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==Vital syntax==

* Items and all words in them are always capitalized; they are considered proper nouns for the purposes of Bulbapedia. "Leftovers," "Escape Rope," or "Water Stone" are all correct as written; a page would not be titled "Water stone."

** Prior to Generation VI, {{wp|CamelCase}} was common in the games due to character limitations, but later games have largely moved away from its use. The [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]] games typically did not use CamelCase, instead only capitalizing the first letter of words that would be CamelCase in the core series games (e.g. "Deepseatooth").

* Specific types are called "the Water type" and "the Rock type" when used as nouns and "Water-type" and "Rock-type" when used as adjectives, while their subject pages are [[Water (type)]] and [[Rock (type)]], respectively. ''Squirtle is a "Water-type"'' is not correct; ''Squirtle is a '''Water type''''' and ''Squirtle is a '''Water-type Pokémon''''' are. When linking as an adjective, it is preferred that <code><nowiki>{{type|Water}}</nowiki></code> is used rather than <code><nowiki>{{t|Water}}-type</nowiki></code>.

* Evolutionary levels should be designated as "unevolved," "first evolution," and "second evolution" for Pokémon that have undergone zero, one, and two evolutions respectively during their development. The TCG terminology of "basic Pokémon," "stage 1 Pokémon" and "stage 2 Pokémon" do not apply to other media.  

==Hyphenation==

* "Super effective" is never hyphenated. It formatted with a space when used as the object of a conjugation of the verb "to be" ("The attack was super effective"), but is formatted as one word when used adjectivally in front of a noun ("A supereffective attack").

===Types===

**Example: {{p|Squirtle}} is a {{type|Water}} Pokémon.

**Example: {{p|Squirtle}} is a {{t|Water}} type.

**Example: [[Blaine]] specializes in {{t|Fire}} types.

**Example: {{t|Fire}} is super effective against {{type|Grass}} Pokémon.

**Example: The {{t|Steel}} type was introduced in Generation II.

==Capitalization==

===Capitalized===

The following are always capitalized:

*Pokémon

*{{pkmn|Trainer}}

*[[Original Trainer]]

*[[Pokémon Professor]]

*[[List of Pokémon with form differences|Forme]]

*[[Ability]]

*{{pkmn|Egg}}

*[[Egg Group]]

*[[Mega Evolution]]

*[[Berry]]

*{{ga|Trainer Card}}

*[[Mystery Gift]]

*[[the Underground]]

*[[Décor]]

*[[Toy Pokémon]]

*[[Perfect Link]]

*[[Warrior]]

*[[Warlord]]

*[[Warrior Skill]]

===Uncapitalized===

*[[move]]

*[[item]]

*{{pkmn2|wild}}

*[[baby Pokémon]]

*[[physical move]]

*[[special move]]

*[[scalchop|seamitar]]

*[[link]]

*kingdom{{tt|*|Conquest}}

*{{series|original}}

*[[Ghost World|spirit world]]

The names of all people, Pokémon, moves, Abilities, items, Trainer classes, stats (except accuracy and evasion), and [[villainous teams]] are also always capitalized, as are officially named locations (places like "Kurt's house" do not count).

==The==

===Present===

The following always have "the":

*The [[Slowpoke Well]]

*The [[Glitter Lighthouse]]

*The [[Whirl Islands]]

*The [[Sky Pillar]]

*The [[Vista Lighthouse]]

*The [[Spear Pillar]]

*The [[Bittercold]]

===Absent===

The following do not use "the":

*[[White Forest]]

*[[Black City]]

==Deviations==

While Bulbapedia aims to follow the games' formatting in most circumstances, there are a number of cases in which it does not. Some of these are listed below.

* While Pokémon the games classify as neither "Male" nor "Female" are officially "Gender unknown", Bulbapedia refers to such Pokémon as "Genderless". This is because the term "Gender unknown" gives readers the impression that Bulbapedia is simply missing the information, rather than that being the intended display. However, the term "Gender unknown" is used on Bulbapedia is some cases, such as in the title of the [[Egg Group]] "[[Gender unknown (Egg Group)]]".

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