User:SnorlaxMonster/Pokémon Syntax

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This article is a proposed policy for Bulbapedia.

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Unfortunately, Bulbapedia isn't always great with Pokémon-related capitalization and types. Entries with a dagger (†) next to them are ones we do poorly/not at all. This is all the syntax that the games use, and I have yet to see an example in another situation where they don't.

Note that this list is constantly expanding. Feel free to make requests on the talk page.

Also, this page will hopefully serve as a replacement for Bulbapedia:Manual of style#Nouns, capitalization, and specific terminology, as a separate page. One of the reasons I created it was to fix the errors spread by the MoS, especially the highly incorrect usage of things like "Normal-types".

This page also somewhat hints any pages I plan to move in the future, such as Abilities from "<name> (ability)" to "<name> (Ability)" and Egg Groups from "name <Egg group>" to "name <Egg Group>".

Hyphenation

  • "Super effective" is not hyphenated when used as the object of a conjugation of the verb "to be" ("The attack was super effective"), but is hyphenated when used adjectivally in front of a noun ("A super-effective attack").
  • "Day-Care Couple", "Day-Care Man", "Day-Care Lady", and "Day-Care Checker" are all hyphenated as it is used as an adjective in these phrases. "Pokémon Day Care", and "Day Care" when used as a noun, are not hyphenated. While the term "Day-Care Center" does not appear in any Pokémon game, it can be assumed to be hyphenated due to it being used as an adjective rather than a noun in this phrase. All are also always capitalized.

Types

  • The types themselves are always capitalized, regardless of context
  • As adjectives, types are "<typename>-type".
  • As nouns referring to a Pokémon of that type, they are "<typename> type"*
  • As nouns referring to the types themselves, they are "<typename>" or "the <typename> type".†
    • Example: Fire is super effective against Grass-type Pokémon.
    • Example: The Steel type was introduced in Generation II.
  • This means that "Water-types" is never correct, as when hyphenated, they are always adjectives.
  • Anime episode titles may go against the standard, such as The Grass-Type Is Always Greener! and Battling For The Love of Bug-Types!.

Capitalization

Capitalized

The following words are always capitalized:

The names of all people, Pokémon, moves, Abilities, items, Trainer classes, stats (except accuracy and evasion), and villainous teams are also always capitalized, as are officially named locations (places like "Kurt's house" do not count).

Uncapitalized

All unofficial terms are lowercase by default.

CamelCase

The

Present

The following always have "the":

Absent

The following do not use "the":