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

In-game properties

Image linking

Link template	Use	Example
		Code	Result
{{ic}}	Links to in-game icons for types and damage categories	{{ic|Fire}}
{{e}}	Links to TCG icons for Energy	{{e|Fire}}
{{ene}}	Links to small TCG icons for Energy	{{ene|Fire}}
{{star}}	Links to the Template:Shiny2 star icon for Pokémon	{{star}}
{{PDollar}}	Links to the Pokémon Dollar symbol	{{PDollar}}	$
{{ani}}	Links to animated Pokémon menu sprites. Use sparingly.	{{ani|003}}
{{MS}}	Links to static Pokémon menu sprites	{{MS|003}}
{{Spr}}	Links to Pokémon sprites. See page for full details.	{{Spr|003|1g}}	File:Spr 003.png
{{exp}}	Links to TCG expansion symbols.	{{exp|Jungle}}
{{rar}}	Links to TCG rarity symbols.	{{rar|Uncommon}}

Pure disambiguation

TCG links

Anime and other uses

Manga and other uses

To other wikis' articles

To other members of Encyclopaediae Pokémonis

To specific namespaces

General