MarioWiki:Proposals

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 * Delete Poop (Discuss) Deadline : March 9, 2014 23:59 GMT
 * Split Flower into two separate articles (Discuss) Deadline : March 17, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Delete Pizza (Discuss) Deadline : March 17, 2014, 23:59 GMT
 * Overhaul Mushroom World page (Discuss) Deadline : March 19, 2014, 23:59 GMT

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Change the identificator for the multiple Mario Kart courses
It is well known that there has been multiple incarnations of the same track throughout the Mario Kart series, these are the well known Mario Circuit, Bowser's Castle and Rainbow Road. Long ago those pages were splitted into the several pages in order to accomodate the different incarnations in the series, reducing the main article's lenght drastically but doing the navigation a lot more efficient (though I got to admit that ruined my plans to nominate Rainbow Road to be a FA). The only issue here is the identificator used for each page: all use the abbreviation of the origin console, i.e. Mario Circuit (GCN), Bowser's Castle (N64), Rainbow Road (SNES) (the only exception is Wii, but still applies). While this was surely done to match how retro courses are indentificated in the retro cups, these indentificators are technically breaking the fourth rule especified on the naming guideline, therefore, the identificators are useless the way they are. Having the console name is ambiguous too due to multiple incarnations of the same track appearing in a same game, thanks to retro cups again. This proposal aims to change the identificators for all those courses, and what a better way than doing it by using the name of the Mario Kart game. This means:


 * Mario Circuit (GCN) → Mario Circuit (Mario Kart: Double Dash!!)
 * Bowser's Castle (N64) → Bowser's Castle (Mario Kart 64)
 * Rainbow Road (SNES) → Rainbow Road (Super Mario Kart)

It looks neatier and more professional. Of course, tracks with numbers or an alternate name should not be affected by this. I also suggest that a breif description is added into every main page for the courses, especially the Mario Circuit one, which has a whole large section covering the numbered tracks on Super Mario Kart, but then follows with a bad-looking listing compiling the rest of the tracks, with no mention of how they are or look, not even an image is in there.

Proposer: Deadline: March 7, 2014, 23:59 GMT

Change the identificator

 * 1) - What I recommend to users is to choose this proposal.

Do nothing

 * 1) - Per Porplemontage in the comments. I also sorta think that it looks better to have nice, succinct abbreviations; like back in the day when the long, windy game names were initialized too, only here it's also rooted in the official Retro titles so it's not just an aesthetics thing anymore.
 * 2) Per Walkazo.
 * 3) Per Walkazo.
 * 4) Per the Porpe.
 * 5) Per all.
 * 6) Your idea seems a little cumbersome. Per the rest.
 * 7) The abbreviation modifiers are used in the track names themselves in the games, as Walkazo has stated, so this proposal is making things less convenient.
 * 8) Per Baby Luigi.

Comments
I'm pretty sure it doesn't deserve a proposal. As per the Naming Policy Part #2. You could just move it without a proposal. didn't see the b part :/

The rule you cite discourages abbreviating game names as article identifiers, and that's not what's happening with the retro courses. The identifiers used are simply the identifiers provided by Nintendo in the form of console abbreviations (as outlined in rule 2(c) in the link above). When the topic of an article appears in multiple games, the identifier tries to bridge the gap instead of just covering the first appearance. If I'm playing Mario Kart 7 and I want to find out more about this "SNES Rainbow Road" track, I'll search "SNES Rainbow Road" and when "Rainbow Road (SNES)" comes up, that makes sense. "Rainbow Road (Super Mario Kart)" is perfect for the case of Super Mario Kart, but it's less-intuitive when referring to it as a retro course. At least (SNES) applies to both cases and it doesn't require any prior knowledge to match a retro course in a game with its identifier in the article title. -- 05:54, 28 February 2014 (EST)


 * But that's a very irrelevant topic, you are giving priority to the retro tracks rather than the original track. Of course, I get that tracks get updated and the matter, but I find using console name quite unprofessional, and in a sense, if I take on count what you are saying, then all identifiers are useless as using the console name is the same as useless as using the source game because with the concept of retro tracks, all of them are not limited to one game but also a different game in a different console. The original Rainbow Road from Super Mario Kart is not only limited to the SNES as it has appeared in 3 Mario Kart games, and in Mario Kart: Super Circuit there was no suffix to distinguish it from that game's original Rainbow Road. So as you see, not even the leaving the suffixes as they are is the best idea. If you want to formulate the tracks as they are labeled in retro cups, then it should be with the console name at the beginning followed by the track name. Tracks are more than retro tracks, they were once original tracks from thier source games, and like many stuff from the series, it has chances to be in a future game, which why in my opinion the original game should take priority. Even if this proposal fails it will not remain the same, it's quite funny that I once proposed the idea of using italic titles but all users denied the idea finding it very unnecesary, but then what happened? you came without telling anybody (making a proposal) and created the italic template and suddenly everybody agreed to have it just because you are the founder, a similar thing, but not involving you, happened when I proposed to rename the Venus Fire Trap to Fire Piranha, at first I failed but another user proposed another name change and now the article is called Fire Piranha Plant. This kind of corruption is what I love to see failing in this wiki. --Byllant (talk) 13:49, 5 March 2014 (EST)
 * Corruption? Are you seriously calling us out for being corrupt? The admins like, have no say in your Fire Piranha proposal except for a support by Marshall Dan Troop of your proposal. I think the reason your proposal failed because the more recent proposal gave a stronger reason to support being moved and was worded better, rather than corruption on our part. As for the italic title suggestion, maybe the founder has a better reason than you to make an italic template? Maybe he even agrees with you rather than the rest???????????
 * On the subject to the game title, it's the name used in the most recent Mario Karts. Rainbow Road is even called SNES Rainbow Road. But I think we leave it as Rainbow Road SNES because 1. the first part is giving homage to the original name in the game and the modifier (SNES), is to give homage to the more recent games in the series where it was called SNES Rainbow Road. We name things like that because, as our naming policy states, we use the most recent game stuff, not the original source name.

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