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  Turtwig A 01:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)  
 

I see you're playing Archives now

See what I did. Note the license I put on it, and also the moves category. —darklordtrom 11:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

You're a quick learner, that's good. Check how I improved your recent contribs, though. You're still painting outside the lines :P —darklordtrom 11:56, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
{{i-Fairuse-screenshot-anime}} is to be used if the image is a screenshot. The other one is for official artwork. —darklordtrom 23:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. There are now no uncategorised files, for the first time in my career. —darklordtrom 23:50, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Hah! Back in my day, when no one cared about the archives except for a little moldy orange, there were over one thousand! So many goodies to behold! And so many days wasted away learning about the archives in order to put them all in their place. MaverickNate 00:14, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Your welcome. Turtwig A 00:39, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Labeling

Please make it to the likes of png, not PNG, gif, not GIF. We dislike capitalized... Thanks. ht14 22:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I made it that way because it was linked like that here though I'll remember that in the future. Thanks Turtwig A 22:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Using {{Delete}}

Please write out the reason for consistency. I know that one is self-explanatory (small, low-quality), but just write it anyway. ht14 01:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Just for helping me out. ^^ It's really appreciated, and I'm really very sorry if I caused you any trouble with what I had. I'm still kind of new to this, so any tips and stuff would be lovely. Shiay 15:14, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

You shouldn't ask me. I'm not really active here. Turtwig A 17:49, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Using {{anipng}}

I'm probably not the best one to tell you this, but you should only use the {{anipng}} template when the image is actually animated, and several of the Pokémon sprites you have added the template to (DP sprites, around the beginning of the second generation) are unmoving. Don't worry about these - I am removing the template for you - but you might want to be more careful in the future. Goldenpoke111 23:20, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Okay. Turtwig A 02:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding period

Only needed in sentences... in the case shown, it wasn't quite necessary... ht14 02:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

So are you saying that periods aren't needed in summaries? Turtwig A 15:11, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
No... if it's a sentence, sure. If not, no. ht14 16:01, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Okay then. Thank you for clarifying and telling me. Turtwig A 19:08, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
No prob. ht14 01:46, 9 August 2010 (UTC)