Provence said:
Can someone refresh why this tags were created.
It's always better to know the reason why they were created when nuking them.
That was discussed 3 years ago when I created topic #15030.
Basically, when a new Pokémon game was released, many new Pokémon species would be tagged with the new game. For example, Tepig posts would likely have pokemon_bw (or maybe at the time pokemon_black_and_white) when the game was first released. But then Tepig appeared in the anime and manga too, so it seemed unclear if Tepig still needed pokemon_bw tag. It was very inconsistent: many Pokémon species posts had game tags, others didn't.
I guess people basically don't think of Tepig as a game-specific thing anymore. Often, an image with Tepig alone would have the pokemon_bw tag, but an image of Tepig with Ash Ketchum would get an anime tag instead, not a game tag.
That still happens as several Alcremie posts were tagged pokemon_swsh at first, when this game was released. But now Alcremie also appeared in the anime and manga. The difference is that unlike before, we now use generation tags instead of game tags for Pokémon species. So Tepig is tagged gen_5_pokemon and Alcremie is gen_8_pokemon.
I am satisfied that the previous mess is over. The current system with gen tags consistently has all Pokémon of the same generation, unlike the previous mess with the game tags. If it's alright, please keep gen_1_pokemon, gen_2_pokemon, etc. as they are a big improvement over the previous state.
If we deleted all the gen_1_pokemon, gen_2_pokemon, etc. I wonder what we would do with the Pokémon species tagging. Would all instances of Alcremie get the pokemon_swsh tag? Would all instances of Magnezone get the pokemon_dppt tag? Would all instances of Pikachu get the pokemon_rgby tag? Or alternatively would all Pokémon species have no game tag?
Arguably, an image of Alcremie is not a reference to any specific game, because Alcremie appears in multiple media. Likewise, Moltres is catchable in RGBY, FRLG, XY, USUM, LGPE, etc., and also appears in the anime and manga. Sometimes the artist references these kinds of different media in the commentary, like "Look this drawing of the Moltres I caught in XY!!!" The point is that maybe Moltres was a pokemon_rgby-specific thing back in 1996, but eventually all Pokémon appear in multiple other media as well.
