Template talk:MS

Hmm... What exactly does "MS" stand for, anyway, "menu sprite" or "minisprite"? TTEchidna 21:37, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

I always thought it was 'Mini Sprite', because it appears in many different areas other than the Party menu.. such as the Poketch, boxes and more. Tina^☆♥♫δ 22:38, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be .png and not .gif? TESHIGIGAS 14:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Now watch this everyone... all the gifs broke, but soon... they'll all be pngs! TTEchidna 04:27, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Bad default value

Rick Astley is not a Pokémon and will not ever be. Please use something more useful. (Hint hint, if it doesn't prove to stress the server too much, we could use the User:UltimateSephiroth/No2PKMN template :P) UltimateSephiroth ^{(about me · chat · edits)} 12:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

It's SO random... ^ht14 19:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Yahoo.

There, still works. Note: does require "(Pokémon)" to be in there. TTEchidna 05:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

If you have it set up with {{#if: {{{2|}}}|{{{2}}} Pokémon}} (coded more correctly, one could assume) you could have it with the Pokémon coming up automatically. Would you ever want to link to a non-Pokémon article with a Pokémon MS? —darklordtrom 07:41, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I know this is an old conversation, but I've just discovered that many of the lists of Pokémon we have, as well as several other pages, currently don't have the (Pokémon) bit.

These are the pages affected
List of Pokémon by index number in Generation I	List of Pokémon by color	List of Pokémon by index number in Generation II	List of Pokémon by index number in Generation IV	List of Pokémon by habitat
List of Pokémon by name	List of Pokémon by gender ratio	List of Pokémon by Pal Park location	List of in-game trades	Anime move errors
List of anime Pokémon by evolution	List of Pokémon by Almia Browser number	List of references to Pokémon in popular culture	List of Pokémon by body style	All Ranger and SoA locations with Pokémon lists
Petit Cup	Joyful Game Corner	List of Pokémon by IQ group	Wild held items	List of Pokémon by in-game availability
List of Pokémon by Fiore Browser number	Pokémon Jump	Appendix:F.E.A.R.	List of Pokémon by anime debut	Pokémon Rumble
Pokémon Day (all of them)	Appendix:Mystery Dungeon walkthrough/Unrecruitable Pokémon	List of Pokémon by Oblivia Browser number	These are just the ones that link to the Pikachu disambig. There may be others.

Should it just be ignored until a template is made for those pages, should we try to fix them manually (can Bulbabot do it, or would the different Pokémon's names be an issue?), or should we just manually fix the ones with disambigs? Werdnae (talk) 04:38, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

I've fixed all those MS templates now. I'll have another look for more some other time. Werdnae (talk) 10:42, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Updating MS sprites

Considering many of the bigger sprites from Sword/Shield and Let's Go are now readily available, is it a good idea to start updating the sprites for this template? I assume the older sprites could be saved differently like how the Gen 3-5 sprites were saved. Brawlersinthezone (talk) 14:32, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Size argument to avoid oversized sprites

Since SV sprites are significantly larger than sprites from previous games, several uses of MS have the sprites displaying too large (example: List of Battle Tower Trainers (Galar)/Artist). This can be fixed by adding a size argument, such that the desired size of a sprite can be specified when the template is called. To avoid errors, it can have a default value such as 32px.

To apply this, just add something like this at the end of the file link:

|size={{{3|32px}}}]]

Then to call the template for, let's say Schooling Wishiwashi with a width of 40px, we'd use:

{{MS|746Sc|Wishiwashi|40px}}

--Boblers (talk) 10:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)