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I'm not sure if this would belong on Bulbapedia or not, but apparently, [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILhyYIjArYLimeWEUJvSa0BsCnB5k706MWN2Pa7fA9c/edit#heading=h.uy5vyeqcaqv through a highly convoluted method that involves external programs, you can trade any Pokemon on a Generation II game into a Generation III game]. I'm not sure if this would be considered useful for Bulbapedia, but I think it's still notable in some respect; if only because, despite what we thought, it ''was'' possible to bring Pokemon from Gold/Silver/Crystal up to Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/FireRed/LeafGreen; just ''extremely'' convoluted and requiring external software. [[User:Tyruntrum|Tyruntrum]] ([[User talk:Tyruntrum|talk]]) 23:29, 13 April 2015 (UTC) | I'm not sure if this would belong on Bulbapedia or not, but apparently, [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILhyYIjArYLimeWEUJvSa0BsCnB5k706MWN2Pa7fA9c/edit#heading=h.uy5vyeqcaqv through a highly convoluted method that involves external programs, you can trade any Pokemon on a Generation II game into a Generation III game]. I'm not sure if this would be considered useful for Bulbapedia, but I think it's still notable in some respect; if only because, despite what we thought, it ''was'' possible to bring Pokemon from Gold/Silver/Crystal up to Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/FireRed/LeafGreen; just ''extremely'' convoluted and requiring external software. [[User:Tyruntrum|Tyruntrum]] ([[User talk:Tyruntrum|talk]]) 23:29, 13 April 2015 (UTC) | ||
:No, it's not notable. If it some glitch within the games made something like that possible, then it'd be notable. But when people expressly set out to circumvent the game's rules by sheer, brute force, success is not notable; if anything, it's practically inevitable. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 23:54, 13 April 2015 (UTC) | :No, it's not notable. If it some glitch within the games made something like that possible, then it'd be notable. But when people expressly set out to circumvent the game's rules by sheer, brute force, success is not notable; if anything, it's practically inevitable. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 23:54, 13 April 2015 (UTC) | ||
== Move: Link Battle == | |||
I don't think the page should be moved. | |||
First things first, if Gen V is really the first game to give trading a special name (Link Trade), and previous games have all been happy to call it just "trading" (I honestly haven't checked for citable quotes in Gen I-IV, or that "Link Trade" never occured before Gen V), then I think that alone is probably plenty good reason to leave this page at just "Trade". | |||
Beyond that, though, "trade" is just used (even in Gen V+) pretty commonly/freely in a '''''lot''''' of text. You can try to argue that the "proper" term is "Link Trade", but at the same time, if what you hear most often is simply "trade", then that's probably what people are gonna search, and where we should have the page. Even the official X/Y site only uses "Link Trade" on one page, while just "trade" is on five others. The ORAS site is a bit better, but still limits "Link Trade" to a few instances on one page, while another page uses just "trade" very freely. | |||
In short, IMO "Link Trade" is just super jargony. We can include it in the page, but IMO we're much better off just keeping the page at "trade". [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 00:13, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | |||