User talk:Gzalzi

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"You have been processed! Go forth, now, and edit!" --Savok

I noted your recent chastising of a person's Talk-page question, and I figured I'd point out to you Rule D. We do encourage questions; they help in letting us DFWiki-contributors know what needs improving in the relevant article. Please try to limit irrelevant contributions, such as "go to some other website to ask questions", to a minimum. --DeMatt 07:33, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

And how is what I said irrelevant? Questions about gameplay and questions about the article are quite different. "Shouldn't the article contain information x?" is different from "How do I solve minor problem x?" Anyone who needs answers to questions like that should go to the Dwarf Fortress Forums, because a lot of the time, the questions are never replied to here. --Gzalzi 19:51, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Main namespace redirects

I don't recall exactly where it's stated, but the current policy for redirects from the main namespace is that they should always point to the cv: namespace article of the same name, and that the version-specific namespace should then redirect to whatever is appropriate. The example given at the time was "cheese" - 40d redirects "cheese" to "cheese maker", but DF2010 has its own dedicated page for cheese, so redirecting "cheese" to "cv:cheese maker" back in 40d (hypothetically, since the multiple namespaces didn't happen until after DF2010) would have broken things. --Quietust 21:11, 4 January 2011 (UTC)