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:::I don't agree with changing it, Species and Category are Synonymous in this context, plus as Nate's just said, using Category will mix it up royally with the already-used 'Category:...' pages [[User:Azure42|Azure/ChromeVoid42]] ([[User talk:Azure42|talk]]) 16:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC) | :::I don't agree with changing it, Species and Category are Synonymous in this context, plus as Nate's just said, using Category will mix it up royally with the already-used 'Category:...' pages [[User:Azure42|Azure/ChromeVoid42]] ([[User talk:Azure42|talk]]) 16:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC) | ||
::::It was never my intention for the page to be moved. I just wanted to say that it's called category in those games. I believe I added that it's also known as "category" to the top of the article, but it must have been reverted (or I didn't add it at all). [[User:Pikachu Bros.|Pikachu Bros.]] ([[User talk:Pikachu Bros.|talk]]) 16:07, 22 April 2014 (UTC) | ::::It was never my intention for the page to be moved. I just wanted to say that it's called category in those games. I believe I added that it's also known as "category" to the top of the article, but it must have been reverted (or I didn't add it at all). [[User:Pikachu Bros.|Pikachu Bros.]] ([[User talk:Pikachu Bros.|talk]]) 16:07, 22 April 2014 (UTC) | ||
:::::IMO, our frequent usage of "species" to ''not'' mean what's on this page is a much worse problem than any trouble that might arise regarding wiki categories. If you ask me, wiki categories shouldn't be a problem at all; you say "Category", and the meaning is fairly obvious. At the bottom of pages, "Categories" is easy to understand and unlikely to cause any confusion. Or if it's linked in the middle of a page to mean this category/species, then following the link will quickly reveal exactly what was meant. (Although category/species is almost exclusively used in the Pokemon info boxes, and only rarely in the middle of page text, so the ''chance'' for confusion is really ''very'' minimal.) | |||
:::::"Species" is less obvious: it could feasibly mean individual Pokemon or families. Hell, there are even places where people have linked "species" to this page when it should be [[Pokémon (species)]]. The fact is, we use species all over in ways that are already confusing if it's not linked and someone tries to search it (or worse, if it's linked here and shouldn't be). Having the far less common usage, this page ideally should ''not'' be at just "species". If it moved to "category", that'd be great. Otherwise, it'd be nice to be able to move it to something else (maybe "Species (Pokédex)") and turn this "Species" page into a disambig (or redirect to [[Pokémon (species)]] and put "if you were looking for..." there). | |||
:::::The (potential) common usages of "category" are just far less problematic than the common usages of "species". [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 16:33, 22 April 2014 (UTC) | |||