MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Imajin, Mama, Lina, Papa, and Poki and Piki with Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (Discuss) Passed.
 * Separate Wii U audio files from the ones on the GBA (Discuss) Passed.
 * Merge Goombette with Micro-Goomba (Discuss) Deadline: February 8, 2015, 23:59 GMT.
 * Add an image of a Question Block to the Empty template (Discuss) Deadline: February 9, 2015, 23:59 GMT.
 * Split the level 75m from Donkey Kong from the Smash Bros. stage of the same name (Discuss) Deadline: February 12, 2015, 23:59 GMT.

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Make a new "Out of date" template
I think we should make a new "this page is out of date" template. To avoid confusion, here is why summed up in three reasons:


 * It is needed here- many pages are out of date.
 * Out of date pages should be independent of, because putting completely unrelated issues under one template is confusing. This template assures that the template is specific to the problem, unlike.
 * It is instantly recognizable and more convenient. Why be confusing when you could be concise and too the point?

Below are two versions. Personally, I like images on templates because they show creativity, but I understand some people disagree on me about images, so I've included a template without an image as well.

Version 1

 This page or section is out of date. Please update any inaccurate information

Version 2

 This page or section is out of date. Please update any inaccurate information

So, what do you guys think?

Proposer: Deadline: February 15th, 2015, at 23:59 GMT.

Support (Version 1)

 * 1) Per proposal.

Removals
None at the moment.

Establish a duration rule for music files
Is this the right place to have unnecessarily long (even 2:00+ long) music samples such as this one? The wiki does not focus on game music. They are just samples, so people usually check them out to get an idea of the song, not to listen to them from the start to the end. Besides, shorter samples make the article seem lighter and do not divert attention from the page for much time. I suggest we make all music files between 0:15 and 0:20 long.

Proposer: Deadline: February 15, 2015, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * Per my proposal.

Oppose

 * Well, we are a wiki about all things Mario, and the soundtrack is part of it; the wiki isn't even running out of storage space, anyway. It's not like people would be too lazy to press the pause button if they didn't want to listen to the whole thing. Plus, what is someone did want to listen to a whole song? True, the user could just go to Youtube, but having everything Mario-related on one page is what makes the Mario Wiki special. If a music is a short loop, yes, there is no need for a 5-minute recording, but what you're doing here is putting a cap on all songs, which could cause issues. Shorting down the songs just causes more problems, while having the whole piece is beneficial to all.
 * 1) As Andymii said, this is the Super Mario Wiki, dedicated to everything that's related to the Mario series, and if the music is a part of a game, it's a part of the series. The focus of the wiki isn't on music, sure, and it also isn't characters, beta elements, enemies, glitches, stages... They're all just naturally covered because they exist within the series. Viewers of the wiki are as likely to want to listen to the songs as they are to look up a character. Also, I don't get the "shorter samples = lighter articles", considering literally the only thing that would change is the tiny minute:seconds timer on the far-right. Also, limiting music samples to just fifteen to twenty seconds long would require people to not only go out of their way to edit the songs (and with the number of music files out there, this will take a while), but there will certainly be arguments about which fifteen/twenty seconds of the song should be used. Simply put, adding the full songs to the wiki is a much simper option that gives convenience to both our editors and our viewers.

Miscellaneous
None at the moment.