Template talk:Mario

Tidying
Before I do it: I think Super Mario RPG should be removed from the main list (it will still be accessible via Mario RPG category), as it doesn't really fit with the rest of the action games. Also, do we really need a separate category for the Mario & Luigi games, which are already part of the Mario RPG category? --Pelago 17:06, 21 January 2008 (CST)


 * Yeah SMRPG:LOTSS should be removed, however Mario & Luigi are clearly a separate "series", albeit very small at the moment. If you really care that we have a category for it, go ahead and bring it up in the community issues. -- 18:49, 21 January 2008 (CST)


 * OK, I've removed Super Mario RPG from the main "action game" series listing. Regarding the sub-series lists, I don't mind the principle of creating that category, even if it only contains a couple of games, so this isn't really a Community Issues thing. I was just wondering about this template specifically, and which sub-series are deemed important enough to appear. Why, for example, are the Mario & Luigi and Mario is Missing sub-series seemed important enough to mention, but not Paper Mario or Mario Party?


 * Maybe we shouldn't try to list any of the sub-series (of which Category:Mario says there are eight so far), and just let people find the additional games via the link in the box heading. --Pelago 15:58, 24 January 2008 (CST)


 * It really is a community issue because we don't have a policy on this yet. I'll bring it up.  -- 18:08, 24 January 2008 (CST)

Someone brought this up in an edit summary. Should this split up the 2D and 3D games? Other series templates don't organize games by decade of release. Perhaps this should put all 2D games on one line, all 3D games on another, and maybe all the portable games on a third line? Wanderer (talk) 01:30, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Four years later


 * Yeah I think the decades should be scrapped. 3D/2D would work ok, but the way we should do it is just put them chronologically, you know, the way a series actually works. -- 02:06, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The difference between 2D/3D is rather arbitrary and has no relation to the progression of the series', so I don't think splitting it that way would be beneficial. Wikipedia mentions the following spin-off series: Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Artist, Role-playing games (Mario RPG), Sports games (Mario Sports), Educational games, LCD games, Donkey Kong, Wario, Yoshi, Game & Watch Gallery. Ones we don't include bolded.  Most of these see fairly straight forward.  Don't know if DK is a spin-off of Mario or vice versa, and G&W about as related as SSB.  Beyond the original DK game, we should check if any of the games on the template are doubly listed. -- Prod (talk) 02:58, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know, the gameplay styles between the 2D and 3D games are defined and distinct enough that they're practically separate series, especially with the recent revival of the 2D series and the fact that we now have 2D games being released alongside 3D games on the same systems. So, maybe? And Donkey Kong came first and has his own series, which would technically make the Mario series the spin-off. The "Mario vs. Donkey Kong" games are probably a separate series now, and I'm really not sure if Wrecking Crew should be there. Wanderer (talk) 04:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The problem with Mario is that practically none of the games are actually canonical. They are in the same fantasy world, but unrelated and rarely, if ever, reference one another. They are less of a series and more of a franchise, which we are helping our readers navigate.  We wantp people to find their games as easily as possible.  So what makes sense?  Well, our main page infoboxes have preceding/followed by links, which are basically like the series template in scrolling form... Our template should be like a table of contents for those links. -- 05:52, 6 June 2012 (UTC)