. 21:32, 5 April 2016 (EDT)
 * See, if it was going to be removed from the Cat:Games tree, I'd have to oppose. I think Cancelled/Unreleased games definitely need to be categorised in there as such. - Reboot (talk) 08:34, 6 April 2016 (EDT)
 * Hm, I'll think of something. I'm not going to remove it from the Games category, and I'm also iffy on doing it in the first place. I think I'll incorporate your idea just for now, and we'll see how this goes. 16:38, 6 April 2016 (EDT)

Would this include changing all instances of "cancelled" to "canceled"? This isn't even part of the proposal proper, but I noticed the request to rename the page to "canceled" and from what I've seen, "cancelled" is the most common spelling of the word on this wiki. 00:41, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
 * No. For British vs American English, first come first stays. --Glowsquid (talk) 09:36, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
 * Just to clarify, so (please rename it to "Category:Canceled Games") would not happen? 19:22, 8 April 2016 (EDT)
 * Probably not, but I still don't see exactly why since we use American names for naming game articles. 09:39, 9 April 2016 (EDT)

Implement or Delete
I created this template as a draft with the idea of placing it on every wiki page for Mario Party boards. I do not, however, want to put it on before passing this idea to the community. I think this template would allow for easier navigation and support its implementation for that reason.

Proposer: Deadline: April, 12, 2016, 23:59 GMT"

Implement

 * 1) per proposal
 * 2) This definitely works and will benefit navigating the wiki although I must agree with my sister. Next time, create a draft page in your userspace first so you can edit and stuff without having other users possibly notice this template and then start using it, especially if you're just going to end up creating a proposal on its existence.
 * 3) Per Bazooka Mario.
 * 4) - Per Bazooka Mario.
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) Seems extremely useful, implement it.
 * 7) Per all.

Comments
You should have created a specific draft page for your project before you create an official template. Anyway, your colors are all wrong. Look at how other Mario Party games format their cell colors (an example being Mario Party 5's nav template). Your first style background should be #FAFA00, not #FFFF00, and the second color should be #FFFF33. And if you're going to separate the boards into two categories, you need to specify and create specific cells for each type (split the single player and multiplayer boards into their own cells, not lumped under a single game). The text on the left cells should be centered and bolded. I do support the addition of a navtemplate for the Mario Party boards, as I think it could get one considering Mario Party is a big series, like Mario Kart, that probably should get navtemplates in a similar vein to how it gets racetracks, but please format it correctly when you create new navtemplates. 17:50, 5 April 2016 (EDT)