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 This policy does not prohibit Bulbapedia from including differeing opinions where they exist in the fandom or the games.  However, Bulbapedia does not take a stand on these differences or elevate one point of view over another.
-===Formatting, Templates, and List Sorting===
+===General formatting guidance===
 * For backgrounds and templates, obtrusively bright colors should be avoided. Generally, Bulbapedia style favors pastels, particularly green, blue, or gray, depending on the content.
-* Smaller tables are generally considered better, assuming they still have adequate information. Even little things, such as a thin 1px border, are preferred.
+* Smaller tables are generally considered better, assuming they still have adequate information. Even little things, such as a thin 1px border, are preferred to large borders.
 * When listing a TM or HM as an item, make use of the {{template|TM}} or {{template|HM}} templates, written as <code><nowiki>{{TM|50|Overheat}}</nowiki></code> for {{TM|50|Overheat}} and <code><nowiki>{{HM|08|Dive}}</nowiki></code> for {{HM|08|Dive}}.
-* When writing episode names, write them as <code><nowiki>''[[Episode code|Episode name]]''</nowiki></code>; for example, the fifth episode of the [[original series]] is ''[[EP005|Showdown in Pewter City]]''.
+* {{cat|Navigation templates}} should aspire to be as useful as possible, not as large as possible. Navigation templates do not need to be exhaustive to be useful.
-* In an article, the title of an album should be italicized. When writing the titles of individual songs, including anime opening and ending themes, italics should ''not'' be used.
-* When multiple numbered [[route]]s are to be listed, they should be listed in numerical order, and only the first should have any prefix to it; for example, "{{p|Jigglypuff}} appears on [[Route]]s {{rtn|3|Kanto}}, {{rtn|4|Kanto}}, {{rtn|5|Kanto}}, {{rtn|6|Kanto}}, {{rtn|7|Kanto}}, {{rtn|8|Kanto}}, {{rtn|34|Johto}}, {{rtn|35|Johto}}, and {{rtn|115|Hoenn}}, depending on the [[Core series|version]] played" is preferred to "{{p|Jigglypuff}} appears on {{rt|3|Kanto}}, {{rt|4|Kanto}}, {{rt|5|Kanto}}, {{rt|6|Kanto}}, {{rt|7|Kanto}}, {{rt|8|Kanto}}, {{rt|34|Johto}}, {{rt|35|Johto}}, and {{rt|115|Hoenn}} depending on the [[Core series|version]] played". The {{cat|Link templates|link template}} {{template|rtn}} can be used for handily linking route numbers.
-* {{cat|Navigation templates}} should aspire to be as useful as possible, not as large as possible. For some reason, several users are fond of trying to put entire articles worth of information on a single navigation template, resulting in gigantic templates at the bottom of articles interconnecting many articles which are only related by a very long tangent. This is tacky and useless; try to keep navigation templates simple but useful.
 ==Pokémon franchise terminology==