User talk:Internoob

Welcome, Internoob!

Come introduce yourself in the general reading room or your project in the project reading room. If you have any questions, you can ask in the assistance reading room or contact me personally.

Knots
Glad to see someone else with an interest in knots. I wouldn't mind if we moved "my" knots out of the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Recreation/Knot Tying and into the more general Knots hierarchy. I'd still include them in my book, but they could live happily in yours. I already started doing that with birds, moving them from Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Birds to the Field Guide. What do you think? --Jomegat (talk) 03:39, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. Sounds good. I've used some of your templates in the book (e.g. Knots/Hitch knots/Anchor bend), although that might not be the best way to do it for every knot. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 21:26, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You need to keep the links in the book relative to the book's root page. Deliberately pointing to Wikipedia-style articles is not in line with conventions and you're setting yourself up for problems if someone else decides to "claim" those redirects and point them to their book instead.  For example, just above Jomegat has knots in his book.  True, he wouldn't mind moving them out, but what if he started creating redirects to his pages on knots?  Who'd have the "right" to determine where those redirects point to? Boy Scouts also would study knots and a wilderness survival book might cover them too. -- Adrignola talk contribs 03:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Noted. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 04:09, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

HotCat
HotCat isn't really designed for the way we do categories here. The one page you did use it on put the page into another book's category. It'd only be useful for adding BookCat to books' pages, or for only showing the categories that are specific to the book you're working on. See darklama's comment in the reading room. – Adrignola talk contribs 18:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've used it on more pages than one. I've used it on Knots/Loop knots/Bowline on a bight to add Category:Bowlines (which IMO is a useful category) and Knots/Hitch knots/Cat's paw to remove a category, for example. It's a good tool if you use it carefully. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 19:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That doesn't follow the convention of book categories, taking the form of Category:Book Name/Sub-category; if it were, it would be Category:Knots/Bowlines. You may have seen how Jomegat does it with Category:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book.  Category:Bowlines would be expected to be for a book Bowlines, which does not exist at this time. Using Wikibooks has more information on this. – Adrignola talk contribs 20:18, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. Can I make Category:Knots/Bowlines even though the page Knots/Bowlines doesn't exist, though? —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 21:34, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. I don't believe that all of Jomegat's categories, for instance, necessarily correspond to pages of the same name.  They are simply for helping you organize pages.  For instance, many projects have a Category:Book Name/Templates category to hold all the templates they use together, separate from the regular book pages. – Adrignola talk contribs 21:40, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay. Anyway, I still think that HotCat is useful, but its use is limited. I've used it a few times, and I don't think we should discourage people from using a tool that works. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 22:18, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Note
Maybe you'd prefer User Wiktionary over Wiktionary? – Adrignola talk contribs 03:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course. Thanks. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 03:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for permissions
I've now been able to grant your request for the transwiki importer right to perform imports. – Adrignola talk 22:51, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Hopefully I'll get around to doing some—I've been working on Wiktionary lately. —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 03:36, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Please participate
Hope you wouldn't mind participating on the "vote" to restore the CheckUser (CU) function (mostly used to fight vandalism) to the Wikibooks project, a minimum of 25 expressions of support is required to grant the flag to administrator Thenub314 (this will also enable admin Adrignola to get the function active again, since there is a minimum requirement of 2 active Wikibookians with the flag). In case you do agree to participate, your vote needs to be added to administrator Thenub314 request for permission. Thanks. --Panic (talk) 10:12, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not getting here on time :( —Internoob (Disc·Cont·Wikt) 03:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)