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User talk:Nimblewright

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Welcome to this wiki! Dwarf Fortress rapidly becomes more complicated, and we're always glad to have new writers.
Since you should try to follow wiki standards, and you probably don't know ours yet, we've made a list of basic guidelines. Note that this is a template, not a customized message for you.

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Can you please NOT create entirely empty pages? It removes red links which show a page that needs adding. If you absolutely MUST do this, add {{NewVersionStub}} to it, which puts it in a category for later reference. --Eagle0600 08:43, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Right, sorry, didn't know that. Will refrain in future. --Nimblewright 08:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

That's okay. Also, if you edit my user talk page rather than your own, I'll get notified. --Eagle0600 10:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, turns out the admins want empty pages, so go ahead. --Eagle0600 19:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

template:water FAQ on 40d:channel page[edit]

The Water and Magma FAQ boxes at the bottom of the article link to 
the DF2010 version of this wiki and I don't know how to fix them...

Hi, welcome to the wiki. If you "edit" and look at the code in that bottom section, you'll find something like {{Water FAQ}}. Any time you see something in double fancy brackets, like {{X example}} (rather than double square brackets [[x example]] ), it's a "template", a special wiki call-function, and can be found under the page "template:x example". So you go there, and edit the redlinks in that - and every page that uses that template now calls to the fixed page, all good. In this case, the page is template:water FAQ (capilization after the first letter is significant!). This is also how the {{av}}, [Verify], the {{subst:hi}} I just posted at the top of this page and other similar "fancy" inserts work. Readya later.--Albedo 15:55, 6 April 2010 (UTC)