MarioWiki:Proposals

Proposals can be new features (such as an extension), removal of a previously added feature that has tired out, or new policies that must be approved via consensus before any action(s) are done. Any user can support or oppose, but must have a strong reason for doing so, not, e.g., "I like this idea!" "Vote" periods last for one week. All past proposals are archived. A proposal section works like a discussion page: comments are brought up and replied to using indents (colons, such as : or ::::) and all edits are signed with the signature code ~~~(~). How To Actions that users feel are appropriate to have community approval first can be added by anyone, but they must have a strong argument. Users then vote and discuss on the issue during that week. The "deadline" for the proposal is one week from posting at: Monday to Thursday: 17:00 (5pm) Friday and Saturday: 20:00 (8pm) Sunday: 15:00 (3pm) Every vote should have a reason accompanying it. At any time a vote may be rejected if at least three active users believe the vote truly has no merit or was cast in bad faith. However, there must be strong reasons supporting the invalidation. "# " should be added under the last vote of each support/oppose section to show another blank line. At the deadline, the validity of each vote and the discussion is reviewed by the community. Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM" All proposals are archived. The original proposer must take action accordingly if the outcome of the proposal dictates it. If it requires the help of a sysop, the proposer can ask for that help. The times are in EDT, and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after school, weekend nights). So for example, if a proposal is added on Saturday night at 11:59 PM EDT, the deadline is the next Saturday night at 8:00 PM. If it is indeed a minute later, the deadline is a day plus 15 hours (Sunday), as opposed to a day minus 4 hours. CURRENTLY: 20:24, 25 December 2024 (EDT) New Features None at the moment. Removals Qoutes On really long articles such as Peach, one can see that there are dozens of qoutes, and most of them are completely pointless like: Help "Dear Mario, I'll be waiting for you at the castle on the night of the Star Festival. There's something I'd like to give you. From Peach". I propose that these either get removed or shortened. I see no promblem with having qoutes, but having so many that arn't even descent (Although that is a matter of opinion) is pointless. What are your thoughts? Proposer:HyperToad Deadline:Janurary 5, 2008. Remove Them HyperToad Reason said above. Keep Them Comments As you said, deciding what Quotes are decent and which aren,t is purely a matter of opinion. I think we should use a case-by-case procedure, not everything need to be run throught a proposal. Blitzwing already had this prospoal, that one -_-' GrodenE T C El Uh? Blitzwing Although it is a matter of opinion, how the heck is "Help" a descent qoute, I'm sure anybody could agree that it's just stupid. HyperToad Splits & Merges Galleries So I was viewing the site and noticed that a whole bunch the pages (notably Wario) has a section devoted to images, though recently they've been a little too big. I propose that we create galleries for specific characters and merge the images ove there. For example, maybe we could have a page called "Gallery: Wario" or something similar and merge all of the images over there. Or possibly just make a category called "Category: Wario images" and have all the images there for people to view. It seems like there are over 100 images on the page, and I'm sure many will agree that they should all be merged to their own page. Proposer: Talk Deadline::December 31, 2007, 17:00 Make galleries Talk My reasons above! Blitzwing Save article space. Cobold (talk · contribs) - Similar to the quotes, those get really to long on articles like Princess Peach. Knife (talk) 12:41, 24 December 2007 (EST)Category idea seems better than an article just for images. Walkazo - Those image galleries take up too much time and memory to load, having them on seperate pages like quotes is a good idea. ~PY -Per everyone. NMRodo Sounds like a plan. Freakatone 18:10, 28 December 2007 (EST) yup Nah HyperToad I don't think that images deserve there own page, but it doesn't matter, because I'm out-numbered. GrodenE T C El If your that dissapointed about article space, just add less images around one corner, jeez. Comments Knife: Images in a "Wario Image Category" but not on a page will be marked as unused and destroyed by the devorous Unused Image predators. - Cobold (talk · contribs) 14:32, 24 December 2007 (EST) Hmmm, would we keep any images on the page? NMRodo We would only remove the images galleries (official artwork/screenshot galliers), the images in the written article itself stay. - Cobold (talk · contribs) 16:03, 24 December 2007 (EST) As an aside, many wiki will create gallery-lists when images are placed in a gallery. I tried this once before, and it seems that it doesn't work around here. -- Chris 14:46, 24 December 2007 (EST) What's a gallery list? - Cobold (talk · contribs) 07:24, 26 December 2007 (EST) Go to any mushroom image and add Category:Mushrooms. What is supposed to happen, Category:Mushrooms will list all the articles in said category, then have a separate section called Images that will list all images in said category in gallery format. However, I tried this before and it didn't work. It just listed a link to the image. -- Chris 21:17, 26 December 2007 (EST) Sounds like a task for DPL script. - Cobold (talk · contribs) 17:33, 27 December 2007 (EST) So does that mean I don't have to do anything? Talk MiniMariolover10: The problem is: Some article on major characters such as Wario or Luigi have an extensive "gallery" section, which have every artwork/screenshots of the character in question, those pics take up a lot of spaces, but some users are not too happy about removing them. With this proposal, we can cut down the size of some articles while still keeping the images. Blitzwing But we would still have the images, just on a different page. Talk That's what I said. Blitzwing Major facepalm! I read it wrong, sorry! Talk Merging Pumpkin Head with Goomba Pumpkin Heads are absolutely proven to Goombas wearing Pumkins on their heads, so does this make them a new species altogether? No. Listen to the comment I wrote on its talk page over a week ago: Should this have its own article? Goombas have worn many things for protection, but wearing a pumpkin head doesn't make one a new species. Its like saying that Mario is another character when he doesn't wear his overalls. And I'm pretty sure Nintendo didn't give it an official name since it wasn't meant to be a new enemy altogether. If you will remember, there were also Goombas with helmets that can be killed almost the same way. I'm sure they wear pumpkins just to give to level a spooky feel. It doesn't even have an official name! But I'll leave it up to you guys to decide. Merge Information Knife (talk) 14:51, 22 December 2007 (EST) My reasons are given above Blitzwing Per Knife. Walkazo - Per Knife. My Bloody Valentine - Per Knife. The name isn't even official. NMRodo If there's no name, then chances are Nintendo meant for them to be one and the same. (RHYMELOLZORZ) Stumpers! THANK YOU. Just thinking the same thing a few weeks ago. Freakatone I agree completely. GrodenE T C El- GOOD GOD you take a pumpkin and put it on a goomba, it's only extra health and sometimes leaves blue fire around, MERGE. Keep Article Comments This can also be applied to Mask Koopas. - Walkazo Well, unlike the Pumpking head, the Mask Koopas actually have an official name. (Or do they?) Blitzwing Yeah, they should only be merged if the name is conjectural. So, Pumpkin Heads = Merge with Goomba. Mask Koopa = Keep split if the name is official. NMRodo Bah, people put too much weight into whether things have official names or not. Ever stopped to consider that all the "conjectually named" things might actually have official names over in the Nintendo databanks? The sprites have to be saved somewhere; sure they'll probably have serial numbers and such, but they're probably named too; it'd be a bit silly if they weren't... - Walkazo Merge Bird Articles The Other night I was looking through articles and I came across the Blue Bird, Green Bird, Yellow Bird, and Red Bird. Yellow and Blue barly make any apperances while Red only makes one. I think these are way to insignificent so I say we merge them into on Birds Article Or Minor Speacies of Island Delfino. Proposer: Luigibros2 Deadline::January 10th, 2008, 17:00 Merge them Luigibros2 My Reasons above GrodenE T C El Same thing, different gifts. Ultimatetoad Celeste 14:46, 29 December 2007 (EST) – they are not different species just because they are colored different and many animals have different colored/patterned coats (like cats). Let there be Bird articles ~Uniju(T-C-E)Although their all rather minor, they are different species', so they each are deserving of an article. TalkI like the seperate articles! Comments Hmmm... While the birds are rather insignificant, they are all seperate creatures with different purposes. For now, I'm neutral on this. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dodoman (talk). Uniju: Yes, but they are all birds. They only have 2 differences; one is their colour s and two is their coin they give out/ GrodenE T C El Changes None at the moment. Miscellaneous None at the moment.