MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge Start Dash with Rocket Start (Discuss) Deadline: November 29, 2013, 23:59 GMT.

Writing Guidelines
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New features
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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.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) par prapsel.
 * 4) Purr proposal.
 * 5) Wario approves of this proposal. I always found pages like Pushmo to be questionable.
 * 6) Per proposal.
 * 7) Definitely, if we do this for all the games then we'll end up having full in-depth articles for games that have nothing to do with Mario like Lego City Undercover, Rayman Legends, Angry Birds Space, Animal Crossing, Banjo-Kazooie, Cave Story+, Epic Mickey: Power of- oh you get my point.
 * 8) Makes sense. Per all.
 * 9) True indeed! Per all.

Oppose

 * 1) Cannot support in current form, see comment below for full opposition.

Comments
I assume that any sub-pages the games have will also be deleted.


 * In the case of Gallery:Pushmo? Should all the images contained there also be deleted, asides from the ones which may be used elsewhere, such as on the references page. – 09:40, 9 November 2013 (EST)
 * I can't think of any reason to keep them.
 * Except for the 8-bit Mario one, but I don't know if it's an actual level or just a creation.
 * Yeah, that one does count as an image that can be used elsewhere, but the images of Mallo and the game's logo should go.

What about Captain Rainbow, whilst it has Mario references more frequently than the puzzle games, but they do have a role in the story?
 * This proposal's not applicable to that game at all. Captain Rainbow is not a plotless puzzle game and Birdo's got a pretty meaty role, not to mention we're not even trying to give it full coverage as a crossover anyway, unlike the puzzle games. It's considered a "guest appearance" with partial coverage only, and it should remain that way. -
 * Oh yeah. This also applies to those NBA games as well.

I agree with the main bulk of this proposal with one exception that prevents me from supporting it in its current form: Alleyway. As shown on the boxart and apparently in-game, Mario controls the paddle and is thus, in a somewhat indirect fashion, the playable character in this game. Compare to Golf. Other than the fact that you play as a very un-Mario looking Mario (and only in North America, to boot), this game has no connection to the Mario series. Yet it has a full article, as it should. Why is Alleyway any different?

I would almost argue for keeping Tetris DS as well due to the depth of content (its Puzzle mode is basically a remake of Yoshi's Cookie, from the sound of things), but I don't have as strong of feelings or support for that objection.

Ditch "Full Names" when appropriate
Usually, when you get to the "Full Name" part, you see a totally unconfirmed, made-up full name. We only need confirmed things, not speculations and ideas.

Proposer: Electrical Bowser jr. Deadline: November 20, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) P p.
 * 2) When appropriate sounds better to me. Per proposal.
 * 3) Per proposal
 * 4) Per All.

Comments
What do you mean by "Full Name"?

Like, for Bowser Jr, "Prince Bowser Koopa Jr". It's speculative nonsense.
 * I'm not sure all are speculation, Kamek has a reference for his.

Well, most are.

@Tails: You have a point, so I changed it a bit.

Allow Featuring and Unfeaturing nominations to fail before the deadline
I think that if an oppose comes up for why the nomination should fail, and the problem is not fixed, or a counter-argument is bought up against the oppose in a way that it cannot then be countered within 1 week the nomination should fail. This is so silly nominations like Featured Articles/Unfeature/N/Kirby can fail before the deadline and the article isn't left with an UNFA template when it doesn't deserve it. Under this new system nominations like this can fail long before they should. For the FA system if the flaw is something that cannot be fixed i.e. size, then it should fail after the timeframe.

Proposer: Deadline: November 17, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) Per all
 * 4) Per all (this will go through since I make it a quorum)
 * 5) Yes, we should be able to cancel nominations like the Super Mario 3D World one. Per all

Comments
Wait, what? I tried reading what you're saying, but I don't understand the gist of it.
 * Basically if an oppose vote is put in, and it's not fixed or countered then the nomination should fail.
 * What if there is a valid article nominated to be featured, and to satisfy the opposition, it takes a lot of work? You weren't there when Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story was nominated to be featured, and it took a while (more than 1 week) and a lot of work to satisfy the opposition. I know it eventually became unfeatured for another reason, but that's not my point. A better way to word it is if there is nothing being done (or nothing can be done, such as in Super Mario 3D World) to satisfy the opposition within a time period, then the article should fail.
 * Yeah, alright.

@Lefty In a way that cannot be countered, what I mean by that is a counter-argument for which there is no counter. For example, on the Kirby nomination, the subject has no relevance to the quality, it cannot be countered. And the 1 week timeframe as said only applies to the FAs if the problem is unfixible, the 1 week deadline mainly applies to the unfeaturing because if the problem is fixed there's no point on the article just sitting around for 2 months with the unfeature template on it.
 * This is obviously not fixable, but there may be situations where this happens: who determines something to be not fixable? The 1 week deadline apparently applies to featuring articles as well. Also, new points may be brought up while an article is getting unfeatured, but I suppose 1 week should be enough to point out flaws in the article or the votes. There are also problems in articles that are going to be unfeatured that may take a week to fix (I remember that Goomba article voting to get unfeatured; it was about to be unfeatured until I worked really hard to refute that giant paragraph of points Time Turner done).
 * By fixable it's more size, rather than quality, for example if I nominated Mushroom Drop it is far too small and that is an unfixable problem so after the week passes and the oppose points that out it fails. And for unfeaturing, it's not about taking 1 week to fix it, it's fixing the problem then opposing and as long as all the points in the unfeaturing nomination have been addressed then it fails.

Miscellaneous
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