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've been wondering about this as well, IIRC I noticed its mostly on the newer Pokemon, but it's been a while since I checked.

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@Gekky Yeah, I noticed it's been there since Gen 6.

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Pokemaster got a few of us to write summaries for the Pokedex pages a few years ago. Nobody really committed to it though, and he kind of let it die off.
All the entries on the new Pokemon come directly from the official website, I think.

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Should we try and bring that back? It'll give us something fun to do. I'm thinking we start a thread here, and ask people to add descriptions to the thread. Unlike last time where we used Google Docs iirc, this can be more casual, and if any of them stand out as particularly good, that might be added in later in the Pokedex pages by PM, should the need arise. In some sense, it's the more forum type of content we were discussing earlier about allowing. I feel it puts the "fun" in functional. It's a 50-50, granted, but better do it and if it fails, it can always be locked / deleted, and if it works, that's good too. Kinda pointless, admittedly, but if the amount of information per summary is an issue (which I didn't think actually was until I read this thread), then that's one way to go about it.

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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!