Talk:Sticker

Proposal for Things section

There are (and will be) articles that link to specific Thing stickers, and I think that instead of a table, it would be better if each Thing had its own subsection, allowing it to be linked to as well as able to provide more information about the Thing, eg. where exactly it is found, what it is used for, effects in battle, and such. Lapu (talk) 16:49, 19 November 2012 (EST)

NTSC/PAL differences

I got the PAL version of this game yesterday, and the description and names of the Thing Stickers are completely different! For example the Faucet is called "Tap" in the PAL version and it has a completely different description. The Fan also has a completely different description (but the same name). Someone should really note this somewhere as many people can get confused! User:MarioMaster720

Good

It doesn't say how you can be "good".

Hi! I'm Electrical Bowser jr.!

Proposal for Things Article

I think Things should be a completely separate article. This article would detail the locations where you can find each thing, and mention Fling a Thing, in addition to including the table in this article. ryanwb2 17:00, 2 January 2013 (EST)

Well the things are just stuff that sits there until it is turned into a sticker, so I would think no. We also have a new guideline against walkthroughs. But you can create a talk page proposal about it and see what others think. PTR (talk) 17:04, 2 January 2013 (EST)

Idea for Things section

Should there be a mention of the size of the sticker when a Thing is sticker-ified? The mentioning of the size does give the player an idea of the attack output and how much area is taken in the album. Sizes of stickers range from small, medium, or large.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kayak254 (talk).

I saw on another website that the sizes were 1x1 (small), 1.5x1.5 (medium), and 2x2 (large). I invented 3x3 (mega).Tf2 fan810 (talk) 16:58, 14 February 2013 (EST)

This ins't Fantendo (A wikiguest)
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 186.144.120.27 (talk).

Split

Shouldn't the list of the stickers be split to "List of Stickers in Paper Mario: Sticker Star" or something--

09:31, 25 January 2013 (EST)

The page was moved from that title. It was decided that it was better titled Sticker (Paper Mario: Sticker Star).

Shokora (talk · edits) 15:27, 5 February 2013 (EST)

You probably should. The same thing happened to the List of Glitches in Super Mario Galaxy 2.Tf2 fan810 (talk) 17:01, 14 February 2013 (EST)

Flashy Line Jump in 1-1

You know, you shouldn't say that there's a Flashy Line Jump in 1-1, because there's a Flashy Infinijump in Sandshifter Ruins if you visit it at least three times.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magic Koopa Guy (talk).

In other languages

I created this page some time ago. I want to do the same thing with stickers. Do you agree?--Qaramana (talk) 09:13, 27 January 2013 (EST)

New Stickers

I have just created some new stickers. (Some of them are only upgraded stickers). They are the Rain Hammer, the Bounce Hammer, Poison Flower, Spark Flower, Flashy Frog Suit, Spring Suit (it's like the Spring Mushroom), the Splash Hammer, Spear, Zap Hammer, Egg, Bullet Bill, Boom Hammer, Shiny Gold Flower, Mini Hammer, Blue Shell, Wing, Propeller Mushroom, Shiny Bomb, Big Shiny Shell, MegaFlash Shell, MegaFlash Tail, GigaFlash Pow Block, GigaFlash Spike Helmet, and the thing sticker is a Hole Puncher.Tf2 fan810 (talk) 17:13, 14 February 2013 (EST)

This is not for "Making up" stuff! Magic Koopa Guy (talk) 19:10, 15 February 2013 (EST)

Final cut sticker?

I know there was a sticker that was cut out in the final copy. It was the Present sticker. I know that it was a real sticker because I saw a picture in a magazine that was showing the album and on the bottom row was the Present sticker. The way it was shown means it was a Throwing Type of sticker due to its normal green background.Tf2 fan810 (talk) 17:23, 14 February 2013 (EST)

That is a Mystery Box, not a "present". >_< User:MarioMaster720

More information needed!!!

Why don't you have "sticker size" and "action command" in the part of normal stickers?? These are VERY important!! 670839245 (talk) 09:50, 26 February 2013 (EST)

Description?

Should we put down the descriptions of the Stickers as they appear in the Sticker Museum? YoshiAwsumness (talk) 00:00, 25 November 2013 (EST)

I believe we've already done that.

-Toa 95 (talk)

Oops, my bad. YoshiAwsumness (talk) 19:34, 25 November 2013 (EST)

Split into List of Stickers in Paper Mario: Sticker Star

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Do not split 1-3

In most cases on the wiki, things like this are split into separate articles, one for the concept and one that is listed. However this is not the case here as they are merged. The list clogs up the majority of the page and will look better off as part of a separate article.

Proposer: NSY (talk)
Deadline: December 14, 2015, 23:59 (UTC)

Support

1. NSY (talk) Per myself

Oppose

1. LudwigVon (talk) Per my comment below.
2. Baby Luigi (talk) I actually don't disagree with the proposal, because we have articles on two subjects that have the same name that could benefit from a move to "List of stickers in Paper Mario: Sticker Star" and "List of stickers in Super Smash Bros. Brawl". What I do disagree on is creating a stand-alone sticker page, I think this works best as a disambiguation page rather than a stand-alone page as it is now, hence why I'm opposing. If you change to what I'm proposing, then I could change my vote. I'd like to see input from other users first about my idea though.
3. Bazooka Mario (talk) This split isn't needed. The article serves itself well as informing the reader what the sticker is and does while conveniently listing all stickers.

Comments

The problem here is that other pages talk about the concept because it appears in several games such the recipes page that explains in detail all the recipes that appear in all games that this concept appear in, and the list pages (List of Tayce T. recipes, List of Zess T. recipes, List of Saffron and Dyllis recipes) shows in detail those which appear in the respective games. While the sticker concept appears only in the game Paper Mario: Sticker Star and a list page would be like having a double page to me. If the sticker concept appear in another game, then there, I will not be against.--^(TALK) 13:43, 30 November 2015 (EST)

You're forgetting that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has an similarly named page that's a list, so this article is actually not an exemption. By the way, on a related note, I don't know why our Trophy article documents ALL trophies, the trophies in sports games and Brawl are two totally different beasts, hell, even different objects; trophies in sports games are like, rewards while trophies in Smash Bros. are essentially figurines. We need to do something about that. Xiahou Ba^{(the Nasty Warrior)} 12:16, 1 December 2015 (EST)

I look at the trophies articles with this (Super Smash Bros. and Sport games) and this is two different concept merge which is weird. Something I can do its making a proposal about splitting up the two.--^(TALK) 12:58, 1 December 2015 (EST)

Baby Luigi: The problem with your analogy is that they're a list of collectibles in two games from different series and have entirely different function (not to mention, Brawl's list is humongous; we're not realistically merging those two) whereas the recipes all come from Paper Mario. Badge, minigame, Item Shop (barring the Mario Party ones, which should be split from the Paper Mario ones IMO) are fairly homogeneous. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 16:53, 1 December 2015 (EST)

did i ever insinuated merging the two sticker articles together, like, at all? so why did you even bring it up? Also, being in a different series doesn't disservice my point: treasures from Wario Land, souvenirs from warioware all get their own lists without a "souvenir" or "treasure" page (the treasure page is a disambiguation list anyway). The same could work here in the stickers article, and the list can perfectly explain what a sticker is, like the list of recipes from Paper Mario. Xiahou Ba^{(the Nasty Warrior)} 17:10, 1 December 2015 (EST)

It's not clear what you're asking. Do you want to rename it? Do you want to create a "List of stickers in Paper Mario: Sticker Star" page and move information from this into that page while retaining history information in this page? You mention precedents, so can you provide specific examples? Your provisions and support are vague, and that's not good when you're proposing a specific course of action. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 16:10, 1 December 2015 (EST)

He wants to keep a core Sticker page while also creating a page dedicated to listing them Xiahou Ba^{(the Nasty Warrior)} 16:11, 1 December 2015 (EST)

Let him speak. And you haven't answered all my questions anyway, since he doesn't list a specific precedent we can fall back on because I have fair few examples I have myself that goes contrary to the format he's proposing (List of bonuses in Super Smash Bros. Melee to "Bonus (Super Smash Bros. Melee)"; List of bosses to "Boss"; "List of equipment in Smash 4" to Equipment;). Usually, when a standalone article based on these lists is created, it's because those lists encompass a lot of games, similar series or not and may be huge, like in minigame and recipes, and creating one article with all complete lists would be a bad idea. But it shouldn't mean we should create Sticker (Paper Mario: Sticker Star) and "List of Sticker in Paper Mario: Sticker Star" when it's more convenient for readers to find both a complete list and an explanation of the sticker. Those lists still have to explain what a "Sticker" is anyway, so it strikes me as redundant. It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 16:53, 1 December 2015 (EST)

You're basing your thoughts that if we create a "list of page", we have to keep the information for it completely separate from the list itself, when the list of recipes article, as an example, explains a recipe and what it is completely fine. The same can be applied for the list of stickers articles. by the way, I don't even know why you're objecting at all, look at my freaking oppose vote. i disagree with creating a standalone sticker page, because it DOESN'T encompass several games the same way recipes do Xiahou Ba^{(the Nasty Warrior)} 17:10, 1 December 2015 (EST)

Finally, are we just splitting Stickers, or are we going to to take Things and Scraps into account as well? It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 19:09, 1 December 2015 (EST)

Things

Hi, since things are back in Color Splash, think we can make Things into a separate article again? Weedle McHairybug (talk) 04:37, 9 October 2016 (EDT)

Yeah I suppose that could work, they actually should be split. The RPG Gamer (talk) (edits) 04:40, 9 October 2016 (EDT)

Things, things, and more things.

Not sure where I should put this, so I'm doing it here. Whether in the article, or creating a separate page for them, can we get a list of how to get each Thing? Till our roads next cross, Magolor04726, C-R-O-W-N-E-D Ruler Supreme (talk) 13:10, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

That info might be better suited in each individual location article for the game. ^(T|C) 13:19, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

Actually, why haven't Things been given their own articles yet? Each one has its own spot in the game's museum, which is enough to show that they're separate things. Different locations, animations, prices, uses, Action Commands, and some of them even return in Color Splash. Scrooge200 (talk) 13:58, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

At that point we might as well split all the Stickers and Battle Cards too, obviously with the ones in both games sharing an article. After all, they're just as important as Badges and arguably more so than Key Items. I was originally thinking that we should at least have a Thing page to cover them all, but then realized they're still technically Stickers/Battle Cards, which would make not having them on those pages be awkward but also having them there and on a Thing page be a potential violation of once and only once. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 14:06, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

We have articles like List of badges in Paper Mario, and all those badges have their own articles. I think the same could work with these Stickers/Battle Cards and Things. Scrooge200 (talk) 14:49, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

That's a good point, I noticed that after I made the comment. I think we definitely could do it, but I'd like to see some more discussion or consensus first before pushing ahead with a proposal. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 15:02, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

I agree, especially since this could also open up the incentive to split out every clothing item from the Mario & Luigi series. ^(T|C) 15:47, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

There's been a similar discussion on Talk:Battle Card (Paper Mario: Color Splash)#Split. Scrooge200 (talk) 18:06, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

(Me thinking: What have I done?) So, what's the decision? Make an article for each Thing, or list where to find them in locations, or make every Stocker and Thing it's own article? Till our roads next cross, Magolor04726, C-R-O-W-N-E-D Ruler Supreme (talk) 19:45, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

Consensus so far seems to be give an article to every Thing, and each type of Sticker and Battle Card (i.e. Hopslipper, Line Jump, Slaphammer etc.) gets its own article, and obviously anything in Color Splash that returned from Sticker Star would just be on the original's article. This is a pretty big change though, so it should probably be a proposal at some point. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 20:31, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

I might be able to help with the Sticker Star stuff, but not Color Splash. I don't own that. Till our roads next cross, Magolor04726, C-R-O-W-N-E-D Ruler Supreme (talk) 20:51, May 17, 2020 (EDT)

I'll make as many sticker pages as I can, if I get an OK from someone... Till our roads next cross, Magolor04726, C-R-O-W-N-E-D Ruler Supreme (talk) 21:26, May 27, 2020 (EDT)

Sure, go ahead. I'd like to get our SS/CS coverage improved in time for The Origami King. Scrooge200 (talk) 21:30, May 27, 2020 (EDT)

OK, I may need a little help with a template and such... I'm not very good at editing. Should I model it after a stereotypical item page?Till our roads next cross, Magolor04726, C-R-O-W-N-E-D Ruler Supreme (talk) 21:31, May 27, 2020 (EDT)

Like Waluigi Time said, a big change like this should require a proposal. Please consider that first before enacting the suggested changes. Mario JC 01:04, May 28, 2020 (EDT)

If you all don't mind, may I start the proposal? Scrooge200 (talk) 01:17, May 28, 2020 (EDT)

Sure, go right ahead. ^(T|C) 02:05, May 28, 2020 (EDT)

Sounds good to me. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 13:04, May 28, 2020 (EDT)

Was a proposal started? Because I looked at the proposals page and didn't see anything. -Mags (talk) 11:06, May 29, 2020 (EDT)

Guys, I can't find the proposal. Was one even started? -Mags (talk) 09:40, June 2, 2020 (EDT)

I don’t think it has been started. Duckfan77 (talk) 13:04, June 9, 2020 (EDT)

I've finally started the proposal. I've been a bit busy lately, sorry for the wait. Scrooge200 (talk) 22:33, June 27, 2020 (EDT)

About that identifier

I've always found it weird that this page has an identifier. The other sticker page is for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and since we prioritize Mario coverage over Super Smash Bros., shouldn't this be the primary sticker page? Scrooge200 (talk) 17:12, July 28, 2020 (EDT)

Sounds about right. Something else that's weird, anytime I try to access this specific page from my email or a couple other links, it takes me to a page that's labeled as Sticker (Paper Mario: Sticker Star while the actual page is Sticker (Paper Mario: Sticker Star). This also happens with the talk page. I don't know if that's just me, but I'd like an explanation.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magolor04726 (talk).

That's just something that occasionally happens with links ending with parentheses, not something specific to this page. Anyway, I agree that this should be moved. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 18:38, July 28, 2020 (EDT)

Definitely should be moved, I planned to do this eventually but haven't had time because, well. Mario JC 01:16, July 29, 2020 (EDT)

Of course, we can always ask porplemontage (talk) to use text replacement. DarkNight 20:42, September 2, 2020 (EDT)

"Five Years Later" Proposal

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canceled by proposer
I will start out by saying, yes, there has been a proposal earlier on, and as you can see, the outcome has passed. However, now that the modern games have chosen to adopt this format, this may have just become a relevant topic again.

Since two games have passed since the release of Sticker Star, this may have become more debatable. Although there are certain stickers appearing only in this game, including one-of-a-kind stickers, there are certain stickers/Battle Cards/weapons which have appeared in all three recent games, as well as Things which made it two games over.

Please note that I have no opinion on the matter, and as such do not support or oppose the results. I am simply interested in getting the opinions of the editors now that five years and two games have passed.

However, I do feel that making a page for each of these stickers would be like making a page for every badge in Paper Mario (which has happened), and to some extent, the articles of clothing in the Mario & Luigi games. I believe so long as we have a location, price, use, durability rating for each and every sticker (most of which are supplied at the Sticker Museum), there is potential for splitting.

(NOTE: As this is my first official proposal, although the setup seems correct, there is probably something I forgot to do. If possible, please let me know. I simply ask you respect the topic and the opinions of the others.)

Proposer: The Mansion (talk)
Deadline: September 16, 2020, 13:13 UTC

Comments

I've already proposed this, and it passed. MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/55#Split_the_Paper_Mario:_Sticker_Star_and_Paper_Mario:_Color_Splash_attacks. If you'd like to help me enact it, please feel free to. Scrooge200 (talk) 14:33, September 2, 2020 (EDT)

I will do so, I see a lot of people feel the same way, which is good. Green Star 14:39, September 2, 2020 (EDT)

I'm confused: if there was already a passed proposal on this, then why is it being proposed again? ^(T|C) 14:50, September 2, 2020 (EDT)

Because they didn't see that because it wasn't on this page, obviously. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:32, September 2, 2020 (EDT)

Is a scrap a kind of sticker? Do we split them?

Are scraps a kind of sticker? Well, I wouldn't be asking if I thought they were a kind of sticker.

So sticker lore: they fall from the sky, may or may not be linked to the Sticker Comet (I think they fall from the comet, though I forget where the game said so), people go sticker hunting, there are shops that buy and sell stickers. Thing stickers are mysterious stickers you can make at the Sling-a-Thing shop. Kersti knows everything about stickers, but not so much about Things. The Sticker Museum deals in battle stickers and thing stickers.

What's a scrap? My working definition is "sections of the world that have been torn out via paperization", loosely adapted from Kersti's dialogue box at the end of the tutorial. Whereas a sticker is inarguably an artistic depiction of an object, a scrap tends to be much less deliberate from an in-universe standpoint. Some of them are clean tears of an object, but other scraps include the wall behind the object. (The wall irregularity is a tell for using paperize, see? So whoever's making the tears to begin with is doing a sloppy job.) None of the above properties that are true of stickers is true of scraps. They aren't from the sky, and kind of just are. (The implication is that Bowser's rampage plus Bowser Jr.'s and Kamek's machinations involve peeling away at the world because Bowser has gone mad from Royal Sticker-itis and the other two are helping him by keeping Mario at bay.) You can't buy or sell them, and the player doesn't really create them either. The Sticker Museum has no mechanics involving scraps. Scraps are stored in an entirely separate section of the album from battle stickers and thing stickers. I don't think Kersti has any specific dialogue about scraps, just suggestions on if the player can paperize. (There might be something in the case of the game's coolest setpiece, but that's in World 4 so it'll be a while before I get there.)

The only sticker like things about scraps are that they can be stuck to the sheet of paper in paperization, and that's only because the one part of paperization that is common among all of its uses is its control scheme.

I think the big cincher is the name and the manual. Scraps are "scraps". Every object that is a confirmed sticker has sticker in its name. "Battle sticker", "thing sticker", "Royal Sticker". The scraps don't match, they can't be stickers. The manual backs me up here because while the three "actually a sticker" items are in the same section ("sticker types", under page 10 "collecting stickers" and the same table of that section, scraps have their own little box separate from the table that happens to be floating under "sticker types". This makes sense, scraps are related to stickers because the player kind of uses them in the same way, give or take paperization being arbitrary, but they fundamentally are not the same kind of item.Salmancer (talk) 09:13, July 16, 2025 (EDT)

Of course there's the fact that the Sticker Album in-game has a tab explicitly saying "Scraps", thus meaning they are a kind of sticker. PrincessPeachFan (talk) 07:29, August 9, 2025 (EDT)

I believe the album's ability to store Things hard deconfirms this. Not everything you can store in a sticker album is a sticker. Aside note, another thing true about battle and thing stickers that scraps fail to follow from is that you have to peel a sticker off its "backing", with the backing disappearing to indicate the battle and thing sticker is officially spent. Scraps don't have a backing, they're very much not intentionally made in the same way we know battle and thing stickers are. Salmancer (talk) 09:42, August 11, 2025 (EDT)

Yeah, but you can't contradict what's in the game just because you don't agree with it. PrincessPeachFan (talk) 15:18, August 11, 2025 (EDT)

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying your interpretation of "a Scrap is a Sticker because it goes in a Sticker Album" is wrong, because the game puts Things in the Sticker Album and is very specific about how one has to make a Thing into a Thing Sticker. My opinion is that the game is not providing an explicit answer, but the manual's organization suggests that Scraps are less a kind of Sticker and more a relative of Sticker. I can back following that implication of the manual through in-game circumstantial evidence, such as the backstory of Stickers not being indicated to apply to Scraps. Salmancer (talk) 15:26, August 11, 2025 (EDT)

Split?

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vetoed by the administrators
Explicit plagiarism of the comments made by another user without their involvement or consent.
As pointed out above, Scraps can be treated as something entirely different from Stickers given that "What's a scrap? My working definition is "sections of the world that have been torn out via paperization", loosely adapted from Kersti's dialogue box at the end of the tutorial. Whereas a sticker is inarguably an artistic depiction of an object, a scrap tends to be much less deliberate from an in-universe standpoint. Some of them are clean tears of an object, but other scraps include the wall behind the object. (The wall irregularity is a tell for using paperize, see? So whoever's making the tears to begin with is doing a sloppy job.) None of the above properties that are true of stickers is true of scraps. They aren't from the sky, and kind of just are. (The implication is that Bowser's rampage plus Bowser Jr.'s and Kamek's machinations involve peeling away at the world because Bowser has gone mad from Royal Sticker-itis and the other two are helping him by keeping Mario at bay.) You can't buy or sell them, and the player doesn't really create them either. The Sticker Museum has no mechanics involving scraps. Scraps are stored in an entirely separate section of the album from battle stickers and thing stickers. I don't think Kersti has any specific dialogue about scraps, just suggestions on if the player can paperize. (There might be something in the case of the game's coolest setpiece, but that's in World 4 so it'll be a while before I get there.)

The only sticker like things about scraps are that they can be stuck to the sheet of paper in paperization, and that's only because the one part of paperization that is common among all of its uses is its control scheme.

I think the big cincher is the name and the manual. Scraps are "scraps". Every object that is a confirmed sticker has sticker in its name. "Battle sticker", "thing sticker", "Royal Sticker". The scraps don't match, they can't be stickers. The manual backs me up here because while the three "actually a sticker" items are in the same section ("sticker types", under page 10 "collecting stickers" and the same table of that section, scraps have their own little box separate from the table that happens to be floating under "sticker types". This makes sense, scraps are related to stickers because the player kind of uses them in the same way, give or take paperization being arbitrary, but they fundamentally are not the same kind of item."

As such, the easiest thing to do is split.

Proposer: PrincessPeachFan (talk)
Deadline: December 11, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)

Split 'em up! Support

1. PrincessPeachFan (talk) Per proposal.

Comments (Stick it To Me)

So, normally I wouldn't do this... but I'm going to request that this proposal be cancelled. It's outright just my writing from the above section. So, plagiarism. Plagiarism aside, this is a topic that requires a lot of nuance to parse, with additional elements to incorporate beyond what I put into that section. Things like Sticker Star's lore (which it does in fact have) that stickers come from the sky, and very likely the Sticker Comet itself. (It's "the official sticker comet sticker shop" for a reason.) Thing stickers are the exception, where all but the first are actively created at Sling-a-Thing, but there's nothing for where the very first thing sticker is from. Scraps fail both qualifiers, as they seem to be things from this world and not from beyond it, as standard objects are be converted into scraps. Also, the Paper Mario trophy from Smash 3DS European Edition implies that the Wooden Bridge or the Bridge Parts are stickers. ("Stickers aren't just for collecting, though – they're for making bridges, opening ancient doors, and even for taking on foes in battle!", but there's no point where a battle or thing sticker is used to create a bridge.) (The fact that I'm specifying "Europe only" should indicate that this is a thorny topic.) These should both be in a well constructed proposal on this topic, as well as notes from other sources like Iwata Asks and probably commercials. Basically, this is a very nuanced debate and it should be treated with the research and care it deserves. This proposal falls immeasurably short of that, and I cannot in good conscience allow it to proceed. Salmancer (talk) 22:02, November 26, 2025 (EST)

Scrap Splitting Take 2

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vetoed by the administrators
Explicit plagiarism of the comments made by another user without their involvement or consent. Did not take directives issued by staff.

“What's a scrap? My working definition is "sections of the world that have been torn out via paperization", loosely adapted from Kersti's dialogue box at the end of the tutorial. Whereas a sticker is inarguably an artistic depiction of an object, a scrap tends to be much less deliberate from an in-universe standpoint. Some of them are clean tears of an object, but other scraps include the wall behind the object. (The wall irregularity is a tell for using paperize, see? So whoever's making the tears to begin with is doing a sloppy job.) None of the above properties that are true of stickers is true of scraps. They aren't from the sky, and kind of just are. (The implication is that Bowser's rampage plus Bowser Jr.'s and Kamek's machinations involve peeling away at the world because Bowser has gone mad from Royal Sticker-itis and the other two are helping him by keeping Mario at bay.) You can't buy or sell them, and the player doesn't really create them either. The Sticker Museum has no mechanics involving scraps. Scraps are stored in an entirely separate section of the album from battle stickers and thing stickers. I don't think Kersti has any specific dialogue about scraps, just suggestions on if the player can paperize. (There might be something in the case of the game's coolest setpiece, but that's in World 4 so it'll be a while before I get there.)

The only sticker like things about scraps are that they can be stuck to the sheet of paper in paperization, and that's only because the one part of paperization that is common among all of its uses is its control scheme.

I think the big cincher is the name and the manual. Scraps are "scraps". Every object that is a confirmed sticker has sticker in its name. "Battle sticker", "thing sticker", "Royal Sticker". The scraps don't match, they can't be stickers. The manual backs me up here because while the three "actually a sticker" items are in the same section ("sticker types", under page 10 "collecting stickers" and the same table of that section, scraps have their own little box separate from the table that happens to be floating under "sticker types". This makes sense, scraps are related to stickers because the player kind of uses them in the same way, give or take paperization being arbitrary, but they fundamentally are not the same kind of item."”

—Salmancer

As such, we should split.

Proposer: PrincessPeachFan (talk)
Deadline: December 11, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)

Split 'em up, Support

1. PrincessPeachFan (talk) Per proposal and the fact that thorny stuff on the wiki is what proposals are for.

Comments (Stick it to Me)

I do wish that you could've written out the proposal yourself instead of having 99% of it being a long quote from Salmancer, and the remaining 1% being "And that's why we should split the two subjects". Quoting someone is totally fine, but you barely said anything yourself. This is basically the same as your plagiarized attempt above, except you're more honest with whom you're copying from.
Even then, I'm abstaining from voting for now, because if what Salmancer said in the previous attempt is right, then this issue is a bit more complicated than simply "split the two things lol". rend (talk) (edits) 11:16, November 27, 2025 (EST)

You didn't request courtesy from Salmancer to proceed like this, did you? It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 11:27, November 27, 2025 (EST)

Split Scrap from Sticker

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Current time: May 16, 2026, 11:15 (UTC)

Currently, scraps from Paper Mario: Sticker Star are merged with stickers, although both mechanics are distinct. Stickers are basically objects that can be used during battles. Scraps cannot be used in battles; they are pieces of the environment that can be peeled off and pasted into certain locations on the overworld. The only similarity between stickers and scraps is that they can both be paperized, but a sticker can only placed on a dedicated zone with a dotted outline, whereas a scrap can only be placed on a swirling purple void of the same shape.

Moreover, the album (basically, the in-game inventory) stores them under two distinct tabs, "Stickers" and "Scraps". Lastly, objects that are explicitely considered as stickers have "sticker" in their name: "thing sticker", "battle sticker", "Royal Sticker"… but scraps are not called "scrap stickers".

Proposer: Jdtendo (talk)
Deadline: May 20, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Support: split Scrap

1. Jdtendo (talk) Per proposal.
2. EvieMaybe (talk) per proposal
3. Megasparkle Wandering Poplin (talk) These should never have been merged in the first place. Let us finally rectify this.
4. Sorbetti (talk) Per proposal.
5. TheCatLover738 (talk) Per all.
6. Camwoodstock (talk) Makes sense to us. Per proposal.
7. Nelsonic (talk) Per.
8. Power Flotzo (talk) Third time's the charm. Per all.
9. FanOfYoshi (talk) Per all.

Oppose: keep Scrap merged

1. Salmancer (talk) Wait what? Yes, really. I'd like to introduce everyone to the Nintendo.com article Prepare to be glued to your Nintendo 3DS with Paper Mario: Sticker Star, which says "Apart from Battle and Thing Stickers, Mario can also find and apply Scrap Stickers that permanently alter the environment by filling up a void, often allowing access to previously unreachable areas." With "Scrap Sticker" revealed to us, the hole I found is patched: Scraps are officially extremely odd kinds of stickers, that have some similarities to the main sticker types, but also major differences. Turns out, its not a Separate Third Thing^TM after all. This backs up how Smash Bros. 3DS Europe was conflating stickers and scraps. One of the old arguments for this split was that section 10 of the instruction manual, the one about Sticker Types, only included Scraps in a box separate from the table of Sticker Types. Well, Scraps are within the section, and "Scrap Sticker" being a valid phrase mean they fit in the section. This disproves the prior assumption I was running on, that "The Sticker Types section was the best place to put a really weird game element, and it's boxed off from the table to indicate separateness". Additionally, I take issue with saying "stickers can be used in battle" as a part of the definition of "sticker", because Royal Stickers are stickers that fail that criteria. For the love of all things gravy, please make sure to look at all available material before making proposals! That's why I didn't go and make the proposal.
2. R.O.B. (sticker) Per Sal. I would support this split if battle stickers were also split, as well as either splitting Thing stickers or transferring their information to Thing, but as of now, I can't help but notice that this will create an inconsistency where two types share a page but the third gets its own page.

Comments (Let's get scrappy)

Also slightly annoyed the proposal didn't bring up the backstory that stickers have in the game, which the comment I put in two proposals ago brought up. Yes, Scraps don't fit that backstory, but neither do thing stickers so the factor ends up not favoring either organizational direction. Salmancer (talk) 03:39, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

I would switch to Support if and only if "battle sticker" and "thing sticker" get their own pages, which basically makes "sticker" into a hub page with "battle sticker", "thing sticker", "Royal Sticker", and "scrap" as spokes. Salmancer (talk) 03:39, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

Oh, it's also probably important to mention the full Sticker Star website isn't loading on Wayback Machine. Only the early website does, and it's no help to us. Salmancer (talk) 04:41, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

@Salmancer - We feel like it's worth noting that, as of right now, Royal Sticker is just its own page separate from Stickers as a mechanic. Out of curiosity, how would you (or, frankly, anyone else here) feel about splitting Scraps, while still considering them a type of Sticker? Maybe leaving a brief explanation with a {{main}} template up top. (And we could probably also write a brief section about the Royal Stickers and do the same trick with those, too, yes.) :o ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 05:39, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

To be fair, the "Battle Stickers" and Scraps both have things like their Paperization gimmicks in common, Whereas the Royal Stickers... don't really have much overlap with the normal Stickers beyond being "Sticker-like objects which Mario carries in his album." Wandering Poplin (talk) 05:51, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

Hang on, let's not forget Sticker Star isn't a storyless platformer. It's an adventure game based on storyless platformers, meaning said story is in fact an element relevant to the comparison. Royal Stickers have the ability to stick to people, which matches how battle stickers can stick to people. (There's a Toad in the opening with a Jump sticker stuck to them that the player has to peel off.) Salmancer (talk) 04:29, May 11, 2026 (UTC)

Okay, so like, given my opinion, yes this would be okay. But we should do things the right way the first time, not take a half step to the correct solution then double back and take the second half step. Also Kersti probably would need a section. As I explain in the below comment chain, she has the sticker property of being stuck to things and being able to be peeled off those things.Salmancer (talk) 04:29, May 11, 2026 (UTC)

I'm not convinced by the NoE article considering it uses the term "Scrap Stickers" in title case as if it were a proper noun which is not the term used by the game itself (just "scraps"), so the information in that article is not completely accurate to the game and should not be taken too literally. The game itself never describes scraps as stickers, and one quote from Kersti even states, "Stick scraps back on where they've been torn out, stick stickers in suspicious places... With paperization, you can do all kinds of things." It implies that scraps and stickers are similar yet distinct concepts.
Most importantly, the Sticker article deals with the items that "serve as Mario's main method of attacking", which excludes subjects that technically are stickers but mechanically aren't, such as the Royal Stickers and Kersti in her usual form. Scraps are mechanically different from stickers (they are placed in a distinct tab and do not take up limited space in the album, they aren't used in battle, etc.), so a lot of information on this page does not apply to scraps, which means that it doesn't make much sense to keep scraps on this page.
However, I think it makes sense to keep thing stickers and battle stickers on the same article because they have a lot in common: they are collected in the Stickers tab in the same way, can be used in battle in the same way, can be placed in the Sticker Museum in the same way, etc. The only difference between the two is that the former is made from a thing and the latter isn't. It is similar to the way the Battle Card (Paper Mario: Color Splash) article is structured. Jdtendo^(T|C) 10:16, May 10, 2026 (UTC)

In order:

1. Casing is the least important part of naming. And NOE, judging from Yoshi's Woolly World coverage like Yarn Ball, is at least consistent in mixing up casing. I wouldn't throw out a resource just because the casing is wrong.
2. Scrap Sticker is made more valid because all of the other types of sticker in the game are referred to in the article in the same way. If it were, "battle sticker, thing sticker, royal sticker, Scrap Sticker" there would be a "one of these things is not like the others" problem that suggests a mistake, but the consistent formatting for all four suggests valid interpretation and not mistake as the answer.
3. A division like that can just as easily be used for "extremely divergent subgroup" as "different groups"
4. Royal Sticker and Kersti link to this article. Worse, Kersti's "stickerness" is actually important. The player's 3rd game action is to peel Kersti off a sign, just like they will do to battle stickers across the entire game. The fact Kersti could theoretically be sold to the official sticker comet sticker shop if she wasn't an important NPC, just like one can sell a battle sticker or thing sticker, is an aspect of her character. To make "sticker" only apply to battle stickers and thing stickers randomly deprives readers of very relevant links.
5. Wait, so then why are Bros. Attack and Luiginary Attack separate pages. They're alternate counterparts to each other with multiple shared mechanics, so much so the latter article has to repeat information the earlier article says. (Check paragraph 5 of Luiginary Attack in specific, which is just a rundown of system level data shared with Bros. Attack.) It's a bit like the battle sticker vs thing sticker divide, no? If we're willing to split Bros. Attack and "game specific Bros. Attack like things" despite inevitable repetition, then I see no reason to not split battle sticker (normal attacks) and thing sticker (super attacks that have many similarities to normal attacks, but have some differences)

Neatly placing signature Salmancer (talk) 17:54, May 10, 2026 (UTC)