User talk:Porygon-man

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! Tina^☆♫ 21:18, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

User Page Edits

You've just made many little edits for many little things. If you are creating your user page, you should put everything you want on there in one edit using the preview button so you could make one big edit instead of many little edits.--Tavisource 21:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Porygon-man 21:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

And just for a heads up, put colons before your post to make a break after the previous one. And I forgot to mention why you shouldn't do that. See, the user pages were all locked down for a long, long time, and the ban was just lifted on Monday. The cause of the ban was that too many people were editing their user pages too many times, which caused problems in the server. But don't worry, you aren't the only one who got this warning. All the others helping to spread the word had been warned too. Join the force in spreading this word. I have also heard rumors that the user page ban would return at the end of the week, so just to be safe, finish it quickly.--Tavisource 22:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Uhm...No offence, and i don't want to seem mean but please try to make less edits. Please use the Preview button to preview before you click "Save Page"...So if there's any mistakes you can stop them...Uhm...I don't want to seem mean...SO yeah D: Takoto タコト| サソデイ = 愛 22:58, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Common courtesy

It should be assumed that if I'm uploading images of products that I'm also working on adding their information to the pages that need that information. (You used the images that I uploaded less than half an hour prior so I know you knew I was working on XY merch.) It is incredibly frustrating that after an hour of work, I'm edit conflicted by an edit that's only adding less than half of the content that I'm adding. Be mindful how the edits you are doing affect the bigger picture, and consider what is going on at a given point in time before jumping into a specific project. There's so much to be doing in the TCG section that we don't need wastefully working on the same thing at the same time. That effort can be incredibly useful elsewhere. ^Maverick_Nate 22:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The Preview Button

Instead of editing a page several times in a row, try using the preview button to make sure your edit looks the way you want it to. It's right next to the Save Page button. Please try it out, so as not to clog up the Recent Changes. Also, if you want to edit multiple sections of the page, make sure that you click "edit this page" at the top of the page rather than editing it by section. Thanks! --Masatoshi talk 03:40, 20 April 2016 (UTC)