User talk:Davekobliska

Welcome
Welcome to Wikibooks, Davekobliska!

Thanks
Thanks for your work on the Model Railroad honor. I hope you don't mind, but I fixed the clear macro and reduced the header levels from four to two in one section you worked on. I'll stay out of your way now, unless you ask for help. --Jomegat (talk) 23:12, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

User Page
Hi Dave,

If you like, I could delete the version of your user page that has your straight contact information. Otherwise, it'll be in the page history forevermore. There is actually not a "delete an old version" option. I'd hafta delete the whole thing and then restore the current version. Lemme know. --Jomegat (talk) 04:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Stage Icons
Hi Dave,

I hope you found the answer to your previous question. I left it on my my talk page. I do that because I find it easier to follow a conversation if the whole thing is in one place.

The Model Railroad honor is coming along nicely! If you'd like to, you can update the stage icon on the Arts and Crafts page as you make progress. The stage icon can only handle 25% increments. In order to make it as objective as I can, I measure the number of top-level requirements that have been answered enough that the requirement can be met, and compare that the the number of top-level requirements. That is to say, I don't count 6a and 6b as two reqs - they're all part of req 6. If 5 out of 9 requirements are done, that's 55%, so I use the 50% icon. In cases where the requirement is to "do one of the following" I call it done when one of the "or's" is done. That's what I mean by "answered enough". I do try to answer all options, but sometimes that's pretty hard to do.

I also avoid weighting "big" requirements more than "small" ones because then we get into subjectivity which I really prefer to avoid. Otherwise... the answer book would be 90% done? It's just too easy to say "well - that's a small requirement" so I avoid the whole problem by sticking to strictly objective measures.

--Jomegat (talk) 20:28, 29 January 2009 (UTC)