Bulbapedia:Project Locations

Some Bulbapedia members have formed a project to better organize efforts to write and improve articles about locations in the Pokémon world. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or the Bulbapedia forum and see the Bulbapedia:Project Locations/To-do list.

Project Locations

Scope and aims

Project Locations covers all articles about locations in the Pokémon world.

The ultimate goal is to create and standardize articles for every location in the Pokémon world, ranging from popular locations (Cerulean Cave) to the obscure (Pokémon League Reception Gate). All locations in the Pokémon world fall under the scope of this project, except for numbered routes and major named routes, such as Hoenn's Jagged Pass or Kanto's Diglett's Cave, which are under the scope of Project Routes, a subproject of Project Locations, as well as cities and towns, which are covered by Project Cities and Towns, another subproject.

Participants

• TwinsMetsFan: founder and leader of project.
• Tom Temprotran: GIMPing maps and such.

How you can help

You can help by opening the List of locations by name and selecting any location in red (which means that there is no article for it yet) and starting that article, or opening any location that you can provide more information about. Additionally, the list itself needs expanding.

Most of the existing location articles need to be modified to comply with the project standard (see below). You can check Category:Location stubs to see which articles need expanding.

Structure

Infobox information

Articles should use Template:Infobox location, and all known info should be supplied.

Main section

Untitled section that describes the location. Depending on the location, this section may just describe where it is located in the Pokémon world and basic details regarding the area, or may go into considerable detail. Regardless, all text describing the location should be in this section.

Items

A list of items found in this location as well as a description of where the items are.

Pokémon

For locations with wild Pokémon only

A list of Pokémon that appear in this location as well as encounter rates and times of encounter if possible in table form, separated by Generation. The Pokémon should be listed by national Pokédex number, from lowest to highest. If the location has been in only one Generation, there is no need for a third-level Generation heading. See Route 1 and Route 132 for examples of tables.

Differences among Generations

If the location was featured in multiple versions and Generations of Pokémon, the differences between those should be discussed here.

See also

Place all internal links here.

References

Place all references here.

External links

Place all external links which are not references here.

Categories

All articles should use the following category:

• [[Category:(Region) locations]] where (Region) is either Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, or Sevii

All articles should use the following categories where applicable:

• [[Category:Red, Blue and Yellow locations]]
• [[Category:Gold, Silver and Crystal locations]]
• [[Category:Ruby and Sapphire locations]]
• [[Category:Emerald locations]]
• [[Category:FireRed and LeafGreen locations]]
• [[Category:Diamond and Pearl locations]]

Goals

1. To organize, standardize, and expand the articles related to locations in the Pokémon world.

List

The list page for Project Routes is List of locations by name.

Infobox

The Infobox to use for this project is Infobox location.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete routebox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables.

{{Infobox location
|image=
|type=
|location_name=
|location=
|region=
|generation=
}}

Safari Zone Unknown Unknown "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
Map description:	{{{mapdesc}}}
Location:	North of Fuchsia City
Region:	Kanto
Generations:	I, III
Location of Safari Zone in Kanto.
Pokémon world locations

For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in:

• image: name of an image for the location on Bulbagarden Archives
• type: is the type of place the location is located on, or what it is - land, road, water, or cave. This determines how the infobox is colored. (If omitted, color is white.)
• location_name: name of the location
• other_info: (optional) use for alternate names, an additional descriptor, etc.
• location: a brief description of where the article location is found
• region: the region that the location is in
• generation: a list of all generations of games this location has appeared in. Handy template shortcuts include {{subst:Gen|I}} for Generation I, {{subst:Gen|II}} for Generation II, and {{subst:Gen|III}} for Generation III.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one to the right.

{{Infobox location
|image=FL Safari Zone.png
|type=land
|location_name=Safari Zone
|location=North of [[Fuchsia City]]
|region=Kanto
|generation={{subst:Gen|I}}, {{subst:Gen|III}}
}}

Other templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Project Locations notice}}	This article is part of Project Locations, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on every location in the Pokémon world.	To be placed on the bottom of all articles covered by this project below the article to designate the article as part of this project.
{{User Project Locations}}	This user is a member of Project Locations.	Userbox for participants of this project.
{{Locationstub}}	Template:Locationstub	Designates this article relating to Pokémon world locations as a stub.

Other projects

Parent project

This project has no parent project.

Subprojects

The descendants of this project are:

• Project Cities and Towns
• Project Routes

Related projects

No related projects have been named.