User talk:SanDiego

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

Hi - welcome to the wiki. Someone suggested that you might have just copied/pasted old 40d material into a new page (DF2010:Hoary marmot - see talk page)- I have no idea if you did or if they're just confused, don't have time to check and don't care if it happened so long as it isn't repeated - but either way, make sure 100% of any material going into new articles has been screened for accuracy w/ the new version - both in your edits, and others'! Readya later. --Albedo 05:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

To clarify, the suggestion was not that you had copypasted old material into the new page, but that you had copied the contents of a template instead of merely linking to it. To link to a template, you just need to put {{templatename}}, and the contents of that template will appear in the page in question. Thanks for your contributions! :) --Morlark 06:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I actually copied the template into the article, it was confusion on my part as I was unsure of how to use it properly. Thanks for enlightening me--SanDiego 12:38, 11 April 2010 (UTC)