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| * No spamming, trolling, vandalism, or other such nonsense. That should be blatantly obvious. | | * No spamming, trolling, vandalism, or other such nonsense. That should be blatantly obvious. |
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| * <big><big><big>'''I do not like RE: messages. If I post a message on your talk page, please just respond on your talk page instead of sending me a RE: message. I really am not fond of that replying back and forth thing so many users do, which makes trying to follow these conversations a total chore. Unless I absolutely ''need'' to be informed of something ASAP for whatever reason, I'd rather keep it on one page. On the same note, if you post on my talk page, don't expect any notifications, since I will respond to it here. It's a lot easier for me when I don't have to keep going back and forth between user talk pages just to follow a discussion.'''</big></big></big> | | * <big><big><big>'''I do not like RE: messages. If you post a message on my talk page, I will respond to it on my talk page. I really am not fond of that replying back and forth thing so many users do, which makes trying to follow these conversations a total chore. Unless I absolutely ''need'' to be informed of something ASAP for whatever reason, I'd rather keep it on one page. It's a lot easier for me when I don't have to keep going back and forth between user talk pages just to follow a discussion.'''</big></big></big> |
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| Now, your removal of that bit from the Proto Piranha ''is'' the correct thing to do, and yeah I can see how it was frustrating to see it reverted like that, but that doesn't excuse the flippant tone here. I'm just saying, before sending something, do pause and consider if your choice of adjective and formatting is all that necessary (or wanted). --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] ([[User talk:Glowsquid|talk]]) 17:08, June 28, 2022 (EDT) | | Now, your removal of that bit from the Proto Piranha ''is'' the correct thing to do, and yeah I can see how it was frustrating to see it reverted like that, but that doesn't excuse the flippant tone here. I'm just saying, before sending something, do pause and consider if your choice of adjective and formatting is all that necessary (or wanted). --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] ([[User talk:Glowsquid|talk]]) 17:08, June 28, 2022 (EDT) |
| :To be entirely fair to myself, the ALL-CAPS thing is something I would have normally used ''italics'' to emphasize, but I can't do that in an edit summary. I did not intend it to come off as yelling. Also, my frustration was less over the reversion itself and more the failure to understand why I removed it in the first place, something I thought my edit summary made clear. I see what you're saying though. I do attempt to avoid harshness when posting, but I'm not perfect. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 19:39, June 28, 2022 (EDT) | | :To be entirely fair to myself, the ALL-CAPS thing is something I would have normally used ''italics'' to emphasize, but I can't do that in an edit summary. I did not intended it to come off as yelling. Also, my frustration was less over the reversion itself and more the failure to understand why I removed it in the first place, something I thought my edit summary made clear. I see what you're saying though. I do attempt to avoid harshness when posting, but I'm not perfect. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 19:39, June 28, 2022 (EDT) |
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| ==re:Paper Mario==
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| I see you deleted part of my edit to the SMRPG references section but I disagree that it is a stretch.
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| -Both forest maze and the desert are a series of room with (usually) three or four exists that require some external assistance (Geno in SMRPG, the stone in Paper Mario) to find the next thing that progress the plot without wandering aimlessly. <br>
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| -In SMRPG, a NPC cryptically tells you to "Left, Left, Straight, Right" to find something presumably useful in the maze. <br>
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| -In Paper Mario, a NPC vaguely tells you to go "Three south, two west" to find something valuable in the desert.
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| Not exactly the same solution or reward, but conceptually similar and I could definitely see someone on the Paper Mario development team having that SMRPG secret in mind when writing that hint. --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] ([[User talk:Glowsquid|talk]]) 20:39, July 24, 2022 (EDT)
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| :Forest Maze has more in common with [[Forever Forest]] than it does Dry Dry Desert. Both are forest areas (albeit dramatically different atmospherically) with four exits per room that send you back to the start if you take a wrong turn, and both have optional hidden rooms with goodies in them. Dry Dry Desert isn't that kind of area. It's essentially a 7x7 grid; there's no "send back" mechanic like the forests. The "go in these directions" thing dates back to the Lost Woods in the original ''Legend of Zelda'', and you don't even have to do what Merluvlee tells you to find the badge, you just have to go to the specific spot on the grid where it is. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 20:58, July 24, 2022 (EDT)
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| ::Aight Aight. I'm playing the game for the first time this week so I felt a big sense of deja vu when I read that line from the Toad npc. I'll keep that in mind re Forever Forest. --[[User:Glowsquid|Glowsquid]] ([[User talk:Glowsquid|talk]]) 21:41, July 24, 2022 (EDT)
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| ==RE: [[Rising Stone Pillar|Ruin]]==
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| Good evening! The alternative name comes from one of Power Moons. I also believe to have seen it in the Prima guide, though I could be misremembering. [[User:Spectrogram|Spectrogram]] ([[User talk:Spectrogram|talk]]) 14:51, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
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| ==Regarding matters of conversation==
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| It's completely fair if you prefer writing your own responses on your talk page when someone else initiates a conversation, but I don't think it's courteous to [[User talk:Spectrogram|dictate others where to put their messages for you to see]]. Users on this website have the freedom to express themselves wherever the userspace allows for it; you ought not to lay them some arbitrary restriction on the pretense that "it's more convenient for me". {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 17:57, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
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| :''I'' don't think it's courteous that you're trivializing my disdain for a long-time pet peeve of mine by calling it "arbitrary" and a "pretense". I have a very good reason for disliking RE: messages. When users keep posting back and forth on each other's talk pages, it's hard to follow because I can only see half of the convo at once. It's even worse when the discussion is older or one of the users have high talk page activity, and I have to dig through user talk page archives to find the other half. I understand that not everyone hates it as much as I do, which I why don't butt in on convos that have nothing to do with me just to tell people to stop doing this, even though it gets on my nerves. I'd just at least rather people not do it with ''me'', which is why I say not to do it at the top of my talk page. Plenty of users have their "things" they don't like people doing on their talk pages (like swearing for instance), and RE: messages are mine. So if someone misses that, I don't see a problem with informing them in a non-angry way that I'd rather them not do that. Spectrogram didn't have a problem with it either, so I don't see why you're getting on my case for it. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 18:38, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
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| == Moon Cleft edit ==
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| I'm sorry for not explaining this when I made that edit, but for enemies only appearing in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' (e.g. [[Spunia]], [[Swampire]], etc.), we simply use the bestiary infobox without the species infobox. [[User:ShootingStar7X|ShootingStar7X]] ([[User talk:ShootingStar7X|talk]]) 20:54, August 3, 2022 (EDT)
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| :I've never liked the practice of using bestiary infoboxes as main infoboxes for RPG enemies. It creates inconsistencies with other enemy articles and, in the case of enemies that are or have variants, leaves that info out. It's neither beneficial nor universally accepted, so I don't see any reason to cling to it, and I'd support nixing the practice entirely. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 21:32, August 3, 2022 (EDT)
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| ::If that's the case, make a proposal on it. I have no strong opinions on the practice, so I'll abstain from voting. [[User:ShootingStar7X|ShootingStar7X]] ([[User talk:ShootingStar7X|talk]]) 08:36, August 4, 2022 (EDT)
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| :::Just thought I'd mention my thoughts on this, I don't mind using the statbox up top for enemies that only appear in one RPG game and have only one statbox, and using a proper infobox for enemies with multiple statboxes which can have their own section (one exception to this would be [[Dark Paratroopa]], since the ''Paper Mario'' statbox is basically unused data). The Moon Cleft article as it is now still mentions in the opening sentence that it is a variant of Cleft and that it appears in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door'', so it's not really leaving out that information. What I didn't like before was when ''Paper Mario'' series enemies had TTYD statboxes up top and other games' statboxes further down, along with when enemies from ''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'' and ''Bowser's Inside Story'' had both original and remake statboxes together at the top. {{User:Swallow/sig}} 12:36, August 4, 2022 (EDT)
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| == RE:Birthday card and notebook ==
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| Okay, that was my bad. You have a point. {{User:Archivist Toadette/sig}} 14:21, August 7, 2022 (EDT)
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| == Can I request to vanish? ==
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| Just wondering, I haven’t really edited mariowiki in years and would like to vanish like you can do on wikipedia
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| :This is a better question for an admin than me, though I'm pretty sure the answer you're looking for is "no". I ''think'' (don't quote me on this) you can request the deletion of your user page, but your talk page stays, and outright vanishing is not a thing AFAIK. Again, you're better off talking to an admin about this sort of thing. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 13:34, August 8, 2022 (EDT)
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| == RE: Bug Fables ==
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| Okay, I looked around, and he seems to be fought in a similar manner as well (I also underestimated General Guy's popularity), so I'll add it back. {{User:Mario jc/sig}} 22:47, August 20, 2022 (EDT)
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| ==Re:Lost World==
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| In that case, I'd just refer to the Player's Guides, where the world numbers are listed. Krematoa is considered the eighth world, and presumably so is Lost World, though only the seven normal worlds are numbered. Think how the ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Warp Zone is "World 9" even though it in no way whatsoever proceeds from World 8. I'm not sure there is a better way to link the ''Donkey Kong Country 3'' levels since you can play some worlds out of the recommended order. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 20:55, September 13, 2022 (EDT)
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| == MPA proposal ==
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| Just letting you know, option 2 (your second choice) is now marginally ahead of option 1 (your first choice), so if you'd prefer option 1 to win, you may want to remove the secondary vote. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 22:56, September 25, 2022 (EDT)
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| :Option 2 is winning by enough votes that me removing my secondary vote for it won't change the outcome. I'd only do it if that one vote would decide the proposal. I'm fine with option 2 winning. {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 15:44, September 26, 2022 (EDT)
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| == Kutlass and Kosha ==
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| I was more thinking along the lines of "short guy with oversized melee weapon" there; while Koshas are sometimes fairly large, their bodies are still really squat and short-limbed, giving off the impression of being short, and as such it seems more likely to be an intentional non-piratical successor to Kutlass than a coincidence. As for the Kopters, the unused sprites still illustrate their design history, which is what determines how they are inspired by pre-existing entities; in their case, their pose and animation is a dead-ringer for the original Kutlass with helicopter blades replacing the cutlasses, so it seems safe to say (in my opinion) that they are creation-wise as close as, for instance, Krusha, Kruncha, and Krumple or Kannon and Bazuka. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 23:25, October 14, 2023 (EDT)
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| :Unused sprites illustrate design history, but are not necessarily representative of the final product. Unused ''TTYD'' sprites heavily imply that [[Smorg]]s were supposed to look like [[Screamy]]. That doesn't mean we should claim in his infobox that he is connected to them, since he clearly has no relation to them at all in the final game. Also, while the Kopter's unused idle stance is similar to Kutlass, there's no indication that he would have behaved like Kutlass in any way. Kutlass may have been used as a base for that sprite purely for convenience and not necessarily because Rare intended the two enemies to be related to one another. As for Kosha, "short guy with oversized melee weapon" is not a very strong connection in and of itself. The two enemies simply do not physically resemble each other outside of that very superficial similarity. The way they both get their weapons stuck in the ground is definitely notable, and I'm not saying that's a coincidence, but that's the only similarity they have.
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| :However, more than anything, I just ''really'' don't like the "subject_origin" parameter being used this way. [https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Template:Species_infobox&diff=prev&oldid=3968459 The intention was to use it for ''real-world species''], not as a wishy-washy middle ground between "variant_of" and "comparable." Let's just not do that so we can prevent tiresome debates regarding "creator's intent." {{User:7feetunder/sig}} 14:55, October 15, 2023 (EDT)
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| == Not on ==
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| I do hope you made an effort to expand the [[Black chest]] page with the information you deleted. While I can understand the consensus for doing so, immediately deleting a page with significantly more information than the Black chest page — without going to the user's talk page beforehand! — is rather bad form. This does not seem to be keeping with the administrative standards of the site in any way. --{{User:Plumber/sig}} 14:48, June 26, 2024 (EDT)
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| :I was the one who deleted the page, and I deleted it because it goes against a proposal that called for the page's deletion in the first place. Another proposal would be required to reinstate it. {{User:Nightwicked Bowser/sig}} 15:01, June 26, 2024 (EDT)
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