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[Albedo]

Does putting a waterfall in a dining hall help boost to legendary status, or does it just give happy-thoughts to the diners?

Waterfalls have no intrinsic "value" - a well has a bucket, block and chain/rope, but a waterfall has nothing.

H-thoughts are as normal.  The advantage in putting a waterfall in is that you're guaranteed that every dwarf who eats will pass by it. 

I try to put one that cascades in the AG sculpture garden, and also past the entrance to the dorms and the DH both.

[zooeyglass]

I play with the economy off, I don't see the point of it.

OFF-TOPIC:
the beauty of DF being that there are so many different ways of approaching it, and it is so open to being tailored to people's individual preferences.

personally, i like the economy, because for me it marks a stage when the dwarves are becoming even more autonomous. when you first start the fortress, any job you queue on the manager is immediately sent to the dwarves. as the fortress grows, suddenly a dwarf takes on that responsibility. a stage further, and dwarves start to become choosier about what jobs to take as they begin to have value. but i understand why people might avoid it.
/OFF-TOPIC.

[Rowanas]

OFF TOPIC

I've kept it on, because given how hard I rock at DF, it's the only thing that could bring my society to its knees. Capitalism breaks happiness!!

[HammerHand]

My dining halls have become legendary with very little effort on my part.  I tend to make them fairly large... I guess.  They seem pretty small when I have 150 Dwarves and about a third of them are cramming themselves into the meeting hall between tasks, but they seem enormous in my first year, when I'm digging out vast amounts of space that won't be filled until a few years later.

... Anyway.

I just dig out a big room, put X chairs and X tables in it, and sometimes I don't even HAVE to engrave it.  At least, I don't remember engraving my last one, and my Dwarves still end up with "dined in a legendary dining room lately."

I wouldn't worry about trying too hard.  Unless you're making a lot of small dining rooms, or the ones for your nobles.  Then it's a matter of masterwork.  Masterwork chairs, tables, racks, coffers, and cabinets can do a lot for a room, particularly if you let somebody masterfully improve them with spikes of shell and masterfully encrust them with gems.  ... Not that I ever bother trying to MAKE that happen.  Ugh.

But uh... more to point:  A 21 x 11 room?  You'll have no problems whatsoever.  You may not even have to put much furniture in there.  Smooth it, engrave it (even with novice engravers), and then start tossing chairs and tables in.  It'll be legendary in no time.  If you really want to max out the room's value then you have a lot of work ahead of you, but a legendary dining hall is exceedingly simple, especially when it's that large.

Happy Dwarfing.

[pushy]

Waterfalls have no intrinsic "value" - a well has a bucket, block and chain/rope, but a waterfall has nothing.

Well, while a waterfall in itself has no value (and in fact would decrease a room's value by having to channel a hole in the floor), things like metal bars that you might put around the hole to stop dwarves from falling in do have value that would help with the room's value

[Grendus]

At least, I don't remember engraving my last one, and my Dwarves still end up with "dined in a legendary dining room lately."

Depends. The "dined in a legendary dining room" happy thought is not the same as having a "Royal Dining Room" for your dwarves. It's totally up to you, I prefer to train up a legendary mason and have him slowly engrave my wall with an actual history of my fortress. But that's just me.