Welcome

Welcome to Bulbapedia, Pokemon486!

As a new user, you may wish to learn a few things that will be useful in your editing:

  • For a basic overview of wiki code, see this page.
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  • The word Pokémon is spelled with a capital P and an accented é. The é can be accessed by holding Alt and typing either 130 or 0233 on a Windows computer, and by using Option + e, then e again on a Mac. Otherwise, you can easily click it in the character palette below the editbox.
  • The word Poké Ball is spelled as two words. The "Poké" part is identical to the four beginning letters in "Pokémon"; "Ball" is spelled with a capital B. The spelling "Pokéball" arises frequently, but is incorrect.
  • The word "you" and all forms of it should not be used on encyclopedic pages unless it is a quote from Pokémon or other media. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia, not a walkthrough.
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  • For a future capture, release, trade, or evolution of a Pokémon belonging to a main character of the anime, please do not create or move the page to reflect your suspicions, even if they are shared by many others. Policy here is to wait until the episode in which the event happens takes place is aired, unless there is substantial evidence for the suspicion (such as Brock's Happiny being held in his arms).
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  • If you want to make a page about a character you made up, please create it at User:Pokemon486/(name), not merely (name). Bulbapedia's main namespace is reserved for actual, official Pokémon, items, characters, and locations. Also, please try to make sure that subpages are not categorized by templates used within.
  • Having said this, please make sure that you do contribute adequately to the main namespace. Bulbapedia is not MySpace or Facebook.
  • There are certain restrictions on the content and amount of userspace content a user is allowed. For details, see the Userspace policy.
  • Unless prior permission is given, no user is permitted to edit another user's page. Furthermore, edits to other users' pages are permitted only if there are problems that spread to other parts of Bulbapedia, such as broken links that appear on the wanted pages, switching out duplicate images that appear on the Archives, etc.
  • Fan fictions, missions, riddles, games, and anything else deemed not suitable for the wiki will not be allowed. If you would like to add something, but do not know if it is acceptable, ask an administrator.
  • A list of administrators that you can contact in case of a problem can be found here.

Thank you, and have a good time editing here! ---- MAGNEDETH 03:36, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Three things

  1. Please sign all talk page comments with ~~~~, so that everyone knows who put the comment there.
  2. Don't put comments on talk pages if they don't help the article.
  3. List of link templates. Memorize it. {{p|Bidoof}}, not [[Bidoof]]. This is so you don't unintentionally link to a disambig.--KK llnn 20:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Your Parody Lyrics

No, don't do that post them somewhere that's not this site........--☆Coolピカチュウ! 04:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Pleaswe read our Code of Conduct it'll help mange your anger at other user. --☆Coolピカチュウ! 04:11, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

For the Bride and Shaymin!

As the information is already found at For the Bride and Shaymin!, there is no need to create new articles on them. ~ overgrownsol 00:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi

I noticed you have been editing the User: namespace a lot recently. You may not be aware of this, but Bulbapedia has a Userspace policy that asks users to try and minimize the number of userspace edits they make in a short period of time. Heavy editing of these personal pages can put undue stress on the server, so please leave your page alone for now and go help out in the mainspace. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia, after all, so please help us to complete it! If you edit the mainspace more often, you will be allowed to edit your userpage more often too. Thanks! --♫Green♫ギャラドス♫Talk♫ 02:51, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Hold on!

If you did not read your last warning, then please read it now. You have edited the User: namespace too much. In the past, no one was allowed to edit their userpages because some users were over-editing their own userpages. Your personal editing privileges can be taken away, so please do not edit your page any more for now. Thank you. --Coolピカチュウ! 03:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Talk pages

Please sign comments on talk pages by typing "~~~~" at the end of your comment or by clicking this button "button_sig.png" at the top of the edit window. This is so we know who wrote the comment without checking the page history. Thank you! :) ZestyCactus 03:29, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Stop.

Do not edit the User: namespace any more. In the past, we were not allowed to edit our pages at all because of users over-editing their pages. If you edit your page any more without making some edits to the mainspace, then the privilege for you to edit the userspace will be removed. This has been your final warning. --—darklordtrom 22:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Signature

You can't have images in your signature. Please remove them. Turtwig A Contributions Talk 23:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

In addition, you can't re-sign comments that you have left unsigned, since it usually gives the wrong timestamp.--Liquid ICE (User:Cold)(page, talk) 23:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Would you like to help?

In addition to stub and articles needing improvement, there's a page I've compiled together known as the help page for bored/desperate users. Hope it gives you ideas. ht14 01:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)