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Wario

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1. Mario (talk) Ah, isn't it the Christmas spirit to attempt to strangle the beloved fat man? Anyway, I think this article is kind of overlooked when it comes to quality standards because it seems to contain many holdovers from the previous time periods where melodramatic writing was considered amazing and the article and its sections appear long, so it must be good. See details below, and maybe you'll agree with me. I just hope y'all see me as honest than being involved in a conspiracy to eradicate Wario's dignity.

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The beginning section is not very detailed. It begins and ends a bit too abruptly. The second paragraph even has some flowery writing (Wario's greed pushes him to commit malevolent acts. He also tricks Mario, which must make him very smart even though he tricked the same guy who fell for King Boo's obvious contest trick in Luigi's Mansion and Bowser's invitation to the feast in Mario Party DS). The last sentence can work here, but again, it can use more details and it just seems a tad disjointed because of this. The "development" section is disappointingly small and just overall pathetic, by the way, more talk about it soon.

The history section is apparently complete. Well, not. I'm sure he appeared in Yakuman DS. Wario is obviously involved in the Story Mode in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, but the only information is a one-liner section stub without the template. There isn't even a section on the next two Mario & Sonic Olympic Games, even the London one, which also has a story. Missing information alone makes an article unfeatured and qualifies for a {{rewrite-expand}}, but this article has a lot more problems than that. The Smash Bros. section doesn't explain how Wario fights at all bar special moves and Final Smash, I'm not exaggerating. The Mario Sports Mix is also not great; "Being a Powerful-type character, Wario's shots often pack a lot of power[...]". Game & Wario starts brilliantly with "In the game, Game & Wario, Wario appears" and then falls flat on its face when it comes to information. WarioWare: Touched! is incomplete. It doesn't talk about Wario's story nor Wario Man's story; it covers the opening and ONLY the opening sequence of the story. We've got a lot of pointless quotes strung in this History section, like the illustrative "Welcome to Wario World!", which tells us a whole lot about the game, Wario's personality, and... never mind. I like how the Mario Power Tennis section goes into big detail about its opening sequence while Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour has another lucrative opening sequence, but it doesn't get a mention whatsoever. And the other Mario Tennis games get nothing (Mario Tennis Open at least has the excuse of borrowing Mario Power Tennis's engine). Mario Party isn't known for expansive stories, but the article nevertheless doesn't do a great job. Being a consistently playable board token is notable, but it doesn't deem him as playing a large role, so the section is slightly misleading. There's also no information on the e-Reader Mario Party.

But that's not all. In sections that do have information, the article doesn't deliver well. We have a lot of gems like "unfortunately", "pretty easily", "complete decimation", "Wario Land features a new breed of Nintendo anti-hero actions: greed. In this game, Wario is told that there is immense treasure to be found on Kitchen Island, but that is guarded by the terrible pirate, Captain Syrup.", and other substandard writing. You find that mostly in the earlier games, since back in 2006, people didn't have as much stuff to write about and also had lower quality standards.

How the article deals with cameos is inconsistent. Wario has his own section in "Other appearances", but the article also has its own section about Wario's cameo in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, so that should be merged with the Other appearances section.

Anyway, I'll get into more later, but this is a good springboard for me, the Jumpman, to try and defeat the giant obese ugly greedy yellow purple monster that is bad and incomplete writing in a featured article. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 15:10, 26 December 2014 (EST)