Lately I've been going through and trying to add pages for each of the Pokemon which have yet to be covered by the site, or edit the pages of those with less information by others. The main thing that's come to my attention is that with a whopping 493 different dudes to cover, and with so many different people adding new Pokemon pages or editing existing ones, it's hard to keep the format and content of the pages standardised. So I basically felt like discussing what format should be used for most/all of these pages just to keep them consistant, what information should and shouldn't be included... you know, that sort of thing.
 
Please note that if you don't give a shit about Pokemon and don't have anything constructive to add regarding their wikis on Giant Bomb, please hit the Forums link in the top right corner of the page now.Cheers.
 
Back to business. So far, here's the format I've been using for any new pages I've been adding right now which has allowed me to punch in a bunch of new information for each of the different species without babbling on about nothing:
 
 

Data

Evolutionary Chain

• Male/Female ratios, gender differences
  
• special abilities of the species (if applicable)
  
• Pokedex Entries for each game (already used on some articles)
  
• Egg Type
• EVs given? (competitive crap)
• Base Stats (more competitive crap)
• maybe learnable moves?
• sprites
• additional trivia

Regarding where Giant Bomb should draw the line, that has been bothering me as well for a long time. I wanted to fill in some of the Pokemon specific pages but I wasn't sure how far to go. I am glad to see someone else with an interest in filling it out though and agree some sort of coordination needs to go into it. 
 
That aside I like your idea for the basic stuff but as for the rest I think it depends. If giantbomb is just going to be general knowledge I think gender differences, special abilities, pokedex entries, and additional trivia is all that is really needed. The rest is basically for competetive players only who are probably using Smogon or something anyway.

Thanks for the reply. I might edit the original post now with a basic template then and leave out the stuff on EVs etc. just as a sort of reference thing.
 
The other thing that came to mind in this respect was something I saw when visiting a few of the Pokemon articles for earlier species. No offense to the writers, but there was a lot of babbling on about theoretical match-ups of the specific Pokemon species with weird reasoning, along the lines of "bulbasaur's thick hide and vines would help it win against weaker Pokemon like Seedot and Squirtle".
 
What I'd like to be able to do is keep the information formatted in a simple, quick and concise table without too much babbling like that, but at the same time I'm sort of worried about losing the personal touch of some of the articles. Maybe that kind of stuff can be left for the trivia sections of these articles, I dunno. Just something I was wondering about.

I just went to look at the Bulbasaur page just to see what you are talking about and yeah something needs to be done. I think a lot of what you are talking about should be completely cut from the page. There is no need to go on about Bulbasaur being a grass type and being strong against water types and the like. That is just the general knowledge stuff I would expect to find a walkthrough or something. 
 
To keep it clean and tidy I think the "data" section should stay and the entire "details" section should be cut  besides the pokedex entries which should probably be a section of its own. There are things in the "details" section like first appearances that are already listed on the right side panel. I don't see anything wrong with a small blurb about the Pokemon after it's quick info but not to the detail that is shown there.  
 
That is just my 2 cents though.

As much as I would love to help on this, time simply doesn't allow it.
 
However, I will back you up and let you know that I fully am behind this project.

The more info the better. Obviously the key/important facts should be early on in the article, and the super detailed stuff that 99.99% of people don't care about should be later on - but a wiki article can never have too much info.

Am I allowed to cross-link concepts, objects and such? 
I usually leave the editorial stuff to someone else. 

" The more info the better. Obviously the key/important facts should be early on in the article, and the super detailed stuff that 99.99% of people don't care about should be later on - but a wiki article can never have too much info. "

Grass/Poison-type Pokémon are weak to fire, flying, ice and psychic attacks. Like the grass type, Pokémon of this type are weak to fire, flying and ice. Adding in the poison type gives the final psychic weakness" 

" Am I allowed to cross-link concepts, objects and such?  I usually leave the editorial stuff to someone else.  "

" @Zenaxzd: Yeah, it seems like concept pages for the types of Pokemon (e.g. Grass, or Fire) would be good additions to the database, so those pages can include general info about weaknesses and strengths of these types, rather than repeating information on all the individual Pokemon pages. "

" To keep it clean and tidy I think the "data" section should stay and the entire "details" section should be cut  besides the pokedex entries which should probably be a section of its own. There are things in the "details" section like first appearances that are already listed on the right side panel. I don't see anything wrong with a small blurb about the Pokemon after it's quick info but not to the detail that is shown there.   That is just my 2 cents though. "

" The more info the better. Obviously the key/important facts should be early on in the article, and the super detailed stuff that 99.99% of people don't care about should be later on - but a wiki article can never have too much info. "

" Am I allowed to cross-link concepts, objects and such?  I usually leave the editorial stuff to someone else.  "

@MattyFTM said:

" The more info the better. Obviously the key/important facts should be early on in the article, and the super detailed stuff that 99.99% of people don't care about should be later on - but a wiki article can never have too much info. "

Here's an example of a Pokemon article on Bulbapedia. I realise where you're coming from in making Giant Bomb the best games wiki on the web and in some cases I feel the same way, but at times you have to look at some of this and wonder how much information is actually worth the time for each of these articles. Giant Bomb omits a lot of the strategy or technical stuff present on Pokemon sites outside of the wikis, so if users need that information they'll visit Bulbapedia, Smogon, Serebii etc. Giant Bomb doesn't specialise in Pokemon, it covers everything, so trying to maintain every Pokemon article to the highest level and cover all information possible might be a little too much work. Perhaps later on, when all of the articles for the existing Pokemon are fleshed out to a particular level, but I'm not sure if the technical info should be encouraged at this stage. "

"@MattyFTM said:

" The more info the better. Obviously the key/important facts should be early on in the article, and the super detailed stuff that 99.99% of people don't care about should be later on - but a wiki article can never have too much info. "

Here's an example of a Pokemon article on Bulbapedia. I realise where you're coming from in making Giant Bomb the best games wiki on the web and in some cases I feel the same way, but at times you have to look at some of this and wonder how much information is actually worth the time for each of these articles. Giant Bomb omits a lot of the strategy or technical stuff present on Pokemon sites outside of the wikis, so if users need that information they'll visit Bulbapedia, Smogon, Serebii etc. Giant Bomb doesn't specialise in Pokemon, it covers everything, so trying to maintain every Pokemon article to the highest level and cover all information possible might be a little too much work. Perhaps later on, when all of the articles for the existing Pokemon are fleshed out to a particular level, but I'm not sure if the technical info should be encouraged at this stage. "

Yeah, I'm filling in the missing ones at the moment. Hit 5000 points today so it's become a lot easier to do it too, although I'm kinda wondering when I'll start to wear out. :P
I haven't played enough of Colosseum and haven't touched XD so I can't help there, but the general stuff I'm okay with.
 
Edit @MattyFTM: Fair enough, good to know. I reckon it'd be awesome too and I'd like to see pages like that here, but I just don't want to see some pages getting fleshed out completely while others are neglected at this stage.

Also while we are on the subject and I am pretty much a wiki noob (haven't even hit 1k points) I am curious how do you go about changing the default images for some pages? I have been wanting to fix the Team Rocket page because I feel like it is to anime focused and not game focused (considering half the article is about the anime characters who only appear in one of the 10 or so games the organization is in) and I think it would be more correct to switch the picture with another such as Team Rocket Admins or possibly Giovanni but I've no idea how to go about this.

" @Zenaxzd: Users with over 5000 points can change the default picture. There is a thread here for users below that to request the default picture to be changed. "

Ah cool, I was wondering if I could do that with the images since some of the PNGs I had uploaded for a few pages ended up with ugly black strips going through the centre of the white background.