Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3495717-20150414155233

No point in making two separate topics for these two aspects :P

Firstly, I'll start with Message Wall. Message Wall is a feature introduced by Wikia quite a while back that replaces user talk pages, though some wikis (ourselves included) opted to keep user talk pages instead of enabling Message Wall out of dislike towards it. More recently, a couple of users on this wiki have requested that we enable Message Wall or at least create a poll regarding said feature, which in part is what this topic is about.

Some notable information about Message Wall: For more information, see Help:Message Wall.
 * Message Wall DOES NOT replace ARTICLE talk pages, only USER talk pages. Article talk pages will remain unchanged, seeing as article commentary is an awful feature and we have no plans to enable it.
 * User talk pages are automatically archived when Message Wall is enabled and are linked to at the bottom of the Message Wall. They do not get deleted, but are protected from further edits.
 * Just like the forum, when posting on a user's Message Wall, whether it be a new topic or a reply to an existing one, you will be notified of further replies via the bell icon on the global navigation bar at the top of the page.
 * The ban template may not function as ideally on Message Wall as it does on user talk pages, seeing as the topic regarding it will inevitably get deleted once the situation has been dealt with, leaving a behind prominent "this message has been deleted" notice where it once was. We're open to ideas about this one.
 * Signatures are made redundant, seeing as the poster's name is automatically added to the message. Tis a crying shame, I know.

So with that out of the way... Enable Message Wall? Yes No

And that concludes the Message Wall topic. Now for the mysterious 'stats' topic.

If any of you tend to have a nose around my userpage and user subpages, particularly my sandbox, you may have noticed a bunch of colourful bars at the bottom of the page, each labelled under a different stat (Life, Power, Attack, Defence); this is what I'm proposing we make the 'Stats' section of our character articles look like.

But Uncle Plas! Why do you have to make life so complicated?!

Silly Skipper, this is no more complicated than it was originally, only now it's less dull to look at (and you American English hooligans can write your silly spelling of defence without there being a problem :P).

For those who have yet to look at my sandbox, here is what the proposed stat section would look like:

Stats
Colourful, eh?

Oh, and here's what it looks like in the source editor:

Stats
Yes, it's all neatly contained within a template. As I said earlier,  can be swapped out with   and the template will still work. Before you go on a rant, Plasmo-Bot is fully capable of changing all existing stat sections over, so there's no need to worry about going back and changing every single article ;P

Naturally, this isn't set in stone, so if you feel something about it should be changed, whether it be bar size, colour, etc., please leave a comment below. For the record, the current colours are based on both M.U.G.E.N 1.0's default lifebars and the typical red/blue hitbox colours.

Before we get to the poll, I would like to let you know that if you go into the source editor, there exists a button (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/mugen/images/b/b8/Stats_button.PNG) that allows you to insert a whole stats section. At the moment, it inserts the current stats section, though if you guys vote in favour of this new stats section, it will insert that instead.

And now, finally, the poll: New stats section? Yes No

Both this and the Message Wall poll will end on 21st April 2015. If you have any questions regarding either topic, please leave a comment below! 