Talk:List of generation IV Pokémon

Lucario was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 8 September 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of generation IV Pokémon. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Drifloon was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 July 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of generation IV Pokémon. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the List of generation IV Pokémon article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find video game sources: "List of generation IV Pokémon" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images · free news sources · TWL · NYT · WP reference · VG/RS · VG/RL · WPVG/Talk

Archives: 1: 12 months

Lists

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Pokémon Top‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Pokémon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Pokémon universe on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PokémonWikipedia:WikiProject PokémonTemplate:WikiProject PokémonPokémon
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the importance scale.

Video games: Nintendo / Characters Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Video games, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of video games on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Video gamesWikipedia:WikiProject Video gamesTemplate:WikiProject Video gamesvideo game

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is supported by the Nintendo task force.

This article is supported by the Video game characters task force (assessed as High-importance).

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks:

Summary of Video games WikiProject open tasks

AfDs

IndustryMasters (1 participant)
Screen Rant (5 participants)
John Shahidi (3 participants)
Durrr Burger (5 participants)
Big (gamer) (2 participants)
Seraph (gamer) (3 participants)
Ohq (2 participants)
All India Gaming Federation (3 participants)
The Misfits Podcast (2 participants)
Marss (2 participants; relisted)
Samsora (2 participants; relisted)
Thomas Mahler (5 participants; relisted)
List of S&box games (3 participants; relisted)
Star Engine (CIG) (7 participants; relisted)
Los Ratones (4 participants; relisted)
SiGMA Group (11 participants; relisted)

Merge discussions

Other discussions

No major discussions

"Pokédex (Sinnoh)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Pokédex (Sinnoh) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 10 § Pokédex (Sinnoh) until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 13:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Magburn" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Magburn has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 29 § Magburn until a consensus is reached. cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 16:42, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Give Infernape his own page!

He’s one of the most famous Pokémon of all time and one of almost everyone’s personal favorites. Please make an article for him! --PyukumukuAce (talk) 14:16, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

not gonna happen unless reliable sources exist, sorry Mr. Sea cucumber that has a defense stat higher than god for some reason (got the reference?) Yelps :) talk 10:24, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why does Arceus not have his own page???

He’s the mascot of Legends Arceus and well-known as the god of Pokémon! Give him his own page! --PyukumukuAce (talk) 14:22, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

if you can provide enough reliable sources for its notability, that can happen. same goes for infernape

also arkoos isn't male and starters like chimchar are only mostly male, but that's besides the point cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 14:28, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TWO WORDS. BULBA. PEDIA. --PyukumukuAce (talk) 14:44, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this isn't bulbapedia. wikipedia requires significant coverage of something to warrant an article for it. otherwise, it would be riddled with fancruft on things no one cares about, like that one phone cover ex machina from little witch academia. also, bulbapedia is one word cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 15:09, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PyukumukuAce: Frankly, Arceus struggles on two points: firstly, a lot of Pokémon do not receive significant coverage, even if they are significant in-universe. Secondly, Arceus is also very hard to search, having to sift through every single mention of its game. Ironically, being a mascot is a detriment for it getting an article.

Kinda funny that something as significant as Arceus, with its own million(s)-seller video game and theatrical film and so on, ain't worthy of getting its own page but irrelevant mons like Klefki and Wooloo are... and simply cuz there were a bunch of tweets about em and those tweets got put into very much "slow news day eh?" articles. shi feels so arbitrary lol 2600:6C56:6800:D5F:58CC:B4AB:1D05:F89D (talk) 10:30, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The difference between Pokémon like Arceus and Pokémon like Wooloo or Klefki is there is on some level genuine discussion and coverage about the latter. Regardless of Arceus' status in-universe, there isn't much discussion or analysis of Arceus other than "it is the God of all Pokémon". ...with its own million(s)-seller video game and theatrical film, barely any of the box art or film-focus Pokémon have their own article and that's because there isn't much discussion on the Pokémon themselves. And that's not to say there isn't efforts to try and make articles, there certainly are, it's just not a lot that can be found on Pokémon like Arceus. As someone who did try to find sources for Arceus, Arceus is an especially hard subject to find sourcing for as searches are often flooded with articles/guides about Legends rather than Arceus itself. Years ago (and in Greninja's case, months ago) Pokemon such as Arceus used to have an article, but they were purged and merged because there was a generally concensus there wasn't much substance to the discussion of the Pokémon. It's just the way it goes. Captain Galaxy 15:50, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]