User talk:MrJoe

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Hello and Thanks
Hello MrJoe,

Thanks for your work on the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book. I am always pleased, gratified, and excited to see when someone comes along and makes a positive contribution to this work. If you have any questions, drop me a note on my talk page. Also, if you don't mind, I'd like to add you to the list of authors in our Infobox. I would rather have a real name instead of a username, but if you'd rather remain anonymous, that's fine too.

Thanks again for your help!

Jim Thomas 19:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks Joe. It's very very nice to know that people are using this. I do have fun writing, editing, and compiling answers, but it's even better knowing when it actually helps people.  I'll put you on the list!


 * Jim Thomas 20:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Recreation/Gold Prospecting
Nice job! Did I understand correctly that you were the one who authored and submitted the honor? If so, congrats on having it accepted, and thanks for adding it to the Wikibook. --Jomegat (talk) 13:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Model Hot Air Balloons
Hi MrJoe,

I'm thinking about getting rid of some of the Wikipedia links in Model Hot Air Balloons. Instead, I would simply import the articles from Wikipedia and paste them right in. Importing is something that has to be done by an admin (and I am one, so I can do that), and it preserves the edit history of the Wikipedia article. In effect, it makes it look like our honor was edited by whomever contributed to the imported article.

The main reason I would want to remove the links is because they are completely suppressed in the print version (they used to get converted to URLs, but that had a very cluttered look). There are a few wiki-to-pdf generators out there however, that DO still convert the links to urls.

Also, I like to have all the info in an honor contained in the module without having to chase links to get the answers. --Jomegat (talk) 01:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * My thought was to add short summary type information to each of the answers, in addition to the links. If the links are there, then the more in depth information is readily available for those who want it. I only put the links in this afternoon, because I didn't have time to add actual text. However, I was looking up the info so I could teach the honor this evening and putting in the links was a quick way to make at least some of the info easily available.--MrJoe (talk) 04:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that's a pretty good approach. I'll start importing articles this evening.  We can trim out the cruft and move the links to a place where they won't become an eyesore in the print version.  Actually, maybe I should wait on the imports if you're going to be using this tonight.  History merges are messy and complicated procedures that involve replacing a page with the imported material, deleting it, undeleting everything again, and then restoring to the pre-import version.  That would not be good if I were doing that while you were referencing it! I hope it goes well for you tonight.  It really looks like a fascinating honor.  --Jomegat (talk) 12:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Having printed out the various Wikipedia articles I added links for, and seeing how long they are. I think that it would probably be easier to just write up some basic answers than to import the articles and then delete the 90%+ of the text that is unneeded. We started the honor last night and we don't have a regular meeting next week so we won't be using the article in the immediate future. So if you want to import stuff go ahead, I will try to keep an eye on the honor over the next several days and work on it if I get a chance, but I don't know how much time I'll have. I just moved and am in the middle of a seemingly endless series of DIY projects which eat almost all of my free time. --MrJoe (talk) 16:41, 16 October 2008 (UTC)