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Wikipedia:POKEMON


The Pokémon test is an argument that was made at , before specific Pokémon species were merged into a list of Pokémon. The test involves the comparison of the article nominated for deletion with an article for a species from Pokémon, to decide whether it is more notable.

By early 2007, these species were merged after a found most of them non-notable. Some such articles have been recreated, and the current status of the articles is uneasy.

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A related, and even more outdated, test was the Karen Importance Test (KIT), involving the citing of the specific Pokémon character Karen's article, for the following reasons:

This was no longer a valid argument (if it ever was) by the time the Pokémon Test arose because Karen's article had been merged with other related characters.

There were three main criticisms of the Pokémon test that often arose in response to its use:


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