User talk:LaprasBoi

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! -MasterKenobi 01:24, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Scathing

Scathing. Try to be a little bit, er, nicer... T T Echidna 04:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Be Nicer.

Please stop deleting items for no reason. Additionally, please stop putting meaningless comments when deleting, I am referring to the,"This is not frickin’ TV Tropes. AN ARTICLE IS NOTAN ARGUMENT." Thank you. -MasterKenobi 01:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Talk Page Comments

Please don't erase talk page comments for no reason. Trust me, you do NOT want to end up like Big Johnno, who got into an edit war with a sysop over comments the former had erased and was trying to keep erased. That user ended up blocked and subsequently had every erased comment restored. --0 ° 01:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

You are totally right: I honestly don’t wish to be contentious or erase commentary. I only erased the welcome template, I did NOT erase the comments that Obi made at the same time - and it wasn’t for no reason. As I noted in the edit summary, I erased the welcome template because while it was a nice thought, it was not relevant - I am not a new user, I am familiar with the items linked from the template, and I have actually been here longer than Obi( who originally tried to add the template, Kenji-girl merely corrected his improper use of it).

Plain an simply, everyone gets the welcome. You're not an exception just because you have been here since 2007. Stop removing it. - Kogoro | Talk to me - 02:07, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh, honestly! What a perfectly ludicrous thing to insist on or have an edit war over! The template did not even EXIST when I joined, other users from that time don’t have it. But fine, I have no intention of wasting more time on this right now. It can stay for the moment. Also, 2006. --LaprasBoi 02:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Name change

Seeking a bit of advice: how does one get a name change here, I noticed you’ve had two? I tried looking through all the Bulbapedia policies and pages but I can’t seem to find it. Thanks for your help! --LaprasBoi on 0 Degrees’s talk page 18:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

You can go to TTEchidna for a name change. --^Psychic _Rider^☮ 19:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Young One...

Your signature no matter what must link to either your talk page or userpage. Thanks. ^ht 14 20:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

I don’t mind joking around, but please make sure it’s appropriate. I’ve been on Bulbapedia longer than you and a lot of the other users, though not especially active, and I’m also older than a lot of users including you( and, yikes! While fact-checking that, I realized I have been online for longer than you’ve been alive. Scary).

Also, can you link to the policy that says signatures have to have a link? Honestly I don’t think I ever created a signature on Bulbapedia, I think the unlinked name is just the default. I’m not trying to make an argument out of this, I just want to review the policy. I wonder why the names aren’t links by default? --LaprasBoi 21:28, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

The Signature Policy states that,"By default, a user's signature will link back to their user page and user talk page. If a user desires, the signature can be customized, but it is required that you keep within the following guidelines and common sense when customizing your signature." Maybe you should really look back through the rules and policies... -MasterKenobi 21:47, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps. The signature policy page was not there when I joined and I did look it over and see the part you quoted, as well as the sentence “A link to the user page, at minimum, and a link to the user talk page is recommended.”, but I didn’t read the full text under the latter and therefore misinterpreted it. In any case, I wasn’t doubting that a policy existed, I just think it’s polite to link a policy when telling someone he is in violation. --LaprasBoi 02:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

There ya go.

Now relink accounts by logging in on Archives and News. AND LINK THE SIG. TTEchidna 07:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

On, it, boss. I was waiting to link to the new name. --LaprasBoi 16:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Concering this

Please, use the preview button rather than making several consecutive edits. --エルレイド 21:33, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I do use previews, and also view changes, before submitting( the only time I didn’t recently, due to the fucking session amnesia, it bit me in the ass), so most of my edits are done in one big leap, as you could easily see by viewing my contributions. In this particular case, I chose to edit in stages to make it a little more clear what I’d done when somebody views the changes. I did end up with 4 edits instead of the two I had intended, but that arose from edit conflicts and human error, not a lack of previewing - nobody’s perfect. --LaprasBoi 21:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)