User:Pseudo

It's me.

I'm Pseudo. My pronouns are she/her and they/them, and I am extremely normal about the earlier games in the Mario Party franchise and 2000s Mario RPGs as well as various other Nintendo 64 and GameCube games from my childhood. Other games of interest for me include the Kirby, Super Smash Bros., Splatoon, and Super Monkey Ball series, but those are largely outside the scope of this wiki.

I'm a longtime member of the Super Mario Bros. X fangame community as well, and I am an administrator on the SMBX forums and Discord server.

I am also extremely normal about the Mario Wiki itself and have been an on-again off-again active editor since late 2007. My writing and editing skills have improved a whole lot since then, and I think I've made some pretty good contributions to the wiki starting in the early to mid 2010s (I created a few articles before this, but Block (Super Mario 64) and Pump Mario were my first real babies on the wiki, and I believe a large step up in quality from my previous work). You can read below for details on my contributions, of course. Since around May of 2023, I've gotten more consistently involved in the wiki and I participate in proposals and talk page discussions more regularly than I did before. I value this wiki's community a lot and would like to be part of it!

Philosophically, I think that the wiki should be for its readers, not its editors. If there's something that improves ease of use editorially, but harms the reader experience, I'm against it (and vise versa) — which is the fundamental reason why I consider myself to be opposed to page moves such as calling Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic (along with similar moves for other Sonic franchise characters, or the ongoing (and likely successful, as of this writing in mid March 2025) attempts to move Princess Peach to Peach and Princess Daisy to Daisy. While I'd consider the arguments regarding searchability and the like relatively immaterial, and I do not think that the wiki should prioritize search engine optimization to begin with, I do think that this change does nothing for the reader experience, as names like Princess Peach and Sonic the Hedgehog are a big part of their characters' respective "brands" and is how they're perceived by the general public, outside this wiki. This is also why I consider merges like Panser and Volcano Lotus to be important, because I think clarifying to readers that these enemies were most likely intended to be one and the same is valuable information for the wiki to cover.

Major wiki contributions

Articles I've created

• Start Space
• Jelly
• Stingray
• Bone Piranha Plant
• Block (Super Mario 64)
• Pump Mario
• Sled Creature
• Mouse (Wario World)
• Key item
• Brick wall
• Wooden dock
• Hand Power
• Surfboard
• Surfing Spot
• Sailor
• Plane panel
• Boat panel
• Gelatin (disambiguation page)
• Swing (Super Mario Sunshine)
• Mudboat
• Flower (Super Mario Sunshine) (now merged with Flower (environmental object))
• Mission
• Wall painting
• Goop subtypes:
  • Burning goop
  • Electric goop
  • Graffiti
  • Orange Juice Generator
  • Slimy water
  • Hot water
  • Rainbow M
  • Splotchy goop
• Soft rock
• Duck-ring riders
• Chain (object)
• Chain (disambiguation page)
• Ultra Hammer (move)
• Cursed Mushroom

Articles I've significantly added to or rewritten

• List of New Super Mario Bros. glitches
• ! Switch
• Audience
• Event Space (Mario Party 3 Duel Map information)
• Barrel (Wario World section)
• Treasure Square
• Ghost House (Mario Party series section)
• Crazee Dayzee
• Koopa Kid
• Bowser Space
• Bowser Suit
• Minigame Space
• Basic Space
• Warp Pipe (Mario Party series section)
• Star Skill
• Mega Board Mayhem
• Mini Board Mad-Dash
• Item Shop (Mario Party series)
• Lottery Shop
• Hidden Block (Mario Party series)
• Item Bag
• Triple Dice
• Rogueport
• Rogueport Sewers
• Ember
• Water
• Goop
• Dry Bones
• Big Chain Chomp (Yoshi's Island section)
• Big Ninji
• Chomp (stomping)
• Cog (obstacle)
• Spin Hammer
• Super Hammer (move)
• Ground Pound (Paper Mario series section)
• Tornado Jump (move)
• First Strike
• Crate (Paper Mario series section)
• Koopatrol
• Mushroom (Mario Party series section)
• Super Mushroom (Mario Party series section)
• Gaddlight
• Card Party

Templates I've created

• Template:Goop
• Template:Clefts

Templates I’ve significantly added to or rewritten

• Template:PMTTYD

Categories I've created

• Category:Goop

Proposals

Talk page proposals

• Merge White Block with Grab Block (talk) (failed)
• Split off each subtype of goop into its own article (talk) (passed)
• Merge Panser with Volcano Lotus (talk) (failed)
• Move Bound Wanwan to Chomp (stomping) (talk) (passed)
• Merge Giant Wiggler with Big Wiggler (talk) (passed)
• Split pre-New Super Mario Bros. Mega and Mini Mushrooms from their post-New Super Mario Bros. counterparts (talk) (failed)
• Merge Iron Cleft with The Iron Adonis Twins (talk) (failed)
• Split Cursed Mushroom from Poison Mushroom (talk) (passed)
• Merge Orbs that share names with pre-existing Mario Party series items with those items (talk) (passed)

Long-term wiki goals

• Merge Panser with Volcano Lotus. This is the most important proposal I’ve created in my opinion (with my successful goop proposal as a close second), and I still strongly believe that it would be right for the wiki to merge these articles. These are almost certainly intended to be the same enemy with the exact same Japanese name and similar behavior, and it seems to me that they are only not recognized as such due to differing localization between Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario World.
• Move Tornado Jump (move) and Tornado Jump (badge) to Tornado Jump (Paper Mario) and Tornado Jump (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door), respectively. The current names are not very clear, since the TTYD version is a move as well.
• Add information regarding the Jump move in RPGs. Add infoboxes, additional damage details, and so forth.
• Create an article for the Hammer move in RPGs. Long overdue, really. Discussed by Blinker on Talk:Super Hammer (move). Proposal draft here.