Talk:List of Pokémon

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vestrian24Bio 08:21, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

• List of generation I Pokémon → List of Generation I PokémonList of Generation I Pokémon
• List of generation II Pokémon → List of Generation II PokémonList of Generation II Pokémon
• List of generation III Pokémon → List of Generation III PokémonList of Generation III Pokémon
• List of generation IV Pokémon → List of Generation IV PokémonList of Generation IV Pokémon
• List of generation V Pokémon → List of Generation V PokémonList of Generation V Pokémon
• List of generation VI Pokémon → List of Generation VI PokémonList of Generation VI Pokémon
• List of generation VII Pokémon → List of Generation VII PokémonList of Generation VII Pokémon
• List of generation VIII Pokémon → List of Generation VIII Pokémon
• List of generation IX Pokémon → List of Generation IX Pokémon

– Doing this at the central list because I feel like that would be the most realistic place to discuss all of its sublists. Anyway, the thing about Pokémon generations is that when they receive passing mentions themselves, they are usually just referred to as "Pokémon generation(s)" without capitalizing the G. The same can be said about if referred to as "first generation", etc. That, however, does not apply to when they are referred to by Roman numeral generations, which is what the titles of these articles use; most sources I found used "Generation/Gen I/II/III/etc." (or "1/2/3/etc.") rather than "generation/gen I/II/III/etc.". I noticed that the articles on the later generation lists are also starting to uppercase the terms, and I think we should just execute it on all of these lists to make things consistent before edit wars break out. LoTrWiki (talk) 22:51, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Edit: Was opposed for not sourcing (because we would be here all day if I were to list every source I found), so... just reading through the articles' sources and some others I found: Game Rant, ScreenRant, TheGamer, Kotaku, Nintendo World Report, VG247, Polygon, Nintendo Life, USA Today, The Michigan Daily, IGN, Fanbyte, Inverse, GameSpot, GamesRadar+, and it goes on. In other words, I highly disagree with the arguments that it is "trivial" or "unnecessary"; it is simply the common name. LoTrWiki (talk) 02:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Oppose No sourcing is backing up this move and the usage of the capital seems to be a minority from how it's described. Moving just seems unnecessary without specific evidence it's more consistently used this way. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:08, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: This seems trivial. Unless there is a real issue with the first letter being capitalised rather than not, I don't think this is an issue. 11WB (talk) 02:32, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Comment I'm leaning towards this being unnecessary. I agree with Pokelego999 that this would need consistent evidence. Shooterwalker (talk) 17:36, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

• Needs a deep analysis – Of the sources listed by LoTrWiki above:

• Game Rant doesn't include the word but it's lower-case in the "Related" box;
• Screen Rant does lower-case in text;
• TheGamer does upper-case;
• Kotaku does not mention the word; why is it here?;
• Nintendo World Report has mixed upper-case and lower-case;
• VG247 says "Gen" (upper-case), but hard to really make a claim with that;
• Polygon upper-case;
• Nintendo Life has the upper-case "Gen I" but again, I wouldn't make a claim with that;
• USA Today thoroughly lower-case;
• Michigan Daily upper-case;
• IGN upper-case;
• Fanbyte Very inconsistent mix;
• Inverse Upper-case;
• Gamespot Lower-case;
• Gamesradar Another "Gen 6" situation.

I think we're gonna need a much bigger dataset to really make a decision here. This is a hard one. Might be unnecessary because of how inconsistent sources are even internally. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:59, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose "Generation" seems like a fanon term, it's not an official one used in the games as far as I know. So, it would not be a proper name. If it were up to me, I would use "List of Pokemon introduced in ____" for every list name to avoid giving people the idea that Pokemon are released like the latest Apple smartphone. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:40, 28 December 2025 (UTC)