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::Arguably, since there are quotes like ''"Have this Pokémon hold an Up-Grade, and Link Trade the Pokémon to evolve it."''[http://projectpokemon.org/rawdb/black2/msg/395.php] in B2W2, a Link Trade is basically equivalent to any kind of trade. (If we nitpick, though, we can interpret Link Trade as a type of trade, and the statement does not ''strictly'' exclude other types of trade also causing evolution.) Strictly speaking, though, the Japanese (通信交換) does basically suggest action-at-a-distance, not like "You hand me your Poke Ball and I'll hand you mine" or something (as too the English does, roughly). | ::Arguably, since there are quotes like ''"Have this Pokémon hold an Up-Grade, and Link Trade the Pokémon to evolve it."''[http://projectpokemon.org/rawdb/black2/msg/395.php] in B2W2, a Link Trade is basically equivalent to any kind of trade. (If we nitpick, though, we can interpret Link Trade as a type of trade, and the statement does not ''strictly'' exclude other types of trade also causing evolution.) Strictly speaking, though, the Japanese (通信交換) does basically suggest action-at-a-distance, not like "You hand me your Poke Ball and I'll hand you mine" or something (as too the English does, roughly). | ||
::Also, if we also consider "Link Battle", that almost certainly applies solely to two players with two games (or at least "action-at-a-distance" again) and certainly not to the majority of NPC battles in the game. It would be reasonable to say, then, that "Link Trade" does not necessarily equate to all forms of trade. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 03:53, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | ::Also, if we also consider "Link Battle", that almost certainly applies solely to two players with two games (or at least "action-at-a-distance" again) and certainly not to the majority of NPC battles in the game. It would be reasonable to say, then, that "Link Trade" does not necessarily equate to all forms of trade. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 03:53, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | ||
:I understand your point but it's also nonsensical to have "trade" as the translation of 通信交換 when that is officially translated as Link Trade ("trade" is simply 交換). Like mentioned above, there are other types of trades, like [[in-game trade]]s, [[Pokémon Communication Center|Trade Corner]]/[[Global Trade System|GTS]] trades, and [[Wonder Trade]]s. Perhaps it's better to leave this article at "trade" while reworking it into an access point for articles on specific trade types, including Link Trades (in a similar fashion to what we did to [[menu]] back when it was a mess of an article), at the same time. [[User:SatoMew2|SatoMew2]] ([[User talk:SatoMew2|talk]]) 12:55, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | :::I understand your point but it's also nonsensical to have "trade" as the translation of 通信交換 when that is officially translated as Link Trade ("trade" is simply 交換). Like mentioned above, there are other types of trades, like [[in-game trade]]s, [[Pokémon Communication Center|Trade Corner]]/[[Global Trade System|GTS]] trades, and [[Wonder Trade]]s. Perhaps it's better to leave this article at "trade" while reworking it into an access point for articles on specific trade types, including Link Trades (in a similar fashion to what we did to [[menu]] back when it was a mess of an article), at the same time. [[User:SatoMew2|SatoMew2]] ([[User talk:SatoMew2|talk]]) 12:55, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | ||
::::通信交換 seems to have been edited in [[Special:diff/1552413|sometime]] after BW was introduced. Since the user didn't include a reason, we can't be sure if they may have made a mistake and it should have just been 交換 or if they were somehow justified. (Someone could ask them, but the user has been inactive for a while, and the edit was a long time ago.) As far as I know, though, it is a mistake, so...I was ready to correct it before I saw you had. =P | |||
::::While it might be useful to have a more explicit list of links to all the types of trading (I don't really know what a "Link Trade" page would look like if we wanted to include that as a "type" of trade, though), trading in general has a lot of commonalities; this page is very useful at covering those commonalities. [[User:Tiddlywinks|Tiddlywinks]] ([[User talk:Tiddlywinks|talk]]) 13:46, 31 August 2015 (UTC) | |||