MarioWiki:Proposals

List of Talk Page Proposals

 * Merge The Big Boo (boss) with Big Boo. (Discuss) Deadline: November 9, 2015 23:59 GMT
 * Split Electro-Koopa variants. (Discuss) Deadline: November 9, 2015 23:59 GMT

Writing Guidelines
None at the moment.

Template:TooManyImages
Long story short, this is for galleries that are stuffed full of redundant pix that need a lot of trimming. I have two possible wordings in mind:  This has too many images. Please help by removing some unneeded images from this article. Or (since the two templates doesn't work for me): There are too many images in this article. Please help by removing some of the unnedded or useless images.

I am open to suggestions on wording and coloration.

Proposer: Deadline: November 1, 2015, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) My proposal

Oppose

 * 1) The sentence of the template is quite generic, I suspect it can lead to wrong or hasty actions that then must be reverted, especially because some images that were uploaded are way harder to obtain than, as an example, simple trivia sentences, and in some cases, such as artworks, this Wiki should possibly have all of them (of course if the same artwork is reused in different contexts, just one copy of said artwork should be here), which means that some galleries will surely have many images. If there are multiple versions of the same image, just keep the higher quality one, if there are images of the wrong subject, delete them. If you think that there are too many images of a certain kind (e.g. screenshots of a game), you should use a template that allows to specify what the problem is.
 * 2) - Per my comments below: this is unnecessary.
 * 3) Per Walkazo and Ghost Jam in the comments.
 * 4) Per all; I feel this template's purpose is already served by, which also has a parameter reserved for specific problems such as this one. We don't need an additional color to the rainbow of improvement templates. I don't think other wikis use notice templates like this, so we don't have a lot of good examples to fall back on either.
 * 5) – Per all.
 * 6) Per Ghost Jam below. Cluttered pages aren't good by any means, but it's subjective, so I agree that a talk page discussion is enough.
 * 7) Per all.

Comments
If there's too many images, why doesn't whoever's there just remove some? It's not like trying to add images, which involved hunting stuff down and uploading them, and is even easier than dealing with long Trivia sections or overly crufty prose, which both generally require effortful rewriting (e.g. some Trivia needs to be incorporated, rather than simply removed). And for galleries, the main problems are superfluous screenshots, so already, where to chop is narrowed down for folks to make it easy (shoot, maybe we could just axe those sections entirely and leave it to the game and subject articles to showcase strategic screenshots of gameplay, with only overview-type things like maps or package-deal stuff like cutscene slideshows left in the galleries). It just seems a bit lazy to make a whole template to pass the buck on such a simple issue; if someone really just wants to flag and dash, they can use anyway. Plus, if this is mainly for galleries, ideally, once we finally get rid of the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to screenshots that's bloating them up for the most part, then wouldn't the temple be mostly unnecessary? Finally, even if we were gonna make this template, it should be called "Template:LessImages" and be yellow, for consistency with and  -  is completely unrelated to problems occurring in long-established pages. -
 * So it would look more like this?

 This needs fewer images. Please help by removing some unneeded images from this article. 20:34, 25 October 2015 (EDT)
 * No, #FF6 background, #630 border. -

This seems like a subjective editorial issue that is better served by being brought up on a talk page or the collaboration forum than just inventing a new label slap on. -- Ghost Jam 20:06, 27 October 2015 (EDT)

Removals
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Changes
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Miscellaneous
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