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Decide how to organize character articles
This is a poor example for a first proposal because normally I would not be the one drafting this proposal, but due to the current state of the administration I am going to have to take initiative in overseeing checks for consensus in the coming weeks.
The first matter that must be addressed is the character article format. In the time that I have been gone, User:124PX1 has been writing and updating articles in past tense, which is different to the way we have always displayed our content. I did not consent to this change and as from what I can see in previous threads, no one else has.
The layout of character articles will require a lot of different discussions, but for now we will focus on this proposal: We should continue writing articles from an out-of-universe perspective using present tense, instead of changing to an in-universe perspective using past tense.
Proposer: User:RodRedlineM1/sig
Deadline: Saturday, April 24, 2021, 23:59 EST
Result: PASSED! By 3-0 majority we will be using an out-of-universe style of writing, using present tense, for character articles.
Support
- User:RodRedlineM1/sig -- This is the way we have always presented our articles since the site's creation in 2011. It allows us to cover all Cars media without having to worry about playing the difficult game of discerning what is meant to be "canon" and what is not. The Cars universe is not meant to be taken super seriously and I believe this style reflects that. Snot Rod is a great example of an article using "my" format, if you would like to review. I also wrote more "in-depth" explanations here and here. I will be happy to elaborate and clarify wherever wanted or needed.
- ABG1304 -- I personally think the articles should've stay the way they were before. Cars doesn't have a strong canon and trying to make it seem like does is odd honestly. Especially since the "canon" seemingly is broken by Pixar themselves with them being very indirect about it. I mean just look at how they've been treating Cars 2 recently and you'll see what I mean. I just don't think describing characters who are still alive with the words "was" is a smart choice because it gives the feeling that the character is either dead or retired (excluding the actual dead and retired characters) when they're not. Making the info boxes ridiculously long also isn't appealing either honestly. I rather have them be short and sweet (like they usually where back then) with the "technical" information being saved for the "Physical Description" part of the pages. Okay here's an edit for something I thought of: I'm also not a fan of the way racers are described. "Racing driver" and "aerobatic aircraft" make zero sense in terms of context for the Cars Universe. There are no humans so why describe them like that? Not even in the universe are the racers called racing drivers or aerobatic aircrafts, they're called race cars or racing planes due to the lack of humans. I also think racing car is just pointless as well because "race car" literally means the same thing, same case with "stock race car". While it might not be grammatically incorrect it's pointless to put race between stock and car as the term "stock car" is already associated with racing itself and really nothing else so adding it between the words is super redundant. That's all I can currently think of right now once again, I might comeback and edit my support if I can think of anything else but for now that's it.
- Lumbud84 -- I am so relieved that I'm not the only person who was pushing for the wiki's format to stay the way it always has been during that period where 124PX1 watched over literally everything. I created multiple new articles upon the reveals of the names of certain Next-Gen racers (Jim Reverick, George New-Win, Will Rusch, William Byrev, and Carstin Dillon) and every single time I wrote one of those articles, the quality consistently dropped after 124PX1 made edits to it (you can look through the version history on the pages on any of the articles I listed before and compare one of my early edits to one of his later ones to exactly what I mean, I highly suggest you do that). Afterwards, I kept trying to explain to them that past tense should only be used when a character is dead or no longer a car, but nevertheless, they still made edits to the wiki that significantly dropped the quality of the pages they were editing. They even defended the idea that "these events happened a long time ago" when the new Next-Gen diecasts were revealed only a week earlier. All in all, the wiki was completely fine how it was before this whole "in-universe past-tense" thing. The changes that 124PX1 has been making to these articles have been mostly negative, filling the page with spelling and grammatical errors, as well as deleting in-depth explanations and replacing them with extremely dumbed-down surface-level descriptions. I vote to keep the wiki how it's always been since its creation, a well-trusted source for any and all material Cars-related.
Oppose
Discussion
In response to ABG's explanation: 100% with you on the infoboxes. I think it is redundant to have so many features in the infobox when we already cover most of the parameters on the article itself. Totally agree about keeping things short and simple. I will say I do like 124PX1's infoboxes by themselves, but I just don't think they work well on this wiki, if that makes sense. Since you brought it up, we'll make that next week's proposal after this one finishes. In the future we will probably be able to run more than one proposal concurrently, but I just want to wait and see how this one works out first. Best to keep things simple while people are still getting used to everything.
@Lumbud84: I am pleased to see your name on the list and that you're still here. I recently read through the messages you left on both my wall and 124PX1's wall about the next-gen issues a while ago, so I'm already aware of what happened there. I'm really sorry that I never got back to you back then. I saw you haven't really edited since and I was worried you were turned away because of that. The good news is, I'm here to stay, so something like that will not happen again.
Great discussion, guys. Keep it comin'. ~~ User:RodRedlineM1/sig
Decide how to organize character infoboxes
This time we're gonna take a look at character infoboxes, which have been another source of disagreement lately. User:124PX1 announced in a user blog a few months ago that he made new infobox templates and that the wiki would start using them, but after looking into it, it seems this was just an "executive decision" and no one (including the other admins) were consulted about it.
While I can respect certain aspects of those designs, I'm not sure they really fit in our wiki. They feature a very large amount of parameters, many of which are already covered on the article itself. I've always followed the belief that infobox templates are best used to display the essential character information, that being their gender, hometown, other names they are known by, etc. The infobox template we already had was short and simple and accomplished this well, though maybe not as well as it could have -- I have some of my own ideas about that.
I think that we should continue using the older, shorter infobox template, with a couple additional parameters to include other essential information. An example of one param would be a character's Make/Model, as that is basically the equivalent of Species in the Cars world. I have created a draft here of what this could look like. I also merged both "General information" and "Series information" into one "Character information" for the sake of making it as short as possible. I'm open to a lot of different ideas for what the template should include. I mainly just don't want infobox templates that run for half the page.
I still need to figure out how to run proposals with multiple options, but for now, just sign under Support if you want to use the existing, shorter version (the one in my draft), or Oppose if you prefer 124PX1's longer ones. If you want to add/remove a parameter from my draft, just say so in the Discussion section and we can take it from there... maybe run smaller votes later if there's any huge disagreement. ~~User:RodRedlineM1/sig 05:34, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Proposer: User:RodRedlineM1/sig
Deadline: Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 23:59 EST
Result: PASSED! By 3-0 majority we will be using the classic infobox with some additional parameters.
Support
- User:RodRedlineM1/sig – Per my above explanation.
- ABG1304 – I'm in support for shorter infoboxes that explain things that are essential info and not techinal (ex: top speed or what tires they use). The only thing I would add is probably a Crew param for racers because it's important info that you should know about them. Along with their occupation (Ex: Race Car) as that's also essential info too. The reason why I recommended the Crew param is because, besides McQueen, no one else has a big enough, well known, crew to make a section dedicated to them on their page (ex: Jeff Gorvette and Lewis Hamilton). I also thought about a "Status" param too (if they're alive or not) however that wouldn't mean much since a lot of character's statuses are unknown in the series making it pointless in the end. That's all I have to say for my support for now.
- Lightening McQueen: Late reply, but I agree. ...Just so much information on 124PX1's page.
Oppose
Discussion
"Other admins were not consulted". Other admins ignored any message from me or anybody other for few months back when I was writing those. Stop accusing me of working without consultation, when you did not cared at all on what was going on this wiki and basically left me alone to make all decision. 124PX1 (talk) 15:22, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
- While it is true that I was inactive for a long period of time, I can assure you it was not due to a lack of care. Aside from being both a college student and part-time worker (as well as having other hobbies), the main reason I was often deterred from editing here was because we lacked a mature userbase. It became tiring trying to run the wiki when the only active users did not speak English well and often ignored my warnings and edit summaries. A lot of the time I just felt helpless.
- With that in mind, as I have slowly become interested in wiki editing again over the last month, I have been realizing that there is a lot more I could have done back in the day. We lack clear help pages and detailed guidelines for editing, as well as community forums and resources, which is surely a large reason in why a lot of people were making edits with technical or formatting errors. I am currently working to rectify that. In addition to not being proud of how I have behaved in the past, I wish I had been more responsible in focusing on administrative duties back then, and both of those reasons have been driving my contributions lately.
- I have also been more than delighted to find that our current community is actually quite competent. We have several users who have been working to clean up grammatical errors and improve the writing, and generally just being really helpful. On top of that most people have been quite friendly to me, which again has inspired me to want to stay.
- Lastly, while I am well aware that I ignored several messages over the course of the last few months and generally did not act responsibly as a bureaucrat, I am not sure now is the time to call me out for those things. ABG and I both left you messages recently asking to collaborate and you did not respond to those, and you also did not voice your opinion in last week's proposal. Regardless, while I have been doing my best lately to improve upon some of my past mistakes, I am not going to act like I have always been the greatest leader or person. I just want to be transparent about that. ~~ RodRedlineM1 (talk)
20:24, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
@ABG1304: I like the idea of a crew parameter. It's a good way for people to easily find related articles and so we don't have to list them off in a sentence. I feel the same about the Status thing, the vast majority will just be marked as "Alive", while the ones who aren't are immediately explained in the respective article's intro, making it kinda pointless.
And yes, occupation should be there as well, I think I just forgot about it when I made the draft. --RodRedlineM1 (talk) 
09:28, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Disable the achievements system
Hello everyone, this week I would like to propose to disable the achievements system. If you do not know, Fandom offers achievements as one of many widgets available for use, and our wiki has utilized it for a very long time. When you reach certain milestones, such as editing a specified number of pages or adding a specified number of photos, you get an achievement awarding you an amount of points. The more achievements you earn, the higher your points total grows, and the twenty users who have the most points are displayed on a leaderboard.
However, there are many problems I have with this system, many of them stemming from the fact that it goes against the philosophy of a wiki. First and foremost, editing is not a game. When you contribute to our site, your goal should be to help build the best Cars encyclopedia possible, not work towards arbitrary goals that earn you points on a leaderboard. Your sole motivation for editing an article should be to improve it. Article improvement is the end, not the means.
The next problem is that the actions that earn you badges are not in any way proportional to what is actually helpful to maintain our site. For one thing, the mainspace is the only namespace for which edits count toward the badge counts. This means that the file, template, talk, and special spaces (among others) do not provide any kind of reward for editing them, despite being extremely important and needing just as much work. For instance, we have an absurd number of files that are uncategorized or do not display the proper license information. Contributing to those pages would be a massive help, but they would earn you absolutely no points for badges. That defeats the purpose.
On the other side of things, actions like adding categories and photos are highly rewarded, despite not always being useful. We don't need categories that have five articles each, or a frame-by-frame gallery of a movie scene. In our wiki's history, we have had countless people who make hundreds of edits adding unnecessary categories and duplicate photos to articles, presumably for the sake of earning points. Even if they are not directly motivated by that, it is ridiculous that they are rewarded for doing so.
When I was younger, I myself fell into the trap of trying to rank up my leaderboard score as much as possible, so I know how fun it is to watch your points go up. However, I can assure you, as a long-time administrator, that quality is far more important than quantity. You don't need to be number one on a leaderboard to be a valued member of our community!
In short, the disproportionality of usefulness versus reward, as well as the sheer number of users we have seen fall into this trap over the years, makes the feature an active nuisance for the wiki. I think disabling it would be for the best. RodRedlineM1 (talk) 20:29, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Proposer: RodRedlineM1 (talk)
Deadline: Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 23:59 EST
Result: PASSED! By 2-0 majority we will be disabling achievements on our wiki.
Support
- RodRedlineM1 (talk) – Per proposal.
- ABG1304: Almost late response but yeah I wouldn't mind the achievement system being disabled/taken away. From what I've seen some people came on here to do a onslaught of edits on to have them be "added a category" and the category would be "German" or "Italian" and nothing else. It felt like some people just edited so they could rack up points as if it was a competition, which, it's not as stated in the statement above. I feel like if the achievements are taken away users would be more inclined to actually edit pages because they want to and not edit them for some digital points.
Oppose
Discussion
McQueen infobox
Updated terms: Should we add Lightning McQueen's "Radiator Springs" look to the infobox on his page, under the tabber "Cars Toons"?
Original: I am proposing that we add other main paintjobs to Lightning McQueen's infobox (eg rookie, rrc, cars 3, wgp) My reasoning is that they are main paintjobs and since they had a fair amount of screen time I believe they should be added to the infobox. Paintjobs and looks that have minimal screen time (eg Hudson Hornet Piston Cup, Fab ulous Lightning McQueen, any otr) Thank you for reading and I hope I did this right.
Proposer: Carslikesninjago (talk)
Deadline: Saturday, September 16, 2023, 23:59 EST
Result: PASSED! By 4-0 majority we will be adding Lightning McQueen's "Radiator Springs" paintjob, from Cars: Mater-National Championship and Cars Toons, to the infobox tabber on his page.
Support
- User:RodRedlineM1/sig -- Pasting from Discussions section: "One could argue his Radiator Springs style should be there, as it had similar screentime to Fabulous McQueen in the first film, but was also his lead color in the Mater-National game and a lot of other media from that era."
- ChickenChaff (talk) -- Also pasting: "If that's what we're changing it to lol, then, I think, yes, it should be added to the infobox."
- ABG1304 (talk) -- In agreement to add McQueen's Radiator Springs style to his infobox.
- Carslikesninjago (talk) -- peak paintjob
Oppose
Discussion
Hiya! Want to clarify before I cast a vote - are you suggesting incorporating those paint jobs you listed as having minimal screen time, such as the Hudson Cup and Fabulous McQueen? From what I can tell the earlier set of examples you listed (rookie, WGP, Cars 3) are already there via tabber. If that's what you mean, I'm a bit conflicted - both are secondary to his main look from each film, and might overload the selection just a bit; It also might create a problem of, how do we decide which are significant enough compared to another? For example, one could argue his Radiator Springs style should be there, as it had similar screentime to Fabulous McQueen in the first film, but was also his lead color in the Mater-National game and a lot of other media from that era. Extend that to something like the Cars Toons shorts and we've got a LOT of entries! Haha. I do think the "Paint Jobs" section of his page could benefit from being extended, in case that's another option. ~~User:RodRedlineM1/sig 00:50, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- I agree with Rod, think you should clarify what you're saying with which paintjobs should be there. I think some of your words got cut off when you wrote it so... ~~ChickenChaff (talk) 11:04, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
- I think at the very least we could include McQueen's "Radiator Springs" paintjob in the infobox. It was heavily featured in Cars Toons until Time Travel Mater and was his main paint scheme for Cars: Mater-National Championship and Cars: Race-O-Rama. Any other paintjob should just be regulated to the gallery, especially since most are either brief, minor, or were not used in other material that much. ~~ABG1304 (talk) 1:43, 13 September (UTC)
Heh, oops. I messed up and didn't realize this proposal was submitted several months ago, and was never properly completed. The proposed changes were made a long time ago and have never been opposed. However, since this discussion still brought up a new point, I say we vote instead on the sub-point ABG and I brought up: Whether or not McQueen's Radiator Springs look should be added to his infobox tabber, under the name of "Cars Toons". What do we think? ~~User:RodRedlineM1/sig 21:25, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
- If that's what we're changing it to lol, then, I think, yes, it should be added to the infobox. ~~ChickenChaff (talk) 9:31, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Create one page on all unnamed diecast pitties
I believe we should have 1 page dedicated to every unnamed pitty with a diecast like the short bumper save pitty, as they currently don't have official names and attempts to make pages for them in the past haven't gone well. This page will basically serve as 1 place for all the information on the unnamed pitties. Thanksfor eading!
Proposer: Carslikesninjago (talk)
Deadline: Sunday, September 24 2023, 23:59 GMT
Result: PASSED!
Support
- Carslikesninjago (talk) - Per proposal
- User:RodRedlineM1/sig - Love it. With notability policy, this is a great way to have information about the die-cast toys (info/photos about the pit crew gift packs etc.) without making redundant pages for the individual models/characters, imo.
- Mightyman64 (talk) - I love pitties so I support this movement
Oppose
Discussion
Add a Patroller user group
As the Cars Wiki community continues to expand in 2026, the volume of daily edits has necessitated a more streamlined approach to quality control. To support the current Bureaucrats and Administrators, I propose the creation of a Patroller user group. This role is designed as a mid-level staff rank, modeled after the WiKirby Patroller system, intended for trusted editors who have demonstrated a commitment to the wiki’s accuracy and integrity but do not require full administrative tools like blocking or page protection.
The primary function of a Patroller will be to monitor the Special:RecentChanges feed. To fulfill this duty, the group should be granted the "patrol" right, allowing them to mark edits as reviewed. This system effectively eliminates redundant work by signaling to other staff members that a specific change has already been verified for accuracy and formatting. Additionally, Patrollers should be equipped with the "rollback" tool, enabling the swift removal of vandalism or mass-spam with a single click, which is essential for maintaining the wiki's professional standard during high-traffic periods.
Eligibility for this rank would be based on merit and community trust. Candidates should be veteran editors who possess an intimate understanding of the Cars Wiki style guidelines and have a proven track record of civil communication. Unlike administrators, who handle site-wide policy and conflict resolution, Patrollers will focus specifically on the "front lines" of content moderation. Upon appointment, these users will be identified by a unique username color in recent changes and a dedicated staff badge on their user profile, ensuring transparency within the community.
Implementation of this group will begin with a formal discussion on the Community Portal. Following a successful consensus, the Bureaucrats will coordinate the technical setup of the group via Fandom’s permission settings. This transition will not only empower our most dedicated contributors but will also ensure that the Cars Wiki remains the most reliable resource for the franchise as we move through 2026 and beyond.
Proposer: PawPatroler (talk)
Deadline: January 24, 2026, 23:59 GMT
Result: Failed
Support
- PawPatroler (talk) - Per proposal
Oppose
- AstroSmokey this reeks of AI generation -- furthermore, we haven't been on Fandom for nearly 2 years. The wiki currently doesn't have enough of an active user base to justify a patroller user group - most vandals/bad faith actors are caught and dealt with fairly quickly by the mod team
- RodRedlineM1 - As above; I failed to vote here but addressed this on my talk page.