We've written a new policy page to serve as a style guide for tables going forth, over at MarioWiki:Table style guide. Each of the color revamps have been following this, so this isn't anything new, but a lot of this is something you had to feel out from experience rather than just... Look at a...
oh shoot when'd you sign up for the boards? hey there!
Ahem. Seconding this. Merging the browser advergames to the pages for the games they're promoting would be... Catastrophic for readability's sake, practically a tumor on the page's pacing. We would far prefer splitting off lists of browser...
The more of these advergames get found, the more we do agree that making a separate list for them would do wonders for organization. Not to downplay the relevance of these promotional tidbits, but it makes it, ironically, harder to find them out of every other game if we just clump them all up...
Personally, we'd just prefer to sidestep the issues with a service willing to weaponize its own userbase (no matter how much self-defense it involved) by just... Not using it whenever possible. Our patience for that sort of thing is nonexistent when it's smaller website; that a large archive is...
we imagine that one way or another, donkey kong would Exist and the hypothetical would be MOSTLY moot, but it'd probably be for very different reasons and we'd end up with just like, a few things here or there. rather than being made because nintendo needed to replace a bunch of radar scope...
Super Mario Bros. (film) § References to the games has, for awhile now, been left behind in terms of how references sections should be formatted, on a game-by-game basis. Can't someone help evolve this thing to fit in with the modern day standard?
sometimes we think about how one of the Starbeans Cafe cutscenes in Superstar Saga depicted a video conference, treating it like it was some grandiose far-future invention that was so wacky that E. Gadd would just have ready to go, at a moment's notice. not even a decade later, guess what became...
We'd prefer actual RPG characters appearing in these spin-offs (just kinda in general, frankly--we love it when they do callbacks to more remote sections of the Mario franchise as a whole, even just as little "wink wink" nods. them appearing as actual playable characters is just a bonus.), but...