Bulbapedia Suggestions, ideas, and problems

[Axxonn]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

For the userspace policy, to clear up the confusion with time zones, how 'bout let's put "For any instance of four edits to the userspace, the earliest and last edit should have a temporal distance of at least 24 hours."

 

[The dark lord trombonator]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

This has been discussed before; it was decided to simply use server time given we have that handy-dandy clock up in the top corner.

 

[Bikini Miltank]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

A quick suggestion/query since I'm in the middle of trawling through learnsets looking for oddities...

I notice we currently have Shadow Pokemon and their game-exclusive moves listed in the main articles even though they're only compatible with Gen III. I've no real objection to this, but I notice this info is not included in the learnset subpages for Gen III. This seems a bit weird: if I want a Mawile with Sing, I have to get it from XD, a Gen III game, and yet at the moment we're not classing Sing as a Gen III move.

 

[immewnity]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Okay, I realize we have a lot on our plate now (and will have even more to deal with once Black and White come out), but has anyone on the wiki attempted to create a mobile version of Bulbapedia yet? I know it was suggested during that whole debacle about a paid app using our articles, but I haven't heard anything about it since. I understand that that could raise issues with the server (and it has enough already), but it'd make me feel good to know that, should the server ever become capable of hosting such a site, we would have something ready to implement.

I tried on Bulbanews, but it failed. It seems that right now you have to go though some other site. What was it called now?

On a similar subject, iPhone icons. Also needed soon.

 

[TTEchidna]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

A quick suggestion/query since I'm in the middle of trawling through learnsets looking for oddities...

I notice we currently have Shadow Pokemon and their game-exclusive moves listed in the main articles even though they're only compatible with Gen III. I've no real objection to this, but I notice this info is not included in the learnset subpages for Gen III. This seems a bit weird: if I want a Mawile with Sing, I have to get it from XD, a Gen III game, and yet at the moment we're not classing Sing as a Gen III move.

Yeah, we can do that with the learnset revamp.

 

[Shiny Rayquaza]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

im really looking forward to the pokedex app for ipods, but how about one for zunes?

 

[immewnity]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

im really looking forward to the pokedex app for ipods, but how about one for zunes?

A) There's no PokeDex app coming out for iPods by Bulbagarden.
B) Neither is there for Zunes.

EDIT: Might there be a way on the TCG pages to put if the card is currently Modified-legal? A simple set switch should be good for most, and we'd just have to edit the reprint pages. I'll try to get something working in the userspace.

EDIT 2: Forgot the templates are mixed. How about an auto-categorization into, say, Category:Modified-legal cards?

 

[RioTDoll]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Amity Medow has been released as a WIFI event in Japan. I don't know if y'all are waiting for an announcement about a US/PAL release to change the article, but if you aren't, then that should be changed. I'm sorry, I don't know wikicode so I can't really do any actual work on the 'pedia.

 

[Sketch]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

I'm sorry, I don't know wikicode so I can't really do any actual work on the 'pedia.

There's no need for code if you're just adding information.

 

[TTEchidna]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Actually there is, but it's not like HTML or anything. Just base it off another page. It's how you learn.

 

[Axxonn]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

This has probably been brought up before, but how come we can't add speculation in articles? We could say something like "It is speculated that..." or something like that. On Shellos' page, it says that fans speculated it was a pre-evo of Lapras. Why can't we put speculation like that if we explain that it is? I mean, all the origin and name origin stuff is speculation anyways, isn't it?

 

[MAGNEDETH]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

speculation = not factual
wiki = factual
im guessing that a very large amount of fans thought Shellos to be a Lapras prevo, meaning it is a fact that many fans speculated it. but ill have to check on that.

 

[Zekurom]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

This has probably been brought up before, but how come we can't add speculation in articles? We could say something like "It is speculated that..." or something like that. On Shellos' page, it says that fans speculated it was a pre-evo of Lapras. Why can't we put speculation like that if we explain that it is? I mean, all the origin and name origin stuff is speculation anyways, isn't it?

We don't generally include speculation on pages, whether it's marked as such or not. We might include it after the fact of the matter, as a hind thought to what the speculation was like, but not when the speculation itself is currently going on and the actual facts are not available.

Also, speculation is a weasel word.

 

[Axxonn]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Well, isn't name origin and stuff speculation?
Even if it's obvious sometimes?

 

[TTEchidna]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Not the same kind of speculation.

That's the difference between saying after The Greatest Everyday that Monferno was going to evolve and saying that Ash was gonna catch Buizel (he traded for it, remember).

 

[Zekurom]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Well, isn't name origin and stuff speculation?
Even if it's obvious sometimes?

The difference between this type of speculation and the speculation we're guarding against is that the speculation we're trying to avoid is for information that we know will be revealed, but hasn't been revealed yet.

Stuff like name origin is information that will most probably never be revealed, or never existed in the first place.

 

[TTEchidna]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

It won't be revealed until we get to talk to Satoshi Tajiri himself.

 

[immewnity]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

It won't be revealed until we get to talk to Satoshi Tajiri himself.

Don't you mean Ken Sugimori? Well, I guess Tsunekazu Ishihara created Mew, but...

 

[Sketch]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

The Shellos - Lapras bit was a misconception from the release of Diamond and Pearl in Japan. That's why it's notable as triva... but I only recall Serebii.net saying that it was a pre-evolution...

 

[Fern 24]

Re: Official Bulbapedia suggestion/idea/problem thread

Why doesn't the table on this page have round edges, like most of the other tables?