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Topic: Herping Best Practices - A Document in Development

I'm trying to set the stage here.  I'll first ask for input about the overall outline provided in this document and about what has been written so far.

http://www.herpsofarkansas.com/Main/BestPractices

My suggestion is for people to fill out a bit of it at a time (keeping it to the point! ...pick the parts you feel most comfortable in writing) and then ask for input from others in this thread.  All disagreements should be resolved; it should be a document we can overwhelmingly agree upon.

Now comes the chastisement.  HA!  No, not really chastisement, but this document has become yet another one of those "wouldn't it be great if..." kind of things that people suggest, I set up, no one else touches, and I end up doing myself when I finally have time for it.  What I will promise for myself is to provide feedback, suggestions, and editing...but the writing of the content for this deal is on others.  People will have a fair chance to take ownership, but if I return from summer camp (June 29th) and it still hasn't so much as been touched, I'll assume that people didn't want it so badly after all and it's getting deleted...and that will be the end of it.  Consider yourselves warned!   cool

PS - Click "edit", login using your forum username and password, and WRITE!  ...please.

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Re: Herping Best Practices - A Document in Development

~Mr. Roberts, I have a question...~

Is there a way to view recent changes within this document so that we may review what a previous contributor added? I notice the "recent changes" on the sidebar but that seems to only list that something has been done to the document, not the location specifically within the document.. i.e.. will it say if someone has contributed to the tongs handling section?

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Re: Herping Best Practices - A Document in Development

Mystic-B wrote:

~Mr. Roberts, I have a question...~

Is there a way to view recent changes within this document so that we may review what a previous contributor added?

It's the "history" link:

http://www.herpsofarkansas.com/Main/Be ... ction=diff

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kaptainkory wrote:

http://www.herpsofarkansas.com/Main/BestPractices

this document has become yet another one of those "wouldn't it be great if..." kind of things that people suggest, I set up, no one else touches, and I end up doing myself when I finally have time for it.  What I will promise for myself is to provide feedback, suggestions, and editing...but the writing of the content for this deal is on others.  People will have a fair chance to take ownership, but if I return from summer camp (June 29th) and it still hasn't so much as been touched, I'll assume that people didn't want it so badly after all and it's getting deleted...and that will be the end of it.  Consider yourselves warned!   cool

PS - Click "edit", login using your forum username and password, and WRITE!  ...please.

If anyone really wants this document, they might consider adding some materials to it-- even a rough draft is better than nothing... add some simple bullets that others could elaborate on or such.

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I'm looking forward to reading it, but I'm not really qualified to help write it...I'm still learning all that stuff.  smile

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you might consider then, Jen - asking some specific questions within those categories for others to answer - that might help move its progress along. It seems our members answer questions better than they can come up with conversations on their own wink

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PS - Click "edit", login using your forum username and password, and WRITE! ...please.

Didn't work.

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Didnt work for me either so I used the admin password for the wiki... what happens when you click this link - maybe it will take you there

http://www.herpsofarkansas.com/Main/Be ... ction=edit

Edit: well it seems even the admin info doesnt work for some people trying to edit that page.. I guess Kory will have to deal with delayed progress! If you want to try, PM me for the password.

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I was going to eventually write some stuff on there, but I was planning to wait til the last minute cause I'm a big procrastinator. But since there are problems with it, I'll just wait until its fixed (that will give me more time to procrastinate!).

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I think a part about the best times and circumstances to find reptiles would be good.  Temperature, time of year, weather..etc.  I know I've bugged you guys about that stuff before.  But it would help out newbies like me.  Equipment needed.  Mountains vs. swampy areas like mine.  Importance of leaving the area like you found it. 
How's that for a start....now you guys go start your essays.....on your marks....get set.......GO!

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BobbyNeal was able to log into the page and edit the document, adding some information in the categories.. *good job, btw, bobby- * But how did you get in? Others couldnt log into it and they couldnt use my user/password either

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Re: Herping Best Practices - A Document in Development

If it matters, I think the wiki checks a username for case-sensitivity, whereas the forum does not.  But they both use the exact same database.  I noticed the people who have said it "didn't work" have caps in their usernames.  Please try again using your exact username and password (caps and all).  If the story is the same after this, I'll look into it more closely.

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Please try again using your exact username and password (caps and all)

That worked. I forgot I had a couple of capitalized letters in my name. Thanks.

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