Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon

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WikiProject Pokémon

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Welcome to WikiProject Pokémon, formerly known as the Pokémon Collaborative Project. Wikipedians have formed this project to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of all Pokémon related articles. If you would like to help, be bold and jump right in! You may also add yourself to the participants list.

If you'd like to bring an article to this project's attention, mention it on the talk page as appropriate.

History

The oldest ancestor of this project was WikiProject Pokédex (and its child project WikiProject PokéNav), which created articles for many Pokémon and Pokémon characters. This project fell into inactivity due to a loss of interest, and the many stubs they created became the subject of a great deal of criticism, especially given the creation of the guidelines for the handling of fictional subjects.

This criticism led to the creation of the Poképrosal, a proposal to merge all of these stubs into lists. While this proposal met with a consensus support, it stalled when it was proposed that it must be possible to expand these Pokémon stubs.

This effort to expand these stubs into articles led to the creation of the Pokémon Adoption Center, a project that assigned stubs to individual users to expand.

When the PAC project ran out of stubs to assign, this project was founded (under the name "Pokémon Collaborative Project"), to maintain and improve the newly expanded articles.

Eventually, the interest for individual articles for every Pokémon died down, and Pokémon that were not considered to be notable were merged into lists. These lists first took the form of mega-articles containing mini-articles for individual species, though they are now shorter descriptions on each Pokémon in a table. These lists were initially organized in groups of 20 by Pokédex number (e.g. List of Pokémon (1-20)), though they were later expanded to groups of 50 (e.g. List of Pokémon (1-51)), and are now divided into the generations each Pokémon was introduced in (e.g. List of generation I Pokémon).

As the amount of Pokémon-related articles diminished, WikiProject Pokémon slowly became more inactive, and the modern lists ended up consisting of sometimes just a singular Pokédex entry. Articles on individual Pokémon, even if they were technically notable, ended up being deleted due to their poor writing and lack of reliable sources. In mid-2023, however, a renewed push through the Video game characters project to standardize and enhance articles and lists of all video game characters resulted in an increase in the number of high quality articles and lists of Pokémon. This WikiProject's new aim is to improve these lists and articles, including appropriate, reliable sources and more information.

Scope

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Games (top level project)
- WikiProject Video Games (co-ordinator project)
  - Nintendo Task Force
    - WikiProject Pokémon (this project)
  - WikiProject Square Enix
WikiProject Japan (top level project)
- WikiProject Anime and manga
  - WikiProject Digimon
  - WikiProject Yu-Gi-Oh!

Any article related to any of the various works of fiction (games, anime, manga, trading cards, etc.) in the Pokémon Universe. Here is the current list of all Pokémon articles.

Improve the general standards of Pokémon articles, aiming for Good Article status in all of them.
Get the list articles to featured list status.
More work can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/index

Article status

FA	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Category	Disambig	Draft	File	Portal	Project	Redirect	Template	NA	???	Total
4	69	39	51	99	12	4	54	79	12	14	182	0	9	3,359	23	55	0	4,065

Detailed status table with Importance

Pokémon articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA		2	1	1		4
FL	3			1		4
GA	17	9	25	18		69
B	6	7	14	12		39
C	3	14	12	22		51
Start		11	23	65		99
Stub			1	11		12
List	8	4	18	24		54
Category					79	79
Disambig					12	12
File					182	182
Project					9	9
Redirect			3	15	3,341	3,359
Template					23	23
NA					3	3
Other					11	11
Assessed	37	47	97	169	3,660	4,010
Total	37	47	97	169	3,660	4,010

Featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Games

Other

Species

Our ultimate goal

Taken from User:Captain Galaxy/PokémonSpeciesGT.

Pokémon species

63 articles

List of generation I Pokémon

List of generation II Pokémon

List of generation III Pokémon

List of generation IV Pokémon

List of generation V Pokémon

List of generation VI Pokémon

List of generation VII Pokémon

List of generation VIII Pokémon

List of generation IX Pokémon ^(subtopic)

Article Alerts and Recent changes

Articles for deletion

21 Feb 2025 – Play! Pokémon (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Liz (t · c) on 07 Mar 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

22 Feb 2025 – Pokémon competitive play (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); start discussion
19 Feb 2025 – Pokémon Duel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); start discussion
19 Feb 2025 – Pinsir (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kung Fu Man (t · c); start discussion
30 Jan 2025 – Burger King Pokémon container recall (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion
28 Jan 2025 – Pokémon Fossil Museum (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MatthewHoobin (t · c); see discussion
28 Nov 2024 – Pokémon Stadium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

12 Nov 2024 – Pokémon Essentials (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pokémon fan games by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion

List of abbreviations (help):

D: Edit made at Wikidata
r: Edit flagged by ORES
N: New page
m: Minor edit
b: Bot edit
(±123): Page byte size change

Participants

Here is a list of current participants of this project. If you wish to join, please add your username to the Active list in alphabetical order, using {{user}} (or {{admin}} if you're an Administrator). If you were previously a part of this WikiProject and your name is on the Inactive list, please remove it when you have added your name to the Active list.

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Inactive

Userbox

This user is a member of WikiProject Pokémon.

Members may add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Userbox}} to any page in their userspace to transclude a userbox signifying their membership. Alternate colors are also available; see the documentation page for details.

Documentation and style

Templates and categories

Talk pages: {{WikiProject Pokémon}} - For generic Pokémon-related article talk pages.

Articles: {{Nintendo-stub}} - For tagging stub Pokémon articles.

Infoboxes: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Pokémon species - Infobox for articles about a certain Pokémon. Depreciated template, preserved for historical reasons.

Images
- Category:Pokémon game covers - For cover art of video game boxes.
- Category:Television-screenshots of Pokémon - For screenshots taken from the anime.
- Category:Pokémon Trading Card Game images - For scanned images of cards from the trading card game.
- Category:Pokémon lead images - For lead Pokémon images for Pokémon species articles

Templates
- {{Pokedex}} - Used for citing the Pokédex
- {{Pokémon}} - A navigational point for the franchise

User talk
- {{Hcp2}} - For inviting new editors to join the Project.
- {{Hcp}} - For welcoming editors who've just joined the Project.

Barnstar
- {{Barnstar Pokémon}}

		The Pokémon Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Ash Ketchum for his great improvements of pages on Pokémon species. —Professor Oak

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