User talk:Zesty Cactus/Archive 1

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Welcome to Bulbapedia, Zesty Cactus!

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! --^Moldy_Orange 23:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Link Templates

Please use link templates when linking to stuff such as Pokémon names, attacks, and the like. For example, {{p|Snorlax}} instead of just [[Snorlax]]. This is so you don't unintentionally link to a disambiguation page.

For a full crash course on link templates, look at the list of link templates. ----The Kkllnnator サンタクロース 20:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Uh, just wondering, did you check out the templates yet? {{type2|Bug}}, not [[Bug (type)|Bug-type]]. Aside from preventing disambig links, they make life easy.--The Kkllnnator サンタクロース 21:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Grats

Congrats on the Gen III pokedex, I don't blame you for cheating on gettin g the ones you did it's rediculus for nintendo to think that just any person can visit all the nintendo events to get those. Does your mew/Deoxys listen to you? I'm just wondering if the cheat you used bypasses that flag issue that makes them not listen -- D558 06:41, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I live in Canada, so I couldn't even attend the events if I wanted to. All of my cheat Pokémon obey me, I've even trained my Mew quite a bit (lv. 68-ish) and my Deoxys a little, too. For Mew and Deoxys I just cheated to get the event item in my inventory, but for Celebi and Jirachi I just used the wild Pokémon modifier, and they obey me, too. Zesty Cactus 15:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

cool, I live in Canada as well so, along with me not really wanting to be at a convention with such big crowds of overwhelming fans, it is nearly impossible for me to get such exclusive pokemon. -- D558 16:05, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Dude

The image namespace is a thing of the past. Everyone is supposed to use "File" now, because that's what all the page names are at. I know what I'm doing. If I put it at File, I have a good reason, and it shouldn't be changed. Just letting you know, image is outdated and we now use file. ^Maverick_Nate 00:42, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Template:Books

No one would mind if you added all the needed books to this template. It might raise the awareness of what needs to be created. It would also be less stressful to add everything in one big edit, instead of making a hundred small edits. ^Maverick_Nate 18:32, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

!GMO

I don't know who you are, but the work that you did on the Spanish Pokemon CD and the Books template is truly outstanding. =[ I don't know how you do it, but you should like...TOTALLY BE AN ADMIN OF BULBAPEDIA OR SOMETHING. Not to mention your knowledge of templates and the way you use them is admirable. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, YOU ZESTY CACTUS YOU. Dany36 03:20, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Face it Dany36, ZC's not gonna be an admin right this moment. Any regular user could be good at templates. --CUBONE (Planet Cubone • Bone Club) PWNS 03:23, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Is this how you guys motivate users to keep improving the wiki? Shooting down their hopes of eventually becoming an admin JUST LIKE THAT? That's just cold, man, just plain COLD. *shivers* :( Dany36 03:28, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, ok. Zesty, good work. Dany, calm down. --CUBONE (Planet Cubone • Bone Club) PWNS 03:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and hear how I said RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT. Anyone has the potential to be an admin. (Except for vandals like Ph34r and Protopass) --CUBONE (Planet Cubone • Bone Club) PWNS 03:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Haha, I appreciate the kind words Cubone, but dany is my friend and that was kind of a joke comment. XD Sorry if you got confused! Zesty Cactus 03:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: FYI

Oh, thanks. *CuboneKing snapped out of confusion! CuboneKing used JUDGMENT!!!!* --CUBONE (Planet Cubone • Bone Club) PWNS 03:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Books

Instead of just pasting the coding have you tried making it a template? --☆Coolピカチュウ! 23:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Will do that now... I wasn't sure if I was allowed to make templates ;___; Zesty Cactus 23:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Moar Link Templates

For every non-card TCG page, make sure to use {{TCG}}. That's the reason why every single TCG page has (TCG) tagged on the end. For cards, use {{TCG ID}}, and it's Expedition Base Set, not just Expedition. Thanks. ^Maverick_Nate 01:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

One minor thing

Hello there,

Please don't send unnesscesscary things on my user talk when you don't have to. Save yourself some time.
That is all.

That Guy With The Codes 23:34, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I don't think my talk page comment was unneccessary. You're marking everything as "minor", even things that should be major edits. Zesty Cactus 23:41, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

A lot of people do that though. Even some admins like Kogoro and Shiningpikablu252. There's really no rule against it. I do agree with you though, but it's not against the rules. --ケンジのガール 23:45, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm.

so, what relation do you have with Thatguywiththecodes? -- MAGNEDETH 22:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Little brother. Why do you ask? Zesty Cactus 22:23, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

ok, thats fine. but be aware, according to him, he was using your account on the forums. he didnt do anything and idk what he was doing with it, but, just be aware. -- MAGNEDETH 06:23, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Crap, really? Thanks for letting me know. I'll like... take it out of my saved passwords/etc so he can't get in again. ZestyCactus 16:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Trivia on card pages

Unless there is more than one piece of trivia, the * is not supposed to be there. Stop adding it in. ^Maverick_Nate 23:13, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't know. ZestyCactus 01:07, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

User namespace

What is the user: namespace? - unsigned comment from Gengarblood3 (talk • contribs)

The User: namespace means anything with the article title User:(Blahblahblah). So, User:Zesty Cactus/Sandbox and User:Gengarblood3 are both examples of the User: namespace. It's cool to edit the user namespace once in a while, but if you're editing it all the time (i.e. it shows up like 5 times on Recent changes) and not conributing much to the main articles of Bulbapedia then... not good. DX (I'll post this on your talk page, too, incase you don't see it here.) ZestyCactus 17:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

When can I edit the User: namespace again - unsigned comment from Gengarblood3 (talk • contribs)

Maybe even tomorrow. Just don't edit it a lot. Try to shoot for saving no more than three times a day. Maybe try using the "preview" button to see how it looks before saving? We don't mind if you edit your user space, it's just about not saving it a million times a day (especially if you save it a million times a day without helping out with some of the regular articles too) ZestyCactus 18:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, if you could sign your comments by typing four tildes (~~~~) or by pressing this button "()", that would be cool :) it's so that your comment will be timestamped, so we know when you wrote it. Thanks! ZestyCactus 18:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Mexico

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How many times do I have to say this - the individual countries of Latin America do NOT get their own articles. If you want, you write up an article called Pokémon in Latin America, but Pokémon in Mexico ain't gonna fly. Neither will Argentina or Ecuador. Just... no. Brazil is fine because they have a separate dub in another language, but NOT Mexico. What more - if you had bothered looking in the project page, you would've noticed that we hold a strict "no stubs allowed" rule, and that to create an article not on the list you must have approval from me or another admin. I'm deleting that article. --electAbuzzzz 07:47, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Userspace

gotta watch out for previous warnings. -- MAGNEDETH 18:57, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

I'm sorry I will stop editing my userpage today. I just ♥ my user tags. Shoulda listened to Tommy-san(my brother).----Sandshrew-sanSEGOOGA! 18:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)