Requesting edits for locked pages.

Baby Luigi said:
Mouse should be a disambiguation page, if anything.
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For what, exactly?
 
Because I doubt anyone would search Sairesu on the wiki, despite it being an official name so I think having a Mouse disambiguation page and listing Sairesu and the mice from Luigi's Mansion is better.
 
Except that it's already been decided that disambiguation pages shouldn't be used for listing species/enemies that resemble the subject in question if they don't actually carry its name (so Bat should certainly not be used for listing enemies like Swooper). Besides the LMDM mouse, is there anything else?
 
Fine, then. Move Mouse (Luigi's Mansion) to simply "Mouse".
 
The Mouse stuff's done.

I don't see why the Conjecture thing needs fixing: MW:NAME links to MW:CONJECTURE because it has more information on conjecture and MW:CONJECTURE links to MW:NAME because it has more info on naming; hence they're "see also"s (if they were using {{main}}, that would benefit from a change). It's not so much circular as interconnected, which is a good thing.
 
Snake redirects to Snake (disambiguation), Spike redirects to Spike (disambiguation), and we've gone around this boulevard before. I think that Spike (enemy) should carry the name of simply "Spike", though, since it's a species that's appeared in several games at this point, and would likely be the first thing people expect when searching for Spike outside of a literal spike (Spike (obstacle)).

In the meantime, there's nothing else that has the name "Advance Wars", so could Advance Wars (microgame) lose the identifier?

Also, I can't move Punch-Out!! to "Punch-Out!! (WarioWare: Smooth Moves)" because there's apparently a blacklisted character in there. I'm not sure if a mod would be able to help with that, but any ways to deal with it would help.
 
http://www.mariowiki.com/index.php?title=MarioWiki:Featured_Articles/Unfeature/N/Geno&redirect=no

Needs to be deleted to move the current nom to there, as nominations shouldn't have numbers until archived.
 
Y'know, that proposal completely ignored the real main reason why no sigs is a good thing, and that is that having no sigs makes the proposal archives uniform, clutter-free and clearer, and more professional-looking, which are all important points since they're policy repositories. Compare this to this (MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive_7) - to me, the sig-less one looks waaaay better. Plus all the past archives are sigless now, so starting to have sigs is going to be inconsistent with them, which looks bad.

Using the generic sigs is also clearer when you consider name-changes: the sigs will (hopefully) be updated along with the name, and then in old proposals, if someone addressed someone else by their contemporary name, it will stop matching whatever they signed with after the name change, while the generic templates will remain. It's a small detail, yes, but every little bit helps. Avoiding situations where sigs are deleted, broken and rule-breaking (including using random nicknames instead of their real name or an established pseudonym) is also not a bad thing.

Also, I know from experience that images in sigs alone really can add up and make mere Proposal archives unloadable is your machine's crappy enough (and slower loading times even if it's decent: I tested it now with the above url example and a sig-less revision, and the latter finished reloading way earlier than the sig-filled one; granted, the difference would be a bit less pronounced with sigs only in the comments, but there will still be a difference and it doesn't need to be that way); loading setbacks are a very bad thing when, again, it's a policy matter you're talking about.

The thing about pointless edits being made to correct sigs is really neither here nor there: it takes, what, a few seconds out of the editor's time? Far more mundane maintenance edits are made all the time, like fixing date formatting for uniformity and the multitudes of mainspace gnomework. It's not a big deal.

An finally, if ya really want 'em, timestamps can always be added after the generic sigs using five tildes (~~~~~), which should be perfectly okay.

And in hindsight, I'd rather TPPs be sig-free in their comments too, if only to help keep them distinct from the rest of the talk page and again, make the official decisions look more uniform, sober and, well official, but it's a bit late for that, and compared to full-on proposal archives, old TPPs aren't essential reference suppositories anyway.
 
For me, the sig-free looks way too better. However, the signatures only in comments is not bad either, the only thing that bothers me about this, is that our signature rules are pretty flawed. It's way to better to have signatures lower than 20px in height. Look at this example : User:Dashbot/Sandbox. Believe it or not, the bigger dashbot is still adhering to the current signature rules! The thing is that big signatures distract the look of the text. Makes unnecessary space above and below the text.. See the last line of any paragraph with a big signature).

If the signature rules were changed, it would be good to use those fancy sigs in even voting!

And for inconsistency, it is not that bad, if we started this from the next archive.

Back with the main purpose of this topic..

MarioWiki:Warning_Policy#FAQ, third question.
If you feel you don't deserve the warning, you have the option to appeal it as long as the warning in question was not given by an administrator. When appealing warnings, it is best to do so as soon as possible. Remember that only registered users may appeal a warning. Anons will have to personally ask an administrator to remove a warning that wasn't deserved.
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From my knowledge, anons do not receive warnings. Was that a thing that got changed?
 
I don't think they were ever supposed to get warnings, but sometimes folks don't know the procedures and try it anyway, but either way, I don't think that part's wholly necessary, and I can't remember why it was included in the first place. It was too long ago...
 
I was waiting to see if anyone was going to dive into the thread screaming "noooooo", but since it looks like no one opposes, it's gone.
 
Sven said:
Snake redirects to Snake (disambiguation)

Also, I can't move Punch-Out!! to "Punch-Out!! (WarioWare: Smooth Moves)" because there's apparently a blacklisted character in there. I'm not sure if a mod would be able to help with that, but any ways to deal with it would help.
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I'm still waiting... There's no rush or anything, but I'd still like this to be settled at some point.
 
Thanks for drawing attention to it again - I wasn't sure what was done or not while I was away...

Snake's taken care of, and I moved the Punch-Out page for ya: it didn't give me any trouble, so I dunno what was going on, but I guess it's nothing to worry about now?
 
"File" is more broad and accurate, I suppose? Like "File" can refer to .ogg as well, which is an audio file. That's what I'm assuming.
 
Sven said:
Can I ask what the difference is between "File" and "Image"?
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"Image" used to be the only uploadable file format way back in 2007-2008, but it's been supplanted by File:. Functionally, there's no difference.
 
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