User talk:JackPotte/2019

Alphabet sur les transports
Bonjour JackPotte, si je repose ma question et donc j'aimerais savoir si je serais autorisé à faire une version anglaise de ce petit alphabet fr:Wikijunior:Alphabet des transports. Cordialement. 135.19.242.113 (discuss) 21:37, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Désolé mais je n'ai pas trop le temps de traiter tout ça en ce moment. A première vue mon analyse est que c'est toi qui t'étais bloqué ici donc personne d'autre ne t'en empêche. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

PDF/Print versions
I was wondering if you knew how to make PDF and print versions of a book. Thanks, Qwerty number1 (discuss • contribs) 17:28, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * please have a look at Using_Wikibooks/Print_versions_and_PDFs. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 18:21, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Qwerty number1 (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Please don't delete pages of the book I'm trying to write
Hi Jack, it appears you deleted "VCE Physics/Unit 1/AoS 1". As stated on the page it was a "stub" i.e. I'm coming back to edit it and add content. Strangely enough I do not have time to create the book all at once... so, while I write it, there are going to be a lot of "stubs" etc. Please do not make my task more difficult by deleting these pages.--Theo Hughes (discuss • contribs) 23:38, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

What are you doing with my other pages?
Jack... you are really not encouraging my contributions to wikibooks... what have you done to my other pages?... I have no idea as I am new to wikibooks. They seem to be in some sort of review cycle - please remove this. Do you live in Australia?... are you a physics teacher?... do you have an interest in VCE Physics? I do not need a review cycle. Sure... when I have actually got somewhere with the book, some sort of process like that might be of use... but I am in the process of setting up the structure and looking at adding initial content etc. Once I have some substantial content I will be encouraging colleagues to contribute with the structure there and examples of content to show them. Your actions might be well intentioned but are currently just a pain in the backside. Perhaps read my user page first, which has a short description of what I am planning to do, before sabotaging what I am trying to do. I currently work at a university and I am trying to start something really important. Please get out of the way... or, for example, if you are a physics teacher in Australia... let me know and I can direct any contributions you wish to make.--Theo Hughes (discuss • contribs) 23:50, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, [//en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=JackPotte&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype= the only page I had deleted from you was the 1st March 2019]: VCE Physics/Unit 1/AoS 1, and the content was literally "This text is a stub.", as you can see now I have it restored in the history. So I have to ask you to please avoid these kinds of empty pages, and everything will be all right :). Thanks for your cooperation. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:16, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * And about the review process, please have a look at REVIEW because my time is important too ;) JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 14:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * In setting up the book it is likely there might be a lot of "stubs" while I add pages to the structure and then find time to add content... as I say, please don't delete them now you are aware that I am genuinely trying to produce something. I might have to create stubs for colleagues to then edit. The reviewing pages section that you reference has minimal information on it. The pages I have created are not at a stage that are ready for any "review" process as described there. Also having the extra tab to have to click (i.e. "latest version" or whatever) is a bit of a pain. When they are ready for review, I'll get colleagues who can review the physics / pedagogical worth of the content etc. to do so and, as mentioned, I'm hoping to get colleagues to write stuff too. I'm more than happy to get your feedback on the content... are you a physicist?... if so, then it would be great to get your opinion on the physics content. Even if you are not a physicist, it'd be great to get your feedback on how the pages read once there is anything substantial there. I want the pages to eventually be interesting as well as simply having the required content. I'll also start checking content against the other physics books on wikibooks to see what they have written and see if I can improve the VCE book.Please also leave messages on the discussion pages (or where ever appropriate?) etc. if you have suggestions for better ways to do things in the book e.g. technical aspects... I think I have most of the basic things like using BookCat etc. correct.--Theo Hughes (discuss • contribs) 20:48, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Actually the minimal review purpose is to identify the spam and vandalism. Its mention can be replaced by the technical review after. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:48, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Setting stability settings for Wikijunior pages
Please do not set review level to sysop-only. This hinders the ability for reviewers to review those pages (especially after vandalism). Only the main pages should be protected to that level. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * &lt;noticing this item&gt; Almost every time I set one of those page configurations, I have to reject an impulse to click that control; I feel it's an interface design flaw. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:50, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I apologize for this occupational habbit and will recheck the last ones JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

JackBot
It seems there ought to be a better way to have handled the following situation, than the bot's edit:.

Certainly the bot did what it was told to do: it saw a book subpage that wasn't categorized, and added BookCat to it. However, in this case the cause was a recent edit that had broken the template call that had been categorizing the page. So that the bot's edit made it harder for me, coming along to examine the unreviewed edit, to remedy the situation; what should have taken maybe five seconds became instead a minute or more of puzzling out what had happened and how best to untangle it. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, so I'm just going to count the mustaches (aka curly brackets) before saving. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Heh. That's an approach.  I'll be interested to know how well that works. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs)

Science: A Field Of Wonder/Limitaions of Science: Believe It or Not
I decided to restore this page as I suspected that you might have made a mistake in deleting that page, especially as no reason was provided and it looked fine, if a bit unusual, in my eyes. Could you clarify on that? Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 21:24, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Apparently the deletion drop down menu didn't work today. I had noticed that it had stayed open after my selections, but didn't know that the displayed reasons I had selected weren't saved. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:46, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Why did you delete my userpage?
Hi there, I would like to know to what extend you deemed my userpage as "Spam, vandalism, or nonsense"? The idea was to upgrade from anonymous user to giving credentials, so people know what I'm about. Please explain how I missstepped from your point of view so that I can avoid such behaviour in the future.
 * Hello, in fact we've got too many spammers who post external URLs on their page every day, just in case of any referencing improvement, without any contribution intention. As we're not financed to host such a content, we had to forbid them: Spam page. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:31, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't there he did a mistake there. There is no evidence of any spam intended, and I can't see how linking to their research contributions can be forbidden. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:02, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This is a kind of general policy and even myself have been blocked here and on Meta for exactly that: a link to a related research. So, if the site is not a reference for a book there's no need to publish it here. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 18:04, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't think we need to be that bureaucratic, do we? That policy is intended to prevent spamming, which is clearly not the case here. I wonder what other users' views of this are. ? Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:24, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Different projects have different levels of toleration for external links on user pages. Level of contribution does matter.  For example, Wikinews is pretty intolerant of them, but even there, veteran contributors get leeway. This case, on Wikibooks, seems to me to be kind of in-between.  The user has a bunch of contributions here, but since the book they're been contributing to is related to Mizar, that makes the link to Mizar from their user page feel like a bit much.  Perhaps we could make a plausible compromise, under these circumstances, by allowing their user page the ORCID link but omitting the Mizar one? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 06:38, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Personally, it sounds like my putting a link to my GitHub on my userpage and then editing computing articles, which I don't think is necessarily wrong irrespective of the number of edits. However, if you think keeping only one link is the best idea, then I won't object to it. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 08:12, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't need the Mizar link. I just thought it was proper, but maybe this was a bit influenced by looking at extensively linked Wikipedia articles. Would it have been better to link at the Wikipedia page of the Mizar project? Really, the basic idea was to save people googling.
 * On the other hand, as I had written, I intended the change of my user page as a service to the readers, not as advertisement. But if there is precedent with spammers, I can understand the caution. I will not recreate the page. If you all can get a consent what would make sense for my user page, you are invited to write it. --Ayutac (discuss • contribs) 09:48, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * did you know that creating the page meta:User:Ayutac will display it into all the foundation wikis like User:Ayutac and w:User:Ayutac?
 * To my mind, the Wikipedia link would be perfect now. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 10:56, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Recent deletion - Muggles' Guide
Jack, you just today deleted Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Care of Magical Creatures. Basically what you did there was delete a useful page which had been vandalized. Would you please be so kind as to reinstate the page, and then roll back the vandalism? Thank you. Chazz (talk) 03:56, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you and sorry, I thought that I was reviewing the new pages again, and had published delete into the page. It won't happen again. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:09, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Equifax Data Leak chapter of https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism
JackPotte:

Many thanks for all you do for Wikibooks, and especially for your help with https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism. I am a teacher (University of Virginia) I have a team of three students who are attempting to add a chapter to this book about the Equifax data leak. The lead contributor has been Mvw5mf. I will be the first to say that my students and I are far from experts at Wikibooks and we are grateful to you and other editors for your patience with us, and for fixing our mistakes. The team working on the Equifax data leak chapter probably let it sit too long, prompting deletion as "abandoned material." I believe their work also appeared to be original research. They will base their work on available online sources; it will not be original research. I will stress this to them. May I ask you to restore the chapter? We will also welcome any advice you may care to offer that will steer us away from any mistakes we may be committing. My thanks, User:Norton Norton (discuss • contribs) 17:55, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, in this case I've just restored and renamed the page. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 18:00, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
 * JackPotte: I am very grateful. Many thanks! Norton Norton (discuss • contribs) 14:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

JackPotte: You deleted the chapter "Creating Conflict of Interest Wikipedia Editing: Sunshine Sachs and Jack Craver" from Cases and Ideas in Professional Ethics, on the grounds that as original research it belongs in Wikiversity. However, the chapter is a contribution the book, and to deprive the book of this chapter would weaken the book. Would you please restore the chapter to the book? Thank you! Norton (discuss • contribs) 19:19, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, I've just restored and renamed it to Professionalism/Conflict of Interest Wikipedia Editing: Sunshine Sachs and Jack Craver, according to Naming policy. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:41, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * JackPotte: Thank you very much! Norton (discuss • contribs) 19:51, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

The helps readers to search related topics of a book. Is it possible to display the on every subpage of English-Hanzi and Pinyin automatically? Could you help to do it if possible? --Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 14:42, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * hello, yes it's possible. But this kind of request should be posted into Reading room/General, and I won't do it because these books don't respect the common formatting (please read Using Wikibooks). JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:32, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Reviewing
First of all, thank you for allowing my page to be displayed. It was really helpful to me as it gave me the boost that other members were liking my posts. Secondly, as you were so kind to check my "advanced graphics" page, could you possibly check and review my changes to the home page of the book "Qbasic". Thanks in advance. Again, thank you for so kindly reviewing my page. Debanshu.Das (discuss • contribs) 15:08, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ QBasic has been reviewed by Pi zero. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:22, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

California gully church
hi you have deleted my page in regards to this history of the church in progress i wish to know why?
 * Hello, I've noticed that California Gully Methodist Uniting Church And Sunday School was an already existing history journal copy, which I could find on media:California_Hill_Uniting_Church_and_Sunday_School..pdf, and such a project belongs more to Wikisource. Moreover our policy forbids this kind of work here: What is Wikibooks. Actually we just build pedagogic books here. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:34, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikijunior:Transport Alphabet to main page
Hi Jack,

Thanks for setting the Wikijunior:Transport Alphabet to stable version, may I know that if it is possible to set the transportation to main pages ? I already nominate the book for featured books : Featured_books/Nominations Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 04:55, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * To appear into Main Page/Wikijunior, the book should already be a featured one. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:30, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah.. It seems like there are too few Wikibookians nominate for the books around here. Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 13:19, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Such things tend to go slowly on small wikis. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 17:32, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Please restore the deleted page
Dear JackPotte, you have recently deleted my book entitled ABC_graphs. You did not give me even half-a-day to start writing the content. Please restore the page.
 * ✅ [//en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=ABC_graphs&type=revision&diff=3563544&oldid=3563539 It's done]. Sorry but we shouldn't index these stubs into the search engine: you'd better create an account and use its sandbox subpage. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 19:05, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikijunior:Asia/Turkmenistan
What happened with the review settings on this: ? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:31, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, sorry, I suppose that when patrolling [//en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled=1&namespace=all the new pages], I've selected the old option after you. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:38, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

please restore user page
please could you restore user page "User:Zhang xinli2012". That user account was created with the context of a university course project for wikibooks. Much appreciate your assistance on this. GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 15:52, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Please restore pages you have deleted linked to my sandbox.
Please stop interfering in my sandbox which is used for University teaching purposes. Your changes are unwelcome and you have been deleting students work for assessment. Please undo all your changes and stay away from our work. LBird BASc (discuss • contribs) 15:39, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * hello, please provide at least one example of what you call "unwelcome", because your work has violated several times the Naming policy, and my changes had the only purpose to make it respected, so the site doesn't become a giant sandbox.
 * For instance, today I was forced to move L.Bird BASc/sandbox/ATK/Seminar6/Power/Power in sex into your sandbox, because it was indexed in the main namespace as a new book cover. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:47, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply. First of all, we are working directly with wikipedia UK for this course, and the sandbox is only a short term project, until end of term in late December. So don't worry, it won't become a giant sandbox forever. Second, you said you only moved the offending content but we have been unable to find the deleted content. Such as L.Bird BASc/sandbox/ATK/Seminar6/Power/Power in sex We would be happy if it would help to make large pages and not have so many smaller linked ones if that would help. But ultimately this content is only short term and as students are learning to use wikipedia they will inevitably make mistakes.
 * when I click in the deletion summary, I can find the moved page on User:LBird BASc/sandbox/ATK/Seminar6/Power/Power in sex. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:04, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you - found it.

On my topological string theory wikibook
Why would you want to delete my wikibook? Is there anything I can do to keep it? Wilson868 (discuss • contribs) 03:47, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, we just avoid to let stubs indexed a long time in the search engine. So if you continue to develop the book, someone will remove the banner. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:11, 26 December 2019 (UTC)