User talk:Energy X

Oh, and yeah, as for the anime page for Kiawe's Marowak, I was unaware that what I was moving it to wasn't a redirect and was assuming that's what it was. That's why I restored the previous revisions that accidentally got deleted in the move so it can be recreated by reusing content from those revisions.  Pokémon Gamer  * 23:42, July 22, 2017 (UTC)

Hello Energy X, I'm a new user there on Fandom, I just saw many things going on fandom and Seriously, I never saw a community like Pokemon one. Things going qrong there. Leave it. I'm a user there so, I can't help you. By the way, Nice to meet you, Energy X!

Postponed episodes
I think the episode Fishing Sommelier - Dent Appears! should be moved to BW037: A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!. I have reasons for why this should be moved and not move XY024 (The Castle Beneath the Sea! Kuzumo and Dramidoro!!) to XY050: An Undersea Place to Call Home!. Unlike XY024, this episode is being presented in the storyline as an entirely different episode that does not fall between BW025 and the (as we currently call it) BW027, and we should not be basing episode orders on when they were first announced or intended, or logically we would be moving BW003 to BW001 for being announced first (which is not what I support), we base this on the place it takes in the plot. This episode was aired and presented as an edited episode BW037, and the BW026 version was not how it was presented in canon when it aired. In XY024, they presented it untouched when airing it apart from the opening, ending, and post-episode segment due to the time at which it aired, so that's the difference. We shouldn't consider the postponed and eventually aired episodes as specials though, because it was not advertised as such. The Japanese version advertised Rougela's Christmas and The Iwark Bivouac as specials or 番外編 (meaning other/special programming series), even if the dub considers it a normal season 1 episode. They didn't advertise these as specials, so that's the difference as well. "Serebii says so" doesn't count because like Bulbapedia and Wikipedia which can be edited by anyone, even Serebii is not an official 100% reliable source like many people assume and has been debunked on several factual errors, even having the same factual and translation-related errors as Bulbapedia on TCG cards coming from fans sending stolen content to the webmaster of that site. So I think the fishing episode should be moved to BW037 for those reasons. Bulb's Japanese wiki lists the Kuzumo and Dramidoro episode as XY050 or XY編第50話 (meaning XY series episode #50) because they go by when it airs, but here, we go by how the story presents it. In other words, XY024 just aired later but the "BW026" at the time aired as BW037 being edited to fit the story. TV Tokyo also claims nothing about it being a previous episode, but it wasn't even officially announced to begin with which could've also been it - by officially announced, I mean by TV Tokyo online, not the magazine which is 100% reliable though not considered a TV Tokyo announcement and TV Tokyo's TV guide is 8 days ahead. I do hold this belief though:
 * If BW023 and BW024 ever air (which I am more confident in than AG101 airing due to the Japanese version preview remaining intact on cable channel reruns such as BS Japan and Kids Station and TV Tokyo stating they'll certainly air it while saying nothing about airing AG101), we should keep the numbering as is because the preview's existence with sponsor tag footage and the plot presents it as canon. If it airs advertised as a special, we'll move it, but I'm confident that if it ever does air, it'll keep all content intact including opening, ending and previews due to reruns showing the preview for BW023 at the end of BW022 and the original Japanese version DVD putting it on even after being replaced with BW025's preview in the initial DVD version, in which case it's best to leave it as is. This explains the alleged struggle to air these episodes, but it's also likely they are repeatedly reissuing the "it will air" statement in negligence when responding to email queries. It should be also noted that TPC and TV Tokyo (at least TPC) have notices in Japanese and English stating they are unable to read and respond to inquiries in other languages than Japanese. It is likely that this "official statement" is not properly translated by anyone who knows Japanese is being Google Translated between English and Japanese and thus there may be a distortion presented here. I tried contacting TPC (knowing that I can properly write the email in Japanese from personal knowledge and not Google Translate, and given they said they can't offer support in English) and TV Tokyo after they referred me there, linking me to TV Tokyo's contact page - to no surprise, as TV Tokyo, being followed in suit of by its affiliate broadcasters around the country (i.e., TV Osaka/7 TVO, TV Hokkaido/tvh, etc.), has the broadcasting rights to the anime. TPC responded to me and said to forward the anime programming scheduling question to TV Tokyo. I tried contacting TV Tokyo but I doubt there's anywhere I can list an email address to ensure it's being sent and replied to - I got a confirmation email from TPC but not TV Tokyo so they likely don't have my email address there. According to that talk page message on Bulb, if correct, the transition from BW to XY to SM is not an issue and being not taken into account in later Team Plasma encounter episodes years into the future is not an issue either. If these air, that's my standing on that. For now, they aren't aired but they're to be treated as canon due to the previous episode remaining unedited in Japanese reruns and being presented as if they exist but are not available in their full episode form even on DVD due to being unaired and we only have knowledge from promo footage and magazine pics. It's also easy to believe that this synopsis can be faked by someone who is just trying to incorporate promo and preview scenes into the plot and trying to fake details, rather than someone who legitimately leaked and stole the episodes for themselves or anyone related to the companies who's seen it. And also, if that user on Bulb is right, then this means they need to air these incredibly outdated 2 part episodes in the normal time slot without interrupting the current series schedule. Like the second BW post series special, which was aired during the XY run (which would be viewed as presumably too late in BW023/BW024's case, as well as that being considered as a special and normal episode per the opening and ending), this could maybe air untouched simply being numbered differently in the airing order and on TV guides but that's not needed now, because there's still doubts on it airing any time soon especially since it has been 6 years ever since, and it could be they're not actively planning on or thinking of these episodes as they may have been back then and they're issuing that statement carelessly just to maintain official word that the episodes are to be viewed as canon. The only way we can view it as that the most official thing is that the episodes are being postponed, not canceled entirely unlike AG101, but at the same time they're not really thinking about or nearly concerned about these episodes as they were back then, so it's a total surprise if they do actually air it. If TPC was a broadcasting channel, they'd maybe have released it by now, but TV Tokyo is in charge here.

Also, it's okay to respond to this now and when I get back home or when I'm able to use the limited internet I have here, I'll receive it. I can view my talk page signed out on my phone, so that works as well and I have internet anywhere on there, but the issue is my login details are long, extremely complicated, to be nearly impossible to hack, so I need to copy and paste it on computer.

Edit: And it seems that back when Hulu's Japanese service had these episodes before losing the rights when the anime first reached there, the preview at the end of BW022 showed BW023's, but I can't check Amazon Prime's version because I don't have it, I only pay for Japanese Hulu and Netflix services monthly. The numbering though apparently doesn't affect that it shows the preview for the unaired BW023, and episodes we view as specials are numbered as if they were normal episodes on there. Also despite there being no notice on BW037's postponement back when it was BW026 (it could've been because an old version of the page displayed the notice), there is still a notice on BW024 being moved on the episode in place of its original air date, and it's possible TV Tokyo is going by the info they sent to magazine providers, so they'll likely remove that notice if they air it. If it was canceled after the BW025 airing, it would have likely also been removed, the text on BW025's first airing said, 「つごうにより、のをしておおくりしてます、」「だった『ロケットVSプラズマ!』は、またあらためてします」 as I've typed this out for convenience. So I'm confident it will air someday, but they're just not actively thinking about it and it's probably not relevant to them today. So going by official sources (in other words, not the many fans being not confident about it airing), they will air it in the future but it's taking an incredibly long time. If they do air it, though, I don't know how the banned episodes page would go, I think we'd remove it from there because XY024 was originally a "banned episode" before finally airing. The struggle explained by that Bulbapedia user is likely correct, being an episode that is supposed to have a cliffhanger on one week and the rest being aired the next week, but even without that Bulb user's comment, I'm confident the episodes are still slated to air and that AG101's ban is permanent, they're just maintaining the official statement as a cover for now to hide that they're really not actively concerning about airing it any time soon. Moving BW023 and BW024 to the OVA code that we gave to the Christmas specials is also an option if it's aired later and advertised as a special in the original Japanese version, because it was also promoted via next episode preview I believe the same way.

Sorry if this was too long, just felt the need to thoroughly explain all the info for BW023 and BW024 should it ever be necessary to look back at in the future. Although I want to ask whether we should move BW026 to BW037 given the reasoning I explained above and being reasons that are highly specific to the Fishing Sommelier - Dent Appears! episode and not applicable to XY024.

 Pokémon Gamer  * 03:31, July 23, 2017 (UTC)
 * And another thing (please keep the question in mind that I mentioned above about renaming BW026 to BW037 and renaming the other pages around), I think it should also be necessary to list every skipped or postponed episode's originally intended air date. I don't know if we would put it in release dates (maybe not) and say in a hover text notice that it was the originally intended one, actually aired on, or in the trivia section, but it should be absolutely necessary to make mention of that somewhere for every such episode. Another question, just like how we have release dates for the Watch Disney XD app/site on SM001 and SM002, I think we should also mention release dates with hover text for those that are released on iTunes and Amazon Video in the US before the airing on TV.  Pokémon Gamer  * 05:23, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

(Energy can I be a mod I know it is not easy but I can handle it Can you please make me Mod) Respected Energy X
Vedant bhoj (talk) 05:26, July 23, 2017 (UTC)Energy can I be a mod I know that it is hard But I will handle Please make me modVedant bhoj (talk) 05:26, July 23, 2017 (UTC)
 * Please keep in mind the section above I made asking some questions after you respond to Vedant bhoj's question. I'm just mentioning this because I don't want that to end up missed due to not being the section at the bottom of the page.  Pokémon Gamer  * 05:30, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

Mod request
05:42, July 23, 2017 (UTC)please please make me a admin please request05:42, July 23, 2017 (UTC)
 * Question #3 to add to the ones I asked above: I think if the gap between the episode and its English-language dub airing are exactly one year apart, then this is because the anime is consistently going by the new-episode-per-week scenario applying consistently to every such episode that is consistently airing week by week in Japan and the United States. Thus, I don't find it notable enough to include individually on every single episode's page that this applies to. I think this should be noted on the series or the season page's trivia section if episodes are being aired exactly one year apart.  Pokémon Gamer  * 06:06, July 23, 2017 (UTC)
 * A fourth question to add: I think we should limit the dub differences/dub edits section on each episode's article to edits that apply specifically to the English language or other language dub, and not overly define it to include edits made to digital releases of the Japanese version such as on Hulu, DVD, Netflix, reruns, and Amazon Prime. I think edits done to the digital and non-over-the-air releases of the original Japanese version should be mentioned in trivia. I moved the XY126 info about the Hulu Japan version (and maybe the Japanese rental DVD version, but I've only checked Hulu Japan's version, and DVD is known to fix errors) fixing Tierno's Raichu tail to the female one from dub edits to the trivia section, because by definition, something that is only modified in the digital releases of the Japanese version, and not carried into the dub in its broadcast and accompanied digitally released forms, should not even fall under dub edits in the first place.  Pokémon Gamer  * 06:11, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

http://pokemon.wikia.com/d/p/3059277985996604964 FortifiendWolf (talk) 07:58, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

Any way to edit FatboySlim2005 bio? He made a stupids list there that is insulting lower-skilled members of our wiki. i wanna edit it out until it creates too much trouble. I will try to make him delete it, if it stays here for more than one day from now on, this message is considered a ban report. FortifiendWolf (talk) 11:03, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

Request
hello energy x, on december 26 th you had asked annabeth and percy whether i should be made a mod or tom and she had selected me back then 4 months back when i asked you to promote me to a mod you just put me off by saying "there are no request for mods right now" but now i really want to become a mod. please please please please please promote me, you know from how long i am waiting for it and i am more experienced than piyanshu and tom and one more thing to specify is that piyanchu is not experienced at all! he just blindly said you are not doing your duty well, i can see if he's doing his work well or not and i am also ready to spend my all time here reading 1000+ posts (for which u promoted piyanchu) and energy x dont think i am doing this just because you've already made two, you know from how long i am asking u, so now please promte me and dont put me off, seriously i'm in a crying mood! And if you can make me a mod, we three can be new a batch

and if u hv a doubt in capabilities you can ask annabeth but please promote me today MAGIC KAITO (talk) 15:14, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

Please i dont think if one more is added it will do any harm, more than that i want to help this wikia by being a mod one more thing which i would like to specify is i wasn't inactive, you wont beleive this but i used to read each and every post but never replied to them , plus nowadays i don't have any other work plus i really think and want you to make me a mod please don't put me off by this excuse and please reply me.MAGIC KAITO (talk) 15:14, July 23, 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Keeping it BW023 and BW024 is fine either way. The preview for the episode is still shown after BW022 on modern day reruns and on DVD, and it's still within the story of the show at the end of BW022. If released, it will likely only exist in the original Japanese version, the dub already skipped it over.

As for the kanji on his shirt thing, the first kanji at the top looks like or  (most likely the latter). It's definitely not 大試練 (daishiren; meaning Grand Trial) or I would've been able to pick up on it, being able to read such things better than the rest of the users on this wiki and all. None of the kanji lists I've scrolled through showed it, it may be an uncommon kanji that is not regularly used (in other words, non-joyo kanji). It's not like children know how to read all these characters. The government in Japan has standards regarding the kanji children are to have learned by which grade, as there's over 2,000 regular use kanji, and even native speakers fail to identify them all sometimes. It's not even close to as basic as the 26-letter alphabet that we use in English, and Japanese websites/magazines and all are full of kanji (and wikis and Wikipedia use them all the time, they don't care if you don't know how to read them all, you need to look each kanji up to know how to read the ones you don't know, while learning how to actually write them does help me remember), but they're all usually regular use kanji, something I'm able to look up by drawing it by mouse cursor online and find the reading to type them out by keyboard by myself as usable computer text for the wiki. Even I haven't learned all of the kanji, I usually recognize the kanji and words I know (such as how I know the kanji at the top of his shirt, uniform or whatever), given that it's how kanji is supposed to be read. In Chinese, they're used everywhere though given only one reading, making them easier to learn, but in Japanese, you have to read it by the word in Japanese that corresponds with the meaning of the kanji, unlike the syllable based hiragana and katakana systems (which at least me and Misch60) know how to read, such as how I know 一体何か. is read as いったいなにか.

In other words, those kanji might not even be the common use kanji I'm more used to being able to come up with the computer text to use on this wiki. It's not as easy to look up as much as it is to know that this and this say 危険 and 通行止メ respectively the latter of which is using the katakana character for め as in 通行止め, but if someone manages to find which kanji they're using (again, not ones I'm aware of), then I can translate it. I tried looking up on the Japanese fan sites I go to, and have found nothing mentioning it.  Pokémon Gamer  * 06:00, July 24, 2017 (UTC)

HEELP!
I think my userpage's second box is broken. Do you know how to fix this?

SuperMario43 24 July 2017 13:27 UTC

Reply
Check my user page. The pre-existing box I edited was ok at first but now the second box is long...

24 July 2017 13:37 UTC SuperMario43
 * I left in the fishing episode as BW040 as a temporary number so we can move things starting from BW027 to BW026, BW028 to BW027, etc. so it doesn't get confusing. At the end, the fishing episode will be listed as BW039. And added the plot line with the Plasma Gang encounter to the BW022 page, because it is kept canon in the Japanese version despite BW023 and BW024 being unaired, regardless of what narrative the dub tries to push.  Pokémon Gamer  * 23:26, July 24, 2017 (UTC)

LaraLynn
This user is a vandal who is adding false information to articles, and I have even warned them before, so I'm leaving this report here for when you're active in your timezone. Can you check this out?  Pokémon Gamer  * 00:51, July 27, 2017 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm going to keep the episode guide page editable though (rather than locking for 3 days) even though it's been vandalized twice recently because it's just that it's coincidental there are users who sign up in a short time frame and do different types of vandalism. If it happens to be a problem where multiple users are actively vandalizing that page, then yeah it'll be best to protect it, but I'll leave it alone for now because there isn't anything sufficient enough to protect it for if it's just two users a month apart vandalizing. If it's sockpuppets rapidly targeting the page as multiple users, it would maybe be needed, but protecting it now is way, way too early.  Pokémon Gamer  * 01:55, July 27, 2017 (UTC)

Official capitalization
Maybe we should base capitalization of words in English dubbed episode titles based on how it is capitalized on the page on the TPCi US version site of Pokémon? For example, naming that episode A Gaggle of Gadget Greatness! (as we have it) would be considered correct here and A Gaggle Of Gadget Greatness! would be the wrong capitalization. And I mean the episode pages themselves on that site, as the full Watch Pokémon TV guide navigation lists them with all the first letters of words capitalized. The reason we would need to have consistency in such formatting is because the episodes capitalization matters when it comes to naming the page, and it's specific when trying to link it from another page, so if we go by the "official" capitalization on the site, it would be less confusing and more consistent.  Pokémon Gamer  * 09:26, July 27, 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Depends on what the logo is. If it's a Cartoon Network tag, then maybe not unless the background is the same color throughout that the logo is on. The TV Tokyo logo (I know those don't need to be edited, though this is example) can easily be edited out - in fact the latest torrents people upload use a common trick with people who upload torrents of the anime and they blur out the logo so it's not always showing for nearly 100% of the episode in the release. Of course, there are times where you'll briefly notice the logo a bit due to working in with the colors of the background, but that's how they do it. That guy with Korean letters in his username (I have no knowledge of Korean, so I don't know what it says to be honest) uses that trick on all his torrent releases. If it's a logo that cannot be edited out and it's from an anime episode, I can just recapture the screenshot. I know where to find Japanese episodes without any logos onscreen.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:51, July 27, 2017 (UTC)
 * Done.  Pokémon Gamer  * 20:18, July 27, 2017 (UTC)

Move confirmations
I'm just going to mention first of all that I'm going to stay entirely impartial to what Serebii says - his site listing a certain move means nothing to this (they've posted unconfirmed information in the past, some of it which later gets debunked and no I'm not a "", I just do not wish for this wiki to have information that could be wrong), someone on the forums commenting it also means nothing because they can easily confuse it with a move that has a similar animation. I'm just going to say we shouldn't list moves with vague animations such as Flamethrower and Hydro Pump that can easily be the same animation of another move unless they were explicitly stated or in the Japanese closed captioning of the episode (dub captioning doesn't count because they change several things from the Japanese version we base it on), although I only have access to the closed captioning for the Sekiei League episodes as the Japanese Netflix service I subscribe to has it, and neither Japanese Netflix, Hulu (which doesn't have closed captions, even for Sekiei League), nor Amazon Prime Video has any closed captions for modern episodes because unlike Japan, I believe the US has closed captioning laws making it mandatory. Bulb users have managed to find distortions in the confirmation of the other moves except for Flame Wheel - note that the move confirmation thing is a common reason behind most edit wars that occur there on Bulbapedia. I think we shouldn't consider Shadow Bone confirmed, because it is a newly introduced move without basis for comparison with others because it could be a move with a similar animation and we could be wrong (it could just be a move that the anime is trying to show that isn't Shadow Bone, so we cannot jump to random assumptions, as it is a new move) - unless it was actually stated, I doubt we can consider it confirmed, and it's best to hide it until there's an episode released in which it is shown using it in the dialogue or closed captioning (again, by this I mean Japanese closed captioning [字幕]), and Blazingfist on there explains why Bulb uses these strict confirmation requirements to be as factual as possible (i.e., headbutting does not mean the move Headbutt is being used). We here only go by animation if the move has a unique animation, but it's not confirmed whether Shadow Bone has a unique animation, being a recent move with nothing to compare with. The alleged use of Bonemerang could easily be a fancy animation of Bone Club and/or with it throwing its bone (doesn't mean it absolutely has to be Bonemerang, this is the same thing as with how the "Mooland in SM021 died" thing is not official), to the point where Flame Wheel might be the only one confirmed (again, Serebii saying something doesn't confirm a single thing, as they can and have been wrong in the past including episode titles that lacked confirmation and others, and I don't trust Bulb either unless I get what they're saying, in this case though, I get what they're saying).

Although just like genders, if there's anything dub only confirmed (there have been moves called out as different ones between the Japanese version and dub), that can be noted (but like calling it "dub only", not just treat it as if existent in the original Japanese version).

If the claim that MS015's Keldeo is male (and that it is referred to as male in the dub) is correct, and if someone on this wiki can confirm it (in other words, impartial to what Bulbapedia states), then we can maybe consider an anime =/= games distinction for those and not list every legendary Pokémon in the anime as genderless unless it was confirmed. Even if it was mentioned in the dub, that would still be good enough to make a distinction on and not state that every legendary Pokémon is right off the bat genderless, because the English language Pokémon games also have the legendary Pokémon genderless. That's why I'm always hesitant to list genderless for every legendary Pokémon anime article when making them (which is why I generally stay away from making them because I don't know which is correct, if the MS015 Keldeo is male which again we need to be able to confirm, then this wiki is just assuming by listing every legendary Pokémon as being right-off-the-bat genderless). But then again going by Pokémon being 100%/other % a gender in the games has never failed us, and it's been shown to be reliable in the anime, the only thing I'm taking about is the legendary Pokémon being genderless in the games, whether that means they're genderless in the anime, as said discrepancy has been shown before for that case, another example is if a Pokémon's gender differences haven't yet been showcased in the anime (which you've already approved as being considered a distortion, since we have the Tierno's Raichu case with its tail, and even if it's using Bulb policies, it's still something that is of concern for information to be 100% correct).

But I'll say for Headbutt, the move is definitely not confirmed for the new Pokémon in SM034, because the move could easily be any move that involves ramming themselves into their opponent, such as Tackle or Slam (which I agree with, took some time to actually rewatch the episode so I'm not blindly taking Bulb's word as fact without checking first).

As for the use of Shell Trap by Bakugames, the Bulb comment here is an outdated comment from months ago, and Lordranged7 uploaded a picture of it being used in SM034, so I think the move's usage is possible to be true, but I can't confirm it myself (because Bulbapedia is a fansite that anyone can edit, not one with an extremely high or 100% track record of accuracy either), so I have no opinion on whether it's confirmed or not. But I do believe that only Flame Wheel is [officially] confirmed and we should hide all the others until they are stated in an episode with the info I've already provided. And I think we should use this rule: a move must be stated explicitly, in closed captioning, or have animation that is unique and can be viewed as obviously being that move (such as a move a Pokémon's used many times in the past recently that it's obvious it's just reusing it, or otherwise) without distortions that are probable. Therefore, I think we can hide the moves other than Flame Wheel until an episode airs to state that it's that move either in dialogue or closed caption subtitles (known as 字幕 in Japan). Again, I'm not some insane person who hates Serebii but loves Bulbapedia so much (because objectively, both have been wrong about things in the past, both are the type of sites that are mostly correct, but they're unofficial fansites hosted on the web, so they're prone to being wrong on some things, such as Serebii reporting an anti-piracy feature for the experience points for the tutorial rival battles in the ROM of the Gen V games and reporting them on his site as if they were normal not realizing it) nor am I trying to be "disrupting the flow of information" as ShallowShaddoll on Bulbapedia calls it, I just don't want us to run into a case where we're maybe wrong on some things and it comes back to haunt us later, and it's just that as a wiki, Bulb cracks down on speculation like this even if Serebii has info that it doesn't (such as with that Raichu gender thing, where it turned out it's female later on which would be confusing to have to list as female while ignoring the male tail, which is one of the reasons why Bulb waits until gender differences have been showcased in the anime for a Pokémon before using it to determine gender). Best to err on the side of caution with the moves Shadow Bone and Bonemerang because with the former, the move's never been called out for comparison to other Pokémon using it so it's hard to tell if the animators are trying to animate Shadow Bone, and with the latter, it could just be a special animation effect for Bone Club as it was never called out, and Bulbapedia staff member Tiddlywinks has stated that some of the moves Bulbapedia lists can be reviewed and removed/discussed if they're unconfirmed, as there are many that are listed that don't follow the confirmation rule they have there that were listed before Bulb started cracking down on move confirmations (they also listed many fake ep titles that even Serebii's been fooled by before them and us have started cracking down on whether episode titles are confirmed, to wait for a picture to be released before listing titles that could be fake for all we know).

I also broke those into sections that I had already prepared here so you can see the various stances I have on things one by one relating to this without being confused by a huge wall of text so that you don't miss any details.  Pokémon Gamer  * 08:59, July 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * As for the logos onscreen thing (this isn't something needing a reply, just to let you know what I have for me to use to get images), I know where to obtain Japanese episodes without the onscreen seizure warning telling viewers to watch in a brightly lit room far away from the screen (and without any logo at all, as it's from on demand video services such as Hulu and Amazon Prime and Netflix too, not TV broadcasts on Japanese television), so if there are any images with the seizure warning or some other intrusive onscreen text such as notices telling viewers that there will be a one week break or data broadcast notices onscreen, I have episode videos without those.  Pokémon Gamer  * 09:15, July 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * I was just saying I'm not against Serebii, but it's just a problem with some of whether the moves are confirmed and whether it's best to wait until later episodes, just so it doesn't sound like I'm biasing against them, as I know Bulbapedia is more unreliable given that anyone can edit it because it's a wiki and they can add anything that's already on it like we can, and yeah I have seen that term used on 4chan or Reddit (forgot which site that is, maybe the latter), not much of a big deal though.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:31, July 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * And in case you realized this user - it's a sockpuppet, I've contacted Wikia Support as it's obvious they're evading a global block.  Pokémon Gamer  * 20:06, July 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, and yeah, I did see the message on Lordranged7's talk page and I was suspecting that might've been a bad username right from the start. That reason works too though. If it comes to the point where that user starts harassing us like that across other wikis, then yeah, we might need to request a global block against that account.  Pokémon Gamer  * 20:26, July 28, 2017 (UTC)

SM037
I plan on uploading the preview to YouTube myself, because the version aired on TV is higher quality and also includes a sponsor tag, which includes more footage from the episode.  Pokémon Gamer  * 14:28, August 3, 2017 (UTC)

Hey, User:Sameer Ramnath keeps posting off-topic comments and hasn't stopped. Could you take a look at it?--http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 Annabeth and Percy  🎵You're scared, I'm nervous, but I guess that we did it on purpose.🎵  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 12:51, August 4, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Energy X can you check out
My talk page it seems Utkar22 has spotted a spammer named The Phonix Gaurdian=Zach Utkar has informed me that Phonix spammed on Clash of Clans wikis can you block this user for spamming.

 The link's on my talk page at the bottom so you notice as such...Trainer Micah (talk) 21:22, August 4, 2017 (UTC)
 * I also have things to say here. First, Kittystyler's still making edits to the pages in the Ash's Pokémon category that are adding giant, unnecessary broken additional move tables with tons of content tossed around randomly (such as the partial kana name for Satoshi's Luchabull and random contents already on the page).


 * Second, maybe we should add the lyrics themselves to OP/ED songs of the anime? Not just the romanization, but the original language text? I can type them up into the wiki editor from the lyrics seen on the animation because Bulbapedia isn't exactly a trustworthy source due to anyone being able to edit it. Same goes for the title of the song, not just the translation. This is the same as how we have the original Japanese language text on other pages we have translations or romanizations for, and it's best to have the text they are from, not just English understandings of the text, as well.


 * Third, the Korean dub of the anime is based on the original Japanese version (so it keeps all episode segments, including the eyecatches, Who's that Pokémon, and ), but unlike the Chinese dub for some of the songs (like the opening of Best Wishes!), which is also another Asian dub based from the Japanese version, it makes its own opening and ending songs. There are also other dubs that do this. Bulb prefers creating separate pages for them, but rather than go through that, I think it's best to list in the trivia of the song that "[song name] is the [language] dub equivalent of this song for that dub." and link to the page on that language wiki. If we ever need English translations of those songs (such as if the dub of that version has any lyrics that spoil upcoming episodes in the Japanese version, not a real instance that's happened but just an example), I can't help with those, because I don't have any knowledge of other languages. I mostly know how to read Japanese script and I have the knowledge to decipher it all myself, which is why I can easily handle that language well. Having trivia points mentioning the song's equivalent in another language dub and linking to the page on that language version of this wiki cancels out the hassle of going overboard and having to find a way to mention all of them on this English wiki as with what Bulb does.


 * Fourth, apart from our rule to list it as "dub only" if a gender is confirmed by dialogue that exists only in the English dub, we should I think refrain from listing anime Pokémon in a gender category unless the original Japanese version mentions it, and I think we should refrain from mentioning Pokémon genders on the Trainer's page if the original Japanese version doesn't mention it, as genders are only taken as officially confirmed if what confirms it is in the original Japanese version, which overrules over any and every other language dub (including the English dub, the language of this wiki), as it's likely TPCi is not aware of their actual genders, and that the gender confirmation is just a dub edit. For example, Satoshi's Keromatsu could easily be female in the original and it could be that Froakie is male only in the dub due to it being more masculine, and TPCi might not be aware of that and might be making up the gender from scratch just for the English dub. This will apply even more so due to Bashou being changed to female in the dub as the dub's Hun character. Whatever the dub's genders are, if they aren't even mentioned in the original Japanese version, they are not canon at all, and we shouldn't be listing both male *and* female characters for characters that are female in the original and male in the dub and vice versa, because the one that's only for the dub is not canon, it is just meant that way for English localization, we should only add a trivia point for it or something in the template such as saying it's "dub only", I'm saying we shouldn't treat it as the overall main important gender by listing it as a category and on the Trainer's page, and the only times when we rely on the English dub as being the primary source is for English names and terms.

 Pokémon Gamer  * 22:19, August 4, 2017 (UTC)

Message
The gender difference error has been fixed. So sorry for the inconvenience. Didn't know I could add a new feature. I'll keep working on it.
 * The Korean wiki is very popular too, with over 10,000 pages on it, and for example, there's a Bulbapedia user from an English speaking country who speaks a native level of Korean, so it's not like you have to live in Korea natively to contribute to that wiki, it only requires using a fluent level of Korean on the pages (I think I can maybe only handle doing the Japanese wiki, because unlike Korean, I actually have knowledge of that language). I think external sources such as magazine bits can be used (Bulb even used them for the Keldeo in MS015 being male). If any of the writers say it's a certain gender (or any other official source, including magazine bits), that may be used if it's from Japanese (TPC Japan/or any other companies affiliated with it) sources. If it's from English language TPCi sources, then we can say "dub only" in the template. That could be put in the "reference", but yeah I think there can be a hover over or similar method of explaining the gender (because you said those would be better than putting the reference tag after the gender listing in the template). And yeah, the Japanese wiki is one of those that are lacking on pages. All I can do is maybe put up the episode pages and Pokémon pages on there, but it's not something that can easily be done in one day and is easier said than done (in fact, anything is).  Pokémon Gamer  * 08:43, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * As for this section, Ellis99 has made an edit to the Johto Route 47 page just now.  Pokémon Gamer  * 10:13, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * And yeah, as for the Japanese wiki, the only thing is that the administration there is essentially dead, and the only administrator has last edited in 2011 and last signed in in 2012. The only thing close to administration related activity is that an administrator from the Japanese wiki affiliated with Bulb (as Bulb does have foreign language affiliates), has also made 23 edits there, and 2nd-player is known as 2P (that's what his username stands for), he's an admin on Bulb's Japanese wiki which I also contribute to.
 * I will try to add the links to any episode or Pokémon pages I've created there and those that already exist there (same goes for any other pages we have English language equivalents for here). However, I won't list the full Japanese subtitle (サブタイトル is what I've seen them call it for episode names in the lists there) of the episode in the page name on the Japanese language wiki, because they're incredibly long (I'll just use for example for XY001, just call it "XY hen dai ichi(1) hanashi") and there's also the matter of half width and full width punctuation. On Bulb's Japanese wiki, they use half width punctuation for things such as the exclamation marks on the page itself, with full width commas. They do use all full width punctuation for the episode list, and that's just their format style. (and yeah, I do always make sure when referring to location names in the real world, even on a wiki for a language that is usually popularly spoken in only one country, or for a wiki on a language that is generally natively spoken outside of the country such as English, to be neutral on location, I either don't refer to Japan as "there", "overseas", "foreign", "international" if I don't refer to my country that way, because this wiki is for users who can speak English fluently, not just those who don't live in Japan, and I don't use language on articles that implies that the reader is someone who does or doesn't live in that country (such as referring to the United States as "our country" or any other country as "our country", and I don't use language like "over in Japan or (this country)" because that definitely implies it's a country the reader doesn't live in), because the wiki is intended to be read by anyone who can fluently speak that language good enough, regardless of their geographical location)
 * I do think however we should use full width punctuation on this wiki in all instances because it distinguishes it from the half-width English that we use here. There are also full width English characters in unicode such as ｔｈｅｓｅ　ｏｎｅｓ I can type from my Japanese keyboard setting, but at least always using half width in English and always using full width in Japanese here is always consistent format for articles, similar to how there's half width Japanese katakana characters such as ﾎﾟｹｯﾄﾓﾝｽﾀｰ.
 * For example, I think that カロス地方にやてっきた！夢と冒険のはじまり！！ should be preferred over カロス地方にやてっきた! 夢と冒険のはじまり!! in every reference it is referred to here or any half width version of the katakana.
 * I think we can refer to the earthquake and tsunami that caused the postponement of the fishing sommelier episode and the Rocket and Plasma gang episodes not being aired to this day as the Touhoku earthquake and tsunami and link to its Wikipedia page, instead of referring to it as the Great East Japan Earthquake in bold, mainly because it also involved a tsunami and that is just another name for the earthquake and it is not the main subject of the article (whereas we usually always bold the name of the subject of the article in the opening to give a name for it), another reason because is that putting it in bold unnecessarily emphasizes it in a tone that implies that whoever is reading the article does not live in Japan and has no awareness of the earthquake happening in their country. We should also be neutral when mentioning geographical locations per neutral point of view because the wiki is readable for anyone who can use English fluently, not just those who do not live in a country where the native popularly spoken language is not English - we should also refer to Japan neutrally as we do any other country in the world it should be no different, as there are also people born natively in Japan who read English language wikis, and the Japanese Wikipedia also has a Wikipedia namespace page asking that its natively Japanese users only use tone and language in articles that takes everything from a global perspective, not just implying a Japan perspective, so do all the other Wikipedias for languages that are generally only dominantly spoken in one country.
 * Basically, what I'm talking about is neutral point of view. Nothing on an article should be there to imply that no one reading the article lives in that country, according to which I've removed the second reference in the same sentence on the Kanto page of Tokyo being a Japanese capital as it said something like "Kanto is named after a location in Japan known as Tokyo which is the Japanese capital of the country" or something along those words because it makes an (although somewhat) minor implication that whoever reads the article does not live in Japan by specifying that it's in Japan for a second time in the same sentence.
 * Another thing, I wouldn't consider this name calling. While that user's grammar is not that highly understandable, he's essentially saying "We're shutdown (as in inactive) due to [the] Energy X moderator (as in admin) [blocking us]. But I'm currently editing other wikis."

 Pokémon Gamer  * 11:29, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * As for consistency, I think we should use American English spellings of words in articles (in other words, color, honor, behavior, rather than colour, honour, or behaviour) due to the Pocket Monsters franchise being translated into English within the United States, and the English version of the games, anime, etc. all use American English grammar as such. I'm a native of the country, so it's not really difficult to remember to use, and it's not like they would feel the need to actually go through the script of the games and change every reference to "color" as "colour" or "canceled" to "cancelled", because if we're going to be consistent, it's best to use the grammar style of the native country of whatever language it is (in other words, the English translated versions of Pokémon such as in the United Kingdom and Canada are based on those in the United States).
 * Edit: And another thing, I don't think we should have different listings for Spanish and Italian Pokémon names because they are always the same as the English names. If they were to ever start to break that tradition and make up new names, then I guess we may be able to add those, but they always use the same names as the English names and never make up new ones for those languages.  Pokémon Gamer  * 11:47, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think just covering those languages under that group would get the word across better than listing them separately. As for the punctuation, I'm saying it should maybe be full width punctuation for the exclamation marks, question marks, commas and periods in all cases of Japanese where it appears such as episode titles (i.e. ！？. 、, not !?.,), that's so we're going by a consistent format in episode titles. It also looks better when comparing it to the English text on the articles, just like how Bulbapedia and Bulb's Japanese wiki have a consistent formatting that is preferred for cases of it appearing. Bulb uses full width in all cases, and the Japanese wiki they have use half width on the episode pages themselves and full width on the episode lists. I think we should use full width in all cases because it looks better when compared to the half width English text on the page and gives it a consistent format.  Pokémon Gamer  * 12:53, August 7, 2017 (UTC)

(reset indent) I think we can translate 海底の in BW098's title as either "undersea" or "abyssal". This isn't entirely nitpicking, because it would make it true if we put a trivia mention there of the English title being an exact translation of the Japanese title, us translating it as "undersea" instead of "underwater" would make it true. XY024's English title shows that TPCi generally translates 海底の as "undersea" but at the same time, 海底 and 遺跡 are officially translated as "abyssal" and "ruins" in the English name for Abyssal Ruins respectively, so it's hard to tell whether we should have it as abyssal or undersea. I don't think we should put it as "Meloetta and the Undersea Temple! (メロエッタと海底の神殿！)" because that would imply that the episode was not dubbed, I think we could list it both in the translation and the English title with the translation the same as the English title ("Meloetta and the Undersea Temple! (メロエッタと海底の神殿！)"). It could maybe be translated as "Meloetta and the Undersea Temple!" because it's meant to be taken as if the English dub title is an exact translation of the Japanese one and 海底の is translated by TPCi as "undersea", after all the Abyssal Ruins is not called 海底の遺跡, it's called 海底遺跡. Pocketmonsters.net calls the episode "Meloetta and the Abyssal Temple!" for the Japanese title because they use official English names for minor things such as moves and locations, though based on the dub title being an exact translation of the Japanese one, it may be best for us to translate it the same as the English title.  Pokémon Gamer  * 13:12, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have Japanese as a keyboard option, so I can just go in and type them out without needing to copy and paste them in, I don't need to copy and paste the full title in just for a few characters, I can just type them in there.  Pokémon Gamer  * 13:19, August 7, 2017 (UTC)

The dub's 16th season
Should we refer to it as "Pokémon: Adventures in Unova" for content in episodes before the name change and "Pokémon: Adventures in Unova and Beyond" for content in episodes after the name change? This is due to episodes before the 125th episode of the series, titled "Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!" in the dub, not being called "in Beyond" in the season name and this is mainly supported by how the logo in the WTP segment is the one without "[...] and Beyond" and that's the official name that goes for episodes before BW125 and for episodes BW125 and later, "and Beyond" is inserted at the end. It can work like this: Pokémon: BW Adventures in Unova. We aren't going to restart from one at BW126 and consider it a new season, we can just continue picking up with the current one's order. We always go by the DVD's for which episodes fall under a season (apparently that's the case, otherwise we'd by calling the latter episodes of the "Pokémon: Indigo League" series as season 2 episodes, because that's how it is on the television seasons, due to the networks considering their seasons not to go beyond 52 episodes), also according to which episodes before BW125 are considered without the "and Beyond" thing at the end, and that DVD was released in 2014 according to the listings for it which I found, as we go by the DVD seasons (which go by the season titles specifically), not the seasons in which it aired on TV that the official English-language Pokémon site and iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon Video go by.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:18, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, best to just have it noted that it was that before then, but that DVD releases have it as it was before the change for episodes that came before it, besides "Adventures in Unova and Beyond" can be used to refer to an overall description of the series than just the episodes before it. And Wikia staff got my username display customization to work.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:31, August 7, 2017 (UTC)
 * It had to use the encoded form of the character and then it would work and there was a comma missing after Ellis99's username.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:42, August 7, 2017 (UTC)

Hey, The Claws of Santa is constantly swearing in his comments, after being told more than once to stop.--

DP082
In DP082, the character Hiroki/Takuya was originally Hiroki for original airings and Takuya in later airings. Should we maybe list an image (Hamilton.png) for the design of the character in the later airings (i.e., the design that is generally accepted as the updated main design, and was used in the dub) and put a picture of the original design (Hamilton original design.png) in the trivia section? As a small thumbnailed image for example? I can get a picture of the original design from the "next episode preview" segment that's shown in DP081 because even later airings or DVD releases did not include the updated design in the preview segment that's shown at the end of the episode.  Pokémon Gamer  * 14:41, August 8, 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's a single character for a single episode. It was updated for rereleases of the Japanese-language version and in the dubbed English releases. That's what I was saying (and the Japanese versions of episodes are not exclusive to first airings on TV Tokyo, to torrents that come from the first airing and the first airings on its affiliated networks contrary to popular belief, it is also rereleased on Hulu, Amazon Prime, and the rental DVD's, where the updated design is included, and channels such as Kids Station and BS Japan air reruns of the episodes too). Although I don't know how we could do a single image gallery on the character page for the old design in the original airing. Would it be more logically best to just list the old design to the right as a thumbnailed image?  Pokémon Gamer  * 15:00, August 8, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Underaged users on Discussion post
''Might need to be blocked off thought i'd report my finds to you once i have a under aged user confirmed i'll let you know below okay. Regards...Trainer Micah (talk) 17:35, August 9, 2017 (UTC) ''

Nervermind...Trainer Micah (talk) 18:02, August 9, 2017 (UTC)

"Magician Berry"
Just to let you know for SM035, "Magician Berry" is a horribly flawed translation of マゴのみ made by those highly inaccurate subs that are released within hours to a day of the episode's airing. The real translation of it is "Mago Berry" and that is the official English term of the word.  Pokémon Gamer  * 23:00, August 9, 2017 (UTC)
 * And when you get around to writing SM036, I've noticed that those subs also mistranslate Kapu Tetefu's nickname as the "God of Life", it's really the "Ruins of Life Guardian Deity".  Pokémon Gamer  * 23:03, August 9, 2017 (UTC)
 * Also, since those early subs tend to be likely to mistranslate words (as they did with SM033 and SM035), I just want to keep this known that "tasogare no sugata" translates to "Dusk Form" in English, because they will likely come up with a mistranslation of it when those early subs release.  Pokémon Gamer  * 14:22, August 10, 2017 (UTC)

Opening songs
If we're not going to use videos on the Japanese song pages, should we just not use them on the English song pages as well? And just specifically use them for the page of the dub season? And should we do full character lists for the Japanese songs as well? Also, I think the page Pokémon - Theme Songs should be renamed Opening and ending songs because it's obvious which franchise it is and the dash is not something that we regularly use in page titles. The least I've done is put the ending songs category under the theme songs category because they are officially termed as "themes" (テーマ) on screen in the episodes themselves during the credits and on the TV Tokyo website. I think we can do the dub theme videos on the main page though because they're English but they're still up to date, for example, at least as of XY/SM, the first two episodes appear to air as previews of the unfinished dubs of the episodes just days later than the original airing which I believe they include the upcoming dub theme for those episodes as well. After all, the reason why the Japanese songs are slightly underrepresented is because of the common misconception that a.) no one ever watches the original Japanese versions of any original series or AG episodes, and the only way such episodes are obtained is through the pocketmonsters group, and that they magically appear to have what no one else does (again, false, because they actually have sources they use, without which they wouldn't be able to put up the subs, I know the sources though, but I won't disclose them because they're pirated and illegal), but then again the only versions pocketmonsters offers for their older encodes is the built-in-stone subs, b.) that everyone watches the English dubs of such episodes only and that the Japanese songs are just out there to build pages on them and they're just a "YouTube only" thing, and c.) that there's only original Japanese versions of the modern episodes, banned episodes, and ones that pocketmonsters have released subbed. The truth is that the English dubs tend to be more accessible but the Japanese versions (old and new episodes alike) are provided via Japanese video on demand services like Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime (the former two, I actually pay for monthly, the latter of which someone else who pays for it yearly gives me videos of them, but the only reason no one else seems to be able to access them except for me, is because they're region locked to only be accessible in Japan, but they base it on IP address, which means that I can access them even though I don't live in Japan), and I know where to find downloadable videos of the Japanese episodes from reruns on Kids Station and BS Japan, all being methods that no one else on this wiki have in mind. The only Japanese episodes everyone else here obtains are ones pocketmonsters provides subbed, including the banned ones, and the torrents of the newer episodes that are bootlegged and ripped from TV airings, with all the logos and text onscreen and everything. The reason I've been able to provide the wiki with images of the ending themes of older episodes is because while they usually have no videos online to take them from, I know where to find all the older Japanese episodes and they're not through methods usually used by anyone else on this wiki - the ones used by other users are usually from torrents of recent episodes or through someone uploading it on YouTube, and I can even put up images for the Japanese songs in episodes that haven't been subbed yet as I know where to find the original, undubbed, unsubbed episodes myself.

So maybe we can expand on the Japanese songs the same way as for the English songs? (including that page rename for the song list page?) This is because the current definition of "theme songs" on that page appears to apply to opening songs only, but the ending themes are officially considered theme songs, and the templates on pages we've recently updated have also made it clear that "theme songs" is also applicable to original version endings as well.

 Pokémon Gamer  * 10:22, August 11, 2017 (UTC)

Can you please look into Fatboyslim2005? He's been making rude comments towards other users, and I really don't like it.--http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 Annabeth and Percy  🎵You're scared, I'm nervous, but I guess that we did it on purpose.🎵  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 00:47, August 12, 2017 (UTC)

Good. Thank you!--

Message from Orange Mo
Hi, how come we don't use message walls? And how to become promote?

I plan editing here for while. :) Orange Mo (talk) 22:35, August 12, 2017 (UTC)

Oh hi, Energy X, I hope you're having a good day. But I need to ask something regarding blocking users who haven't made any edits? I understand the one that was banned from chat, but why do this? If they haven't broken any policies here then there is no need to block those users. :) Orange Mo (talk) 05:35, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

Keep a eye on my report on discussion post
It seems Pandurang Pantakar & FatboySlim2005 are kinda causing problems follow user Maaz Ghani i reported to watch them.


 * So you notice if they don't stop after i return tomorrow night can you block whoever for two weekends thanks. Sorry i can't link but yeah these two wow. So you notice...Trainer Micah (talk) 00:18, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

And now Rabbital is swearing and generally being rude.--http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 Annabeth and Percy  🎵You're scared, I'm nervous, but I guess that we did it on purpose.🎵  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 16:38, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

The few I've reported to you recently are not new users. They've been here for a while. They know better, and they're just choosing not to follow the rules.--http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 Annabeth and Percy  🎵You're scared, I'm nervous, but I guess that we did it on purpose.🎵  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 16:40, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

"Puppet" series
It's this thing on the official Pokémon YouTube channel. Although I do agree, it may be a candidate for deletion, I don't know enough about the subject to know whether it should be deleted or not (it's not the type of thing we usually cover). All I know is what the content means in English translation.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:08, August 13, 2017 (UTC)
 * Either delete or consider it a shorts series? There are English dubs of Pikachu and other shorts that we have articles on that are "aired" through the official USA localized English website or YouTube channel for the English localized Pokémon channel. If we ever need them, here are the titles and my translations of them (my god, what a pain it is working with pure hiragana for many of these, I need to actually watch them to get context):

And short 20 hasn't released yet, the title was instead revealed onscreen at the end of short 19 on the see you next time thingy. So we don't know anything about it other than of course, vaguely the title.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:54, August 13, 2017 (UTC)
 * Short 1: しんか (Evolution)
 * Short 2: 理想のトレーナー (The Ideal Trainer)
 * Short 3: ひんし (Fainting)
 * Short 4: ふゆのなやみ (Winter Troubles)
 * Short 5: あたらしい ともだち (New Friends)
 * Short 6: マイペース (At My Own Pace)
 * Short 7: バレンタイン (Valentine)
 * Short 8: たきび (Bonfire)
 * Short 9: ポケモンセンター (Pokémon Center)
 * Short 10: なみのり (Surfing)
 * Short 11: アローラのニャース (Alolan Meowth)
 * Short 12: あまいゆうわく
 * Short 13: しりとり (Shiritori)
 * Short 14: ごちそう
 * Short 15: おんがえし (Returning the Favor)
 * Short 16: ニャース商店～Pikachu in the forest編～ (Meowth Business ~Pikachu in the forest edition~)
 * Short 17: ピクニック (Picnic)
 * Short 18: ビートボックス (Beatboxing)
 * Short 19: こわいはなし (Scary Stories)
 * Short 20: バトル (Battle)
 * As for those images, there doesn't appear to be many where I can edit them without there being a noticeable edit (that's why I just clean images from the start without using the dub's garbage with the Cartoon Network logo). Usually for anime images, I always obtain them from logoless sources because that's my style of uploading anime images, I'm not saying it's required. Maybe it's best to check to see if there are other sources where they can be obtained without said logo, watermark or whatever.  Pokémon Gamer  * 19:58, August 13, 2017 (UTC)
 * Nah, I think it's possible to edit those with the English translation over the Japanese text box. Bulbapedia prefers to edit out and blank the text box if it's not an official translation or use the Japanese ones as temporaries. I can't exactly do this without messing up the look of the image, and that's that - it's nothing to do with willing to do it - it's about being able to do it without messing up the image, and that's not possible. The reason I was able to easily edit out the logo out of those images on that other wiki is because it's a small logo over a background that still looks fairly legitimate without messing it up when editing it. If you can give me any Japanese sources and if I can find the font used in the textboxes, I can try typing them in and photoshopping the image to remove the logo that way. I don't see why it would be preferred to noticeably screw up the image in favor of not having the logo - it's best to photoshop the English text over a Japanese image if indeed that is possible, which I don't know yet. Like, I can do it without messing up the whole image, it's just that the bottom right will look awkward. Maybe I can upload an example of that to show?  Pokémon Gamer  * 20:26, August 13, 2017 (UTC)
 * This is my best attempt at removing the logo text out of one of them. Unlike anime episodes which I can access clean textless and logoless videos of, I cannot get textless images of that because I'm not an expert at finding manga sources. I had to use the Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool. The possibility of editing an image to remove text without noticeably screwing it up is based on what the specific logo is and what's supposed to be behind it.  Pokémon Gamer  * 20:49, August 13, 2017 (UTC)

Excuse me, but can you help me with something please?

http://pokemon.wikia.com/d/p/3074991977364718732/r/3075035433424389802#32338147

Please help!!!! Stop this madness!!! (This is actually quite serious)

This user is just trolling, insulting users, and such. Maybe an alt/sock of another account. Can you check it out?--http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 Annabeth and Percy  🎵You're scared, I'm nervous, but I guess that we did it on purpose.🎵  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/howtotrainyourdragon/images/f/f8/Toothless_Glasses.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161110045342 02:43, August 14, 2017 (UTC)

Seasons
For the opening in the American season episodes (due to us going by the US seasons), once we get up to SM053, should we stop listing Under The Alolan Sun as the opening theme? The reason is because all seasons produced under the TPCi dub have only gone up to 52 episodes, unlike the original ones done by 4Kids where the production seasons and the DVD seasons (the latter of which we go by) were inconsistent due to limitations of American television networks - they aren't given free will to choose an amount of episodes that goes past 52, so they considered all episodes that share a common title (Pokémon: Indigo League, for example) season 1 on the dub DVD's (the US dub DVD's being the ones we go by for our season listings here) but season 1 production-wise ends with the episode titled The Breeding Center Secret in English (which is not an error on the English site's part, they are intentionally going by the production order that TV networks allow up to). In the earlier 4Kids ones for seasons 1-5 and the beginning one with season 6 which was also dubbed by 4Kids, the season numbering in the production order and the season numbering on the DVD's (which goes by the "common title" of the arc) was inconsistent. With the DVD's, they are not held with the episode time and number restriction the networks restrict them to. The TV guides do consider "Pokémon: Indigo League" a one-season series (i.e., arc), but that does not mean the production season is the whole arc, that's just the season title arc (the version of the term "season 1" that we go by). However, let's get to the point:

The current ones, all the ones that are being produced by The Pokémon Company International (TPCi), have the same amount of episodes per season as the DVD's - any expectation to go beyond that fails to understand how seasons work in television production. Because the American networks restrict them to 52 episodes per season (production-wise) and that's how much they expect to be produced for the dub, they also consider the TPCi-produced episodes in the production season and the DVD season titles to be the same to fall within that restriction, unlike the 4Kids-dubbed episodes where we stick with the "common title" of the arc to refer to a season (i.e., the DVD seasons), not the season of the dub's production on the network that only goes up to 52. So, Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon (the 20th season of the English US dub) is definitely going to be over, and whatever episode is announced to be SM053 or any later episode number for that matter is definitely not going to be season 20, and is definitely not going to have the Under The Alolan Sun theme. It might be split up into part 1 and 2 like XY was with XYZ following it or have different season titles created like Best Wishes was, but anything SM053 or later is definitely not going to be season 20 and is thus definitely not going to have the Under The Alolan Sun theme, if you think carefully with an understanding of TPCi and TV network restrictions (it might even be some episodes before SM053 that will fall under season 21, but all I know is that anything past SM052 (SM053 and later) will definitely not be season 20).

So when we get towards SM053 and later episodes without the season 21 title announced by then (and the seasons thing not being applicable to the Japanese version or Japan in general), how should we do this? Should we create another table and split it on the season 20 as a temporary listing until we get any announcement on what season 21 of the English dub will be? It's not like it's guaranteed that it'll be announced alongside the Japanese run, and The Pokémon Company International advertising it as "a dub of a[n American] season" as though those exist in the Japanese version (they do not) is actually a misnomer - they are not separated that way in the original version. Bulb's German wiki separates these by seasons too so we shouldn't break apart from the dub season organizing that we're currently using (as Germany is located outside of Asia, and thus TPCi exists in Germany, and the dubbing staff makes the German version a dub over the English dub, including the USA English dub's season separation), we should just find a way to recognize that whatever episodes are SM053 or later are definitely not going to be season 20 episodes - all I know we can do is not list the Under The Alolan Sun opening in the template for those episodes, because it is definitely not going to be that when any episodes SM053 or later get around to dubbing. There's no early insight with public knowledge with TPCi - for all we know, they could've already dubbed several episodes that have not yet been announced in the Japanese version, as we know they dub episodes around (at least) 3 months or earlier prior to airing in the US (including before the Japanese airing) according to info we've had leaked before (including XY135's dub title, Rocking Kalos Defenses! leaking out to the public by some Cartoon Network fan named nhjm449 (who according to him, knows little about the anime) just days before the Japanese title was revealed), also according to the English voice of Meowth in the dub back when 4Kids was still dubbing it and Kids WB was still airing the English dub.

Finally, should we stop considering Pokémon Anime a proper noun (as in capitalizing Anime in the page title and on the page itself)? It's nowhere towards "special" just because it's made in Japan and just because the majority of users on this wiki do not live in Japan at all and have never been in Japan their whole life. (If it was the latter reason, then we're basing it on systemic bias in terms of global perspective, which we shouldn't have on an English wiki that assumes that the user or reader is fluent in English - not that the user lives or doesn't in a certain country - which is the reason why I removed the wording on Porygon-Z's article about the "stereotyping of how the Japanese pronounce their [L and R syllables]", because it takes it from an exclusively third person viewpoint assuming that the reader is not natively Japanese.) Whatever the reason is for why we're (somehow) capitalizing it, it's not a proper noun, and anime is just one of those shortened katakana words from animation and then considered in English as anime based on the shortened form in katakana to refer to Japanese animation, and I support lowercasing it when using the word anime on this wiki to refer to the whole series.  Pokémon Gamer  * 23:34, August 14, 2017 (UTC)
 * Another question: I think we should also only consider an episode "banned" if it was removed from the English dub due to being age-inappropriate or controversial, therefore I don't think we should consider clip show episodes such as DP120 as banned ones because there was nothing wrong with them - it's just that the dub doesn't consider them relevant. The word banned also implies that it was removed for a controversy-related reason. The episodes being Japanese clip shows with Japanese text on almost every shot and the episode meant to promote the series as an overview or as a whole in the Japanese version specifically is why the English dub wouldn't include it - it's not removed from the dub for being inappropriate. This can also be put up against any other episode, such as this one that we don't consider banned - I think we should only consider an episode banned if it was banned for inappropriateness or controversy such as the Porygon one for example, or the Ice Cave one, not just because the English dub decided to pass up on it due to finding it irrelevant.  Pokémon Gamer  * 00:19, August 15, 2017 (UTC)

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 * Okay, we can maybe wait until there's any confirmation on a season 21 and list all of them as season 20 episodes until then? Because while season 20 of the dub is certainly not going to go beyond 52 episodes due to the TV company's expectations for seasons, there can be some episodes before SM052 that will fall under whatever season 21 is so we can wait for any announcement or until anyone can access information on it through any official or reliable sources. Of course, they may do the same as 4Kids did and consider DVD seasons separate from TV seasons at some point too, that's the only other expectation that can be true if they were to consider season titles apart from the production seasons. All I know is that the production seasons are certainly never going to go past 52 episodes due to network broadcast restrictions that the network companies have, they may do the same as Indigo League and consider it a full "series" though, but the way I see it, they may likely split Sun & Moon into two or three as they did with XY.
 * (Nevermind, see the comment below).  Pokémon Gamer  * 12:58, August 15, 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see what you mean, not. Maybe "Skipped episodes" is better, because that would include any episode that was undubbed, not just banned for controversy, as well as episodes that were skipped in the original version such as AG101. Of course this would include episodes they were too lazy to dub, such as the post-series specials and the second one of those for XY, and specials they didn't dub, because it's unknown which ones would be considered normal and special by the dub. And we might also be able to list a section for episodes that are banned from rerunning such as IL038 and the temporarily rerun-banned episodes in the US of the Sekiei League (known as Indigo League in the English dub) that were temporarily pulled from air due to the 9/11 attacks.  Pokémon Gamer  * 13:01, August 15, 2017 (UTC)