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A while back, the wiki admins created a page called MarioWiki:Good Writing to give examples of bad writing. This page goes into great detail on what kinds of bad writing plague our wiki and how we can fix it. This collab thread is designed to bring more pages in line with this policy, since an...

Many of our level articles have loads of bad walkthrough-style phrases/tense usage. The biggest culprits are phrases like "can", "must", "may", and "should", which disrupt the flow of the article and make the article read more like a GameFAQ than an encyclopedic entry on a level from a video...

so i figured i'd make a topic for the thing i'm very half-heartedly doing on userpedia. it's called wikipus rex because there was literally nothing better for my title to do but be as cliched as possible and somehow be ironic like this. i already wrote an introduction even though i don't usually...

Since the vast majority of pages affected by MarioWiki:Subpages Policy haven't been changed to reflect said policy, there's been a recent flood of moves to the proper page titles. The main problem with that is that there's a lot of links to the redirect pages left lying around the wiki, and my...

Alright, so if you've seen those DirecTV commercials in which some poor consequence of Cable causes a chain reaction of events that always end disastrously, this is very similar. You start with a simple, mundane event that happens every day, and escalate it for ten posts until you wind up in a...

Have you ever been reading a classic work of literature and wondered to yourself, "Hmm, I wonder what this would be like if Monobear was here?" Well, now you can, with our new line of literature featuring none other than our favorite despair-inducing bear himself! Think of it! Homer's Iliad...

Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, A Sound of Thunder, The Martian Chronicles, and others, died this morning in Los Angeles. I personally greatly enjoyed the of his works that I read, and he will be remembered for his vivid metaphors and brilliantly crafted futuristic novels. Rest in...

Alright, so the tournament has officially started today (I don't count the First Four, really). Discuss the tournament's teams, results, and predictions for the tournament here.

Discuss any facet of the Inheritance Cycle here, except the movie or the game.

The rules of the game are as follows: *The goal of the game is to beat up your opponents using various assorted weapons. *The weapons cannot be conventional weapons from any time period on Earth. *You may make a maximum of five (5) actions per post/turn, and each action can be used either...

I'd like to extend a big thank you to whichever patroller or admin suggested adding a notice about not adding useless trivia to the sitenotice. That happens to be one of my biggest pet peeves, as well as just a general deterrent to article quality, so it is much appreciated when the entire...