User:Lord Grammaticus/Rewriters' Log

The following is a list of pages that I aim to fix when I can find the time, along with pages that I already HAVE fixed, as well as relevant commentary on their (mostly personal) significance and blathering thereof. Yes, I know that the MarioWiki has a maintenance section specifically for that, and while I may naturally pull from that list from time to time, realistically not all my targets will be on said list. If you're reading and feel like helping, then go for it!

To Do

• Check the MW:MAINTENANCE tab now and then.

Notable Rewrites

All pages are listed in order from earliest rewrite to latest, to the best of the author's knowledge.

• Graffiti (+476)‎ - Probably my earliest attempt at a rewrite, and while it's undergone some significant overhauls since then including contributions by Phoenix (talk) and LinkTheLefty (talk), I think it was pretty significantly improved by the standard of a 2011 MarioWiki article. It'd helped that at the time, the Gamecube was the one console I'd spent the most time on, which naturally led me to focus on articles from the Mario games I had played at the time.

• Boom Boom (-1,122)‎ - My next big rewrite, done both because I was following in the footsteps of one Chester Alan Arthur (talk) and because the cruft (which is a nifty term to know - thank you Walkazo (talk), blessed be your memory) was significantly bad to the point that I couldn't tolerate it. Even with my then-somewhat-questionable writing ability, it helped that the page was marked 'Under Construction', which probably acted as a further motivator.

• Kaoru (+1,481) - Granted, the subject matter was pretty obscure, considering it's a Japanese fire safety film that she appears in, but even by that standard the page as written was atrocious - and I do mean atrocious! With the tag having been applied in August of 2016(!!!), I decided it a 'good' idea to spend one of my later nights pulling the article into a much more tolerable state. I forgot what I referred to as a source during the rewrite, though I think most of it was the article on the video itself (which could still use a rewrite of its own, for those reading and interested), and the actual writing itself probably didn't take long - my problem is that I tend to go between wiki editing and about 4-5 other tasks at any given moment, as such is the working of my genuinely-diagnosed-autistic mind. Whatever the case, I'll probably come back to the video and the characters once I've somehow seen the film for myself (her brother could use a page of his own, really), but as it stood after I got to it, Kaoru's article was pretty solid and remains so, only requiring the usual minor touch-ups now and then.

• Miss Endless (-573) - Now this was a page highlighted by Power Flotzo (talk), one of the good ol' folks at The 'Shroom, and as I happened to be already in the middle of a corrective tear, I decided "why the hell not" and gladly obliged. This was among one of the relatively quicker ones for me to knock out - if anything, its crime was being overwritten, containing an overstuffed paragraph of text for what the article readily admitted to be a minor character. I mowed most of that fluff down into three smaller and easier-to-digest paragraphs, unpadded the trivia note, and then adjusted a bit for verb tense while adding a note about her name. I'm looking forward to taking on other spotlight articles in the future; in fact, I believe these two articles led me to undertake The Great Mario RPG Rewrite of 2019, the fruits of which are on display further below.

• Polterguy (+363) - I'd been responsible for one of the images on the page, so it makes sense that I'd come back to this sometime later. I ended up coming back again, naturally while poking through my history of contributions, and decided to bring it up to date while creating a gallery to repost the screenshot I'd taken. The page could use some more images from other games, so it works as a bit of convenient "future-proofing", too. :B

The Great Mario RPG Rewrite of 2019

See the above-linked page for details.

TBW.