Re: Requesting a challenge checker for a new challenge cache

Hi,

The cache in question is

GC72KND
Freston 4- Shotley Peninsula Challenge

As yet unpublished and designed to bring the cacher into a beautiful part of the country. The challenge is relatively simple- to find at least 50 caches in the county of Suffolk (in England), one of which should be a traditional. a question mark (other than this cache), a multi, and a church micro. The cacher will be required to list the caches found to qualify. It is recommended that they visit the physical cache as it is a stunning view.

Many thanks for your help and support

John Palmer (the Jap part of JapVonkeiller&Poppy)

Not sure what a church micro is, unless you're referring to a micro in/at a church? If so, that portion of the challenge is against challenge cache guidelines, since you may not use any portion of the cache name for your challenge and that is the only way to pinpoint a cache at a church. The rest of your request is acceptable.

Hi- there's a great big series of caches associated with any church/chapel in the united kingdom. Currently there are 7,100 church micro's in this series (spread throughout England, Wales and Scotland). The caches are varied, and may include micro, small, medium, to large, and can be multi, traditional, earth caches, or question mark. These caches are owned by several 1000's of different Geocachers. If this is not acceptable I will remove this part.

regards,

John



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/06/2017 01:03PM by JapVonKeiller&Poppy. (view changes)

There's a variety of caches that include church micro requirements and UK reviewers are usually fine with them being part of the criteria (but past decisions don't guarantee the same answer again).

They can be checked by being in one of the following bookmark lists:
{name="Church Micros 1 to 499", guid="b9597df5-b3c8-42ff-bab7-96a965e7f026"},
{name="Church Micros 500 to 999", guid="3c39c50e-ee63-4832-a4a4-3f4d80bae0b4"},
{name="Church Micros 1000 to 1499", guid="5bb0741d-96fe-4c1a-a31b-1027c0519244"},
{name="Church Micros 1500 to 1999", guid="6b73a5ea-8b31-4d7d-9b55-2935692eebd6"},
{name="Church Micros 2000 to 2499", guid="30175d87-5b18-4c48-81ef-7104dbe0468e"},
{name="Church Micros 2500 to 2999", guid="89451dc6-2eac-458a-b3af-f1e7fc5455ba"},
{name="Church Micros 3000 to 3499", guid="c789285e-db46-4567-85ab-4646144f54b4"},
{name="Church Micros 3500 to 3999", guid="3e094722-564a-4826-b099-28e35d45ec67"},
{name="Church Micros 4000 to 4999", guid="76a3f34c-c78d-45be-8d30-f235fe533de7"},
{name="Church Micros 5000 to 5999", guid="26398daf-be58-4ff6-bb8f-8dc371858635"},
{name="Church Micros 6000 to 6999", guid="9218f7e0-2ccf-42bf-a90b-618a037d1ef3"},
{name="Church Micros 7000 to 7999", guid="e3b22fa8-934d-48c6-8d6e-b7960cee06ed"},
{name="Church Micros 8000 to 8999", guid="c1bdcdf3-8237-4bc2-a597-b0ecd45a69f9"},
{name="Church Micros 9000 to 9999", guid="b5d91801-85fe-418d-8025-aef758164070"},
{name="Church Micros 10000 to 10999", guid="4136eb92-8876-4da2-8a4e-7149874f5da0"}
{name="Archived Church Micros", guid="d8064b97-58f1-40cd-ab9e-4f5ff784a350"},
{name="Archived Church Micros 2", guid="ab03d431-649a-4a35-80cd-4a90a01aa492"}

JapVonKeiller&Poppy: Are there are church micro's in Suffolk? Either there are none or the script I'm using to test for them is not working. Or should the user find any church micro, not necessarily in Suffolk?

mole125: Thanks for the feedback. We'll try it and see if they accept.

Your script can't be working properly, if you enter "church micro suffolk" into the project-gc wildcard search then it finds 500+ caches (some archived etc) most if not all will be on the church micro bookmark lists.

Tried one of the existing scripts, so not my script. It seems I might need to create a new script for this one, since I can't find any of the existing multi checkers that can handle all the conditions (bookmarks). Or pick an existing script and submit a patch/new feature request to its developer.

I doubt if the challenge is acceptable under the current guidelines because it is no recognized type and bookmark checkers can not be used

Hi,
There are 419 church micros in Suffolk (plus a further 7 disabled, and 16 archived). I don't want any bookmark lists added to this challenge.

The criteria are to:

Find 50 caches in Suffolk, at least ten traditional, two multi, five ?cache (other than this challenge) and one church micro.

Please list the caches found to claim this cache (previous finds may count towards this total).

If the church micro part still cannot count I will remove it but as said previously this is a large and well thought of series in the UK.

Regards,
John



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2017 07:44PM by JapVonKeiller&Poppy. (view changes)

(Reviewer here.) Since "Church Micros" are identified only by their cache names, they cannot be used as a qualifying factor for a challenge cache. An alternative would be to require that one of the finds in Suffolk must be a micro.

Hi,

Changed description too:

50 caches in Suffolk. 10 of these have to be traditional, five multi and five ?caches (not including this cache)

Many thanks for your help,

John Palmer

Here's a checker for you:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC72KND/28546

Please test and let us know.

Hi,
Many thanks for this checker. However, it doesn't work when added to the cache description.
Can you help?
Many regards,
John

Can you be a little bit more specific on what doesn't work? Did you get the copy from the Link button?

The cache owner has included the following on their challenge cache page, with no other HTML formatting:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC72KND/28546

I think the reviewer is looking for an active hyperlink, at a minimum.

Hi,
What is an active hyperlink? Can this be added to the Challenge Link?

I added the above link but it only comes up as a sentence in the description, in which you cannot click on.

Regards
John



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2017 06:34AM by JapVonKeiller&Poppy. (view changes)

The CO needs to edit the description in HTML mode and include the section below:

<a href="https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC72KND/28546"><img src="https://cdn2.project-gc.com/Images/Checker/28546"; title="Project-GC Challenge checker" alt="PGC Checker"></a>

Dear Pieterix,

The Challenge Checker has now become functional.

Many thanks for your help,

Regards,

John Palmer