User talk:Adrignola/2010/09

SteevNash
How do you block a deleted user? Never mind, I see. It was just the page. Question 2, why didn't you delete the account? Not that it was mine. -Arlen22 (talk) 23:23, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It's not possible for a local administrator to delete an account. Only a steward at Meta can do that by request.  The most I can do is indefinitely block the account. – Adrignola talk 23:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh. What's the use of blocking it? -Arlen22 (talk) 00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It prevents continued impersonation of the real-life person associated with the name on the account. Additionally, if a person has self-declared that they will not be using the account in the future and they'd rather it be deleted entirely (if that were possible for me to even do), this lets me do the second-best thing and "disable" the account (this terminology comes from my use of Active Directory). – Adrignola talk 00:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy request
Do me a favor please and process Wikijunior:How Things Work/Fluorescent Lamp ;) — I-20 the highway  22:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Stick this in your userpage





 * Done. Maybe the layout could be improved, but I'm no designer. – Adrignola talk 12:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Earned. Thanks, as well, for your patience and even approach under difficult conditions. --Abd (talk) 16:20, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps if you unprotect your user page, I can. If your paranoid about vandalism, you should probably just semi-protect it in my opinion. Is that standard procedure? Just wondering. -Arlen22 (talk) 17:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It has been the convention of many administrators. Unlike an edit to one's talk page, an edit to one's user page won't send an email unless you've chosen the option to email on changes to your watchlist and are watching your user page.  I'm also a bit of a higher visibility target due to the alphabetical ordering of my username and the flags assigned to my account.  I've a bit of a reason to be paranoid; even the Desired bots page in my personal links section that wasn't designated as mine alone received vandalism from someone looking to vandalize anything remotely linked to me.  The current scheme shunts all the vandalism to my talk page, which is good because there's no faster way to get my attention for a block. If you're interested in redesigning anything you see at Wikibooks that is fully-protected (such as the main page), you could create a sandbox page and the two could be history merged later. – Adrignola talk 18:09, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Move the line I gave you up to the top. That will look better. -Arlen22 (talk) 19:18, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Probable COI editing at Rosacea pages
99.9.224.63. There is quite a history here, I suspect. There is a deletion process going for the Websites and Organizations subpage., and links like these might be part of the problem. I suspect that this is a very patient user, who will be back.

I am of no strong opinion regarding the inclusion of Dr. Nase's material, but this is a very controversial figure in the field. He uses the title "Dr." but that's based on a PhD, it seems. He's not a medical doctor, and there are whole web sites dedicated to "exposing" this guy. If the material is going to be included, we need to also include and reference the controversy. This is a medical topic and neutrality is crucial.

In the past, it appears that Dr. Nase or someone has removed material mentioning the controversy. See Special:Contributions/Wikimod. This was also removed by the IP.

I moved possibly controversial links from the Organization page to the attached Talk page. This IP didn't engage there but effectively reverted me. From, this is Dr. Nase himself. --Abd (talk) 00:39, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've semiprotected the page for now, until the RFD is resolved and the content that is acceptable for the page is defined. – Adrignola talk 01:16, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll also watch the Books page. I'll be happy to watch the attached Talk page and consider requests from the IP or a new account or anyone; I moved the questionable links, a whole pile of them (and some might well be good) to the Talk page. I have no question about the validity of this page, it's part of a book. I started to wikify the links, but realized that, wait, books are designed to be printed out. Something like this should have the full URL displayed.... What we really need are some people involved with or expert in Rosacea that aren't selling something! My position is that COI editors should be strictly kept from any controversial editing of pages required to be neutral, but that they should, if they behave themselves, be protected in contributing to Talk. COI editors almost always know more about the topic they are COI on that your average bear. --Abd (talk) 03:28, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

About links here containing terminal /
. Please 'splain this thing to me. Why are the terminal slashes needed? --Abd (talk) 02:50, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It is a shorthand for subpage links of the current page. Creating a link with only the subpage portion with beginning and trailing slashes shortens links.  If you wish to give the link a different title than what the subpage title is, you can use regular links as normal (but there's no need to have the / in the link title).  If you wish to point to another subpage of the parent rather than the current page, you can use  ../Subpage name/  and if you wish to point to the parent you can use  Optional link title .  For instance, on this page, I could say  2010  (2010) or I could simply say  /2010/  (/2010/).  In addition to being shorter and easier to read, this syntax provides much of the convenience seen in Wikipedia's linking while still permitting us at Wikibooks to make use of subpages.  If you choose to use the relative links I described above rather than absolute links, it also means a book can be renamed entirely and the internal links within the book will still work as expected with no changes needed. – Adrignola talk 12:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I understand about relative links. However, I'm talking about the terminal slash. It seems to be unnecessary. Would you explain more clearly for me when the terminal slash is needed and when it is not? --Abd (talk) 18:47, 16 September 2010 (UTC)


 * If I may chime in, without the trailing slash the leading slash will appear in the link, with the trailing slash just the subpage name appears. See  the 9th and 10th examples in the table here. Thenub314 (talk) 18:58, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There you go. Thanks, Thenub. --Abd (talk) 00:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Usurp GoRight
Please review my request at which has some time sensitive aspects to it. Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. --GoRight2 (talk) 15:35, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done. Special:MergeAccount will unify. – Adrignola talk 17:01, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Intermediate Algebra
Entschuldigung, could you please merge the article Intermediate Algebra with the article Algebra --Darknewmoon (talk) 21:58, 17 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It is a bit too soon for that step. Sigma 7 and myself are still working on merging the subpages.  Once the content is merge we can merge the two table of contents pages. Thenub314 (talk) 22:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

redirecting pages
Andrignola, I understand why you redirected the glossary page of mine, but my glossary page will be ancient AND current history. What should I do?

Tannertsf (talk) 00:41, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * What about making it a template and including it on the respective pages in both books? That could work and wouldn't associate it with a specific book. – Adrignola talk 00:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

i would do that, but I'm not making a current history type book soon...I guess I could just put it as an extension to ancient history? - Tannertsf (talk) 01:15, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * You know your prospective content better than I, so feel free to put it under whichever book will be most fulfilling. – Adrignola talk 02:04, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * History suggests that having multiple books dependent on pages like a glossary causes more headaches/problems than it solves. I suggest forking the glossary if more than one book really needs it. --dark lama  16:26, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Forkbender
You may want to delete this revision. Regards Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 02:26, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Never, never, EVER post oversight requests publicly. Adrignola, please RevDel the revision, and gossip with a steward. — I-20 the highway  02:31, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, this is a revision deletion request and not an oversight request. Of course, we don't have a policy on when to escalate to a steward.  We'd have to determine what is too sensitive for even administrators to see. – Adrignola talk 03:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

usurp L
hello, i am the owner of SUL-Account user:L. But there is a local user L in this wiki. Can you please rename the local user? --L temp (talk) 12:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done. Please login as L (I renamed "L temp" to "L") and visit Special:MergeAccount. – Adrignola talk 13:09, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --L (talk) 13:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Can I create a userpage, please?
Out of curiosity, I looked at my global contributions across Wikimedia projects. I was surprised to find that I had an edit credited to me on Wikibooks and then discovered it was because an article I had once edited on wikipedia was later moved here.

Having "dewikified" that page I'd like to set up a userpage here but it seems that I can't because the page was deleted before. help, please.Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 16:31, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Not to worry. I've been able to do it now.Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 16:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Bookcat Categorization changes
Hi there. I notice that every time I create a page, you come along and add a category - when I look at the Diff, it has Bookcat in double braces. Should I just do that and save you the effort? - Is there a template that just has the stuff I'm supposed to put in a page (but am leaving out)? Thx --Scifipete (talk) 16:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, please add that (anywhere on the page) when you make a new page. It will create a nicely alphabetized index of pages (you can click the link at the bottom to view it).  That's really the only thing that has to be added to all new pages.  Optionally, you may wish to consider using navigation templates in your book (see Templates/Navigation) to assist your readers in following the flow of the book. – Adrignola talk 16:31, 27 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thx - You guys sure are helpful --Scifipete (talk) 17:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for help
Hi Adrignola, I saw your call for assistance from the global sysops. Frankly, I had always assumed enwb had opted-out; my bad for not checking. Now that I know it's opted-in, I'll keep a window open when ever I'm online. All the best! :)  fr33k man -s-  21:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I've ensured that you also have the review flag for working with our flagged revisions. – Adrignola talk 21:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks!  fr33k man -s-  21:13, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Nothing important but...
After reading that RfP thread and the meta thread, I can't help but chuckle. I've always thought that WB is safe from vandalism because of your activity. :) Kayau (talk &#124; email &#124; contribs) 09:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, I think about the big picture. It's not a safe situation if the prevention of vandalism is heavily reliant on one person.  This also motivated the implementation of the edit filter, to at least eliminate some of it without human intervention. – Adrignola talk 12:36, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

dont delete todo-categorys
Todo-categorys have also empty a sense. That means, all tasks are done. But it would be possible that in the future further tasks follow. Please ponder in the future when you delete a project-category. Greeting from Germany --Mjchael (talk) 09:40, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * In the same way the lack of a to-do category can indicate tasks are done. – Adrignola talk 12:11, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, you don't understand the usage and meaning of a todo-list. Deleting this category will only make sense if the book is completely finished, or the user explicitly asks for a deletion. Once all the acute tasks are done, is far from saying that the author cant adding new ones. The category contains usually elements that don't want to be allays create new.

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linkToTheBook or linkToTheUser
 * Info to the Book
 * After all the purchases were made, no one thrown away the whole scribbling block, just the shopping list. DON'T DELETE THEM NEEDLESSLY! --Mjchael (talk) 16:07, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * You needn't yell about an issue that can be discussed civilly. What about all the books that aren't complete and don't have this category present?  Hence my previous statement, else it'd be a lot of work to create categories for something that can simply be implicit.  My issue is that a lot of them are not active and no longer have users that would request deletion of the category, once empty, that you created.  Hence I took the initiative on just a couple I noticed when doing maintenance and browsing Special:UnusedCategories.  I see that one was in a book that you predominantly edit and so I should have asked you about that one. – Adrignola talk 16:21, 30 September 2010 (UTC)