User talk:Lavendrake

Welcome to Bulbapedia, Lavendrake!

Thank you for joining our community! By creating an account you are now able to edit pages, join discussions, and expand the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia. This is a brief introduction to Bulbapedia's rules and resources to help you get started: All users are expected to follow the code of conduct and to be kind to one another. If you have a question, check out our FAQ; the manual of style provides detailed editing guidance, and the wikicode page provides details about how to use wikicode. You can always ask for help by contacting a staff member. Please preview your edits before saving them; this helps you double-check your changes and reduces the need for repeated minor edits. Use talk pages to discuss changes and resolve editing disputes. Creating a userpage is allowed after you've added to the encyclopedia; for more details, see the userspace policy. Sign all talk page posts with four tildes (~~~~) so people know who is commenting. This will turn into your name and the time you wrote the comment. For more handy links and information, check out the welcome portal.

Thank you, and have a good time editing here!   FinnishPokéFan92 (talk) 00:50, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

The Preview Button

Instead of editing a page several times in a row, try using the preview button to make sure your edit looks the way you want it to. It's right next to the Save Page button. Please try it out, so as not to clog up the Recent Changes. Also, if you want to edit multiple sections of the page, make sure that you click "edit this page" at the top of the page rather than editing it by section. Thanks! --FinnishPokéFan92 (talk) 00:50, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, This is my first time ever editing a Bulbapedia article. I actually made this account just to give some fluff to the many empty articles on Paldea..Anyways, I have been using the preview button, but sometimes I remember things I forgot to add after I already saved the changes. Thank you for the tip about the sections, though! :D (I don't even know if I'm doing this talk thing right.)

(Also, are you the person who is deleting that trivia on Montenevera being the only town on the mountain? Lavendrake (talk) 00:59, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for signing up and joining in on the editing fun! I look forward to seeing your contributions to some of the other Paldean locations. They definitely need some love.

I went ahead and re-added in the essence of your trivia point into the intro of the article to match the type of thing we have going on for locations such as Ecruteak City. Trivia is sometimes a point of contention here, so I personally find it better to try and find ways to add it into the bodies of articles.

I appreciate you reading and taking in the above feedback that Finnish provided about the preview button. I too only remember things after I hit save, and have to make another edit after the fact sometimes. It's no problem when that happens, we just want to make sure you have all the tools at your disposal to make your edits look clean and thorough. Each page has a history, and condensing your contributions into fewer edits helps out future editors if they ever have to check in on who added a certain something later.

When I was checking out your edits, I noticed you using the typical style for linking when you linked to Pokémon pages: [[These guys]]. That created links to redirect pages, which we try to generally avoid. We here at Bulbapedia adopted a number of link templates to help out with certain situations, one of which is linking directly to Pokémon pages instead of redirects. The one for this situation is {{p|Greavard}}. If you want to see know more about specific link templates, check out this page, but I think the most frequent ones you'll need are {{p|Pokémon}}, {{m|moves}}, and {{a|Abilities}}. Looking at the code for related content typically helps out with learning more, so I think you'll get the hang of it the more you contribute here.

I hope you enjoy your stay here, and you can always bring any questions you have to me or another Bulbapedia:Staff member. Can't wait to see what else you do!

(PS, you are doing this talk page thing right! ^_^ Just check out the : in the code of my post here to see how that punctuation indents each line. It's very useful to keep the conversation easy to read here.) ^Maverick_Nate 08:30, 26 March 2023 (UTC)