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-Several pieces of content in the core series Pokémon games depend on the games having a timeline, but a complete timeline cannot be drawn from the games themselves. Series producer [[Junichi Masuda]], in an interview with GameInformer on October 24, 2019, stated that [[Game Freak]] does not apply a timeline to the [[Pokémon world]] rigorously.<ref group="note">[https://www.gameinformer.com/interview/2019/10/24/game-freak-talks-sword-and-shields-champion-wild-area-interactions-and-more Game Freak Talks Sword And Shield's Champion, Wild Area Interactions, And More] by Brian Shea<br>'''Masuda:''' ''It starts to get a little complicated if you pay too much attention to timelines. Like, there might be a professor that appears and it wouldn’t make sense at all if we applied that kind of timeline logic. So we try not to apply it too rigorously. Maybe one hint is that if a character is appearing with Professor Oak, they’re living in the same era. Rather than some series where it makes sense to have the timeline progress as you go and the story evolve, the approach that Pokémon takes is expanding the world, like what the regions are, and making it richer as we go. Rather than a timeline, it’s more of a physical space thing.''</ref>
+Several occurrences in the [[core series]] Pokémon games depend on the games being connected to each other in a timeline, but a complete timeline cannot be drawn from the games themselves. Series producer [[Junichi Masuda]], in an interview with GameInformer on October 24, 2019, stated that [[Game Freak]] does not apply a timeline to the [[Pokémon world]] rigorously.<ref group="note">[https://www.gameinformer.com/interview/2019/10/24/game-freak-talks-sword-and-shields-champion-wild-area-interactions-and-more Game Freak Talks Sword And Shield's Champion, Wild Area Interactions, And More] by Brian Shea<br>'''Masuda:''' ''It starts to get a little complicated if you pay too much attention to timelines. Like, there might be a professor that appears and it wouldn’t make sense at all if we applied that kind of timeline logic. So we try not to apply it too rigorously. Maybe one hint is that if a character is appearing with Professor Oak, they’re living in the same era. Rather than some series where it makes sense to have the timeline progress as you go and the story evolve, the approach that Pokémon takes is expanding the world, like what the regions are, and making it richer as we go. Rather than a timeline, it’s more of a physical space thing.''</ref>
 On May 7, 2014, Game Freak employee [[Toshinobu Matsumiya]]'s Twitter account posted a timeline of the core series Pokémon games up to that point.<ref name="Matsumiya">[https://archive.is/D9iPz Matsumiya tweet] (archived from [https://twitter.com/matsumiyan/status/464052839870787584 Twitter])</ref> However, the tweet was subsequently deleted.