Bulbapedia:List of link templates

Bulbapedia's policy with linking is to make certain the consistency of related pages; for example, while there is no other thing known as Fire Blast, the move Fire Blast is located at Fire Blast (move). This is so that there is consistency with linking to articles on moves, as some, like Psychic, share their name with another aspect of Pokémon.

While more often, this would be easily done simply by linking the article as [[Fire Blast (move)|Fire Blast]], this requires much tedious punctuation, with vertical pipes and parentheses typed over and over for a Pokémon's moveset. For this reason, link templates were created, which allow anyone to link to an article with a certain suffixed or prefixed word, and link the article as its base name. Fire Blast is linked as {{m|Fire Blast}}, so that it appears as Fire Blast.

Link templates and their use

Link template	Use	Example
		Code	Result
{{p}}	Links to articles about Pokémon species	{{p|Charizard}}	Charizard
{{p2}}	Links to articles about Pokémon species, allows alternate text	{{p2|Charizard|Outrageous}}	Template:P2
{{pt}}	Links to articles about Pokémon species with Japanese text	{{pt|リザードン|Charizard}}	Charizard
{{m}}	Links to articles about moves	{{m|DoubleSlap}}	DoubleSlap
{{m2}}	Links to articles about moves, allows alternate text	{{m2|DoubleSlap|a five-hit move}}	Template:M2
{{t}}	Links to articles about types as the type name	{{t|Dragon}}	Dragon
{{t2}}	Links to articles about types as alternate text	{{t2|Dragon|weak to itself}}	Template:T2
{{type2}}	Links to articles about types as "type name"-type	{{type2|Dragon}}	Template:Type2
{{2t}}	Links to two types as "type 1"/"type 2"	{{2t|Dragon|Flying}}	Dragon/Flying
{{a}}	Links to articles about abilities	{{a|Sand Stream}}	Sand Stream
{{a2}}	Links to articles about abilities as alternate text	{{a2|Sand Stream|activates a sandstorm}}	Template:A2
{{stat}}	Links to sections of the article on stats	{{stat|Special Defense}}	Special Defense
{{TM}}	Links to TMs by their number and the move contained within	{{TM|29|Psychic}}	TM29 (Psychic)
{{HM}}	Links to HMs by their number and the move contained within	{{HM|04|Strength}}	HM04 (Strength)
{{b}}	Links to articles about Berries	{{b|Rawst}}	Rawst
{{b2}}	Links to articles about Berries with just Berry name	{{b2|Rawst}}	Template:B2
{{Gen}}	Links to Generations by their Roman numeral	{{Gen|III}}	III
{{v}}	Links to Pokémon games as "game Version"	{{v|Ruby}}	Ruby Version
{{rt}}	Links to Routes as "Route #"	{{rt|102}}	Route 102
{{rtn}}	Links to Routes as "#"	{{rtn|102}}	102
{{pkmn}}	Links to "Pokémon (x)" with text of (x)	{{pkmn|breeding}}	breeding
{{g}}	Links to "Pokémon (x)" with text of Pokémon (x)	{{g|breeding}}	Pokémon breeding
{{egg}}	Links to Egg group categories with the group name	{{egg|Ground}}	Ground
{{egg2}}	Links to Egg group categories with the group name and "group"	{{egg2|Ground}}	Ground Group
{{ic}}	Links to in-game icons for types and damage categories	{{ic|Fire}}
{{e}}	Links to TCG icons for Energy	{{e|Fire}}
{{star}}	Links to the shiny star icon for Pokémon	{{star}}
{{PDollar}}	Links to the Pokémon Dollar symbol	{{PDollar}}	$
{{ani}}	Links to animated Pokémon menu sprites	{{ani|351}}
{{MS}}	Links to static Pokémon menu sprites	{{MS|351}}
{{ga}}	Links to Pokémon game characters	{{ga|Dawn}}	Dawn
{{an}}	Links to Pokémon anime characters	{{an|Dawn}}	Dawn
{{ccp}}	Links to Pokémon Chamo-Chamo ☆ Pretty ♪ characters	{{ccp|Haruka}}	Haruka
{{PiPiPi}}	Links to Pokémon PiPiPi Adventure characters	{{PiPiPi|Pikachu}}	Pikachu
{{Special}}	Links to Pokémon Special characters	{{Special|Red}}	Red
{{TCG}}	Links to Pokémon Trading Card Game things	{{TCG|Fossil}}	Fossil
{{c}}		{{c|Pikachu}}	Template:C
{{TCG ID}}	Links to individual Pokémon Trading Card Game cards	{{TCG ID|Team Rocket|Squirtle|68}}	Squirtle
{{AP}}	Links to Ash's Pokémon	{{AP|Chimchar}}	Chimchar
{{MTR}}	Links to Meowth (Team Rocket)	{{MTR}}	Meowth
{{TP}}	Links to Trainers' Pokémon as species name	{{TP|Brock|Croagunk}}	Croagunk
{{OP}}	Links to Trainers' Pokémon as "<Trainer>'s"	{{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}}	Jessie's
{{s}}	Links to Shipping articles*	{{s|PokéShipping}}	Template:S
{{u}}	Links to userpages	{{u|Zhen Lin}}	Zhen Lin
{{bp}}	Links to pages in the "Bulbapedia" namespace	{{bp|manual of style}}	manual of style
{{cat}}	Links to categories by their name	{{cat|Pokémon that evolve using Dawn Stone}}	Pokémon that evolve using Dawn Stone
{{template}}	Links to pages in the "Template" namespace as template code	{{template|User Mudkip}}	{{User Mudkip}}