User talk:SilSinn9801

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here!   Ice Cream 23:47, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Old Comments

Hi. I saw on the Bulbapedia talk:Editor's Hub that you replied to a comment from 2012. I would recommend not replying to comments that are that old and instead add a new section at the bottom of the talk page. I can see that you're new here so I presume you didn't know but just as a head's up in the future. Thank You! Ice Cream 23:52, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Userspace limits

Hello. I have noticed that you have been editing the User: namespace a lot recently, and have made a total of 4+ userspace edits today. Please do not edit the userspace any more, as the userspace policy limits the amount you can edit your userpage: No more than three edits per day (by UTC), and you must contribute to the mainspace more than you edit your user page(s). This policy was instated to promote people helping out in the mainspace, and also to control strain on our servers. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia, after all, so help us out by contributing to some articles before coming back to your personal page(s). The more often you edit in the mainspace, the more you will be allowed to edit your user page(s). Thank you. --ForceFire 05:29, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Make more mainspace edits

In addition to the message above, please make more mainspace edits. You have only made 7 mainspace edits in comparison to your other edits. This is unacceptable. Users should at least attempt to make constructive edits to the wiki, not having back and forth conversation on talk pages or trying to make their userpage look pretty. We are a wiki first and foremost, so your top priority should be improving the wiki. Thank you.--ForceFire 05:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

The reason I only have 7 mainspace edits is because there are too many articles I would like to contribute to but cannot because of their protected status. Examples: Player character, Leaf (game). Even there is a brand-new article I would like to start (List of unlockable Festival Plaza phrases in other languages) but feel discouraged to do because of a certain admin/bureaucrat's opinion that it doesn't deserve to exist even though it is of a purely encyclopedic nature (just like many other lengthy List of ... in other languages articles). And sometimes, the only mainspace contribution I can provide to a certain article is a tooltip {{tt}} contribution which almost always gets rolled back/reverted/undone for whatever reason by the same admin/bureaucrat. How do you then expect me to constructively contribute to this wiki when there is almost always at least one obstacle to my potential contributions? --SilSinn (Pokémon Sun TID: 768426; Pokémon Ultra Moon TID: 123446) (talk) 07:14, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

There are other things you can edit that does not pertain to Let's Go. The wiki has thousands of pages you can edit, you can't say that there's nothing to edit.--ForceFire 07:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

And that's the problem. Those other pages either do not interest me (because they pertain to games I don't play, like Pokémon Trozei, so there is no way I can contribute to them) or are already so complete there is nothing new to contribute to them (not even grammatical error fixes). And in some cases, there is nothing I can contribute to a certain article because it was already contributed by someone else ahead of me (as if this were a race to see who makes it first). --SilSinn (Pokémon Sun TID: 768426; Pokémon Ultra Moon TID: 123446) (talk) 07:48, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

User tags

Do not change usertags, like colors, as it may cause stress to the server as it tries to change every instance of the tag on multiple userpages. It's the reason why a majority of usertags are protected. Adding guides are fine however, as they don't affect the appearance of the template.--ForceFire 05:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the server stress, but I felt the recoloring was necessary this time because the previous yellowish/brownish colors were not used by Wikipedia under any skin known to me (Monobook, Vector). But well, at least you appreciate the documentation supplied. I try to edit no more than one template per week because of that same stress concern (and because I am not sure whether templates are a space separate from mainspace). There may be other usertags in need of documentation, but for this week I am done. ----SilSinn (Pokémon Sun TID: 768426; Pokémon Ultra Moon TID: 123446) (talk) 05:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I can't tell whether you got the message exactly, so I just want to reinforce ForceFire's point. If a usertag is unprotected (even though they all should be), editing documentation would be acceptable...but do not make any other sort of edit to them.

Thanks. Tiddlywinks (talk) 11:41, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Symbols

There's no need for those templates, as those symbols are located in the character palette below the edit box, so users just need to click on that, no need for a template. Thank you.--ForceFire 06:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

The templates are for the superscripted forms, not the individual characters themselves. Of course there is a need for such templates, since their usage in Bulbapedia is almost exclusively in superscripted form (example: Fashion item and its table templates). --SilSinn (Pokémon Sun TID: 768426; Pokémon Ultra Moon TID: 123446) (talk) 06:12, 20 December 2018 (UTC)