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I'm tryin' to be a good egg around here, but I can't find anything wrong with some of the articles on the [[:Category:Rewrite requested|rewrite list]]! Help a guy out, will ya? {{User:Fire Wario/sig}} 12:27 11 July 2013 (EDT)

:[[MarioWiki:Poll|Poll Committee]] are the ones allowed to create and choose polls, however they aren't open for signing up.--{{User:Dashbot/sig}} 10:48, 29 March 2014 (EDT)

:Well they're not ''supposed'' to, and techncially, any raw-coding sigs can be stripped down to a basic link or {{tem|User}}, as per [[MarioWiki:Signatures|MW:SIG Rule 3]]. - {{User:Walkazo/sig}} 21:54, 8 September 2014 (EDT)

:I think what you're looking for is {{tem|articleabout}} - Just remember that it's meant for articles with similar or overlapping names, or otherwise very similar subjects that searchers or readers could get confused about. - {{User:Walkazo/sig}} 23:07, 8 January 2015 (EST)

:I'd say keep the bestiaries together, and actually, we're not supposed to use subpages anymore, so what you've done with the enemy pages is [[MarioWiki:Subpages|breaking policy]], technically. I suggest simply removing all the repetitive images and just keep all the formations in one list. It's not like we really need to see the exact same Goomba sprite [[List_of_enemy_formations_in_Paper_Mario/Prologue-Toad_Town#Goomba_Village_and_Goomba_Road|17 times in a single section]], and frankly, for single-character battles like Jr. Troopa in that section, it looks silly to have the sprite twice, or to have things like The Master getting three lines further down. Stuff like the two 2-party Goomba formations in "Goomba Road, first area" could also be summarized with "x 2", or with another column to say how many times a given formation appears. It might be worth keeping the "Enemy on Field" images since that's what players need to look out for, and to add ''some'' bling, but not the in-battle extras. - {{User:Walkazo/sig}} 20:38, 30 June 2015 (EDT)

Also you can delete the rude comment. Basically you're not allowed to delete comments, but if it's rude, go ahead.

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<span style="color:red;font-family:monospace">Kamek Power!</span> 11:03, 23 July 2015 (EDT)

:It's not just Japanese, it's ''all'' languages that require direct, ''accurate'' translations: being loose and "fun" is actually misleading a lot of the time, since the names aren't actually saying what you said they are. In many cases, the direct translation can just be provided, but in other cases, explanations ''are'' needed, like to explain corruptions breaking from actual words (like your Watt example), stuff requiring context (like if it's a pun, if it's from a saying, or is otherwise a cultural reference, like the Nintendo example), things with multi-layered or significantly different possible meanings (again, each of Nintendo's kanji have a lot of implications in addition to the overall "leave luck to heaven" stuff, so it's useful to walk readers through it), or onomatopoeic names that ''can't'' translate directly. In the latter case, things like ''[[Doki Doki Panic]]'' get translated as "Heart-pounding Panic" even though a direct translation would be "Lub-dub Panic" -  but the latter is very awkward sounding and loses the feel of the original name, so instead, the former is provided, with an explanation that ''doki doki'' represents the sound of a rapidly beating heart, so that the readers aren't being mislead into thinking that "doki doki" ''literally'' means "heart-pounding", but still get the sense of urgency/tenseness that the Japanese name's conveying. There's no policy page on how to use {{tem|foreignname}} properly yet, but now that we actually are starting to see more and more non-English names added, perhaps that's something we should be looking into, or at least expanding the instructions on the template page itself. - {{User:Walkazo/sig}} 13:16, 26 October 2015 (EDT)

::You don't actually need to make a new template, just add the preexisting {{tem|foreignname}} template to the page, along with new inputs. In this case, since I'm assuming you have the European Portuguese version, you should add this to the page, above the Trivia section, which has the new header as well as the template:

::[[MarioWiki:Admin noticeboard]]. Tucayo set it up. -- {{User:A gossip-loving Toad/sig}}  21:45, 27 July 2016 (EDT)