User talk:Arsharpe

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Good luck! -Mike.lifeguard 05:52, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Tip on interwiki links
If you look at this diff, you can see that I used the w: prefix to indicate that the link goes to Wikipedia; other than that, it's a normal internal link. For the prefixes of other wikis, look here: Help:Editing. -Mike.lifeguard 06:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox Berlingo Service Manual
G'day, is this page meant to be your personal sandbox? If it is, you could have it as User:Arsharpe/sandbox. See, for example, my sandbox: User:Webaware/sandbox. If this is the case, can we please move the page into your user space? Otherwise, what is a "Sandbox Berlingo"?

On that page, you have links to images in Wikibooks, using full Internet URLs. If you just want to link to an image in Wikibooks, you can use this form: Image:Name Of Image.png. The wiki software will fill in the details for you.

Incidentally, there is already a collection of images for the Berlinger car on the Wiki Commons: commons:Category:Citroën Berlingo. You can use them in your book as if they were already part of Wikibooks - the wiki software will look for a local image, and when it doesn't find one, will look on the Commons.

Also, the car manufacturer spells its name "Citroën", or minimally "Citroen", not "Citreon". cheers, Webaware talk 07:16, 5 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The same can be said of Arsharpe Formatting Notes. If you want a personal sandbox, please have it as a subpage of your user page. Thanks!  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 19:20, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks have done it Arsharpe 21:11, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox Berlingo Service Manual (reply)
Hi,

Thanks for the information. I have updated everything as requested.

Can you please indicate how to:- -rename an image without downloading/uploading, etc -merge (my) interim edits to improve readability.

Regards, Rob


 * G'day Rob, nice work. In answer to your questions:
 * An image cannot be renamed. You will need to upload it with the new name, and copy across the summary text and license information from the original upload. Once you've done that, tag the original upload for deleting by adding the following:  and one of the admins will take care of it when they can.
 * I don't know exactly what you mean in the second question - but generally, you can merge pages by copying text from one to another. If you are the only editor of the source page (i.e. copied from page), then just tag it for deleting as above; if someone else has been working on it, then you need to tag it with  so that an admin can merge the edit histories. I suspect you are talking about merging your sandbox edits back into the main book, which you can do just by copying text to the main book and tagging your sandbox page for deleting.
 * Let me know if this doesn't answer your questions, and I'll either try to address them better or find someone else who can! cheers, Webaware talk 11:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks,

Sorry, I did not explain very well.

An example should help.

I want to go from a page with the following history

[version1] My initial version [version2] A minor edit [verison3] Another minor edit [version4] Yet another minor edit [version5] The final edit and happy with the result.

to

[version1] My initial version [version5] The final edit and happy with the result.

i.e. deleting version2-4

Thanks, Rob


 * G'day Rob. Don't worry about the old versions in the edit history, what is important is the current version.
 * In Wikibooks, we like to keep hold of all the old edit histories so that we can keep track of all contributors and their contributions, for various reasons including attribution under the GFDL and to prevent loss of information through accidental or malicious deletion. Deleting versions out of the edit history is thus not an easy task - one needs privileged access to do it, and a very good reason.
 * Just keep editing your pages, and don't worry about the accumulating edit history. cheers, Webaware talk 00:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Sandboxes!
Hi Rob - not quite sure I am with you here. To start with the page I deleted (Public/Sandbox or similar) was created by an IP with nothing in the edit summary - that is usually indicative of a "test" type edit (which is of course what the Sandbox is for (hence my deletion).

What exactly is wrong with the current sandbox? They exist as such on all Wikis and seem to serve the purpose ok. The "sandbox" is a public one anyway. Feel free to get back to me - cheers -- Herby talk thyme 10:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Brush.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Brush.jpg. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikibooks because of copyright law, and requires that we maintain a strict copyright policy. The image that may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and status.

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikibooks are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this:.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information or giving false information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask another Wikibookian at the help desk. Thank you. Urbane  (Talk)   (Contributions)  14:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks arsharpe for updating this image. However there are still untagged images in your name. An exmplae of this would be Image:Second nut.jpg. Please check all of the images you have uploaded. Thanks again

Citroën Berlingo Electrique Service Manual Deleted
...What is this? Why do you have a "deleted" version and a normal version? – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 12:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Arsharpe
This book needs a new title; it cannot have a title which is the same as your username. Please also make sure that it will be within project scope. Thanks. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 14:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)