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.
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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 using the code {{user|User name}}. Signing with the signature code ~~~(~) is not allowed due to technical issues.
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.
- Any proposal that has three votes or less at deadline will automatically be listed as "NO QUORUM." The original proposer then has the option to relist said proposal to generate more discussion.
- 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.
- Proposals can not be made about System Operator promotions and demotions. Sysops can only be promoted and demoted by the will of Bureaucrats.
- There shouldn't be proposals about creating articles on a underrepresented or completely absent subject, unless there is major disagreement about whether the content should be included. To organize efforts about completing articles on missing subjects, try creating a PipeProject.
The times are in EDT (UTC -4:00), and are set so that the user is more likely to be online at those times (after work/school, weekend nights). 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 a minute later, the deadline is a day plus 15 hours (Sunday), as opposed to a day minus 4 hours.
CURRENTLY: 20:30, 25 December 2024 (EST)
New Features
None at the moment.
Removals
None at the moment.
Splits & Merges
SM64 Sub Levels
Hello wiki users. This will be my first proposal so wish me luck. Anyways, the problem I found was within levels in Super Mario 64. Many levels contain sub levels (not the secret levels). Examples are like the Volcano in Lethal Lava Land and the Pyramid in Shifting Sand Land. Now in the first case, the two locations are in seperate articles but the latter has the Pyramid within the mother level. Now should the articles be split or combined?
Deadline: Thursday Feb 26th 17:00 (5pm)
Proposer: MC Hammer Bro. (talk)
Merge Sub level with main level
- MC Hammer Bro. (talk) I am the creator and also see my comments
- Tucayo (talk) Per MC Hammer Bro, as they're part of the levels, it would be like saying the places Mario go through the pipes were another levels
- Stumpers (talk) - Most of them are not officially named... but what it comes down to is that they are very minor. Just as I wouldn't like to see Toad Town split into a different article for each "screen," (ie Southern Toad Town), I would hope that the information about each part of these worlds would stay on the same page.
- Zafum (talk) Why in the world are those pages there in the first place? Per MC Hammer Bro.
- Hyper Guy (talk) I too belive that these sub levels should be on the same page,under a sub heading or something.(No joke intended)
- M&SG (talk) They should definitely be merged. After all, sub areas such as the pyramid's interior are part of each course as a whole.
- Nerdy Guy (talk) - Per All. Plus it makes it easier than having to link to all of the seperate pages.
- Stooben Rooben (talk) - Per all.
- Luigi 128 (talk) - Per all
- Mario5x (talk) - Per all.
- NateBronze (talk) - I agree the articles are too small by themselves.
- Super-Yoshi (talk) Per all.
Split into separate articles
I think the sub articles are too small to be alone and are better off merged as they contain items (stars and coins) vital to completing the levels. It would also lengthen some of the shorter articles and prevent repeated info as the star missions would end up sorta repeated.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by MC Hammer Bro. (talk).
Hazy Maze Metal Switch cave? Is that a different level? It leads into the castle grounds...Hyper Guy (talk)
- Yes, that would be a separate level as its stars are not part of the main level's missions. -- Son of Suns (talk)
- Exactly. That's what I had ment when I said except for secret levels. Plus the places like the Hazy Maze Switch cave actually has a different level title when you pause the game. Unlike if you were in the Volcano in lethal Lava land, pausing the screen would still say you were in lethal lava land. MC Hammer Bro. (talk)
- Cool. Make sense. -- Son of Suns (talk)
Changes
Monobook.css
Did anyone notice besides me that editing this wiki is very very slow? It takes a long time to save once you press the save button. And I think its our very extensive MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Loading Userpedia is a lot faster than loading the MarioWiki, which could be due to the fact that they have nothing placed in Monobook.css. So I propose we blank or shorten our Monobook.css page.
Deadline: February 27, 2009
Proposer: Yoshario (talk)
Shorten it
- Yoshario (talk) - Per above
- Ralphfan (talk) - Per Yoshario! I agree entirely!
Blank the page
Keep it how it is
- PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE! You just have to just be patient when you press Save Page.It is a bit of a long waiting time,but I don't think it needs changing.Wobbuffet is a patient Pokemon! Hyper Guy (talk) (I'll hit Save Page now and WAIT!)
- Super-Yoshi (talk) - There is nothing wrong, it's just that the server is sometimes screwed up, and makes pages load slower, or not at all. Pages with DPL load slower because DPL calculates all the data at a slow rate, such as on my Userpage. So no, everything is fine as it is.
- Grapes (talk) - Per all.
I think this will help our wiki load alot faster. And by shorten it I mean take out the verdana font and the search bar modifications, but maybe keep the mario thing in the edit box because it symbolizes that our subject is Mario. Yoshario (talk)
- OK, totally against blanking it. I'm somewhat against shortening it as well. It signifies who we are. Perhaps we could make the images lower quality, but shortening it would be ineffective, I believe. I might totally be wrong, but I think that the monobook has little nothing to do with the loading speeds. Also, the font makes no difference whatsoever. I'd like to see how the proposal pans out, though. Bloc Partier (talk)
- It isnt slow for me Tucayo (talk)
Miscellaneous
Video Game References Links
OK, my goal here is to add links to appropriate Wikipedia articles on the Video Game References page. To start, we already have used a similar way of linking on the Animation References page. These two pages are very closely related, so why not add the links? It's not that hard to find a Wikipedia article and copy the URL (Unless of course you use Wii, like I do most of the time :P) Now of course, if Wikipedia isn't suitable, or there just isn't an article for the game, we could always find a subsitute site with information just as reliable. And then, of course, there's just the fact that the links are easy to set up and allow users to explore more into other games. Having the links there would just make for easier research into other games. It's possible they could find a valuable reference that no one has seen yet. You never know. More likely, the article could be used as a source of the reference as well. I know very well that Wikipedia covers the references somewhere in their articles, such as the references in Jill of the Jungle, Kirby Super Star, SimCity DS, etc. Of course, the link searching would require a bit of work, but who cares really? So my intentions here are to add the Wikipedia and/or other site links to the page, and ultimately expand the knowledge of our Guests and Users to games we normally wouldn't cover on the wiki.
Proposer: Z3r0 Tw0 (talk)
Deadline: March 3rd, 17:00 (5pm)
Add Links
Don't Add Links
