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Welcome to Bulbapedia, Pat!
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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! Tina δ♫
04:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Way cool dude
You sir, are a way cool dude! -A guy
- Why thankyou sir! You're not cool! -Pat 09:54, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Talk Page Comments
Please don't erase talk page comments for no reason. Not even on your own user talk page. Trust me, you do NOT want to end up like Big Johnno, who ended up getting into an edit war with a sysop over talk page comments the former had erased and wanted to keep erased. Needless to say, Big Johnno ended up blocked and had every single erased comment restored. --Shiningpikablu252 14:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- I get that. It's just that it's the welcome template. Honestly, can you give me a decent reason why I should keep it there? -Pat 14:28, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- That's fair enough. But at what point does it become okay to delete it? I don't see it on the talk pages of most users, and I see no complaints about it there either. It's the incredibly blurred line that confuses me. ...And there's something about just being on the Internet that makes me sound like a huge jerk. -Pat 14:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)