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Some Bulbapedia members have formed a project to better organise efforts to write and improve articles about Shipping. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or the Bulbapedia forum and see the Bulbapedia:Project Shipping/To-do list.

Project Shipping

Scope and aims

Project Shipping covers all articles about Shipping. When developing new pages or adding to old ones, adhere to this: Bulbapedia:Shipping for guidance on content.

Participants

To join the project, simply add your name to the bottom of this list:

Structure

Title

All articles should be known as 'Shipping:{name}Shipping' and a page, '{name}Shipping' should be created with only the template {{Shipping redirect}}. There is no need to put {{Shipping redirect|PAGENAME}} because the template has that covered.

Also, at the start of each article in the Shipping namespace you should add a {{ship}} template so as to warn people.

If the article is a stub, use the template mentioned below.

Evidence Content

The manual of style for all Shipping pages are going to follow a set structure, henceforth. All Shipping pages are, from here on in, either going to go through a major overhaul, or will be using this style from the get-go. Style should be: 

 * ''[[DP001|TITLE]]''
 : Hint that such-and-such may overgrossly perhaps CARE for the cretin.
 * ''[[DP038|TITLE]]''
 : Hint that such-and-such may want to have the cretin's children.
 : Oh wait, new paragraph if the above one hint carries on for too long! Possibly still talking about them having children!
 * ''[[DP099|TITLE]]''
 : Hint that such-and-such may like a second honeymoon with the cretin. Oh look, another hint that shouldn't in a new paragraph because both are only a sentence long.

However best this information is catelogued is at your own discretion (in individual person's sections, or if their intereactions are heavily interlaced, go simply for one list that contains them both), but please remain concise and neat.

Categorize

All articles are to be properly categorized according to character involvement and in this order of descending, applicable labels: 

 [[Shipping|PAGENAME]]
 [[Anime|PAGENAME]]
 [[Game (whichever one they come from OR if they are a cross-gen 'ship)|PAGENAME]]
 [[Manga|PAGENAME]]
 [[OLDER male character]]
 [[YOUNGER male character]]
 [[OLDER female character]]
 [[YOUNGER female character]]
 [[Gym Leaders]]
 [[Orange Crew]]**
 [[E4 members]]
 [[Frontier Brain]]
 [[Team Rocket/Magma/Aqua/Galactic]]**
 [[Movie character]]**
 [[Pokémon]]

If you cannot tell who is older when dealing with homosexual Ships, then likely no one else can and it doesn't matter the order. No individual Pokémon is to have their own category, not even Pikachu. If the character is not important (a movie character of any level, a COTD), they should not have their own category. If you think they should, ask ArcToraphim first and state WHY you think they should have a category.

If a character falls under of the categories between Gym Leaders and Pokémon, they do not get their own category without a convincing argument or enough Ships to require one.

If one is from the game and another is from the anime, we'll cross that bridge later. If they can cover two mediums legitimately, please list them in corresponding order.

If Brock or Misty are involved and the other involved isn't one, it is not necessary to add the Gym Leader category. If Jessie or James are involved, it is not necessary to add the Team Rocket category (Meowth and Giovanni do, as they to not have their own categories). Treat Wallace as a Gym Leader, not an Elite Four member.

Further Notes

Nevermetshippings should be labeled accordingly, such as OysterShipping, RubyShipping, OutcryShipping, et cetra. Until they do meet, there will be no "hints", but "similarity" sections are allowed, as are reasons why people Ship them in the first place. However, please do not add bias information; no nevermet Ship has risen to the popularity of the others, so they do not rival anything within the fandom's top tier.

Nonrecurring Ships, such as LuckShipping, DanceShipping, AbilityShipping, FireShipping, where the person does not, or has not, thusly return after the heroes move on (regardless how many episodes that character was around for), should be analyzed to the nth degree (but not written be-all-end-all). Please use GaiaShipping as an example of how to handle those sorts of circumstances.

Note: TeenCareShipping is not to be handled as a nonrecurring Ship just yet, in the off-chance Holly does return. Please keep this in mind and make reserved judgment calls on the likeliness of a character returning or not in future Ships and articles (though it's understood there is a fallacy here, considering Nicholai randomly returned early in Hoenn, as did Aya from Kanto to Johto).

Please also do not assume that a standard for one carries over as a standard for another. This concerns the "Alternate name" business. If you've seen it with our own eyes, you may document it, UNLESS it's another Ship name that isn't on the list (the only current exception to this is "FarawayShipping" to OutcryShipping).

Goals

  1. Write comprehensive and upstanding articles on Ships.
    1. This means they are to be substantial, well written (even if they are short articles), and with substance.
  2. Ensure that all hints/evidence/facts are in the originating media and not from fanfiction. All fanon information is to be eliminated.
    1. All given hints/evidence/facts should also be meaningful and not tossed in there because it made the Shipper in you go squee.

Infoboxes


The article you are attempting to reach contains theories of a romantic relationship between {{{1}}} and {{{2}}}. If you are offended by such material, please turn away now.

To proceed to the article, click here: Project Shipping

370Luvdisc.png This article is about shipping.
As hints and evidence for ships are mostly speculation, this page may contain personal points of view.

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