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Contributions Rules & Guidlines; Read before contributing
Topic Started: May 11 2009, 03:01 PM (264 Views)
Havak**
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Pokémonline will appreciate any contributions users wish to submit, but obviously there are guidelines to follow. Here are some simple rules we expect contributors to abide by:

  • We do not wish to receive 'Pokémon Analyses'. No matter what you say, Smogon in the premiere in competitive move-set listing - use their analyses instead.
  • Make sure you know what you're doing before posting, know your stuff, we don't want people to be reading false information.
  • Avoid huge walls of text, articles look more organised if they're broken up with paragraphs and images.
  • If you're going to post images, make sure you give credit to the website which you got them from.
  • Use sprites for Pokémon images.
  • Make sure anything that you submit is your own work. We do not want to be posting articles that aren't written by our own members. Don't steal other peoples work.
  • Use correct grammar and punctuation in your articles, any kind of leetspeak is banned.

More on grammar and guidelines

Obviously, spelling and presentation is important, so here is how you should go about presenting certain things:

  • Use correct English (not American English).
  • Stats (Attack, Special Defence, etc.) are capitalised.
  • Pseudo-stats (accuracy, evasion) are not capitalised.
  • Types are capitalised; additionally, when a type name is directly followed by the word "type", as in "Normal-type", a hyphen is used.
  • "Super effective" is two words (and isn't capitalised).
  • "Critical hit" is not capitalised.
  • Status (paralysis, sleep, etc.) is not capitalised.
  • Pseudo-status (confusion, etc.) is not capitalised.
  • "Berry" is always capitalised, even when used without a specific name.
  • Weather (sun, rain, etc.) is not capitalised.
  • "Physical" is not capitalized. "Special" is not capitalised when not referring to a stat e.g. "Porygon-Z has 135 base Special Attack" but "Ice Beam is a special attack".
  • "Defences" is not capitalized.
  • "Pokemon" (just ignore the "e" situation) is always capitalised.
  • Conditions, such as "Gyarados was Thunderbolted", are capitalised.
  • Any move or ability that is a single, 12-letter word consisting of two words appended with each other (Thunderpunch, Dynamicpunch, etc.) are written like so in DP: ThunderPunch, DynamicPunch, etc.
    - Other abilities or attacks that consist of two words but that fit the 12-letter restriction (Sunny Day, Zen Headbutt, Mold Breaker, etc.) are written with a space in between and with both words having an initial capital letter.
    - All attacks having a dash (Wake-Up Slap, X-Scissor, etc.) are written with the word after the dash also capitalised. U-turn is the only exception to this rule.
  • There are further exceptions to the first two rules. The following are the correct way of writing the particular word:
    - DoubleSlap, SolarBeam, Superpower, Selfdestruct, Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Tailwind, Softboiled, SmokeScreen, BubbleBeam, Lightningrod, Double-Edge, Compoundeyes.
  • It's Ho-oh (not Ho-Oh).
  • The plural of a Pokemon is identical to the singular of that Pokemon. One Blissey, two Blissey. Never two Blisseys.
  • It's 'Forme', not 'Form' for Pokémon with alternative forms (Deoxys, Rotom, Giratina, Shaymin etc.)
  • Tiers are capitalised (Ubers, Overused etc.)
  • OHKOes as the verb form ("Salamence OHKOes Alakazam") and OHKOs like a plural noun ("Salamence scores many OHKOs").
  • When listing effectiveness of attacks, the number goes before the x ("Earthquake is 2x super effective on Lucario") + ("Ice Beam is 4x super effective on Salamence").
  • Use DPP as an abbreviation of Diamond / Pearl / Platinum.
  • Community created terms such as "speed tier" are not capitalised, but Nintendo created terms such as "Base Power" are capitalised as they would be in-game.
  • Use "switch-in" when referring to a Pokemon that often switches in on another e.g. "Scizor is a common switch-in to Latias."
  • Always append 's to a noun when signifying a singular possessive or plural possesive that doesn't end in s (Latias's Soul Dew, Lucario's Swords Dance), and simply a ' when signifying a plural possesive for a word that ends in s (Latios' Draco Meteor).

Credit to Smogon.

Edited by Havak, Jul 1 2009, 01:18 PM.
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