General Discussion

[Glowsquid]

Those pages weren't initially merged into the implied lsits and I thought it was dumb when it happened.

 

[Shoko]

When linking to Wikipedia when it covers a subject in much greater detail than the wiki (such as Joan of Arc or Earth), what's preferred: linking to the page in the intro paragraph, or using Template:Wikipedia at the bottom of the page?

My view is to link to the page using "[[Wikipedia:" on those historic Mario's Time Machine characters, because we're only specifically describing their appearance, personality and how the character fits into that video game. Same with Earth: it's not exactly the same Earth as represented on the Wikipedia article. Using {{Wikipedia}} on such pages suggests that you can do further reading on the exact same subject.

That being said, I think {{Wikipedia}} should ideally be used on neutral subjects which aren't restricted to in-game appearances, and those which we don't give full coverage to. Such as the Virtual Console article, and the articles on handhelds and consoles.

And I do think your idea is great, YoshiKong. I too always worry that sources simply won't be available in the future and we have to take steps for something like that. It's great that, for instance, you did store the KC stuff. And yes, we should upload the individual page instead of using an external link so it's easier to maintain.

Yes, but it was only a suggestion for the time being. We already disallow full page scans of game guides (which would have otherwise provided supplementary material for articles, such as confirming an official name). I am yet to confirm whether complete Nintendo Power or other official magazine pages are considered on the same tier.

KC stuff

Forgive me, but what is KC?

 

[Time Turner]

Forgive me, but what is KC?

Presumably KC Deluxe/KC Mario.

 

[GBA]

Normally I am very conscious of making sure that we can view our referenced sources in the years to come. Often when I see that a MarioWiki article link to an old website or some external forum discussion, I have the instinct to save that webpage as a PDF and then store it. For example, the only source that a Donkey Kong game was being worked on for the CD-i, has only been seen on a developer's Linked-In profile. Should that profile be removed or edited in the future, no worries because I saved a PDF.

well lets hope you saved em all because the whole collection has now been removed

 

[Shoko]

Presumably KC Deluxe/KC Mario.

Oh, of course. I've always seen the letters "KC" paired with "Deluxe", so it didn't click for me.

@Bazooka Mario/Baby Luigi: Another idea, I'm thinking that perhaps all this backed-up content (PDF webpages and KC Deluxe scans) should be stored in the one place, especially if us or other users were to help out with making a copy of content which could eventually become defunct. I'm envisioning a shared Dropbox folder or OneDrive link (I only use those two cloud storages), and whenever one of us copies something we can just stick it in the one location. And then when a referenced source finally folds (I'm most worried about that official Wario World website at the moment), then we can just have the content available and ready to pull from the shared location.

What do you guys think of this? Perhaps I can try to set something up if it sounds like a good idea.

@GBAToad: The KC Deluxe collection?

 

[GBA]

@GBAToad: The KC Deluxe collection?

nah man the nintendo power collection
dunno what happened but now they're all gone
https://archive.org/details/nintendopower&tab=collection

 

[Glowsquid]

@GBAToad: The KC Deluxe collection?

nah man the nintendo power collection
dunno what happened but now they're all gone
https://archive.org/details/nintendopower&tab=collection

It's gone from archive.org, but you can still find the scans if you dig a bit (the whole collection was just taken from another site and put up on archive.org)

 

[Shoko]

nah man the nintendo power collection
dunno what happened but now they're all gone
https://archive.org/details/nintendopower&tab=collection

Well shit. I hadn't even had the chance to download any of the PDFs. Someone's onto us.

Thinking positive, Nintendo Power NA is much less elusive than the KC Deluxe magazines. I'm expecting that full issue scans are available elsewhere.

Edit: Basically what Glowsquid said.

 

[Princess Céline]

When editing the gallery page of a certain character, like Peach, should trading cards be included, like the ones from Mario Super Sluggers? I do know that trading cards are used in the "Official profiles and statistics" page.

 

[Shoko]

When editing the gallery page of a certain character, like Peach, should trading cards be included, like the ones from Mario Super Sluggers? I do know that trading cards are used in the "Official profiles and statistics" page.

Sure, that's fine.

Trading cards showing characters should ideally be placed in a "Miscellaneous" header (for major galleries such as Peach) under "Artwork", with a short caption stating that it's a trading card, with a link to the game/media that the card series was created for.