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Bulbapedia's policy with linking is to make certain the consistency of related pages; for example, while there is no other thing known as '''Fire Blast''', the [[move]] Fire Blast is located at [[Fire Blast (move)]]. This is so that there is consistency with linking to articles on moves, as some, like {{m|Psychic}}, share their name with another aspect of Pokémon.

While more often, this would be easily done simply by linking the article as <code><nowiki>[[Fire Blast (move)|Fire Blast]]</nowiki></code>, this requires much tedious punctuation, with vertical pipes and parentheses typed over and over for a Pokémon's moveset. For this reason, {{cat|link templates}} were created, which allow anyone to link to an article with a certain suffixed or prefixed word, and link the article as its base name. Fire Blast is linked as <code><nowiki>{{m|Fire Blast}}</nowiki></code>, so that it appears as {{m|Fire Blast}}.

Although link templates are encouraged in day-to-day usage, it is asked that they are only used for the intended purpose. Any use otherwise may be considered a "laziness template". For example, consider writing <code><nowiki>[[Pokémon Trainer]]</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>{{g|Trainer}}</nowiki></code>. Usage of laziness templates will be reverted, and offenders will be warned.