Wikipedia talk:Pokémon Adoption Center

message: Heh.  It's going to be interesting to see which article is the last to be expanded...
Anyhow, I just wanted to make a formal invitation:  Any article that has been expanded may be translated to Interlingua and moved to :ia:.  I'd like to see more well-researched 'niche' articles of decent size there...  ^_^;  Almafeta 11:31, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interlingua Poképedia 

message: Erf...  I just noticed a small problem in your tool. For those pokémon who were in red/blue/yellow, it doesn't list their pre-stat-split Special stat, and it doesn't rank them.  :/  Almafeta 07:30, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Argh, right - knew I'd forgotten something - evidently, that was adding that data. I'll add that within the next hour or two. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 09:49, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Special stat is now shown for Mew and earlier POKéMON. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 10:27, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Pidgeot's handy tool

message: Okay, so I've had a lot of crazy ideas lately.  However, this one would be simple to implement.
References have been mostly excluded because they would be hard to update, which is especially problematic with pokédex sites -- many that go down become redirects to other sites.  Fixing 380-odd articles if one site goes down is not anyone's idea of a good thing.
However, what if we added them to a template?  Something like this:
  ==References==
  Books
  *Book 1 citation
  *Book 2 citation
  *etc.
   
  Websites
  *Website 1 citation
  *Website 2 citation
  *etc.
In the cases where a pokémon has its own references (such as controversial species, or extremely popular species), you could easily code in (say) a "Jynx-specific" section right under the  template.
This way, new references could be added to a number of pages simultaneously, and old or depreciated references taken out with similar ease.  We could have our cake and eat it too -- properly referenced pokémon species articles, without the difficulty of having to edit hundreds of articles to add a single line if we ever find a really handy book.
How does this strike people?  Almafeta 10:36, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it. FAs need citations and this seems the most economical way of doing it. --Celestianpower hab 10:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We can now add  to any article.  Feel free to add any good books or stellar websites to the template, too.  Almafeta 08:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

text: The MLA's never done video game citations.  Besides, most information that we get from games is reproduced in a book somewhere.  Almafeta 04:30, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll bet the MLA has a generic miscellaneous source citation format. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 04:52, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pokémon reference template? 

message: Can someone crop the whitespace out of this and reupload it? I'm getting squished images when I try to do it. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 04:52, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind. I found a new image. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 08:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Image:Magnemite.jpg]]

message: We have a category for our Poke-cleanup tag now, at :Category:Pokemon cleanup. I went around and tagged a ton of articles that need attention, so feel free to go and clean them up. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 08:42, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Pokemon cleanup]] 

message: Since I'm a sucker for being yelled at by everyone for being overly mergist and exclusionist, I proposed a structure for the Pokémon articles over at Wikipedia talk:Pokémon Collaborative Project. Since this intended to be a goal for WP:PCP and will involve a lot of merges and rewrites, I wanted to get everyone on board to either make suggestions and correct oversights and implement it, or just yell at me to stop telling everyone what to do and just go rewrite List of Pokémon items.
If we implemented this plan (or a much less mergist plan like it), we could easily point to it when someone tries to VFD something (hey, we've got these lists and such-and-such other fandom has similar things), have a plan in place for adding new articles/info, and simplify cleanup/rewrite efforts and vandalism patrol. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 08:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Modest Proposal 

message: For anyone with a nose for finding good images for articles, some articles' images need replacing. Some stuff I've noticed (although I'm sure there are more):
*Butterfree could do with a better-quality image.
** Couldn't find any better images. Alvin6226 04:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Issues 

message: I have just appeared on RFA and I wondered if any of you would please vote/leave your comment. Thank you. Here's a link! —Celestianpower háblame 20:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The vote is over and with 66% support, it failed. I will try again in a m,onths time and between now and then I will attempt to diversify. --Celestianpower hab 10:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, tough luck. 66% is still good though, its leaning in your favour! :) -WindFish 10:29, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes - 17 support, 8 oppose and 3 neutral. --Celestianpower hab 14:43, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celestianpower's [[WP:RFA|RFA]] 

message: We currently have the problem that we're waiting for people to finish the last few articles. Several seem not to have edited anything recently, so we can't do much.
I propose we un-assign all articles that have not been edited by the assignee for a week (excluding articles that haven't been assigned for a week, obviously!). People can get them re-assigned if they wish, but they have to show some results, or we'll never get the articles done. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 20:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Turns out all articles faced unassignment. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 14:10, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article standstill 

message: Hehehe.... at the bottom of the page it has the categories Ice Pokémon and Psychic Pokémon. Reminds me of Jynx. Hehehehe.... Deskana 23:38, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: (Yes, I realise the Jynx infobox is above... but it makes me laugh anyway!) Deskana 23:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The page is "Jynx"ed

message: Why is Raikou at Raikou (Pokémon) if Raikou just redirects to Raikou (Pokémon)? This is not consistent with other Pokémon articles, unless there is a disambiguation page or more popular usage of the word at the page without the (Pokémon) suffix. (eg. Electrode) Deskana 21:46, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I went back in the history of Raikou and found this. It was changed to a disambiguation page on that edit, and when that was undone in this edit, it was merely done by making it a redirect. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 22:11, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Raikou

message: Just so you know, I will now edit under the name WindFish instead of my current one. My previous user page redirects to my new one. --realwingus 07:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New name

message: , the template used for Pokémon Co.-owned images that aren't screenshots or box art, is on TFD here. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 17:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|Pokeimage}} is on TFD