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==proposal draft corner==
===Consistently split major appearances of reocurring locations===
there are several reocurring locations in the Mario series that have a general article ([[Bowser's Castle]], [[Peach's Castle]], [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], etcetera), and many of these have subpages that detail their appearances in specific games. however, i find the reasoning behind which appearances get their own pages and which don't to be quite inconsistent. 

SMO's [[Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario Odyssey)|Mushroom Kingdom]] gets its own page, as do a lot of peach and bowser's respective castles. however, SM64's Peach's Castle doesn't, and neither does PM64's Bowser's Castle. the most egregious example is [[Toad Town]], balancing several RPG appearances on top of one another and spreading the information about each across the whole article.

i think we need to define a consistent criteria for what does and doesn't warrant a split. personally, i want to suggest that we split '''every appearance that is on equal terms with other locations in the same game'''. just like how SMO's Mushroom Kingdom is just one of many kingdoms in the game and gets treated equally to the others, and Mario Golf's [[Yoshi's Island (golf course)]] is just one golf course out of many, every location that ''would'' be covered independently if it wasn't a recurring location should be split into its own page. does that make sense?

this proposal does not affect locations with a single major appearance and several minor ones, such as [[Isle Delfino]] or [[Comet Observatory]]. i do have another proposal in mind for those, but i will write it another time

by my count, these pages would need to be created. it might seem like a big list, but most of it would just be copying over what is already in the base articles:
* [[Bowser's Castle]]:
** {{Fake link|Bowser's Keep (Super Mario RPG)}}
** {{Fake link|Bowser's Castle (Paper Mario)}}
** {{Fake link|Bowser's Castle (Paper Mario: The Origami King)}}
** {{Fake link|Bowser's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga)}}
** {{Fake link|Baby Bowser's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)}}
** {{Fake link|Bowser's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)}}
* [[Peach's Castle]]:
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Super Mario RPG)}}
** {{Fake link|Mushroom Castle (Super Mario 64)}} (covering both the original and the remake)
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Super Mario Odyssey)}} (in the same vein as other kingdom sub-locations like [[Wedding Hall]] and [[Peronza Plaza]])
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Paper Mario)}}
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)}}
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)}}
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam)}} (not familiar enough with the game to be 100% sure. input is welcome)
** {{Fake link|Peach's Castle (Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle)}} (same case as paper jam)
* [[Toad Town]]
** {{Fake link|Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG)}}
** {{Fake link|Toad Town (Paper Mario)}}
** {{Fake link|Toad Town (Paper Mario: The Origami King)}}
** {{Fake link|Toad Town (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)}}
** {{Fake link|Toad Town (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)}}
* [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]]
** {{Fake link|Yo'ster Isle (Super Mario RPG)}}
** {{Fake link|Yoshi's Island (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)}}

these are all the examples i could find, but i welcome suggestions for more.

'''Proposer''': {{User|EvieMaybe}}<br>
'''Deadline''': 

====Support: I like the idea of standardizing our split criteria AND I agree with your split criteria====
#{{User|EvieMaybe}} per.

====Support: I like the idea of standardizing our split criteria BUT I do not agree with your split criteria====

====Oppose: I do not like the idea of standardizing our split criteria====

====Comments====

===Suffix all disambiguation articles with "(disambiguation)" and convert all the non-suffixed articles into redirects===
as it stands, the way disambiguation articles are handled in mariowiki is quite inconsistent. some of them are suffixed with "(disambiguation)", and some aren't. what is the [[MarioWiki:Naming#Shared_titles|official wiki policy]] for them?

"If there are five or more pages sharing the same name, then a disambiguation page must be used, although it may be given a "(disambiguation)" qualifier if one of the articles has the plain title. For example, the article Bowser's Castle is about Bowser's home, whereas Bowser's Castle (disambiguation) also links to other uses of the name, such as the game board and baseball stadium. Game series articles always get a series identifier regardless of whether or not the title is shared, such as Mario Kart (series). When disambiguation pages are used, the articles should only link to them in {{about}} when necessary, but if a disambiguation page is not used, the articles can merely link to the other same-named page."

what are the problems with this?
*it's needlessly complicated. why five exactly?
*it requires more active maintenance than it should. keeping track of if there's more than four pages with the same name 

here's my proposed changes:

*move every disambiguation page to a version of it suffixed with (disambiguation) (ie, moving [[Chuck]]'s contents to {{Fake link|Chuck (disambiguation)}})
*convert all the non-suffixed links into a redirect to the suffixed article (ie, turning [[Chuck]] into a redirect to {{Fake link|Chuck (disambiguation)}})

'''Proposer''': {{User|EvieMaybe}}<br>
'''Deadline''': 

====Support====
#{{User|EvieMaybe}} per.

====Oppose====

====Comments====