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Latest comment: 7 February 2018 by Coltonandgen in topic About Sources
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About Sources

You can't use Serebii as a source, unless you can back it up with datamine/official guidebook evidence. I'll check it out myself later, but your edits will be undone if they turn out to be false. Lanthanum (talk) 15:24, 6 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

FYI, Lanthanum, it would be better to treat edits citing Serebii as "better safe than sorry". If you do not immediately know it's true, such an edit should be reverted. We don't want that sort of thing hanging around just because everyone's waiting to figure out "if they turn out to be false". If someone needs to revert it again because it is true and they can reliably show it somehow, then that's fine. That's better than the alternative.
A bit more generally, just...please don't source Serebii at all for info you edit here. There's no "unless can back it up" there; if you really think Serebii shows that we have something wrong, find another source (a reliable one; and this can include experience for certain things) and only cite that. Serebii has expressed that we are not allowed to take things from their site. Tiddlywinks (talk) 23:14, 6 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Ok so I was 50 sos calls into an Ariados battle on Route 17, it called in exactly 46 Ariados, 3 Goomy, 1 Castform, and no Fearow. So I believe that your info is either A: False, B: is true, but Fearow has like a 0.1% chance of showing up, or C: You're right, but the battle was never programmed to happen, so even though it says it can call a Fearow, it'll never do so Coltonandgen (talk) 04:15, 7 February 2018 (UTC)Reply