The Super Mario RPG (the user) reversion project

Oh boy I restored a lot of the Goonie article. Let me break down what I had to fix and restore.

  • SGG omitted the part in the intro that describes Goonies as prominent and recurring Yoshi's Island enemies, shortening it to just "first appears in Yoshi's Island".
  • SGG moved Goonies being able to carry bombs from the intro into a section for Yoshi's Island failing to note that only Skeleton Goonies carry bombs in Yoshi's Island, not regular Goonies: being able to carry bombs is only in Yoshi's Story. He also prioritized writing this information about only some Goonies can carry Shy Guys before more crucial Goonie information, such as enemy behavior, how it can damage you, how it can help you.
  • SGG condensed Goonie varieties (Skeleton, Hefty, and Flightless) into simply "self-explanatory" names, describing Hefty Goonies as "flying" despite that Hefty Goonies don't actually fly, they bounce. Variety description was fixed by Psuedo who was unknowningly aware that the Goonie article did in fact at one point described their behaviors in greater, more accurate detail.
  • SGG got rid of information of Goonies appearing in the background for Goonie Rides!
  • SGG obfuscated Yoshi Touch & Go information, omitting "Marathon Mode" when describing "the ground portion", plus omitting how their appearance is occasional, potentially confusing readers.
  • SGG removed graphics comparisons between graphical updates of Goonie and Skeletal Goonie sprites in Yoshi's Island DS. He also removed information regarding how Skeleton Goonies practically take over regular Goonies later in the game.
  • SGG omitted how Fanciful Fluff and Feathers is a World 3 level in Yoshi's Wooly World. I do think enemy behavior information is the same as prior Yoshi games and could be omitted however.
  • SGG omitted how Goonies don't appear very often in Yoshi's Crafted World, and omitted the part where you need to use them to fly over pits (it was just a vague "transportation" under his edit). He also removed information on a cutout Goonie in Yarrctopus Docks.
  • SGG altered how a Goonie is a Lakitu's ally in Tetris Attack, merely calling it as "assisting" Lakitu.
  • SGG did slightly improve the Turtle Bridge section, calling Goonies "platforms" but he did not do enough research and his writing is still confusing to readers unfamiliar with the game. I've rewrote the section to make it more clear.
  • The Paper Mario section isn't too offensive but I'd prefer organizing small trivia on how a Goonie is rendered inconsistently to the characters near the end of the section than in the beginning.
  • SGG omitted how Goonies can be found in the opening sequence of the giant battle in Bowser's Inside Story.
 
Undid Water SKip

Another good sign for telling if a page has being souped is having independant clauses awkwardly combined, such as the above where "This move allows him to bounce on water, which is effective for reaching far or higher areas that the [[Kong]]s cannot reach themselves. This ability is required to reach a [[Bonus Level]] in [[Tidal Trouble]] and [[Riverside Race]]." was turned into "' It can allow the [[Kong]]s to reach a higher area, such as being required to enter a [[Bonus Barrel]] in [[Tidal Trouble]] and [[Riverside Race]]. "
 
Attack Piece, Petey's Bomb Battle, Woolly World (the Smash stage),

EDIT: Diddy & Dixie Barrels, Warp Barrel, Bonus Barrel, Owl (character), Buzzard (character), Rabbit (character), Superstar Mario
Some articles' history sections look a little scarier than they are if you just account for the number of added bytes in SGG revisions. Thankfully, when there are two groups of revisions and the first of them only adds bytes, it might be because that group only added citations. The citations are fine, ignore those revisions and focus on the others. (For preserving citations from later revisions when reverting to a prior revision, it's probably easiest to copy them from the later revision to the prior revision directly. Same goes for the Names in Other Languages section.)

EDIT 2: In hindsight I should probably be marking articles I find that have been edited by SGG but show little to no problems and therefore are ignorable. Ah well. I'll start doing that. For now, reverted Whispy Woods and Kirby.
 
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I just noticed that the Wario Land 3 bosses pages got affected when I noticed my research for Jamano was affected by information removal (one change was the amount of time in seconds that the skulls appear).
Is listing links like this necessary, or it's not required? (Link: https://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=Anonster&type=revision&diff=4239037&oldid=4042612)

Before:
Code: 
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010709065012/http://www.warioland3.com/strategy/body.asp?key_id=N1_BLUE&land_id=N1 Official American ''Wario Land 3'' website (Internet Archive)]</ref>

After:
Code: 
<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20010709065012/http://www.warioland3.com/strategy/body.asp?key_id=N1_BLUE&land_id=N1|title=N1|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|accessdate=June 1, 2024}}</ref>

I would be interested in reverting some of the changes, but I am unsure about the way the links are formatted.

And... who knows how much of Wario Land 3 had been changed by this user. Bosses are the one I see so far, but I suspect more of Wario Land 3 coverage might've been affected.

Thank you for reading.
 
My philosophy on the matter, with the understanding that I am not wiki staff and therefore have no actual power on saying what policy should be, is that SGG can cite things sure, and standardization of citations doesn't hurt. It usually adds important details. So if I have to manually undo the prose edits, his citations stand. If I am able to simply "undo" a revision that damaged prose, I will, regardless of if it sweeps away citations he improved or added, mostly because its easier and because at this point I'm inclined to be less lenient about letting "good" parts of his edits stand. Someone else can probably redo the citation one day, and we'll get the same result.

Uh, status report:

Fixed:

Not problematic:
  • Nep-Enut
  • Winged Cloud (I was very close to undoing the edit here, just moving a clause from one place to another, out of spite)

Notes
In the gallery of 3-Up Moon, SGG attributed a 2012 screenshot from New Super Mario Bros. U as being from the Deluxe version. The one that came out just about a decade later. (Actually 7 years)
They were very inclined to move images from the body into the gallery. Probably too inclined, I think some of them should go back to the body of their articles.
Another good tell for SGG edits is when multiple separate ideas wind up sharing a paragraph. Like in Mask Gate, where the one that attacks the player is a very distinctive set piece and really needs a separate paragraph, but all the paragraphs in that section were glued together under the guise of making the section shorter.
If you see a singular Super Smash Bros. series section in a history section despite how both say, a stage cameo and a spirit are in it, odds are high SGG merged separate game sections together.

EDIT: Actually, SGG was pretty down on how our coverage makes us have lengthy articles on crossover subjects. I'd wager shifting through articles for such topics would turn up many cases of articles they "shortened".
 
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Undid contributions by this user on Big, readded the intermediate edits.
 
I reverted most of the edits for Melody Pianissima.

However, at a glance, it seems that the Luigi's Mansion portrait ghosts pages might all be touched on. If anyone can check the edits, please feel free to do so.

Thank you for reading.
 
Star Space has been touched by the user's hand. I've reverted it. I didn't even restore some intermediate edits because they were correcting the mistakes this user has left behind from poor wording / reading comprehension.

EDIT: I've also undid the edits in Booksquirm
 
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Reverted
Non-issues
Question: Are we reverting List of Super Smash Bros. series items from a table back to prose with no proposal? While SGG didn't write the proposal for it, they did do the conversion. Lets face facts, we don't even need to look at the page to know it's awful, and given that the current antidote is undoing whatever they did, it stands to reason that it should include an entire page's structure.
 
Item Box isn't one of those pages where a simple reversion is really going to cut it, as other editors were contributing to this page a lot while this user was smearing bad edits on top. I didn't realize this user tampered with the page until I found out it was missing information from Mario Tennis games, and my sister recalled it being there when she was rewriting the page. So lo and behold, yes, this user outright removed Mario Tennis information back in November 2023 and didn't even include Mario Tennis screenshots in the gallery they made.

I've restored content for Mario Tennis (as well as a short section for Super Smash Bros. Brawl's sticker cameo) but I cannot overstate the absolute thoroughness of the appalling quality of this user's edits. This is the first time I've seen this user outright remove sections on our coverage, and it's not even debated in MarioWiki; like these item boxes in Mario Tennis are indisputably the Mario Kart ones.

Salmancer said:
Question: Are we reverting List of Super Smash Bros. series items from a table back to prose with no proposal? While SGG didn't write the proposal for it, they did do the conversion. Lets face facts, we don't even need to look at the page to know it's awful, and given that the current antidote is undoing whatever they did, it stands to reason that it should include an entire page's structure.
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Late response, but if it's a very awful and unsalvageable table, just burn it down and rebuild it from scratch. I don't think the article itself is particularly good before the table either, however (see my thoughts here in this thread), so I wouldn't really spend too much effort on these kinds of Smash Bros. lists until we come to an agreement what to do with these.
 
The user had a scorched-earth approach to Smash Bros. content (and non-Mario content in general) that I and others even criticized him for back in the day. That would explain his removing the Smash Bros. section for Item Box, plus maybe a perception that much of what is written there is essentially a repeat of info you can find in the "Profiles and statistics" section. (Not saying I agree with it, though.)

As for the Mario Tennis section, it's small enough that its removal could've been some kind of mistake. I sure do pray and hope this was the case, otherwise I can't make sense of it either.
 
Brrr! It just snowed where I lived, so I stayed inside and cleaned up Mt. Frostbite. Maybe now it won't have such a chilly reception.
 
 
Got another one done today in Train Station. Should be the last MPA location article that needs attention unless I missed something.
 
I've undone this user's edits on these pages.
His edit on Wrinkly's Save Cave confused a user into thinking the wiki was harboring strange information, and I had to ask several community members to verify if the revision before what Soupy Mayo has made is correct to begin with, so that's a plus. We seem to agree it is a variation of the theme, though, not entirely sure if it's necessarily an "earlier" version of it, though.

The edit on Lift was a doozy, as it entailed in a whopping −4,091 bytes being changed and it was made back in March this year, yes even before Mario Kart World was released. I guess it's better to undo this frothing broth of an edit now than never (and if we wait this will probably culminate in 100 intermediate edits because Lift is kinda a prolific object in the series). But yeah. I did what had to be done. I had to go to the revision in March 2025 before this Soup user made the edit, and then I had to parse through every single intermediate edit out of 28 or so to readd other revisions such as Mario Kart World information and the Names in Other Language section and small clarification stuff regarding names that LinkTheLefty did. I noticed that Soup managed to confuse one editor in the process and made our wiki look stupid claiming that Lifts are Half Lifts; this same user also found this calcified nugget Soup left behind from their garbled editing spree.
Lifts, like [[Hard Block]]s in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''.
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I do hope I didn't mess up too badly but if there leftover archaic formatting stuff I inadvertently restored, I hope that gets fixed if needed, but it's better we have dated templates, links, and naming schemes than bad unreadable content that makes our wiki look worse.

Also did this one, which was a pretty old one. That one was annoying. A chunk of the intermediate edits were just a bunch of multilanguage profiles and names in other languages guff, so I just grabbed the latest revision for that content and skimmed over the edits that only affected those sections in the article
 
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