Bulbapedia talk:Project TCG

Creating categories for all attacks

If it's okay, I'd like to resume this project of creating categories for all TCG attacks. This includes creating the missing attack categories from Special:WantedCategories.

At the moment, there are a few cards using "namecategory=None" so they explicitly don't have an attack category. For instance, Vikavolt-GX (Guardians Rising 45) is automatically placed in both Category:Cards with Charge Beam and Category:Cards with Super Zap Cannon but it's also using the "namecategory=None" so it's actually not in Category:Cards with Gigatron.

In the future, I'd like to remove those few instances of "namecategory=None" like that so all card attack categories can be created. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 18:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

To be fair, if anyone wants to discuss ideas about creating some TCG attack categories but not all of them, I suppose "namecategory=None" could potentially be used somehow. But then again, I wonder what the criteria would be. This would also require some maintenance. For instance, if we decide that hundreds of attack categories should not exist, I suppose this would probably mean adding "namecategory=None" in hundreds of card articles?

Personally, I like how this "Cards by attack" category basically works as a full list of all TCG attack names that is easily expanded when more card articles are created. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 18:36, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

We have a templating issue involving the GX attacks. The GX is part of the name of a GX attack. (Compendium entry about Altered Creation GX and Trickster GX for reference Pokemon.com article, also for reference) I think those templates are automatically adding the GX suffix, and only the inputted name is used to add the category to the page. This causes the categories created by the template to be "Gigatron", "Altered Creation", and "Trickster", which is incorrect. And while organization might prefer not including the suffix, attack names have mechanical relevance and the TCG is very particular about matching names. What if someone wants to build a Flare Blitz or Strafe deck and finds cards in those categories that have Flare Blitz GX or Strafe GX? (These are real examples of GX attacks, although none that have been called out by name yet.) I think we should double back and get the template to make correctly named categories before we do this.

Actually, now that I think about it, presumably namecategory=none was put on Vikavolt to avoid making categories of a single card, which the above change would create a lot of. That reasoning would be silly, considering the TCG still makes one off attacks even if they aren't GX attacks, and they don't get namecategory=none. Salmancer (talk) 02:03, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Articles for TCG attacks

At some point in the future, I'm thinking that move articles like Tackle (move) could explain how the moves are used in the TCG (Category:Cards with Tackle).

We might also want to talk about creating articles explaining some TCG attacks even if they are not found in the video games. For instance, something like a "Ram (attack)" or "Ram (TCG)" article comparing how this attack is used in 173 cards (Category:Cards with Ram). --Daniel Carrero (talk) 18:36, 30 January 2024 (UTC)