User talk:Peregarrett

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DF2010:Activity zone‎

Hi. In the "site announcements", that drop-down at the top of every page, do you see the first line under "New Editors"? Yeah, the one that reads: "Please do NOT copy/paste old articles into new namespace unless you screen them for accuracy." Well, please don't, thanks. If you don't have the time to screen it before adding it, don't poison the well for others. (Also, consider using {{NewVersionStub}} for new articles rather than leaving blank pages when creating w/ {{av}}, but that's a judgement call.) Other than that, good work, readya later.--Albedo 17:44, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

now revision 85744 seems to be almost identical to mine(85077). 
The difference is that i made links with Template:L while he used text.

You did that part correctly (he didn't pre-screen either, apparently). Both will get the job done "for now", but every [[DF2010: link will need to be changed later (possibly manually, sim to what's going on in 40d atm), while {{L| links will automagically still work fine once/when(if?) we ever get the official version number from the coders - which we've been waiting on for a while now. (Btw - if you want to tackle that page again, I'm putting some notes on it to that effect.)--Albedo 18:36, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Metal Bins

While you may have observed that metal bins only need 1 bar, this is in fact a bug - everything only uses 1 metal bar to forge, while attempting to forge it without any metal at all available will tell you how many bars it was actually trying to use (which, in this case, was the usual three bars). --Quietust 12:51, 15 April 2010 (UTC)