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Pokémon

Thank you for editting Pokémon, in future, please use edit summaries. Cheers, Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 08:21, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

El Tigre

Regarding your edits to El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, as you see, I thank you for your edits, however, as you can see, in the infobox, you deleted Mexico as origin country. In effect, the show comes partly from Mexico, as it is were the publisher company, Mexopolis is located. Please refrain to erase things that are accurate. 201.218.79.120 (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Publisher company?? As for as I know, the show is completely from the US, seeing as Nickelodeon created, funded and produced the show originally for America. Unless it was co-produced by a Mexican company FOR Mexico, I see no reason to list it under 'Country of origin'. Smash (talk) 20:06, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

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PLEASE slow down the categorization and read this

PLEASE, a lot of your categorizations of articles are unnecessary because they are redundant. An article doesn't need to have a category which is already a subcategory of another one. Please read the guidelines about categories and revert the contributions which you did that are concerned by this issue. Kariteh 17:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Smash 19:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Articles must not be in both a category "A" and category "B" if "B" is already a subcategory of "A". ...I'm probably not explaining it very well. But just take the time to read the guideline page I linked, it's long but necessary (because categorization is a complicated stuff), and at such a rate it's tedious for other people to revert the "mistakes" you may or may not have made.:

Well, take the example of the Chocobo games for instance. If Category:Chocobo games is categorized in Category:Video games developed in Japan, then there is not need to put Chocobo Racing, Chocobo Stallion, Chocobo Collection, etc. in the Category:Video games developed in Japan, because these articles are already in the Category:Chocobo games. See what I mean?

Also, this reasoning is also valid for the Category:Japan exclusive video games: there is no need to put an article in Category:Video games developed in Japan when it is already in the Category:Japan exclusive video games. Kariteh 19:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, well, what's done is done. Smash 19:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Er, no, what's done has to be fixed, and it's going to take a while. Kariteh 19:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, well, good luck with that. Smash 19:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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TMNT

Regarding the TMNT (2003 TV series) article, I understand what you were saying about the section you deleted, however, I think that you should make an appoint to edit certain information rather than deleting it entirely from the article, seeing as though someone else worked hard to put it together. Place the information where a fits rather than just deleting it. Thank you. CH 16:31, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

If you're trying to keep the information up, at least make an "International versions" section or something like that to add it in. "Japanese version" just doesn't make the article look neat. Smash 17:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I just didn't want to add one thing into the section entitled "international", seeing as though I only have information based on the japanese version at the moment, and no other dubs. But I see your point. CH 17:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of The Right Stuf International

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Nintendo Switch

What were you trying to achieve with this edit? I've reverted it, but if you were trying to do something productive, then feel free to revert and do what you meant to do. If not, then don't do it again. JudgeRM (talk to me) 04:42, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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Lili (video game) moved to draftspace

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National authorship POV

Hello. I've noticed you've been removing "Japanese", "Canadian", "Chinese" and other national identifiers from articles but retaining or adding "American". Can you explain what you're trying to accomplish with edits like this and this please? Thank you TarkusAB^talk 10:09, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

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