General Discussion

[Walkazo]

It's a General Discussion for how to improve the wiki.

Forum ranks are here, but that question should in the overall parent board, not the wiki collab child board.

As for calendars, we have this ongoing one (The_'Shroom:Issue_XCIX/Mario_Calendar), then just go back through past issues to get at other months.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

It'd just be convenient if we had all the calendars under one page, eh?

 

[The Ultimate Mario Fan]

It'd just be convenient if we had all the calendars under one page, eh?

Agreed, that's why I did this for another forum. I would be willing to update, revise and rewrite it a bit to accommodate this forum; I just don't want people straight on copying it, as I compiled the whole thing manually.

 

[Time Turner]

I opened a couple of discussions on the wiki about bubbled enemies (Talk:Bubble) (should they get articles?) and Pushing Block (Talk:Pushing Block) (where does it appear?). One is more open-ended than the other, but I'd still like both to have people discussing them.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Bubbled enemies should NOT get articles. Enemies can emerge from crates in Super Smash Bros., you can find Goombas in crates in Super Mario Galaxy (I think?), and others. I view bubbles as merely packages for enemies (and items, even though that hasn't been brought up). Creating articles would just create redundant articles while adding to navigational clutter.

 

[Lumastar]

I already posted this on the article's discussion page, but I haven't gotten an answer yet. On the [wiki=Paper Mario (series)]Paper Mario series[/wiki] article, I'm thinking of separating the list of games to include a Crossovers section featuring games the Paper Mario series crosses over into, such as Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, which heavily appears on be moreso a Mario & Luigi game featuring Paper Mario characters than another Paper Mario game, and possibly Super Smash Bros.,since the series has had representation since Melee and got a stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

 

[Walkazo]

I answered fully on the talk page (Talk:Paper_Mario_(series)#Should_I_separate_Mario_.26_Luigi:_Paper_Jam_from_the_other_games_listed.3F), but in short, no, don't do that.

 

[RandomYoshi]

Please reply. (MarioWiki_talk:Manual_of_Style#On_the_Topic_of_References)

 

[Time Turner]

I'm not a personal fan of a "more is better" mentality, and I was going to cite giving articles to all of the Badges (Badge) as an example... but then I realized that giving articles for all the badges (at least the Paper Mario ones) wouldn't be a half-bad idea. Where they can be obtained, especially if they have multiple locations, can be more easily established and detailed, they all basically act as items that have a permanent effect rather than a one-off effect, there's certainly no shortage to describing their effects... Would they warrant articles (besides just "more is better")?

At this point in time, this has already been put into effect: nearly every PM badge has an article, and the ones that don't are waiting in line. Now, I thought I'd revisit the topic for round 2: what about the other badges in the M&L series (Badge#Mario_.26_Luigi_series_badges)? On one hand, they don't have personalised images like their PM counterparts, quite a few of them are just stat boosts, and there's the issue of the completely-different system that BiS and DT uses, but on the other hand, there are a fair amount that have effects that could be elaborated on (besides the whole extra info on locations and other language names and yaddayaddayadda), and anything's gotta be better than a key 10 points long (Badge#Mario_.26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga_2). Personally, I do think that the badges from at least SS and PiT would benefit from individual articles, and I believe that they have enough to substantiate them.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

I don't know, do we give separate articles for, say, Super Nuts, Ultra Drops, etc.? Or should we?