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I'm loathe to start yet another debate on nomenclature but, as proven by SnorlaxMonster's scan of the official guidebook [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21584420/BP/Images/XY%20guidebook%20p374-5.jpg] , IVs are called '''individual strengths''' multiple times, as well as being referred to as "the strengths of the individual" elsewhere. I feel as if all I'm doing lately is arguing in favour of changing everything on the wiki against the will of the staff, though I believe the possibility of a move is something that should be at least discussed. - [[User:Blazios|<span style="color:navy">Blazios</span>]] [[User Talk:Blazios|<span style="color:limegreen"><sub>talk</sub></span>]] 15:29, 21 November 2013 (UTC) | I'm loathe to start yet another debate on nomenclature but, as proven by SnorlaxMonster's scan of the official guidebook [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21584420/BP/Images/XY%20guidebook%20p374-5.jpg] , IVs are called '''individual strengths''' multiple times, as well as being referred to as "the strengths of the individual" elsewhere. I feel as if all I'm doing lately is arguing in favour of changing everything on the wiki against the will of the staff, though I believe the possibility of a move is something that should be at least discussed. - [[User:Blazios|<span style="color:navy">Blazios</span>]] [[User Talk:Blazios|<span style="color:limegreen"><sub>talk</sub></span>]] 15:29, 21 November 2013 (UTC) | ||
: I don't believe the guidebook is necessarily establishing a term here (note that the phrase "individual strengths" occurs exactly ''twice'' before it segues into a discussion of [[Super Training]] -- not enough to establish a good pattern). Making the matters more confusing is that we do have one '''in-game''' phrase for it already: Three generations feature an NPC offering to judge the "intriguing potential" of your Pokemon, however he himself only uses the term once ''and'' also refers to individual IV's as "stats" for short. --''[[User:Stratelier|Stratelier]]'' 23:17, 29 November 2013 (UTC) | : I don't believe the guidebook is necessarily establishing a term here (note that the phrase "individual strengths" occurs exactly ''twice'' before it segues into a discussion of [[Super Training]] -- not enough to establish a good pattern). Making the matters more confusing is that we do have one '''in-game''' phrase for it already: Three generations feature an NPC offering to judge the "intriguing potential" of your Pokemon, however he himself only uses the term once ''and'' also refers to individual IV's as "stats" for short. --''[[User:Stratelier|Stratelier]]'' 23:17, 29 November 2013 (UTC) | ||
::As I stated, they are referred to as "the strengths of the individual" elsewhere in the guidebook [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21584420/BP/Images/XY%20guidebook%20p372-3.jpg], which may as well be the same thing (it's in the same diagram that lists base stats and the strengths of the species as names). Does the fact that it's also the title of the paragraph specifically defining and explaining IVs not also somewhat give credence to it as a name? - [[User:Blazios|<span style="color:navy">Blazios</span>]] [[User Talk:Blazios|<span style="color:limegreen"><sub>talk</sub></span>]] 23:37, 29 November 2013 (UTC) | |||