General Discussion

Usually, the textures we upload fit perfectly well on flat planes, so they're kinda intended to already be flat in the same way of a sprite. In skinning a model, it's like ripping the skin off your character and laying them flat, so they're different in a sense than the ones we upload in the wiki (btw the wiki doesn't benefit from textures of characters that look like roadkill, unless it's to detail a glitch or pre-release element).
 
The personality section for Bowser's wiki article is a bit messy in some spots and I think it needs to be cleaned up a bit.
 
In general, characters who have large articles such as Bowser have a myriad of writing problems. I mean, I think his section can be trimmed too.
 
I feel like you could probably cut entire sections and make a separate page for em with Bowser.

Like we have a page for Paper Bowser, why not put all his Paper Mario sections there and just put a link on the main Bowser article that leads to it?

Would probably help for load times especially since that page is only going to keep getting bigger with every new game.
 
Mostly because we treat Paper Bowser's appearance in Paper Jam differently than Bowser's appearance as paper form in the other Paper Mario games, because the games treat them differently. It's mostly explained why in this proposal (MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive_44#Deal_with_the_duplicate_Paper_subjects_in_Mario_.26_Luigi:_Paper_Jam).

The size of the character articles, however, does call for some concern, as you're right that they will get bigger and bigger and harder and harder to navigate and load. We recently split off Mario's gallery into separate galleries, and there may need to be a time where we need to slit Mario's page into pieces. I don't know when that time will come, however.
 
If I were to guess it would be sooner than later.

I mean there are 2 games this year alone that he's going to be in.
 
Best we can do for now is to slim the plot sections into one paragraph and don't go into beginning to end like in some points in the Mario article. Like in Bowser, don't describe the entire plot in Mario Party 7, but just say he crashes the party and he has his own board and he is fought in this minigame rather than go into detail in any of that, with details going into respective articles.
 
What you should do is just delete every article on the wiki except the Bowser related ones and rename it the super Bowser wiki.

Then rename this forum the Bowserboards
 
Everything because he owns everything.
 
This is something I'm curious about: Would the minor and forgotten controversy about Gamespy's review of Donkey Konga 2 be valid material for the List of Mario-related controversies page?

The summary for those who can't be arsed to watch 5 minutes of a guy with a thick british accent: Gamespy had a contract with Nintendo to provide the online structure for the Gamecube (before Nintendo scrapped it due to an homebrew exploit). Gamespy hired a freelancer to write a review of Donkey Konga 2 on their website and it was extremely negative, but a few days it was posted, the score was changed and the text was edited to be much more positive without informing the writer of the changes. A few websites reacted to the mess.

I'm asking since this is uncharted territories for the page, since the controversy wasn't about Donkey Konga 2 itself and Nintendo was only indirectly involved, but I dunno, I found it relevant enough.