MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/26

Any proposal decided and passed is archived here. Use the scroll box to see votes and comments. This page is protected to maintain the discussion as was. Please add archived proposals to the bottom of the page. Make standard template names for like friend templates instead of always having to type the code DON'T CREATE 2-17 Hi. Would it be easier if you had just a simple template name. Like for let's say, Johnny 115's friend template, we could move it to Template:Friend Of Johnny 115 in stead of having to type all those codes. Template:Scrollbox Add Additional Links For Main Characters DON'T ADD 1-11 Something that I've noticed for a while is that in the characters section of the wiki, links major characters that appear in most of the games look just like those of minor characters that got one game appearance, making them hard to locate. I think additional links to non-generic characters (For example, Goomba would not be counted) that are either playable or major characters in at least fifteen games should be added at the top of the characters page. Template:Scrollbox Protect all talk archives DON'T PROTECT 1-12 I think we should protect all the talk archives so no one can edit them ecept sysops. For User talk archives we should only let the user who owns the talk page and sysops. Template:Scrollbox Merge Game and Non-Game Elements in Games, Characters, Places, Items, Species, Allies, Enemies, and Anything Else I Forgot to Mention MERGE THE GAME AND NON-GAME CATEGORIES TOGETHER 8-1 What a ridiculously long name. But what is truly ridiculous is how according to this page, we have to keep non-game stuff and game stuff in the same section, but in the lists like those, it has to be separate? I don't see any coherence. I propose we (insert proposal title) because leaving it separate makes no sense. Template:Scrollbox Make an article on the Electric Fence. CREATE ARTICLE 18-6 It appears in all of the stadiums in Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged and in the second Bowser Jr. battle New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Why does it still not have an article? It is a gameplay element and it is important in a boss battle. Any other games in which it appears in? Template:Scrollbox Add a section for Writing Guidelines on this page ADD SECTION 16-0 Something that really need development on MarioWiki are Writing Guidelines (currently known as Writer Guidelines). First let me explain what they are, since I assume most of you are unfamiliar with this term. What are Writer Guidelines? Writer Guidelines are pages that belong to this category, with the most notable page being the Manual of Style. Writer Guidelines are enforceable policies to some extent, but with a much lighter enforcement. You may be wondering what distinguishes Writer Guidelines from Help pages. The difference here is that Writer Guidelines are much more specialized about the subject they pertain to while Help pages just give users a general overview of things. Since this is the case, Writer Guidelines have the ability to be very detailed and specific. This is better explained on my pending policy page, User:Knife/Policy. What I'm proposing is that we allow regular users join in on developing more Writer Guidelines by making the process much more accessible to them. How do we do this? We should create a page titled "MarioWiki:Writing Guidelines", based off my pending policy page, which explains what Writer Guidelines (henceforth known as "Writing Guidelines") are. As for the nomination process, we can include it to the proposal page in a new section titled "Writing Guidelines". If Writing Guidelines get popular enough we may consider getting a separate page for it, but for now, a section of the proposal page should be sufficient. Reasons why this system will be beneficial: Increased user interest in editing. Better quality articles. More opportunities for users to get involved in the development of the wiki. More consistency. An aid to help users edit. Things that will be added if this proposal passes: A section will be added to proposal page for Writing Guidelines A new rule will be added stating that Writing Guidelines will be given two weeks as opposed to one. My draft page (User:Knife/Policy) will be created as an actual MarioWiki: namespace page. Also see User:Knife/Proposal to see what the proposals page will look like. All mention of Writer Guidelines will become Writing Guidelines (including the category). Some existing policy pages will turn into Writing Guidelines, like MarioWiki:Naming and MarioWiki:Redirect. Honestly, this system has no real drawback other than potential lack of use, so why not give it a shot? If it doesn't work out, we can always scrap it later. Template:Scrollbox Reception, keep or no keep KEEP RECEPTION 17-0 I just want to resolve this issue since it looks obscure, should we keep or not keep the reception section? Note: If Keep is chosen then the game articles with no reception section on them will get a reception section. If No Keep is chosen then all the reception sections of every article will be deleted. Template:Scrollbox Make a new rule for deleting a template DON'T MAKE NEW RULE 3-10 Look at the proposal here. I'm making this proposal to change valid reasons of deleting a template. The users there said that the Gone template is useless because "people hardly use it" and "you can just copy the code on your userpage". To me, these are more of excuses than good reasons. What if people hardly know of a template you want to delete? What if copying the code is too hard for some people? What if we have to delete the last warning (or any other) template just because you can copy the code on an user talk page? There are just silly reasons. I'm not saying that we have to restore the Gone template. I'm just saying that we should not accept reasons like what they did on the template's talk page. These are just silly, and they are more of excuses than good reasons. P.S. I don't care if the Gone template is restored or not. All I care is that people never use stupid reasons like these anymore. Template:Scrollbox Make a Rule for Changing Votes DON'T MAKE RULE 3-16 I'm noticing in a lot of featured articles, talk page, and just regular proposals, people change their votes, a lot. Now I understand if the article has been improved and whatnot so they change their vote, but to me, it seems more like "jumping the bandwagon". Maybe if there are popular people, or good friends, or even related, users always "per" them or acknowledge them. Again, I understand if major, MAJOR, improvements have been made so that user feels like they can change their vote, but again some users tend to "jump the bandwagon". There is going to be two sections. One will be to make new rule, other will be to keep it the same. I think the rule should be to go through a dreadful, life-threatening small process in which it will determine if they can change their vote. It will possibly to tell a sysop and give a sincere reason why, and the admin can decide if their reason is worthy enough of switching. Template:Scrollbox