MarioWiki:Proposals

Writing guidelines
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New features
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Removals
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Change how we display staff ghost information in race course infoboxes
Currently, all of the relevant information is plain text, with one line showing the time, player, and game; and another, smaller line beneath it showing their character and vehicle. This worked for some time, but now we're in the age of 8 Deluxe. We have wheels and gliders and the CC to fit down there. The smaller "line" is spilling into two lines. Tokyo Blur's 150cc has so much to convey, it looks like this:

1:36.317 by Nin★Yuya (8 Deluxe) (Blue Inkling Boy with the Splat Buggy, Blue Standard, and Super Glider) (150cc)

At this point, I feel like it no longer makes sense to display staff ghosts this way. I propose we do it like this:

This 2x2 grid shows the game (and CC), the name of the ghost, and the ghost's time. In the bottom right, we show the ghost's character and vehicle combination as a line of icons, similar to how 8 Deluxe shows them. These would go under an expandable header near the music samples and course maps.

Here is a demonstration page where you can see these in action for Yoshi Circuit, as well as see them for other games in the series.

While I'm very open to recommendations for how to improve and better implement these, I think this 2x2 grid layout is the best way to cleanly show many staff ghosts' information in a compact space.

Proposer: Deadline: March 24, 2023, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1)  Per proposal.
 * 2) Per proposal.
 * 3) I honestly can't think of any other way to present ghost information other than yours, per proposal.
 * 4) Per all.
 * 5) Per proposal. I honestly think it would look much better this way. Plus, we have these sprites, it honestly just looks better to use them like this.
 * 6) Per proposal.
 * 7) Per all. For me it is visually appealing; better appearance than before.
 * 8) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS! PER ALL! FINALLY, a proposal for this!
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) - This definitely looks a lot better and conveys info a lot better, though I would like to state that we should probably make sure to include alt text on the actual images for the sake of stuff like screen readers; otherwise, this could become a bit cumbersome for those. (Tried testing it myself, but uh, it turns out Windows Narrator is a little jank on my PC???)

Comments
@Ahemtoday: I'm all for this proposal, but wouldn't it make more sense for it to go under the "changes" section? This isn't exactly a new feature to me. It's more of a change. Mari0fan100 (talk) 21:42, March 17, 2023 (EDT)
 * I also agree, this should be probably moved to the "changes" section. 21:47, March 17, 2023 (EDT)

A quick and dirty amendment to the January-February 2023 Smash proposal
I've just realised I done brain farted in this proposal, completely changing what I wanted to get at, and yet the error somehow went under the radar. The error in question is in this statement: "if a character has had a significant appearance within the Mario franchise proper, such as having a playable role in Mario Kart--and this includes actual Mario characters--their page will remain intact." The bolded part was really only supposed to apply to characters who originated from the Mario franchise. Otherwise, it's in direct contradiction with the proposal's goal to indiscriminately trim and/or re-incorporate moveset lists for all non-Mario characters, regardless if they're still supposed to have a full page on this wiki or not. To reiterate, this is because they're hardly Mario-related concepts and can be neatly summarised in a character's entry for a given Smash appearance if they aren't already.

So with this proposal, I aim to clarify the statement as the following: if a character has had a significant appearance within the Mario franchise proper, such as having a playable role in Mario Kart--and this obviously includes actual Mario characters--they will still have a page of their own. However, if they're not characters from a franchise that receives full coverage on this wiki, their lists of moves in the Super Smash Bros. series will still be trimmed away.

If this proposal passes, a link to this proposal will be added as a footnote in the quoted proposal's main body, though without directly altering the original statement.

Proposer: Deadline: March 26, 2023, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) I apologise and I hope this won't reflect too harshly on my dilligence and reasoning.
 * 2) It's good to keep our focus on the series this wiki is meant to cover. Someone should really revise how we handle crossovers.
 * 3) - Makes sense. If they already have a substantial presence in Mario stuff via crossovers, it seems only fair.

Comments
Will we also be axing stuff like the Classic Mode routes? Palutena's Guidance texts? I'm not entirely sure where to draw the line, but I think there are other things besides the move lists on these articles that are fully the Smash wiki's territory. Ahemtoday (talk) 20:32, March 19, 2023 (EDT)
 * As far as these fighters pages are concerned, the previous proposal answers your question: Classic Mode routes are moved over to these pages as these may involve Mario characters and music, while Palutena's texts, as with other information of the "profiles and statistics" type, aren't. 21:17, March 19, 2023 (EDT)

Miscellaneous
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