General Discussion

There aren't too many examples afaik: from browsing the category, I'd name Artifact, Form Baton and Balance Stone, Elemental Tablets, Beanstone, Aladdin's Lamp, Red Jar, Pulse Stone, Lunar Stone, Pyramid Stone, Diamond Stone, Dream Stone, and Excalibur. There are probably more that haven't been categorized under Artifacts, a couple of the MTM (Mario's Time Machine) items would probably qualify once I get around to making those articles, but I'm not sure if that's enough to warrant keeping the article category.

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I'd support the deletion of the category. Broad categories like that are normally best focused by categories for object type/game, which most of the article entries fit into anyway. Or alternatively, have all the entries fit into an "in-game objects of historical or cultural significance" description, and perhaps have the category renamed to "Historical artifacts", so the category's focus is immediately understandable. I'm fine about it either way.
 
Question, is Template:MK Players really necessary? No other game series with a large roster of playable characters has a template like this, and its purpose is made redundant by respective Mario Kart games nav templates and the big Mario Franchise template. I think we should either delete it or create Template:MP Players, Template: MT Players, Template: MG Players, etc. to match with the consistency and the latter route is a route I don't like.
 
I really don't like how it continuously re-links to characters on every line. And the table at Mario Kart (series)#Playable characters is a far better way to present that sort of information. The nav template policy recommends to only create series-wide templates when it would help to streamline navigation. Because this template is only being used on character pages (where there are a billion other navigation templates), I don't think Template:MK Players assists with navigation at all.

I'd vote to delete it.
 
With this in mind, can we also talk about Template:MK? It covers the Mario Kart items and has all of the same issues as the MK Players template, except that all of the items have been excluded from the main templates for some reason. There aren't that many items, so they can easily fit into the main templates without any issue. I support completely scrapping it.
 
I support deleting that template as well.
 
Time Turner said:
With this in mind, can we also talk about Template:MK? It covers the Mario Kart items and has all of the same issues as the MK Players template, except that all of the items have been excluded from the main templates for some reason. There aren't that many items, so they can easily fit into the main templates without any issue. I support completely scrapping it.
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Lol, literally everything about this template is against policy.
  • It has substituted the corresponding sections in the game-specific templates.
  • It re-lists entries when they re-appear in later titles.
  • On the item articles, the template replaces all game-specific templates.
Once these issues are corrected, the template may be deleted.
 
While cleaning up one of the MK templates, I noticed that we have an article on a Nitro Course, which is basically the opposite of a Retro Course; it lists every stage that appears in an MK game for the first time. Two questions: is this a term that appears in-game, and do we need an article about it?