Well, put it this way:
When deciding how to play your cards in a battle (or when playing on the Game Boy, etc), how will you make your decision? (I didn't join in the playground craze although I could have, so you'll need to tweak this a little.) You will probably look at the card the other player has put down and consider its strengths and weaknesses: a high attack of theirs will require a good defence of yours. When you've finished these considerations, is there a large set of good choices?
Are you thinking of individual cards or a group?
This should decide for you. If you've thought of, say, needing an Electric Pokémon, make one page to cover all of them. If they're a few individual cards, give each their own page.
Hope you find this useful, Best regards, Tomer
One of the subprojects in [[b:Pokémon]] is the guide to the trading card game, and I need to solicit opinions on how a list of trading cards should be presented. In particular, what would the Wikipedia convention be when dealing with large amounts of raw data? Here are a few ideas I had thought up:
- Each trading card should have its own page. This will make
categorization a trivial task, but will result in too many substub-quality pages.
- Each set should have its own page, with each page describing the
cards within that set. This will make categorization between sets of cards trivial, but categorization along other lines (such as the type of the trading card) a pain in the ass. This goes for giving a page to any arbitrary group of cards. My personal direction (not necessarily a good one) is a variation on this theme: the Pokémon cards themselves are described in their corresponding entry in [[b:Wikibooks Pokédex]].
- Wait until there's a real good Wikidata-like thing before
implementing such an idea.