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:The major problem with the argument that it ''must'' be renamed is that we have no policy for this specific situation. The happiness/friendship thing didn't transplant an existing page title, while the egg group pages all had "(Egg group)" at the end of their names anyway so transplanting wasn't a problem there. Plus the lack of capitalization makes me doubt this is an official term in the same way that "Ability" is - remember, the series capitalizes terms relating to game mechanics. '''At the very least, we should wait for October 12 before we definitively move this page, to ensure that "base stats" is used in a greater capacity than it has been in the last three generations.''' [[User:Bwburke94|Bwburke94]] ([[User talk:Bwburke94|talk]]) 01:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC) | :The major problem with the argument that it ''must'' be renamed is that we have no policy for this specific situation. The happiness/friendship thing didn't transplant an existing page title, while the egg group pages all had "(Egg group)" at the end of their names anyway so transplanting wasn't a problem there. Plus the lack of capitalization makes me doubt this is an official term in the same way that "Ability" is - remember, the series capitalizes terms relating to game mechanics. '''At the very least, we should wait for October 12 before we definitively move this page, to ensure that "base stats" is used in a greater capacity than it has been in the last three generations.''' [[User:Bwburke94|Bwburke94]] ([[User talk:Bwburke94|talk]]) 01:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
::Game mechanics are sometimes capitalized, but [[User:SnorlaxMonster/Pokémon Syntax|plenty aren't]]; not being capitalized has no significance. As for waiting until October 12: this is not a new name, this is an old name that is seeing increased usage making it ''unfeasible'' not to move it. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#A70000">'''Snorlax'''</span>]][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#0000A7">'''Monster'''</span>]] 07:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC) | ::Game mechanics are sometimes capitalized, but [[User:SnorlaxMonster/Pokémon Syntax|plenty aren't]]; not being capitalized has no significance. As for waiting until October 12: this is not a new name, this is an old name that is seeing increased usage making it ''unfeasible'' not to move it. --[[User:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#A70000">'''Snorlax'''</span>]][[User talk:SnorlaxMonster|<span style="color:#0000A7">'''Monster'''</span>]] 07:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
:::Let me just add my input here, since I seems to have stumbled into this mess of a discussion. As far as "official" vs. "fan-made" terms go, I am pretty sure that the current names have been deemed official in the past (if I'm wrong, fine). Furthermore, I've seen multiple instances of the argument that if it's official, it must be changed even if the "official" term is wrong. Well, that's fairly contradictory in my opinion. This is all pre-release information, and it may very well have been a wording/translation mistake on the part of the people who put it out. If we were to call everything put out in "official" material canonical, then we'd be saying Steel resists Fire and Water, which the Prima Colosseum guide states. The point I'm trying to make here is that even the people at the very top of the chain in the making and information releasing of Pokémon games make mistakes. It would be much easier to wait until X and Y are out, because if it turns out the calling of EV's "base stats" ''was'' a mistake, and the pages end up being moved based on that, they'd only have to be moved ''back'' once the games are out, and that would mess up a ton of things in both directions because of the number of links that would need to be changed for a dual page move such as this. [[User:Schiffy|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 12:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC) | |||
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