User talk:Randomtime/Archive 1

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here! Yeah. Kill me. Glinn Mgraw 10:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey RT. nice to see a friendly face around here. Warwick 10:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ohai, btw, if anyone adds a template welcome, they will die Randomtime 10:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Truthfully, We're the Spam Krewe on GuildWiki for a reason. Warwick 10:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

ya Randomtime 10:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Just want to say hi, myself. List of GuildWikians here is getting bigger...

Also, a note on the userspace editing ban, that's temporary. It'll be lifted soon; it's a test to see how much Userspace edits affect the server (Bulbapedia gets a lot of lag, and a lot of it can be traced to massive userspace projects). -- Jïörüjï Ðērākō.>.cнаt^ 21:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Kay - sorry about stress on earlier edits - i'll probably stealth on this wiki - but I may edit from time to time - rm -rf /home/annoyinggenericwelcome/ - sorry, I know how to edit a wiki (sue me) Randomtime 17:10, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome Message

Please do not erase the welcome message for no reason, or any other comment on talk pages for that matter. Trust me, you do NOT want to end up like Big Johnno, who got into an edit war with a sysop over comments the former had erased and was trying to keep erased. That user ended up blocked and subsequently had every erased comment restored. --Shiningpikablu252 17:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

All users that have made accounts after the establishment of using a Welcome message must keep the Welcome message on their talk pagePM102 17:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)