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Baby Luigi said:
Thinking about nominating Captain Olimar to be featured? Any opposition?
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A lot of the sections are really short or one-liners; even if that's all the info that can be included, it still doesn't look good. I wouldn't support it just because the article really seems short. Also, there's a lack of images, a lack of info on how Olimar fights in the SSB games, and a bit of extraneous info in the Brawl section.
 
I guess you're right about the number of small roles Olimar plays in games he cameos in, but I'm pretty sure it's well-explained in Olimar's article about how he fights, actually. He needs Pikmin to use most of his aerials, grabs, and smash attacks, and the article explains that. Also, I think the images are pretty adequate, I don't think the sections need anymore: if I add any more, the images will start cluttering the article.

The main reason I have confidence is that Ganondorf is a featured article, and he's about...say, even less relevant to the Mario series than Olimar is, in all honesty. Unless you think Ganondorf deserves to be unfeatured as well, for those reasons.

But aside from that, I guess Olimar could be nominated for a hypothetical good article, not "best" article, if the wiki hypothetically has that instead.

BTW, I dunno if Macho Grubba should stay featured. It seems crufty and a little too short for my tastes.

As for Kolorado, I was a bit sleepy until I saw this particular line: "a frantic Kolorado makes a near fatal reach for it as lava rises behind him." Screams RED FLAG to me that there was no proofreading done.

another thing, i'm glad you're being active on this fa business, fa status being a goal is great way i get ---- done in this wiki
 
Baby Luigi said:
I guess you're right about the number of small roles Olimar plays in games he cameos in, but I'm pretty sure it's well-explained in Olimar's article about how he fights, actually. He needs Pikmin to use most of his aerials, grabs, and smash attacks, and the article explains that. Also, I think the images are pretty adequate, I don't think the sections need anymore: if I add any more, the images will start cluttering the article.
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The article mentions that he uses Pikmin for his special attacks, and that's it. At least tell me if he's a lightweight or a heavyweight or strong or weak or something. I know we're not covering things to SSBWiki's depth, but we're allowed to take a swim. Ganondorf does a good job of that. Speaking of...

Baby Luigi said:
The main reason I have confidence is that Ganondorf is a featured article, and he's about...say, even less relevant to the Mario series than Olimar is, in all honesty. Unless you think Ganondorf deserves to be unfeatured as well, for those reasons.
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My point wasn't relevance, and it should never be relevance when it comes to the quality of an article. Overall, some of the Subspace stuff is a bit flowery and there are a couple of grammar hiccups (Ganondord [...] is the only clone characters), but I'm a fan of the article simply because it covers a small amount of sections really well. It may be too short, but I want to deal with the articles that have serious writing issues before combing over the better stuff.

Baby Luigi said:
But aside from that, I guess Olimar could be nominated for a hypothetical good article, not "best" article, if the wiki hypothetically has that instead.
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From the top of the Featured Articles page: "The Featured Articles of the wiki are articles that represent the best the Super Mario Wiki has to offer." The point of the articles getting the pretty star in the corner is that they're an example of what other articles should strive to look like. Making a system that praises every "good, but not great" article would both flood it and promote articles that are good, but not great, rather than the best that they could possibly be.

Baby Luigi said:
BTW, I dunno if Macho Grubba should stay featured. It seems crufty and a little too short for my tastes.
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I do have issues with the article, like the seriously-short length, occasionally-flowery writing, awkward organization of sections, weird table of moves that isn't all that useful and would be much better as an actual paragraph, and lackluster intro, but... Actually, what am I saying, this really shouldn't be a featured article.

Baby Luigi said:
another thing, i'm glad you're being active on this fa business, fa status being a goal is great way i get ---- done in this wiki
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aw shucks
 
Ganondorf IS missing information though. He doesn't have his Wooly World appearance nor Super Mario Maker appearance yet. Those games are recently released, but eh, more one-liners? I don't count the amount of one-liners being featured, but I have to agree with what you said regardless. I'll look into another article I can feature nonetheless, but I still like what I had done to Olimar's article (I will take what you said about his lightweight and stuff into account, though, so thanks for that criticism).

*looks at 9-Volt next*

Hope no one is bothered for my bloodlust of featuring articles here. If things go smoothly, it'll be my third nomination in one month.
 
It's fine, and I'm still working on Mario as well.

Can anyone take some time at Mario? I know it's a behemoth of an article (almost up to Bowser levels; I bet once it's done, it'll be comparable to Bowser); don't mention the things that have yet to be covered or weird coverage issues (like the cartoons; I'm aware those sections are pretty disappointing) since I'm still going there...
 
Even after I attempted to unfeature Smithy previously, I'm still not impressed by the article nowadays. Any other thoughts? This article is also a fine example of why this wiki really REALLY needs a horizontal infobox layout.
 
What are people's thoughts on Super Mario RPG?

I'm not happy with the writing in the storyline section, too many just stop and start sentences, and I've got to question the relevance of some of them. Whilst I get the removal of all the additional stuff (weapons and stuff), with the article just having links to those rather than any information on it makes it feel incomplete (and personally, I still think the enemies part should be on the article). All the bosses are just the names so you best hope you know their name or the order they're fought in if you want to find them. The minigames has no description about them whatsoever.
 
Yeah I agree with the writing on the story section. It's written like "Mario is too weak. He needs to find a thing. He gets the thing from Croco. Croco eats Coco Puffs. He gets stronger. Mario then beats him." I've seen Belome get referred to as "The hungry dog monster" too, so that's indicative that it hasn't been proofread, or at least not updated to comply with newer writing standards.

The lists can be expanded on rather than be a column of blue links, though I think the locations section is fine the way it is.

By the way, on an off-note, I want to feature Mario Golf: World Tour. I haven't done any work on it, nor have I played the game, but still looks pretty impressive and FA quality. The only section that needs sprucing up is the reception section when, sigh, all people did to create it was list scores without any context whatsoever.