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Why isn't the first sentence in past tense? The second sentence is grammatically incorrect. "harvesters found that they could no longer strip a room's plants entirely" is not a true statement (for more reasons than one, given the multiple definitions of "strip"), and "rooms" is an OOC concept. This article also doesn't mention when the rules of overharvesting were implemented, so to call it "one of the most longest-standing Achaean ordinances" (which is, incidentally, very awkward wording) makes little sense when only the end date is provided. --[[User:Krypton|Krypton]] 01:18, 1 May 2008 (GMT) | Why isn't the first sentence in past tense? The second sentence is grammatically incorrect. "harvesters found that they could no longer strip a room's plants entirely" is not a true statement (for more reasons than one, given the multiple definitions of "strip"), and "rooms" is an OOC concept. This article also doesn't mention when the rules of overharvesting were implemented, so to call it "one of the most longest-standing Achaean ordinances" (which is, incidentally, very awkward wording) makes little sense when only the end date is provided. --[[User:Krypton|Krypton]] 01:18, 1 May 2008 (GMT) | ||
:Ok. The first sentence isn't in past tense because the definition of overharvesting hasn't changed. I don't personally see anything wrong with the second sentence. The third sentence is true, because indeed harvesters can no longer strip a room's plants - "strip" is used correctly within its boundries of definitions, i.e. to possess/deprive/plunder. The third sentence makes sense because it is indeed one of the longest standing ordinances and you can verify this information in the realms. [[User:Asara|Asara]] 02:32, 1 May 2008 (GMT) | :Ok. The first sentence isn't in past tense because the definition of overharvesting hasn't changed. I don't personally see anything wrong with the second sentence. The third sentence is true, because indeed harvesters can no longer strip a room's plants - "strip" is used correctly within its boundries of definitions, i.e. to possess/deprive/plunder. The third sentence makes sense because it is indeed one of the longest standing ordinances and you can verify this information in the realms. [[User:Asara|Asara]] 02:32, 1 May 2008 (GMT) | ||
::Technically and firstly, the term "overharvesting" does not even exist anymore, as its definition is now (present) a physical impossibility, though this was never always the case (past). Secondly, the grammatically incorrect sentence doesn't pay heed to how lists involving commas must be structured, i.e. the same way "He likes running in circles, does cartwheels, and jumping in place." is not correct. Thirdly, plants can still be "fully harvested", and that fits with your definition of "deprive"; furthermore, "strip" (short for "stripharvesting") once referred to when harvesting to 0 completely removed a plant from a room, such that it no longer appeared in the room description (though true "stripping" was removed long ago) - usage of the word is thus confusing. Fourthly, that wasn't a good reason for why the start date/year isn't included; that's equally verifiable information in the realms. --[[User:Krypton|Krypton]] 03:31, 1 May 2008 (GMT) | |||