User:Maverick Nate/TCG Progress Report

The following is my personal list of everything that needs to happen with Bulbapedia's TCG section. I guess it can be used as some sort of To Do list for Project TCG.

1) Expansions

• ‘Information’ sections (Base Set-HeartGold & SoulSilver; Plasma Freeze-on)
• ‘Description’ sections (Base Set-Arceus)
• ‘Additional cards’ sections (Base Set-Stormfront)

• Add all appropriate set images to galleries on each set page

• Add all Sampling/Preview pack boosters

• Convert all old galleries to ‘TCGMerch’ template

• Determine and incorporate all set abbreviations

2) Decks

• English Theme Decks

• Add Infoboxes to those lacking
• Upload deck logos for those lacking
• Upload deck box images for those lacking
• Recreate ‘Theme Deck (TCG)’ - my interpretation of recreating (Theme Deck) --Marlofkark (talk) 12:34, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

• World Championships Decks

• Update previous years WC Decks to current standard

• TCG Online

• Research decks used by players
• Re-organize decks - my interpretation of recreating (List of Pokémon Trading Card Game Online decks) --Marlofkark (talk) 12:34, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

• Game Boy Color Game Decks

• Here Comes Team GR! Decks
• Redo lists on all created decks
• Find way to organize decks so they don’t seem so incomplete

• Deck archetypes

• Expand information on deck archetypes
• Talk to local players/research past format decks

3) Merchandise

• Keep XY TCG Series merchandise page up to date
• Finish BW TCG Series merchandise page
• Create other Series’ merchandise pages
• Merge ‘Value Packs and sets (TCG)’ and ‘Collector’s Tins’ pages
• Research International merchandise/decide how to post findings
• Take pictures of merchandise without images
• Take Archives’ ‘a:Category:Misrepresented Merchandise images’ seriously

4) Accessories

• Bottle cap figures

• Create page
• Have images of every one
• Make whole wiki consistent with how these are named

5) TCG Video Games

• Pokémon Card GB2 Here Comes Team GR!

• Actually have information on the game...
• Improve character pages
• Consistent Deck title translations
• Create deck pages

• TCG Online

• Update outdated information - my interpretation of updating (Pokémon Trading Card Game Online) --Marlofkark (talk) 17:22, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
• Finish character pages for City Champ players
• Reorganize deck pages - my interpretation of updating, which lessens the need to reorganize (List of Pokémon Trading Card Game Online decks) --Marlofkark (talk) 17:22, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
• Have scans of every code card released

• Pokémon Card Game: How to Play DS

• Also actually have info on this game

• Play It! and Play It! 2

• Reorganize deck pages

6) Cards

• Standard cards

• Finish adding Japanese set categories
• Finish standardizing Filenames
• Remove all origin speculation
• Double check BW8-BW10 additions to ‘Cards by Pokémon’
• Scan all cards (minus BW2-BW6)
• Add all categories to all images
• Differentiate ‘Glossy’ from ‘Holographic’
• Standardize and correct all Ultra Rares’ Rarities
• Research the origin of Dark Raichu

• Promotional cards

• Finish ‘Additional cards’ lists on expansion pages
• Remerge and separate Misc. Promos more appropriately
• Add ‘Release information’ sections to all promos
• Research additional promo cards not listed on wiki
• Develop system for non-English non-Japanese promos
• Research Jumbo Promos and create page for them
• Research all League promos and determine dates of release
• All DVD exclusive promos since 2007

• English Error Cards

• Check each new card released to alert Pokémon immediately
• Verify all information on ‘Error card’ page
• Develop organizational/description system for errors
• Double check every single card’s Pokédex data/entry
• Check every English card’s English translation for errors
• Determine how severe a mistranslation must be to be an error

• Japanese Error cards

• Create first online list of Japanese error cards
• Research Japanese error cards

• Japanese cards

• Retranslate every card

• Holofoil cards

• Name every Holofoil pattern that exists
• Convert wiki to say ‘Holofoil’ instead of ‘Holographic’
• Research every Holofoil card to determine which type
• Create lists of every card of every Holofoil pattern
• Rewrite ‘Holographic card’ page

• Energy cards

• Finally update all Energy card pages
• Move basic energies from ‘(TCG)’ title to ‘(Set #)’ title
• Have full card scans
• Add release information sections for all energies
• Have scans of each different Basic Energy
• List each product with each type of Energy

• Merge

• Merge Super Energy Removal with SER 2
• Merge Energy Removal with ER 2

7) Illustrators

• Create pages on illustrators not yet written
• Pay more attention to illustrators’ twitters and/or Facebook/personal websites
• Rewrite the illustrator articles that are just lists
• Determine illustrators for all promotional Expansion artwork
• Ask Masakazu Fukuda for professional photo for article
• Ask Akira Komoyama how TPCi approached her for a redraw
• Discover every card’s illustrator in Unknown illustrator category

8) Artwork

• Scan cards of all Trainer class Trainers for page info box image
• Scan cards of all Item Trainers for Item pages
• Determine locations of illustrations to post on appropriate pages
• Determine who illustrated all promotional set artwork

9) Templates

• Recreate info box for expansions

10) Lists

• Trainer cards

• List of Japanese Trainer cards
• Merge ‘List of Tools’ with ‘Pokémon Tool’
• Convert bullet lists to table lists

• Energy cards

• Merge together list with main energy card page

• Ultra Rares

• Make sure each type is updated for most recent release
• Create better tables for separating English and Japanese card

• Make better table for List of TCG expansions
• Check all Japanese setlists for English consistent names
• Add links to all linkless set/deck lists
• Create lists for all Powers/Bodies/Abilities/Moves in TCG

11) Miscellaneous

• Commercials

• Add additional video links to ‘Pokémon commercial’
• Research the actress and the wrestler that did the BW2 CM
• Add TCG commercial info to the singer of Ierukana BW

• Tutorial pages

• Create TCG Manual of Style
• Provide better explanations of how all templates operate
• Provide better help wanted description on project page
• Stress the importance of doing our own translations

• Create pages for significant players in the TCG
• Create/maintain pages of books released through the TCG
• Species pages

• Create template for Pokédex entries to be listed
• Write blurb for each PKMN’s ‘In the TCG’ section

• Merge Unnamed Wizards Set with Jamboree after additional research
• Improve ‘Pokémon Trading Card Game’ page
• Improve ‘Owner’s Pokémon (TCG)’ page somehow
• Expand information on Tournaments/Worlds
• How I Became a Pokémon Card manga expanding
• Create pages for significant websites
• Expand connections with outside websites
• Create comprehensive errata list

12) Pages needing creation

• All redlink decks
• All redlink Archetypes
• All redlink illustrators
• Unreleased Wailmer promo from Gen 2
• 2012 & 2013 Birthday Pikachu; additional Pikachu Jumbo
• Mayuko & Tsuguyoshi Wedding card

13) Images

• Repair all broken card image links on Bulbanews
• Add categories to all card images
• Move all images to current name standard
• Scan each English card for reference images
• Determine notability of alternate card images
• Have scans of each Code Card

14) Moves/Abilities

• Develop a table for ‘In the TCG’ section for Moves and Abilities
• Create comprehensive list of each Move/Ability/Power
• Add aforementioned table to each M/A page

15) Wiki TCG management

• Add interwiki links for every card’s foreign pages
• Change all the German interwiki links that have been moved
• Create all necessary categories/incorporate all categories

16) International TCG

• Korean TCG

• Create pages for their exclusive sets detailing the Korean release
• Add information to each set page

• Romance language countries

• Find out why France did not release Platinum: Arceus
• Determine how different European product line ups are
• Add their different release dates to each set page
• Add their set names to each set page

17) Organized Play

• English

• Update Pokémon Play! Page
• Research League/Professor Program/Player Rewards promos
• Incorporate all VG Organized Play information
• Collect all TCG and VG challenges
• Help out with the current PokéGym project collecting all winners of every tournament ever.

• Japanese

• Create page for Pokémon Daisuke Club
• Create page detailing Points program to earn promos

18) Upcoming releases

• Keep up on XY Black Star Promos and XY-P Promo cards
• Furious Fists
• Phantom Gate

19) Tournaments! (coming soon)