User talk:Lwan98/Archives-2008q3

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Quantum Leap
Places I've been (yeah, there's Contributions).
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Nature/Antelopes_-_Advanced
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Vocational/Accounting
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Vocational/Radio
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Vocational/Upholstery
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Arts_and_Crafts/Plastic_Canvas
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Vocational/Christian_Sales_Principles
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Arts_and_Crafts/Glass_Painting


 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Nature/Herbs (7)
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Recreation/Triathlon (2)
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Health_and_Science/Chemistry (1)

No. Thanks. Really? It's all madness. Seriously.
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Vocational/Shorthand (0)

Welcome back
Hi Lwan98,

Welcome back to Wikibooks - it's nice to have you back again. I hope you had a good summer! --Jomegat 15:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Volcanoes
Hi Lwan,

I notice you removed all the content from the Volcanoes page in your sandbox. I'm guessing Google found it because I changed the honor_header template to do automatic categorization (that's how I found the page anyhow). Of course, removing the content does not get rid of the old page - it's all still there under the history tab. If you want, I can delete it for you, but I would urge you to not do that.

Rather, I think we should move it into the regular name space and add to the page. Once the honor is approved, we can make any necessary edits and then add it to the Nature page. --Jomegat 13:40, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey Jim, I knew that wikibooks kept a copy/history of it. I wanted to throw off Google although I think Google is smarter than me. I'd simply edited the page, copied all the contents, and created a new page (because I need the info) still in my Sandbox prefixed by the intials of United States and the postal abbreviation for the state. I'm not sure what's best for the Florida honors and if this is the forum for it (seems logical, but then we might get into hierarchal(sp?) issues). I'm keeping it in my sandbox for the present. Might process other Florida honors. ~Lester 14:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Ha! I see you've been hard at work [Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Florida Conference]. Guess that's where I'll put it. ~Lester 14:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Chuckle - believe it or not, that category was created semi-autonomously. I changed the honor_header template to create categories.  I did edit your header, to separate the "Nature" and "Florida Conference" into two fields.  The fourth field automatically becomes a category.  I wouldn't mind at all if we added more FL conf honors.  It needn't mess with the hierarchy either - just file Volcanoes under Nature, and we can slap together an icon for all FL honors.  It will automatically go into the FL category.  I've even been thinking about deleting the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Division page all together.  It just doesn't make sense to me to divide them out like that, especially since we have categories now. --Jomegat 15:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, you can delete "User:Lwan98/Sandbox/Volcanoes‎" now, since I've moved the real one under Nature. ~lester 13:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Currency template
Good exclusion. I should have thought of that and the appearance if it, but that just flew past me ;< ~lester 15:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The image had been deleted from the Commons. I didn't mind so much that it was in the gallery, but at the same time felt no burden to find a replacement image. --Jomegat 15:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Commons Upload
Hi Lester,

I fixed the problem you were having with the water knot image. The original image was uploaded to Wikipedia rather than to the Commons. To fix that, you hafta download a full resolution image to your own computer, then upload it to the commons. If you select the "It is from another Wikimedia project" option, the next page will have a link at the top to the CommonsHelper tool which is very nice. Go there, paste in the image name, and submit. Then copy the junk they give you in that window into the edit window at the commons. Voila, all the info from Wikipedia is retained. --Jomegat 18:40, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ya! Commons was having a problem this mornin' and gave me an error, so I was jest waitin' out the server/error. Thanks. ~Lester 18:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Grr! My locale must be stoppin' my uploads. Will have to get to it later. ~Lester 19:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Stages
Hi Lwan,

The stage and stage_short templates only accept No_work, 00%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% as the progress parameter. I have been interpreting 75% to mean "at least 75%, but less than 100%", so I changed your 90 to 75 for Lighthouses - Advanced. I have also been going by whether or not x% of the requirements have been completely answered, and counting half-answered requirements as contributing nothing. In a nutshell:


 * No_work means the requirements are there, but no answers are.
 * 00% means some answers are there, but less than 25% of the requirements have complete answers.
 * 25% means at least 25% of the requirements have complete answers, but fewer than 50% do.
 * etc.
 * 100% means all requirements have enough answers so that the honor can be earned with what's there.

An example would be the chemistry honor, which we declared complete before all the experiments were explained. The requirement was to do 5 of the ten that were listed, so we could mark it as complete as soon as 5 were ready. We did go on to add the other five, and we did use the TODO template to indicate that more work was needed on that honor.

Hope that clears a few things up. Thanks for your work! --Jomegat (talk) 18:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * sorry - jumped the gun - had just one more item to research/add. done now. Lester, 18:14, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Question?
The following look complete to me: and since I did no work on them, I don't want to inadvertently get credit for marking it complete.
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Nature/Cats_-_Advanced
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Nature/Maple_Sugar_-_Advanced


 * I have never interpreted marking them as complete as taking credit for them.


 * I did the work on Cats - Advanced, but didn't do anything for requirement 3. It's been almost 30 years since I had a cat, which disqualifies me as an expert dispenser of cat care information.  At a minimum, the subquestions in requirement three should be answered first (such as "Why should your cat not be allowed to roam the neighborhood free?" and "explain the relationship of house cats on the environment and why it is best they not be allowed to become feral."  Also, some tips for contacting a local humane society (check the yellow pages?) should be added.


 * For Maple Sugar, we need:
 * Detailed instruction for tapping a tree.
 * Where can the equipment be found?
 * How do you boil it down (this is normally done outside with a fire which must be fed for several hours).
 * A picture of the bark and a leaf.
 * How do I find a sugaring operation?
 * Three recipes


 * That's why I have not marked them as complete. --Jomegat (talk) 16:25, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification ~Lester 17:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)