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I would be fine with deleting this page, but is there any way this page's history can be move to the real Charizard article? Maybe move this page to Charizard, and then revert to the recent revision? I dont know if that would work or not. Blake ( Talk· Edits) 19:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Reviewer: – MuZemike 01:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
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On hold pending the above improvements. – MuZemike 01:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Should someone put in the article that Charizard won #1 in this IGN Poll http://www.ign.com/top/pokemon/1 ? 173.186.19.164 ( talk) 00:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
This article seems to have been hacked by someone; look at the first sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.92.119 ( talk) 03:33, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I found this statement on the page directly below the image of Charizard at the top right:
"Charzard's [sic] original sprite had purple wing membranes and he was originally fire/poison type. Charzard also had yellow eyes and a violet flame."
I removed it, as it was improperly located and had no citation, and I couldn't find an online source that confirmed it. If anyone knows of a reliable source for it, feel free to add the information back in. - 742mph ( talk) 22:13, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
In this edit I removed the section on competitive usage because, although done in good faith, it was chock-full of in-game jargon that is completely inaccessible to readers who are unfamiliar with the game. Also, Wikipedia is not a game guide. I will further note that I found out after my reversion that another editor had done the same on the basis that the content was game-guide-y. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:17, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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Should I put a section of Competitive history? Galefuun ( talk) 00:15, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Great idea! I made this. TheTiksiBranch ( talk) 17:41, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
This section seems filled with conjecture and rather emotive/subjective language. Just FYI.
Kind Regards 203.221.127.156 ( talk) 06:30, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Tagging @ Greenish Pickle!, @ QuicoleJR, @ Pokelego999, @ Zxcvbnm, @ AirshipJungleman29 as the participants in the Good article reassessment from last week.
I'm.. generally confused as to everything that happened there. The article was kept as a GA on the grounds that "Delisting good articles is done when it is determined that the original review was incorrect or no longer applies.", but that's just not the case - per WP:GAR, "is a process used to review and improve good articles that may no longer meet the good article criteria. GAs are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted." And the nominator's concerns were partially ignored - in fact, a good chunk of them still apply.
Particularly, I'm concerned about the verifiability of some sections of the article. The Reception section has a cleanup tag specifically for this purpose - by my guess, about half of it is cited to lists of "top 10 coolest pokémon" and the like - is that really the type of sourcing we want to use? But these issues go deeper into the article - for example, there's an entire section of plot that really seems to be toeing the line of WP:MOSFICT - a lot of it is interpretation and analysis that seems to fall afoul of WP:OR. Compare that to the section about the video games directly above it, which doesn't go nearly as in-depth about the plot and (to me at least) feels much more appropriate for an encyclopedia article. Also, the section "Competitive battling" is entirely cited to the previously mentioned listicles and a fanzine.
I don't think this article is necessarily bad by any means but it does need a sprucing up, for sure. casualdejekyll 15:50, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
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I would be fine with deleting this page, but is there any way this page's history can be move to the real Charizard article? Maybe move this page to Charizard, and then revert to the recent revision? I dont know if that would work or not. Blake ( Talk· Edits) 19:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Reviewer: – MuZemike 01:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Note: this does not count against you in this GAN, but serves as good reminders and references, especially if/when this article approaches A-Class or FA.
On hold pending the above improvements. – MuZemike 01:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Should someone put in the article that Charizard won #1 in this IGN Poll http://www.ign.com/top/pokemon/1 ? 173.186.19.164 ( talk) 00:51, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
This article seems to have been hacked by someone; look at the first sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.92.119 ( talk) 03:33, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I found this statement on the page directly below the image of Charizard at the top right:
"Charzard's [sic] original sprite had purple wing membranes and he was originally fire/poison type. Charzard also had yellow eyes and a violet flame."
I removed it, as it was improperly located and had no citation, and I couldn't find an online source that confirmed it. If anyone knows of a reliable source for it, feel free to add the information back in. - 742mph ( talk) 22:13, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
In this edit I removed the section on competitive usage because, although done in good faith, it was chock-full of in-game jargon that is completely inaccessible to readers who are unfamiliar with the game. Also, Wikipedia is not a game guide. I will further note that I found out after my reversion that another editor had done the same on the basis that the content was game-guide-y. Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 16:17, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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Should I put a section of Competitive history? Galefuun ( talk) 00:15, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Great idea! I made this. TheTiksiBranch ( talk) 17:41, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
Hello,
This section seems filled with conjecture and rather emotive/subjective language. Just FYI.
Kind Regards 203.221.127.156 ( talk) 06:30, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Tagging @ Greenish Pickle!, @ QuicoleJR, @ Pokelego999, @ Zxcvbnm, @ AirshipJungleman29 as the participants in the Good article reassessment from last week.
I'm.. generally confused as to everything that happened there. The article was kept as a GA on the grounds that "Delisting good articles is done when it is determined that the original review was incorrect or no longer applies.", but that's just not the case - per WP:GAR, "is a process used to review and improve good articles that may no longer meet the good article criteria. GAs are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted." And the nominator's concerns were partially ignored - in fact, a good chunk of them still apply.
Particularly, I'm concerned about the verifiability of some sections of the article. The Reception section has a cleanup tag specifically for this purpose - by my guess, about half of it is cited to lists of "top 10 coolest pokémon" and the like - is that really the type of sourcing we want to use? But these issues go deeper into the article - for example, there's an entire section of plot that really seems to be toeing the line of WP:MOSFICT - a lot of it is interpretation and analysis that seems to fall afoul of WP:OR. Compare that to the section about the video games directly above it, which doesn't go nearly as in-depth about the plot and (to me at least) feels much more appropriate for an encyclopedia article. Also, the section "Competitive battling" is entirely cited to the previously mentioned listicles and a fanzine.
I don't think this article is necessarily bad by any means but it does need a sprucing up, for sure. casualdejekyll 15:50, 14 August 2023 (UTC)