User:SnorlaxMonster

Welcome to SnorlaxMonster
I was the last person to edit this page. I made the edit on November 30, 2014. Today is April 18, 2024.
On this day in 2009, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky was released in Japan!

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Main Sandbox • Anime tournament trees • 20th Anniversary timeline • Anime ordering

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Berries Nav • BerryPrevNext • BerryBlending • PoffinCooking • BagRowSplit • DécorList
MoveInfobox • GOChargedAttack • Contest Move Data • GOLearnlist • Movedesc • Movegen
Art Gallery • Gen 6 wild Pokémon • Facility Nav • EP translation request • Shopitem • Spindata/Shuffle • HeldItems • Moveentry

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Razz Berry • Nutpea Berry • Maranga Berry • Golden Razz Berry • Surf (move)
Pokémon X and Y demo • Flight • Machine Part Rocket Grunt • Historian Hiker • Battle status • Team effect
Pokémon Syntax

Info Dumps
Environment • End-turn resolution order • Wonder Card data structure (Gen VI) • Link battle differences • Filtered Pokémon names
In-game trades in other languages • NPC mail • Old menu sprites
On this day • Pronunciation • Pokémon by release date • Designers • Egg designs • Signature moves

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en	This user is a native speaker of English.

ja-1	この利用者は簡単な日本語を話します。

	This user is a moron who didn't input a staff level.

	This user is a member of the Archives Advisory Council.

	This user is Bulbanews's Deputy Editor-in-Chief.

	This user is the Editor on BulbaNewsNOW.

	This user is one of the moderators of the Bulbagarden forums.

	This user is a member of Project GlitchDex.

	This user was the Leader of Project GlitchDex.

	This user was awarded the Silver Bulbasaur Award for the month of October, 2010.

TOP	This user is one of the top contributors.

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AEST	This user uses Australian Eastern Standard Time, which is GMT+10.

AEDT	During the Southern Hemisphere summer, daylight saving time is in effect, which is GMT+11.

	This user comes from Australia.

	This user contributes using Google Chrome.

	This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 7.

On other sites

This user is an administrator on Game & Watch Wiki. File:ZeldaWiki logo.png This user is an administrator on Zelda Wiki. This user is an administrator on Yu-Gi-Oh Wiki. This user uses Wikipedia. This user has a YouTube channel under the username SnorlaxMonster. You can follow this user on Twitter at @SnorlaxMonster.

Random Pokémon:
#084 Doduo

Unless stated otherwise, my edits are my own thoughts and not reflective of the opinion of the administration as a whole; if I am utilizing administrative authority (which I typically avoid doing), I will indicate as such. If I make an edit or talk page comment that you disagree with, I encourage you to challenge me on it (although I'm notoriously bad at keeping up-to-date on my talk page). Note that this only applies to me and has no implications on how other staff members utilize their authority.

History

I've been a part of the online Pokémon fandom since 2007, when I joined the Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden forums; however, I was a Pokémon fan long before that. It wasn't until late 2009 when I joined Bulbapedia, at which point I started by editing parts of Project GlitchDex. The first article I edited was list of glitch moves, because I saw that there were glitch Pokémon missing from the learnlists that were listed to learn those glitch moves on their own pages. I then ended up going through all the glitch Pokémon articles and updating them into the newest style. I eventually began to edit other articles outside of that region, and now I'm an all-round editor (although I focus on the Pokémon games). I ended up splitting the minor glitches section of glitch into its own article, list of minor glitches, because it was getting edited so much and getting quite long. Since then, that list grew to such a proportion that I split it into lists of glitches by generation. Now I lead Project GlitchDex, and know of a lot of glitches that need to be documented here that aren't that I keep meaning to get around to. I do a lot of different things around the wiki though.

I was promoted to temporary Junior Admin during the Japanese release of Pokémon Black and White in 2011 to help with updating pages during the lockdown. After the lock was lifted, my powers became permanent, and I became a true Junior Administrator. In early January 2011, I found that I was trusted on the Archives as well, and had been given Junior Administrator rights. In March 2011, I was promoted to Admin on Bulbapedia, then on the Archives too shortly after. Less than a week after my Archives promotion, I was given as staff position on Bulbanews during the staff restructure—Writer. In early May 2011, I was appointed Project GlitchDex Leader (after applying for it). In September 2011, I was promoted to a Senior Adminstrator on the Archives. In November 2011, I was promoted to a Senior Writer on Bulbanews. In December 2011, I was promoted to a Senior Administrator on Bulbapedia, making me a Bulbawiki Senior Citizen, a self-coined term, and apparently shared with Bikini Miltank. In April 2012, I was promoted to member of the Bulbanews board of editors, which also resulted in me getting moderator powers in the Bulbanews forum on the forums. In June 2012, I was promoted to member of the Archives Advisory Council. In August 2012, I was promoted to a Bureaucrat on Bulbapedia, so now I have to learn how to spell it. In August 2014, I was promoted to Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Bulbanews and BulbaNewsNOW Editor.

Also, I occasionally participate in NIWA. I occasionally visit the dead forums, and have an account at every member site (as well as some prospective members such as Game & Watch Wiki). I am even an administrator on Zelda Wiki. Also, those interwiki redirects for SSB characters, like Pit and Peach, are my doing. I encourage all editors to link to NIWA members over Wikipedia where applicable. I am Bulbapedia's NIWA representative, so if you have anything related to NIWA you want done, let me know.

I'm SnorlaxMonster on YouTube, Twitter... in fact, I'm SnorlaxMonster pretty much everywhere, so you should recognize me easily. I also use ShapelessMonstrosity sometimes (typically on non-Pokémon sites, and I'm far more active on YouTube as ShapelessMonstrosity).

If you want to talk to me casually (non-wiki stuff) or in private you can send me a PM on the forums, or send me an email. If you think I have done something wrong, I appreciate civil constructive criticism. I would rather have friends than enemies, but I also like a good friendly debate. I try to always assume good faith, perhaps a little too often.

Pet peeves

• I hate ampersands (&). I think they look ugly and avoid using them outside of titles that already have them.
• I cannot stand acronym and initialisms written with periods between the letters but not after the final letter. I don't know where people get the idea that this is correct, but this is my absolute biggest pet peeve. If you don't know how to use the periods, don't use them at all—they are not compulsory.

Useful tools for wiki editing

• Wikipedia - never underestimate the uses of Wikipedia
• AutoWikiBrowser - excellent external semi-automated editor, great for mass edits
• Wayback Machine - one of the most invaluable wiki editing tools, it allows you to access old versions of webpages or sites that aren't even online anymore
• Archive.is - on-demand archives, for pages you expect to go down that Wayback Machine hasn't captured
• Text Mechanic - a bunch of text manipulation tools that are great for edits involving replacing text or templates
• Diff checker - compares two pieces of text without requiring you to save an edit
• Down for everyone or just me? - checks if websites are down (use in combination with Wayback Machine)
• Bitwise calculator - for when you're working with bitwise commands (only glitches and data structure research is likely to need this)
• ISBN converter - for converting between ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 (adds "978-" to the start of ISBN-10); also checks if ISBN has a valid checksum and inserts hyphens (use in combination with Special:BookSources)
• Binary, hexadecimal, and octal converter - not so useful for wiki work, but I guess it can come in handy for User talk:BulbaBot

Image tools

• PNG optimizer - if an image's filesize is too big to be uploaded to the Archives
• PNG lossy compression - if an image's filesize is too big to be uploaded to the Archives (use only if the optimizer does not make it small enough)
• Image error analysis - use to check if images have been edited ("Photoshopped"), but note that it can only show you that an image is likely edited; there are methods of editing images so that it cannot detect the edits

Tools for times and dates

• timeanddate.com - excellent site with many great tools
  • Date calculator - for adding or subtracting days to or from a date
  • Date to date calculator - for finding the number of days between two dates
  • Event time announcer - puts a time in multiple timezones allowing everyone to see when a specific event will occur
• World Time Buddy - for comparing two or more timezones, and announcing events without every single timezone

Tools for Japanese

• Jisho.org - excellent online dictionary
• Handwritten kanji search - great for unknown kanji
• Akebi (Android app) - excellent Android Japanese diction, handdrawn kanji recognition, etc.
• Romaji to hiragana and katakana converter (via Wayback Machine) - sometimes easier than changing language and fiddling with conversion settings in Windows (site is down, but Wayback Machine's archive works just as well)

Articles needing attention

Category	Number of articles
Stubs	2,811
Candidates for merging	64
Candidates for splitting	36
Candidates for deletion	18
Candidates for moving	242
Articles needing more information	4,697
Outdated articles	106
Articles needing improvement	180
Articles needing sources	118
Articles needing translation	132

Shiny stories

All wild Shiny Pokémon I encountered prior to Gen VI (obviously discounting red Gyarados) have been in the Safari Zone (since there's no Safari Zone in Gen VI). Not only that, but the only Safari Zone that I haven't encountered a Shiny in is the Great Marsh, which is the only one not named "Safari Zone".

Game	Location	Pokémon	Status
LG	Kanto Safari Zone	Paras	caught
LG		Exeggcute	failed
E	Hoenn Safari Zone	Stantler	caught
SS	Johto Safari Zone	Cubone	failed
Y	Friend Safari	Ditto	caught
Y	Route 5	Doduo	caught
Y	Victory Road	Gurdurr	caught
AS	Granite Cave	Zubat	caught

Also, I encountered that Exeggcute with 1 Safari Ball left. I threw it, but it escaped and I was kicked out.
Also, I have a Shiny Gyarados clone from my friend who caught it as a Magikarp in Sapphire. That is why I was hoping that the guaranteed red Gyarados would have some kind of difference to other Shiny ones, but it didn't.

Furthermore, I now have a Shiny Red-Striped Basculin in Y, because a friend of mine declared it too ugly and would have otherwise released it.