Forum:Badge proposals

Ok, this is where you can propose anything about the Userbadges. Be it anything form names to new badges, it can be accepted. To do so you make a new section with your suggestion as the title. In the section you say your idea and then put a poll below that. If you do not know how to make a poll then copy the code from the one in the first section below. A comment sub-section below that is optional, but is highly recommended. I'll start.

Badges for Badges
My suggestion is that we could have badges for creating badges. Of course this would be for that admins only, but it would help a bit in distinguishing them from regular users. And it's not like there aren't already badges like that, there's one for creating the wiki that no one can actually get unless on a new wiki.

Should we allow the above idea? Yes No

Comments
How, exactly, would you be able to implement getting badges for creating badges? And isn't the only way to create badges "Edit pages in Category:X n times?" --Yoshord 02:38, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, but this is just an example. You can't actually do this. I just wanted to have an example that contains all of the necessary info. If you wanna vote in it, go ahead and vote whatever, it'll make it more convincing.

Bulborb themed badges
So, let's try a semi-serious example, then?

I suggest that one of the lines of badges should be named after grub-dogs. My version is Purple Bulborb to Red Bulborb to Orange Bulborb to Jungle Bulborb to Ivey Bulborb to Ghostly Bulborb, which I think orders them in difficulty. I tried to pick ones which were not stated to be Red Bulborb Recolors and which had images. Any suggestions about the specifics of the badge names goes under Comments.

In my opinion, these should be the picture names since the pictures will be of creatures so some creature should to represent that, and bulborbs seem to be the most common creature.

Should a badge patch be named after bulborbs? No Yes: the edit path Yes: the daily contribution path Yes: the categorization path Yes: the picture path Yes: a new grub-dog category path

Comments
This is interesting, but could we change it to the Grub-Dog Family as a whole? This would definitely give it enough for the larger edit tracks, and we would have more than enough for a Grub-Dog, since you can't change the amount of badges in an edit track. If not, that's ok too, but just a suggestion.


 * Change the names of the badges to grub-dogs as a whole? That would make choosing which ones should get badges harder since there are more options, but I don't see why it couldn't be done. --Yoshord 18:38, August 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's.. not completely what I meant. What I meant was that instead of just having the Bulborb themed badges include the entire Grub-dog family. Which seems more logical as the last and hardest to get badge; a ghost or the original Emperor Bulblax? A ghost or whatever super-god grub-dog an Anon user made up this week? Now granted that the ghost is only kill-able in the light, but it appears to have the same health as a Red Bulborb.