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Pokémon / Re: Who's that Pokémon!?

« on: November 22, 2010, 07:39:05 AM »

Mewtwo

This species was the most secretive one ever; barely anybody knew about it.

Mew

This Pokémon had its name misspelled in one of its Pokédex entries.

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Pokémon / Re: Who's that Pokémon!?

« on: November 20, 2010, 02:06:51 AM »

this Pokémon is said to feast on the eggs of Pidgey

Sneasal

Ekans; in the anime, Misty accidently acquires the Pokemon. This yellow Pokemon pops out randomly to Misty's annoyance.

Psyduck

This is the only Generation II Pokémon to never appear in the anime.

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Pokémon / Re: Who's that Pokémon!?

« on: November 17, 2010, 07:09:50 AM »

This Pokémon was the first created.

Rhydon?

Actually, I think it's Mew. Nintendo applied for a trademark on "Mew" in 1990, a full nine years before Pokemon became a global phenomenon.

Actually, Mew was the first to have its name applied for a trademark but according to the Official Nintendo Magazine Australia and New Zealand (Issue 23, November 2010, page 057):

What was the first Pokémon ever created? Pikachu? Nope. Charmander? Afraid not, good sir. According to Ken Sugimori, the man behind Pokémon artwork, it was actually Rhydon, That's why the generic icon for Pokémon in the game looks like a Rhydon, and why all the statues in the Kanto gyms look like a Rhydon. Incedentally, in case you were wondering, the last one created in the original game was Victreebel.

This one is the first (and as far as I know, the only) Pokémon with a Canonical Scientific Name.

Oddish. (Oddium Wanderus)

Kabutops has one too (Kabutops maximis), and it appeared an anime episode before FireRed and LeafGreen were released, so it was the first.

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Pokémon / Re: Who's that Pokémon!?

« on: November 15, 2010, 02:42:49 PM »

This Pokémon has evolved due to an special kind of magnetism not found elsewhere.

Magnemite.

Actually, the answer is Magnezone or Probopass.

This species is made up of two different types of it, which each type only differing by color. Each type hates the other type.

Basurao

This Pokémon was the first created.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: My thoughts on NIWA

« on: November 15, 2010, 01:26:09 PM »

Now my main reason for this topic is as of right now all NIWA is just a glorified affiliate links section. I believe NIWA can be so much more. Theres quite a bit of overlapping articles between all the NIWA wikis, pretty much all of them besides the franchise that doesn't have a N64 game all have an article about Nintendo 64 and other examples like that one without even counting the overlapping from that Smash Bros causes. NIWA should really be a network and not just an affiliate link system with a fancy name. I think all wikis should be linking to each other for those articles, I noticed just a few seconds ago that Bulbapedia is already doing this, if you search for Mario/Link/Kirby etc it re-directs you to those respective wikis. All other wikis should be doing the same redirecting or at the very least give a direct link with "For more information on X go here". Only problems I'd see is some Smash Bros stuff and Donkey Kong since it wouldn't be fair to Mariowiki to give up their hard work on their DK articles.

I've been working on many NIWA wikis (especially Bulbapedia) to have them all interlink. That is why I made those SSB character redirects and added all those external links on console pages on Bulbapedia. I've been finding sections about references to other series and providing interwiki links, and I recommend others do the same. This strengthens the bonds between NIWA, and beats linking to Wikipedia tenfold. I hope that the interwiki method WikiBound is using can be transferred to the other wikis easily (or at least Lylat Wiki which also uses Vector).

Ideally, every NIWA wiki should have a link to every other one as part of an article (not just as an affiliate link). Wars Wiki has the most trouble here, because it doesn't cross over very often, if at all, but it does have SSB stickers.

Oh, and Mario actually doesn't redirect you on Bulbapedia, there is a character page there, with a note at the top.