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FabuVinny is a member of Bulbapedia's editorial board.
A quick bio for anyone who is interested: I was first introduced to Pokémon in October 1999 when it finally arrived in Europe, (only a month before the Japanese release of GS). I got really into the fad but lost interest as the popularity died down. Then in early 2003, after getting a GBA the previous Christmas, I got Pokémon Gold and was back into the franchise. This was when I first discovered the online fandom, starting off at Pokémon Crater and finding my way to Bulbagarden in May 2005. Since then, this has been my site of choice where I am a Global Moderator, Bulbanews' Europe Editor as well as joing the Editorial Board here.
My areas of focus
- Recent Changes Patrol
- The side games, including relevant data on the species articles
- Filing in the species sprite tables
- Anime episode article updates; including French titles when known
My nuggets of advice to contributors
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- It helps to read the guidelines provided by the individual projects. In particular: It should go without saying but the biology section of the species articles should only contain canon information. And despite the name, the "special abilities" section is not for the game mechanic called ability.
- A poll should never be the first thought when resolving a dispute. If a result can be reached by a simple discussion using actual reasoning then it will be far more solid.
- With that said, never use the argument "if we have x, why not y?" When it comes to judgements of notability, each article is judged on its own merits. The names of articles for anime Pokémon that are owned by a trainer also get too subtle around Sabrina's Haunter and Ash's Larvitar for such a broad usage.
- Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia first so if you are going to register then please do some helpful editing to the mainspace. It's sad to see so many userspace edits take the space in the recent changes.
Meet some of my 'mons
The strongest
How do you people get Pokémon up to level 100? While I may have any Pokémon at the level cap, I do have some that tower over the toughest of in-game trainers.
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My Ho-Oh from Colosseum is a trophy of my fully conquering that game. On the other hand, I never have obtained the other half of the pair from XD.
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Amphy and Fegator took me through most of my first Pokémon game on their own. I was a n00b back then and creating a diverse team was a foreign concept to me - even the Dragonite I trained up late in the game ended up with all three water HMs in its moveset despite Fegator keeping one. Fegator did get Earthquake at that stage but any points gained from there are lost by its hold item. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was a waste of a hold item spot.
My Diamond Team
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Four years later, there's a somewhat decent team. Twiggy, Simba, Psyder, Habunake, Batzu and Happy saw me through my first journey in Sinnoh. One of the highlights was using the Happiny egg as an opportunity to learn what Blissey is about. (In the right hands, it's powerful to use but easy to take down.) Not many survive that Hyper Beam after the Physical/Special split and Blissey even managed to freeze Cynthia's strongest Pokémon, which was the clincher in my victory at the Pokémon League. Kricketune ended up being the first Pokémon I designed for capture, though its X-Scissor serves well in battle.
See Also
Userspace features
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