User:Archivist Toadette/Draft proposals

Completely do away with console abbreviations in titles for Mario Kart course articles

Policy right now dictates that console abbreviations be used for every single title in Mario Kart course articles that have made at least one "classic" appearence. While I fully understand the logic behind said policy, I don't see how this would work in the long term. In fact, I would even say that it's counterintuitive to MarioWiki's goals, and here's why:

1. It looks ugly and hurts our professionalism. Just think about it for a bit. Those console abbreviations are just Nintendo's way of disambiguating which game each course originates from, and "the game company itself does it" is not a valid enough reason for us to bend backwards in this way.
2. It's blatantly inconsistent. Barring the supposed "logic" used, how come none of the other pre-Mario Kart 8 courses have console abbreviations in their titles? I'd half expect, say, the Mario Kart DS variant of Rainbow Road to be titled under "DS Rainbow Road".
3. It hurts navigation. Let's say a random reader familiar only with Mario Kart Wii wanted to search for Maple Treeway and started with "maple". There are plenty of articles whose names start with "Maple", but Maple Treeway is nowhere to be found due to the system rarely prioritizing redirects. No, the reader would have to type out almost the full title to get the actual redirect. I even tried searching a few other titles from, but they're all shoved at the bottom of the search below articles on subjects that are far less well known. And keep in mind, Maple Treeway isn't the only title with this kind of problem.
4. Not even the Nintendo developers themselves use the system properly. I mean, just look at the Booster Course Pass and how they handle Ninja Hideaway and Sky-High Sundae. You'd expect them to be known as "Tour Ninja Hideaway" and "Tour Sky-High Sundae", but nothing even remotely resembling that is used.

All in all, I firmly believe that this part of the policy is a detriment to the wiki long-term, and call for its immediate repeal. Keep in mind that this will NOT affect console abbreviations as they are used within articles, just within article titles.