WarioWare Portal

[Glowsquid]

Between missing pages, non-standardised organization and bad writing, the WarioWare coverage on the wiki strikes me as somewhat lacking. Rather than make a thread for every issues though, I thought why not make a megathread for this set of article?

Good ressources:

• User:Grandy02/WarioWare Has a list of to-be-created pages and issues with existing ones.
• Forum thread with links to and an handful of translations of obscure JP-only material.

Priority Focus

WarioWare (series) Needs actual descriptions and images of the games and the characters, like the other series page. <------- Mario has claimed this.
WarioWare: Touched! Short.
WarioWare: Twisted! Short and horribly written. (also of note is that the game was extensively changed during localization and would make a great testbed for regional differences sections) <---Time Turner has dibs on this one.

Pages that need improvements
Games/miscellany:

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WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!: The information is good and properly organised, but the writing is at time rather repetitive and odd, and obviously not the product of a native speaker.
Goro Abe: Same as above+History is outdated

Characters:

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Mona Poorly written <----- Mario has called dibs on this one. Need more info in the Mega Party Games section. Maybe.
Mike Needs proper header organisation + info about Game & Wario
Pyoro Needs proper appearance-by-appearance listing. Also, headers
Kat and Ana Section-stub for WarioWare Snapped:
Jimmy T. Poorly written, G&W section is under-detailled.

Articles that need to be created
Games/minigames

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Fruit (minigame) (Multiplayer minigame in Game & Wario)
Islands (Multiplayer minigame in Game & Wario)
Disco (Multiplayer minigame in Game & Wario)
Kung-Fu (singleplayer minigame in Game & Wario)

General issues

• Beside Ashley's, the character pages lack personality, appearance and (for the handful it applies to) power and abilities sections.
  
  The Ashley page is as informative as it can be for such a minor character and is a good "template" for the rest (Lack of info about untranslated Japanese material can be excused).
  
• The "List of microgames" pages are basically a sea of blue links sandwiched between quotes. An image + description format would go a long way toward making them more appealing and useful.

General question
For the character pages, is it better to have their microgames described in the relevant game section or have them all listed in a "microgames" section?


Got any suggestions or wanna "call dibs" on any of the above item? Just post here and I'll add your name next to the relevant article (or message me on my wiki tal page if you don't have a forum account).

 

[Xiahou Dun]

I'm calling dibs on Mona. I just rewrote parts of it, mostly its history. Have a look.

I'm planning to add an appearance section and probably a personality section. The only game I'm most familiar with is WarioWare: Touched!, but I'll try my best. Considering how Mona takes on different outfits in each game, how would her appearance section be formatted? No other character goes through this much outfit changes. :/

For the character pages, is it better to have their microgames described in the relevant game section or have them all listed in a "microgames" section?

It should be described in the relevant game section, as the last note. Having them crammed into one subsection isn't very visually appealing. If not, I just don't like the microgames section the way it is now. Too much one liner after one liner.

P.S. You should link Ashley here if you think her page is such a great template and all. :P

 

[Glowsquid]

hey, thanks for helping,

You should link Ashley here if you think her page is such a great template and all. :P

I'm going to keep it unlinked out of spite.

imo, the "Appearances" section should analyze the evolution of the character's appearance over time instead of "just" describing their appearance (which is pointless when images are present). I imagine an appearance section for Mona's page looking like this:

Mona was first and is most commonly having orange hairs and wearing [stuff]. Mona has donned a variety of costumes in the series, such as [costume 1] (in [Game 1]), [costume 2] (in [Game 2]), etc.

In ''Game & Wario'', Mona received the most extensive redesign of any of the WarioWare characters. In addition to being drawn with solid back eyes, Mona is now [insert descrption of the changes to her body structure], words words

 

[Xiahou Ba]

imo, the "Appearances" section should analyze the evolution of the character's appearance over time instead of "just" describing their appearance (which is pointless when images are present).

This a problem for many of the articles that has an "Appearance" section in the wiki :P

 

[Xiahou Dun]

In ''Game & Wario'', Mona received the most extensive redesign of any of the WarioWare characters. In addition to being drawn with solid back eyes, Mona is now [insert descrption of the changes to her body structure], words words

Well, I think it's actually Smooth Moves where she starts to look taller and older, but in Game & Wario, she looks like a young woman rather than a high schooler.

I added the section, so here, have a look (again).

 

[Glowsquid]

imo, the "Appearances" section should analyze the evolution of the character's appearance over time instead of "just" describing their appearance (which is pointless when images are present).

This a problem for many of the articles that has an "Appearance" section in the wiki :P

well yes, hence the "imo"

I added the section, so here, have a look (again).

It's a pretty good description of Mona's design game over games, though I'd say he G&W appearance has changes to her body structure that go quite a bit beyond "looking older". (Also, " in her most drastic rendition of any WarioWare character"?).

It should be described in the relevant game section, as the last note. Having them crammed into one subsection isn't very visually appealing. If not, I just don't like the microgames section the way it is now. Too much one liner after one liner.

I didn't state my preference in the OP, but yeah. I prefer the info to be placed with the relevant game

 

[Xiahou Dun]

I'm not exactly sure what body structural changes Mona has received, but she does look taller, and her hair seems to be shorter (proportionally), so I noted it. Nevertheless, she does seem older, but I can't quite pinpoint her physique changes in words.

You said that she has the most drastic change compared to the other redesigned characters, so it's probably poor wording.

I moved the microgame information to the relevant games in the history section.

Can anyone provide more details in the "WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!" section in the Mona article? It describes just the ending segment, so I feel like it's a slightly insufficient section.

Otherwise, does the article have any more problems? I'll be right back; I'll be uploading some sprites.

 

[Glowsquid]

Nah, apart from the Mega Party games vaguesness, it looks good.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Welp, I brb, nominating the article to be featured. I hope it passes.

Gotta take a small break. Let's see what's next...