Posting at the request of Doctor Oak from our conversation on irc last night 
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I've noticed that some of the move descriptions in the 3rd Gen part of the Pokedex are messed up. TM34 is universally a problem. It's been entered as "Shockwave" rather than Shock Wave - I just checked in Emerald, and it should be two words. This means it always copies the information from whichever TM is above it in the list - showing what was in the $attack variable last.
For example, if you look at Electrike you see:
But if you look at Linoone, you see:
Linoone and Zigzagoon have some other problems as well. In the 3rd Gen Standard Moveset, Pin Missile has been written as "Pin Missle" and so has the description of Mud Sport which is above it. Also, Belly Drum has the description of Rest, although I'm not sure what's gone wrong there as it's spelled correctly (one word instead of two?). Belly Drum is also messed up on Snorlax.
I just checked Cacnea because it was the first Pokemon I could think of that learns Pin Missile ("Pin Missile, Cacnea!"), and it has Pin Missile spelled correctly and with the right description - but Sand Attack is written as "Sand-attack", so messed up!
It's going to be rather tedious to check the 3rd Gen Standard Movesets, TMs and Egg Moves of all 386 3rd Gen Pokemon, but if anyone is feeling bored and has nothing better to do, please read carefully through the Dex starting at Pidgey #016. You are looking for repeating move descriptions like the examples I gave above. Please post here with the numbers of the pages you've checked, even if you didn't find any mistakes. Remember, it's only the 3rd Gen moves that need checking.
[tt][02:09] DoctorOak: the problem with the 3rd Gen stuff is that it was all put in manually
[02:10] DoctorOak: and thus, HOORAY, human error abound
[02:10] DoctorOak: unfortunately, no-one was kind enough to leave tables of raw data lying around like those extracted from Diamond and Pearl on release[/tt]
If you do notice any messed up descriptions of 3rd Gen moves then please post them here so they can be corrected. Let us know which page it was on (Pokemon name or number) and which moves are affected.
Also, don't try to do more than 50 pages at once, or your eyes will go screwy and your brain will fry to the extent that you wouldn't be able to see any mistakes, even if they do exist! (I say this as someone who spent a lot of time at university proofreading student union newspapers.)
. I've noticed that some of the move descriptions in the 3rd Gen part of the Pokedex are messed up. TM34 is universally a problem. It's been entered as "Shockwave" rather than Shock Wave - I just checked in Emerald, and it should be two words. This means it always copies the information from whichever TM is above it in the list - showing what was in the $attack variable last.
For example, if you look at Electrike you see:
| TM32 | Double Team | 0 | 0 | Creates illusory copies to raise evasiveness by one stage. |
| TM34 | Shockwave | 0 | 0 | Creates illusory copies to raise evasiveness by one stage. |
But if you look at Linoone, you see:
| TM30 | Shadow Ball | 80 | 100 | Hurls a black blob that may lower the foe's SP. DEF by one stage. |
| TM34 | Shockwave | 80 | 100 | Hurls a black blob that may lower the foe's SP. DEF by one stage. |
Linoone and Zigzagoon have some other problems as well. In the 3rd Gen Standard Moveset, Pin Missile has been written as "Pin Missle" and so has the description of Mud Sport which is above it. Also, Belly Drum has the description of Rest, although I'm not sure what's gone wrong there as it's spelled correctly (one word instead of two?). Belly Drum is also messed up on Snorlax.
I just checked Cacnea because it was the first Pokemon I could think of that learns Pin Missile ("Pin Missile, Cacnea!"), and it has Pin Missile spelled correctly and with the right description - but Sand Attack is written as "Sand-attack", so messed up!
It's going to be rather tedious to check the 3rd Gen Standard Movesets, TMs and Egg Moves of all 386 3rd Gen Pokemon, but if anyone is feeling bored and has nothing better to do, please read carefully through the Dex starting at Pidgey #016. You are looking for repeating move descriptions like the examples I gave above. Please post here with the numbers of the pages you've checked, even if you didn't find any mistakes. Remember, it's only the 3rd Gen moves that need checking.
[tt][02:09] DoctorOak: the problem with the 3rd Gen stuff is that it was all put in manually
[02:10] DoctorOak: and thus, HOORAY, human error abound
[02:10] DoctorOak: unfortunately, no-one was kind enough to leave tables of raw data lying around like those extracted from Diamond and Pearl on release[/tt]
If you do notice any messed up descriptions of 3rd Gen moves then please post them here so they can be corrected. Let us know which page it was on (Pokemon name or number) and which moves are affected.
Also, don't try to do more than 50 pages at once, or your eyes will go screwy and your brain will fry to the extent that you wouldn't be able to see any mistakes, even if they do exist! (I say this as someone who spent a lot of time at university proofreading student union newspapers.)
