User talk:Totallynotnova

Welcome

Welcome to Bulbapedia, Totallynotnova!

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! Tina ^δ♫ 23:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Signature

Yo. I'm here to tell you that your signature needs to conform to Bulbapedia's new Signature policy. By our standard, your signature needs to reflect your username. Please change it to meet this standard. --ニョロトノ666 22:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

wuts wrong with my signature :S - unsigned comment from Totallynotnova (talk • contribs)

ニョロトノ666 already told you. Your signature needs to have your username in it. ATM its all just random characters from the pallette below--RexRacer -talk 22:34, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, is that where you got them, Nova. Totally cheating. I have lost a small amount of what little respect I had for you at one point. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 22:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I AM TOTALLY NOT NOVA!!!!!11111```

Totally. But my point still totally stands. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 23:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and remember when I totally insulted your face and stuff? WTS ArbCom now. I'm it, though. Burn. -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 23:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

oo, who's signature is messed up now???~Ποκεμανιακα0β 23:13, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Yours. I can't read it. Totallynotnova 23:23, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

It's Greek, there are lots of signatures in different languages T.T~Ποκεμανιακα0β 23:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

My signature is in "awesomesauce-ian." Can't I have a signature in awesomesauce-ian? Totallynotnova 23:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

No.......there is no such language~Ποκεμανιακα0β 23:27, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

And it has to reflect your user name.--☆Coolピカチュウ! 23:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes like mines. It has Gen IV version colors and it's in greek since the 12th movie will be based in Greece~Ποκεμανιακα0β 23:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

And mines it has Pikachu's yellow and my favorite color.--☆Coolピカチュウ! 23:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

That's cool. Did you think I cared or something? :S Totallynotnova 01:42, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Ain't you a doll :D.--☆Coolピカチュウ! 06:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't you mean a troll? Totallynotnova 22:49, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

This conversation is going nowhere~Ποκεμανιακα0β 22:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. It is going -------------------this way-------------> Totallynotnova 23:00, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

(WARNING! One year old burn coming) No! This way! <———————. Wow, I have got to stop feeding the trolls. Does that mean I have to starve?! --Catu the Cat 13:12, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Trolls? What are these trolls you speak of, all I know of are cute bunnies and egg hunts. Also you're over half a year late here but thats okay, we can still have an egg hunt - as long as geo understands that I AM TOTALLY NOT NOVA D: Totallynotnova 02:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Userspace Edits

You're right -- just 3 per day. Thanks for following the rule! ^_^ Porygon-Z 00:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Userspace edits

Hello. It seems that you have made 3 edits to your userpage today. In case you didn't know, Bulbapedia has a userspace policy that states that users are only allowed 3 edits to their userpage per day. Since you have reached that limit for today, please wait until tomorrow to make any more edits to your userpage. As a recommendation, you can also use the Preview button to allow you to see your page's progress without making too many edits. Thank you, --☆Coolピカチュウ! 01:09, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

So what template did you subst for that? Totallynotnova 05:12, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I think Pre-userspace warning.--☆Coolピカチュウ! 05:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Lol xD.--☆Coolピカチュウ! 05:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome to Bulbapedia, Totallynotnova! Here are a few links to help you get started:

Manual of Style The Manual of Style, or MoS, outlines the format of all pages on Bulbapedia. List of Admins All of our administrators are here to help! Talk to them if you have any questions or problems with Bulbapedia.

Signatures On talk pages, please sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~), or by using the "Your signature with a timestamp" () button at the top of the edit window. Userspace Policy The Userspace Policy says that you should keep userspace edits (edits to User:Totallynotnova) to a minimum, and outlines a few other guidelines for your userspace. For a complete list of policies and editing advice, please see the Welcome Portal.  Thank you, and have a good time editing here!   -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 23:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

That's a pretty bad welcome message Geo. Try taking out the tiny bulbapedia image in the top left corner, but replace it with a faded image in the background that goes "<icon> Bulbapedia" across and behind the top bar. And you could replace that silly gradient with a small image that transitions smoother from green to white. But you have to design it on acidtest-verified browsers. That way when people get messages on IE and complain about how the gradient looks bad, you can tell them that IE is a shitty browser. And a vertical divider wouldn't hurt; you've already got a horizontal one which is unnecessary. Try moving the subtitles (list of admins, signatures, etc.) about five pixels to the right to make it not too claustrophobic. Make the "Welcome to Bulbapedia" title bar bigger, or else thin the top bar vertically, or a little bit of both, because it looks clumsy as it is. And the penultimate bar ("complete list of policies") also looks clumsy because it's only one line with one object in it, and it's directly above the signature bar, with a tiny white space that's too thin to be an efficient divider and too thick to not look clumsy. Do something about it; just don't leave it as it is. And I suggest you link the "edits to User:Username" part because else wikivirgins will have no idea what you're talking about. Better yet, just tell them what their userpage is, link them to it, and tell them not to edit it too much. They can learn what a userspace is later - no need to confuse them from the get-go. And please remove the brackets around the example four tildes. I've seen far far far too many new users enclose their signature in brackets because they think you need the brackets as part of the signature. It's not like they will confuse the four tildes for random lines, and if they do, they're too dumb to be of any benefit to this wiki anyway.

Hm, I think that's about it. Subst'ing all that complicated code onto a noob's talkpage is sure to confuse the hell out of them when they try to reply or edit. But of course you can't use the template directly due to server load. I do wonder if there's a way around both of those, though.

Totallynotnova 00:02, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

EDIT: Oh, and the green is to lime-y and bright. Try to make it look a bit more like the shade of green in the wiki-wide announcement bar at the top (about telling 14-year olds about a manual of style - wait, they are fourteen now right? I've lost count.) Anyways, I'd like to smack whoever chose that colour. And whoever designed the title bar. And some admin named Jioruji Derako.>.chat^ for giving the welcome message to me. What do I look like to you? A noob? psht. And what kinda name is that. Totallynotnova 00:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and those were not supposed to be minor edits! The whole world must know! Totallynotnova 00:09, 14 October 2009 (UTC)