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: 02:50, 8 February 2025 (EDT) New Features None at the moment. Removals LOLCats While looking at some User Pages I have noticed large chunks of images from the site ilovemiaow.com. These seem to be massive space-wasters. 3Dejong (talk) has a entire page of them, Sadaharu (talk) has a big chunk of them and Plumber (talk) has inserted a LOT of extra <br>'s on User:Plumber/Pignature just so he can insert a LOLCat GIF at the bottom. So, should we get rid of them? Proposer: Jdrowlands (talk) Deadline: March 8, 2008, 15:00 Remove Jdrowlands (talk)-Per my speech above. Keep ~PY -Dude, it's an external link! If you block that you'll have to block other external links, which means people will have to upload everything here. That would be even worse. Plus, it's their userpage, they can do what they want. Comments Splits & Merges Birdo This Wiki features articles for both Toad the character and Toad the species. The same applies to Yoshi. In light of this, the topic came up on Talk:Birdo regarding whether the Birdo article should be split in the same manner. A proposal appeared there before the creation of MarioWiki:Proposals, died, and was brought back. I'd like to bring it here so that it is official. What it comes down to is this: is there ample evidence to conclude that a character named "Birdo" exists in the Super Mario series? For Toad and Yoshi, the policy has been that when a game, TV show, or otherwise specificially refers to a character by name, it constituted mention in the character article. (ie. "Bowser kidnapped Peach and Toad," rather than simply "Bowser kidnapped Peach and a Toad,"). Proposer: Stumpers! Deadline: March 15, 2008, 20:00 Support Stumpers! Birdo was introduced as a single character in instruction manual of Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA). In the remake, she is still referred to as a single character. Additionally, comments such as, "I'm ready for you THIS time!" imply there is still one single Birdo. The existance of Birdo as a species is an invention of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! that came to the games in Mario Power Tennis. Even with this developement, Birdo has been given the more distinction from generic Birdos in each appearance following Mario Golf: Advance Tour (the ring). Even Toad and Yoshi don't have a distinction in these titles. ~Uniju(T-C-E) Per Stumpers, I agree 100%. Oppose Comments Changes None at the moment. Miscellaneous None at the moment.