When you go to Smogon's Item page you are confronted by a massive list of every item, normally for the more advanced player this is not a problem as they will be looking for detailed and accurate info about a particular item. However if you are a relatively new player who wishes to make a moveset and wants to browse through the items looking for those that may be useful, they must wade through the volumes of items with absolutely no effect on link or shoddy battles (bar being another fling candidate).
I propose that in the interests of organisation, separating competitive parts of the game, and stopping Smogon from falling behind (many other sites employ more advanced categorisation for items, even if their information is less reliable and detailed), we categorise items.
The full list should stay and be what you arrive at when you click "items", but additionally links to several other lists (For example, Hold Items - all items that have some in battle effect when held, Common competitive items, Berries, In game only healing items, TMs/HMs, ect..) could be placed at the top of the list of all items. Each list would serve a purpose and could have a paragraph or two at the top explaining about their relationship with competitive play, Berries for example may talk about the EV reducers making EV training much easier, and making different styles of it possible as well as things like an overveiw of the Pinch Berries, or even a short note on how to grow berries effecintly.
Other than actually HTMLiseing the lists (I don't know how easy this is), I don't think this project would be too hard or take too long. All we would need to do is decide which lists are useful, find the items to go on them and write up a few heading paragraphs.
I propose that in the interests of organisation, separating competitive parts of the game, and stopping Smogon from falling behind (many other sites employ more advanced categorisation for items, even if their information is less reliable and detailed), we categorise items.
The full list should stay and be what you arrive at when you click "items", but additionally links to several other lists (For example, Hold Items - all items that have some in battle effect when held, Common competitive items, Berries, In game only healing items, TMs/HMs, ect..) could be placed at the top of the list of all items. Each list would serve a purpose and could have a paragraph or two at the top explaining about their relationship with competitive play, Berries for example may talk about the EV reducers making EV training much easier, and making different styles of it possible as well as things like an overveiw of the Pinch Berries, or even a short note on how to grow berries effecintly.
Other than actually HTMLiseing the lists (I don't know how easy this is), I don't think this project would be too hard or take too long. All we would need to do is decide which lists are useful, find the items to go on them and write up a few heading paragraphs.
