Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon

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Welcome to WikiProject Pokémon, formerly known as the Pokémon Collaborative Project. Wikipedians have formed this project to improve

.

If you'd like to bring an article to this project's attention, mention it on the talk page as appropriate.

The oldest ancestor of this project was

.

This criticism led to the creation of the

support, it stalled when it was proposed that it must be possible to expand these Pokémon stubs.

This effort to expand these stubs into articles led to the creation of the Pokémon Adoption Center, a project that assigned stubs to individual users to expand.

When the PAC project ran out of stubs to assign, this project was founded (under the name "Pokémon Collaborative Project"), to maintain and improve the newly expanded articles.

Eventually, the interest for individual articles for every Pokémon died down, and Pokémon that were not considered to be

).

As the amount of Pokémon-related articles diminished, WikiProject Pokémon slowly became more inactive, and the modern lists ended up consisting of sometimes just a singular Pokédex entry. Articles on individual Pokémon, even if they were technically notable, ended up being

appropriate, reliable sources

and more information.

Scope

Any article related to any of the

.

• Improve the general standards of Pokémon articles, aiming for
  Good Article
  status in all of them.
• Get the list articles to featured list status.
• More work can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/index

FA	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Category	Disambig	Draft	File	Portal	Project	Redirect	Template	NA	???	Total
4	79	33	48	96	13	4	55	80	13	12	184	0	11	3,357	23	52	0	4,064

Taken from User:Captain Galaxy/PokémonSpeciesGT.

Articles for deletion

• 13 Jun 2025 – List of Pokémon characters (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion (19 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

• 24 Jun 2025 – Rika (Pokémon) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Cukie Gherkin (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 12 Nov 2024 – Pokémon Essentials (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pokémon fan games by Pokelego999 (t · c); see discussion

Here is a list of current participants of this project. If you wish to join, please add your username to the Active list in alphabetical order, using {{

). If you were previously a part of this WikiProject and your name is on the Inactive list, please remove it when you have added your name to the Active list.

Members may add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Userbox}} to any page in their userspace to transclude a userbox signifying their membership. Alternate colors are also available; see the documentation page for details.

• Talk pages: {{WikiProject Pokémon}} - For generic Pokémon-related article talk pages.

• Articles: {{Nintendo-stub}} - For tagging stub Pokémon articles.

• Infoboxes: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon/Pokémon species - Infobox for articles about a certain Pokémon. Depreciated template, preserved for historical reasons.

• Images
  • Category:Pokémon game covers - For cover art of video game boxes.
  • Category:Television-screenshots of Pokémon - For screenshots taken from the anime.
  • Category:Pokémon Trading Card Game images - For scanned images of cards from the trading card game.
  • Category:Pokémon lead images - For lead Pokémon images for Pokémon species articles

• Templates
  • {{Pokedex}} - Used for citing the Pokédex
  • {{Pokémon}} - A navigational point for the franchise

• User talk
  • {{
    Hcp2
    }} - For inviting new editors to join the Project.
  • {{
    Hcp
    }} - For welcoming editors who've just joined the Project.

• Barnstar
  • {{Barnstar Pokémon}}

		The Pokémon Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Professor Oak