>>55175539It's not because they don't want to be sued, it's because they don't want to spread potential misinformation by relying on "presumptuous information", I.E. context gleamed but hasn't been openly confirmed from Nintendo, TPC, GameFreak, Creatures or any other official Pokemon source.
Even the most innocuous of things that SHOULDN'T be an issue follow this process of "don't present presumptuous information as hard fact."