Pokemon Summaries

Question

When you go to a Pokemon's page, there is a little snippet of information at the top. Generally, it's just the Generation it was introduced, as well as it's type, and if it has a mega evolution or not. Sometimes, it's evolutionary stage is also present. (Example: evolved from...)

HOWEVER, there are some pages (very few) were there is additional information.
such as https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/litten and https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/pyroar

There are some pages where A LOT of extra information is added, such as
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/primarina and https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/scizor

So, is there some reason for this? Most of these things you can find out by reading the other sections of the page. If it's meant to be a summary, then why is it only on a few Pokemon?
(this is what the pages normally look like: https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/charizard https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/pidgeotto https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/crobat

This has actually bugged me for a while (longer than I've been registered), because it seems a little like favoritism. (Which I'm Fine, but still)

Why are some pages like that?

Comments

i'd be glad to contribute.

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Same .

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Yeah if we did this again with a thread instead of a google doc it’d be more successful I think. It would appreciate being bumped up constantly. No reason why we can’t do both either.

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Let's do it, then?

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sounds cool. we could also include more info [like etymology and interesting facts/info about what it is based off of (like Alolan Dugtrio's hair being based off of Pelee's glass)].

Answer 1

The first sentence is automatically generated. As you can see it all follows the same format, "$name is a $type type Pokémon introduced in Generation $gen" etc.

For the newer Pokemon (Gen 6-7), I took some bits of text from the official site/press releases. TPCi started adding longer descriptions, which presumably the Pokedex entries are taken from as they are similar.

However, a while back I also started writing custom descriptions. I asked people on here for help with writing them but I have yet to get around to adding them. I still have the document somewhere and will do it eventually! I wrote the Scizor one as an example, and I also wrote some custom stuff for older Pokemon that have changed type like Mr Mime.

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Cool. Works with me.
Thanks!