Talk:Raichu (Pokémon): Difference between revisions

I really can not find where else to ask this, so I'm just asking this here. Why combine alternate forms into the same entry box as the original? First of all, why do it for regional forms like Alolan Raichu, or other forms where an individual of the species can not change between them, like the Cap Pikachu or Shellos forms? I have to ask that question because Meowth does not combine its regional forms into one entry box, only combining Kantonian Meowth and Gigantamax Meowth. Second, why do it at all? It looks bad, to put it simply. It adds at least one line within the entry boxes that looks really bad, in the way it separates the game name boxes (I don't know what else to call them) and generally bloats them up, taking space that makes it harder to locate any given entry in the box. It makes it far more difficult to locate entries for a given form. If I want to see the entries for just the Gigantamax forms of Pokémon that have them, there is no simple shortcut to do so, and if I were someone who wasn't particularly sure of when a Pokémon's form was added, it would make searching for its entries even more difficult. Some users may not be aware that alternate forms did not start getting unique Pokédex entries until Generation VII, and the way the current entry boxes are, it could easily make it far more confusing than it could be. It also makes it more difficult to compare the entries for one form to another for the same form, when there are extra entries of a different form bloating the entry box. In short, I think it takes up too much space within the entry box, and while separating the entry boxes may take up more space in the article, I believe that it is better design philosophy to set things out in a more organized fashion, which in my opinion is form -> game rather than game -> form, because of the bloating that having both forms in the same game section can cause for that game section. [[User:MarioMiner|MarioMiner]] ([[User talk:MarioMiner|talk]]) 03:31, 11 June 2020 (UTC)