The 'Shroom:Issue 109/Pipe Plaza

Pipe Plaza

Director’s Notes
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Welcome 'Shroom readers to this April edition of Pipe Plaza.

As I'm sure many of you are aware, was sadly killed in a traffic accident on March 28. She will be sorely missed by all.

Monthly Report
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Hello, readers, and welcome to another issue of Monthly Report! As usual, there are no announcements regarding this section, so let's see what has changed on the wiki stats since March!

(Credit goes to, , and for the table coding (I based this on Stooben's coding, which was later modified by SMB, myself, and Viper26 when each one of us wrote this section).

*All times EST.

Featured
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Hello 'Shroom readers and welcome back to another edition of Featured, the only place this side of the Mario Wiki where you'll get news about the Mario Wiki Featured Articles.

Featured Articles
No new articles have been featured in the past month.

Re-Featured Articles
No new articles have become re-featured.

FA Nominations
There is one ongoing Featured Article Nomination.
 * Mario Golf: World Tour was nominated on February 7th. It currently has one oppose vote due to a lack of description on the non-playable characters, low quality images for the items, some broken links and the references haven't been properly formatted.

Failed FA Nominations
No new articles have failed the featuring process.

Unfeatured Articles
No new articles have been unfeatured in the past month.

Unfeaturing Nominations
There is one ongoing Unfeature nomination.
 * Wii was nominated on February 12th. It was nominated due to having three maintenance templates on it and missing imformation on the Wii Message Board.

Failed Unfeaturing Nominations
No new articles have failed the unfeaturing process in the past month.

Thanks for reading see you next month, for more Featured Articles news.

Tip of the Month
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Tip of the Month: Wiki formatting is usually different than your computer's word processing engine, whether you are on Windows or Mac. The biggest thing to watch out for are apostrophes when you are trying to adjust your font appearance (bold, italics, etc.) Most often, they will appear as regular apostrophes that won't have the effect of what you're trying to do. If you have a large amount of text that you've pre-written in a word processor, make notes where you want to insert special text characteristics so you know what to look for when you're editing the actual article on the wiki.

Poll Committee Discussion
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Welcome with bibbangs! For this month, I, Bazooka Mario will not be writing a section on the analysis of our recent polls.

April Fools!

Before you load and fire your lycopene-filled ammunition at a poor plumber who has only a small white flag proclaiming "BANG!" for ammunition, however, let me shoot you a recent run-down of our poll results. Oh, don't worry, the bullets won't hurt, April Fools or not.

Analysis

 * Which Version of M&S at Rio Olympic games would you buy?: Looks like something else will also have to deal with a lot of tomatoes and people weirdly calling out the name of a Mario ghost enemy. More than half of the voters would give this game a pass, but we do have a healthy 28.05% of those who want at least the Wii U version. Why do few people want the 3DS version? Here's the catch: it restricts your favorite characters barring Mario, Sonic, and Miis to just one or two events in the entire game! Even if you are a Mario, Sonic, or a Mii fan, that's nothing to get excited about. And there might be more, but that's my biggest issue with it, and Mario's my favorite character. Unfortunately for the Mario & Sonic series, from forum posts to low article quality in this wiki (yes, we admit that the Mario & Sonic content in this wiki look pitiful) most people, including me, aren't exactly exploding with hype for these games, and Nintendo hasn't devoted much time to these two games in their Nintendo Directs either. The poll results show exactly this, so this is probably yet another Olympics for Mario and Sonic that will bomb.
 * Starlow: For the considerable amount of 16.07% of voters who chose the last option, we will direct you to Starlow's page shortly, and there, you will expand your ever-increasing powerful knowledge of Mario. Otherwise, Starlow has lukewarm reception, a little bit positive, but she doesn't seem to be quite a lasting influence on our MarioWiki visitors. Overall, though, more people like Starlow than not, even though she has received a fair few complaints in our community, most of them being that Starlow is dispensable and overstayed her welcome.
 * Paper Mario: Color Splash: Well, well, at least to those who visit MarioWiki and are wonderful enough to cast a vote in the front page, Paper Mario: Color Splash has gotten a fair amount of interest. Of course, the game is just announced, so it's understandable that people like to see more rather than write off Color Splash. Sticker Star, which Color Splash so far closely resembles, might have disappointed more than a few, and this game might be a fallout rather than a bombastic splash for them (the extremely negative option is a distant third on the poll), but overall, people are at least interested for another Mario RPG game.
 * Miitomo: It seems like Nintendo's Tomodachi-inspired smartpone-based completely-random application isn't a failure, after all. Of course, many of us are greedy and want Mario to arrive on smartphones. You never know.
 * Wii U: According to our poll, 42% of humans find the Wii U the BEST CONSOLE IN EXISTANCE. No bias at all.
 * How much do you worship Poochy?: The best for last: our April Fools poll! Yes, we've won an admirable amount of converts at gun-point with resounding love. We hope to win over more in the following years. People also show a surprising devotion to pay their electricity bill to avoid going to the Dark Side™, but alas, we have an unfortunate 119 who want to live in total darkness. We have a solution: expose them to the holy light of Poochy and listen carefully to our loving prayers. And then, maybe they'll pay their electricity bills for once.

We appreciate any sort of questions and comments on this poll. We've actually been considering improving the quality of the polls, as we've received a fair few unflattering complaints about them. If you have ideas, don't be afraid to shoot a personal message in our forums or a message in the talk pages of the Poll Committee members. Stay tuned for the next Poll Committee analysis with behind the wheel. Hope you have a blast!

Forum Update
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Hey everyone, welcome to another edition of the Forum Update, which has returned triumphantly(?) after I failed to send in a section last month. Of course, this means I'm going to cover both February and March.

News
I became a Global Moderator. I now have access to every board. Bow before your new rule- I mean, uh, I'm totally going to use this power for good. ban smasher

Bans

 * Mario15 was permanently banned for constantly making low quality posts, and ignoring people telling him to stop.
 * Drift and FireEevee's  temporary bans both ended.

Statistics
In February, 167 topics were created. 7578 posts were made - 4258 posts less than January. 14 new members joined. The most users online at once was 214 - exactly the same as January's.

In March, 161 topics and 7799 posts were made. 16 new members joined, and the most online at once was 209.

(Bold means new entry and Italics mean inactive for at least the past month.)

Thread of the Month
Rest in Peace, Walkazo.

Quotes

 * "you can tell it's quality because comments are disabled on youtube"' - Nabber
 * "there could be a whole set of tobawani emoticons, to express the four emotions that people feel: scared, hungry, swimming, and jumping" - 2257
 * "Shit man, that's like, my entire emotional range right there." - Mr. Edo
 * "help i am poor user with no friends" - Dr. Javelin

Mafia
Currently ongoing are Stooben's 'Shroom Mafia III,, Baby Mario Bloops' Steven Universe Mafia and Nyrie's Nyrie's Meme(ish) Mafia.


 * GBAToad's The Longest Day, The Shortest Mafia 2 (Lounge) was won by the Innocents.
 * Tantusar's One Base, No Toppings (Lounge) was won by the Mafia.
 * Epic Nitwit's Sheep Mafia II was put on hold.
 * Roy Koopa's Everyone is Mafia 2 was won by Freakworld.

Thanks for reading.

Community Report
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Hi readers! Welcome to the April issue of the Community Report. It shows our the latest goings-ons around the Super Mario Wiki – the promotions, the demotions, the recently passed and ongoing proposals.

(credit to for previously developing this coded table system, with some alterations made by )

PROMOTIONS/DEMOTIONS
 * None

RECENTLY PASSED PROPOSALS:

RECENT TALK PAGE PROPOSALS:

ONGOING PROPOSALS:

ONGOING TALK PAGE PROPOSALS:
 * None

NOTE:All stats and figures included in this section were correct as of April 11th.

That’s all for the April edition of the Community Report. Thank you for taking the time to read it and take the time to look and participate to current proposals.

Retro Feature
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    First article: Faing Into Obscurity, Issue XXI Last article: Fading Into Obscurity, Issue XXI  Sections Written: Main Team: 1 Positions held: Contributor

Hello, readers! I'm your Spotlight manager and Pipe Plaza Director, Yoshi876. Welcome to Retro Feature, a section in which I delve deep into the archives to bring you the best blasts from the past. This time I bring a section from MrYoshbert.

MrYoshter joined the Super Mario Wiki on 9 September 2009 and joined The 'Shroom in Issue XXI writing the Fading Into Obscurity section for the main team. This would sadly, however be his only contribution to The 'Shroom, which is a shame because as you can see below it is actually quite a good section. It has also become quite a popular section with several writers having written it, most recently. However, like the section MrYoshter himself has faded into obscurity, as he doesn't feature within our own Writer History.

The 'Shroom Report
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Hello, and welcome to another issue of The 'Shroom Report. As a reminder, in the Milestones section, writers will get mentioned every 10 sub-team sections and every 50 all-time sections, teams will get mentioned every 100 sections, and The 'Shroom will get mentioned every 500 sections. All information is based off our Historical Sheets. This section will cover Issue 108.

Tables are based off the End-of-the-Year Awards tables, so credit goes out to.

We will miss you, Walk. Rest in peace.

Anniversary Announcements
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On 27 March, our dear veteran MarioWiki staff member,, has passed away in a traffic accident. Words cannot describe the feeling we, and with us a lot of other people in the community, felt upon hearing this news. Our condolences go out to Walkazo's family and friends. Walkazo, you will be dearly missed. Rest in Peace.

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night dear reader. You've come to the place where the (imaginary) cookies are. Oh, and the latest news about the Awards of course. But also cookies. https://ltquick.nl/c0oK132.png

First of, there has been a small shift in the committee. has stepped down from his position as host of the 'Shroom Awards because he lacks the necessary time to properly handle the task. In his place has come our fellow. SMB hasn't left us though, and will still be present within the committee.

Then a big change in the Awards: the Userpedia Awards have been rebranded as the User Awards. Userpedia itself has become more of an archive, but the community is still bustling as ever.

The User Awards' first Award, Favorite Retired User, will not be present this year, and it's spot will instead be dedicated to Walkazo. The User Awards will also be held before the 'Shroom Awards for this.

Meetings' time. Kamek and Paper Kamek have been added to A15 Hardest Boss and Shiny RoboBowser has been added to A27 Favorite Boss Battle. After that, A1 Favorite Game Soundtrack was renamed Best Sound Design so also covers in-game sound effects that create the entire ambience. Lots of idea's for the Fail Awards have been coined, to be discussed in Meeting 4.

Refer to this document for a full list of nominees. All that is marked in yellow in this document is yet to be discussed.

Meeting 4 consisted mostly of filling in nominees for new awards and removing several Fail awards. Favorite Art Direction was revamped as Favorite Art Style to better suit the theme.

In the fifth meeting, the favourite game awards were finalized, and the Fail Awards were continued. Two were removed, and two were redefined.

The sixth meeting was dedicated to the Fail Awards, most notably the adding of nominees for new awards. Also discussed was how the dedication to Walkazo will be handled. At least known is that Favorite Retired User will be absent, and that the User and 'Shroom Awards will be swapped, so User will be first.

And that was Anniversary Announcements for this month. Stay tuned for a new edition next month! Adieu!

All information above was correct as of 2016-04-14.