There are many, many nooks and crannies in the vast web of Pokémon. So much you could literally create an encyclopaedia exclusively devoted to it, that might run to many volumes. It would be such an enormous work, you could even call it a
‘Pokédex’, I suppose.
/dadjokes
I’ve uploaded my first real Pokémon fanart, and realized almost immediately that some of the tags are really well set up and in good shape - but there’s also set of Pokémon specific tags that could use a little love. So I started categorizing things, and getting things aliased into a common set. You can see the start of that on the tags on this image:
I know there’s a
lot of posts in the forums about Pokémon tagging, and I will begin working through them to make sure they’ve been taken care of. But I wanted to create this thread to create a place to ‘find them all, to bring them all, and in the database bind them’.
So if you have some Pokémon specific tagging ideas, like getting standard names for generations, and getting the types documented (if that’s something we want to do and it is useful for searching or filtering), and making sure that the initial generation for each Pokémon is in its implications, please feel free to comment them here and I’ll spend some time on this thread every week.
Please note that I am not looking to create a Pokédex here - I’m only looking for tags that are in use - or SHOULD be in use on the site. For example, if a fanart of a Pokémon, or an evolved form of a Pokémon, has never been uploaded here, there’s no reason to add tags for it. I just want to get the existing tags on the site to be more conformational.
I know this is going to be a lifetime effort, so I’m not looking at fixing everything right away - but I’d like to begin by taking care of any tags on this site that are one-offs or that could be pulled into more standard forms, and get them set up with a more uniform spelling, the proper tag category, and aliases and implications where appropriate.
As I update things, I’ll try to map them here in these categories:
Pokémon Types
To start with, I’ve pulled the existing types that I could find into this set:
Are there any Pokémon -types tagged on this site that I’m missing? If so, please give me some examples because this is all I could find.
And is *-type (pokémon)
a good way to format this tag? Would pokémon *-type
be better?
Pokémon Generations and Game Titles
These are the titles that I see tagged on the site:
I know these titles are within Generations, and the Generations are numbered and also have themes like ‘Kanto’ (Generation Science), ‘Johto’ (Generation Culture), ‘Hoenn’ (Generation Environment), etc.
So, it seems that
pokémon black and white
should imply
generation 5 pokemon
, and images from
pokémon black and white
should also be tagged
generation 5 pokemon
. But I can only find 2 examples of this being done on the whole site:
So … while it makes sense to me to do this, it is not something that this community has been doing.
So - let’s make that the first four questions:
Question 1. Are there any Pokémon -types tagged on this site that I’m missing in that above list? If so, please give me some examples because those are all I could find.
Question 2. Should it be *-type (pokémon)
? Or pokémon *-type
?
Question 3. Should all Pokémon Titles also imply their Pokémon Generation, and should all the Pokémon images with Title tags also gain Generation tags? Thus all the Pokémon Black and White
would ALSO be tagged Generation 5 Pokémon
(once I get those tags fixed).
Question 4. Should the generation tags be changed to match the syntax of the other Pokémon tags? For example, should generation 1 pokemon
become pokémon generation 1
?
Please reply with your answers - nothings going to happen fast on this that I can’t undo with a simple aliasing project, so we absolutely have time to talk about it.
And, as seems very appropriate with Pokémon, this certainly is expected to evolve over time.