User talk:KHatcher

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Water Resources Planning and Management in Georgia book
The Water Resources Planning and Management in Georgia book has a bad naming convention, and I am going to go through and fix it, eventually. We usually require that all pages in a given book have the same prefix, such as "Georgia Water", or "Georgia Water Management", or something like that. Then, every subpage of the book would be named "Georgia Water/Georgia Water Law". I'll go through and do all the dirty work for you to make this book more acceptable under current policy, if you would like. Feel free to give me any suggestions/requirements that you might have for this process, so that I don't make you unhappy with it. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 02:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I've gone though tonight and added Category:Water Resources Directory and Category:Water Resources Planning and Management in Georgia designations to a number of pages in your book, but wasn't able to tag them all tonight. I will go through and try to finish the job tomorrow or next week. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 03:22, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reply! I don't think the VfD issue is going to be a problem, it's based off the conception that because the word "directory" is in the title, that it isn't a "textbook". As a civil engineer, I think that you should be well aware that books of that nature can be used as textbooks in CE classrooms. If you can use this project to attract other contributors to wikibooks--especially expert contributors--I can't imagine anybody turning that down. Also, I would like to point out that the Engineering bookshelf is in bad shape, and could use additional help from a team of professional engineers (should they have some time to spare). Come down to the VfD vote, and cast a vote for keep, and possibly explain what you explained to me about this book, so that other people understand. Good luck, and I'll talk to you later. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 12:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Water Resources Directory
I've gone one better and closed the discussion. Whilst one user, hagindaz, has concerns about its suitability, it is clear that no-one shares them (or at least no-one has chosen to declare that they share them). As the last comments on that nomination were some time ago, and as, I confess, I agree with you that the proposed content is suitable for wikibooks, I thought closing the debate was the best way to go. Good luck with it! Jguk 07:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Water Resources
I came across water resources for georgia while trying to fix double redirects and making sure they really were redirects. I goofed and moved pages to Georgia Water instead of Water Resources Directory when I decided to also try to fix the remaining issues with the wikibook name as I saw on one of the pages. So everything else I could find that hadn't already been moved to Georgia Water got moved there. I goofed because I didn't see until I had finished moving pages, the new suggested name for the wikibook. For that I apologies for any additional trouble that may have caused.

Luckly nothing within Water Resources Directory was moved in the process of my moving pages. I moved some pages from Georgia Water Laws into Water Resources Directory/USA/Georgia/Laws as that was all I could follow of the book structure. I'm willing to help finish what I started in moving twords having the entire book listed under one bookname with flat / tree structure, if you need/want it and if you can tell me where things should go.

Since I notice you are still actively contributing to the wikibook, could you double check my changed? I've fixed broken links on pages, but perhaps not all. I might of moved laws that may not have been state specific and so may of been better off placed in Water Resources Directory/USA/Laws/. I've also requested speedy deletion on a ton of pages that were turned into redirects that are no longer refered to from my fixing links to refer directly to the correct page. There are still however pleanty of pages under Georgia Water and Georgia Water Law that probably need to be moved to Water Resources Directory/USA/Georgia, because I'm uncertain if the current structure of Georgia Water is meant to be used there or not.

I don't know anything about water resources, so other then trying to help move parts of the wikibook under the one name and (hopefully) correct book structure, I can't be of much help with this wikibook. Let me know on my talk page, if I was helpful, unhelpful, any other critisism you may have or if you would like my help to finish what I tried to start. :) --darklama 18:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Water Resources page moves and Georgia Water Law
Thank you for your note on my talkpage to explain the page moves. The Georgia Water Law book just needed to be added to the new book list, not put under a subsubsubpagename. The intention is to invite attorneys to contribute material for the individual laws which are listed under the Georgia Water Law book title. I think that the attorneys might be less willing to contribute to a sub-subsubsubpagename (Water Resources Directory/USA/Georgia/Law/NameOfLaw), but might be willing to contribute to a book called Georgia Water Law. Also, the two law school students who organized the Georgia Water Law book might like to cite it on their resumes with the title used to create the book, rather than citing it as a subsubsubpagename. So it would help if you could please put everything back as it was. Then OK to list the Georgia Water Law book on the bookshelf. Thanks very much. I notice on your userpage that you have programming skills, and hope that you might help me with some page and table layout questions in the future. I appreciate your help. -- KHatcher 13:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I might of misunderstood what SBJohnny was saying about it needed more work done and tied together. The only pages concerning Georgia Water Law I've marked for speedy deletion are ones that look like they might of been created by accident and had been fixed. Georgia Water Law/ LawName moved to Georgia Water Law/LawName. I may have also moved some pages from Georgia Water/Policy that looked like laws (I don't remember).

I may have incorrectly assumed that Water Resources in Georgia and names simular to it, Georgia Water and Georgia Water Law were all meant to be part of the same wikibook from issues with naming policy, decisions regarding what was needed to prevent deletion as was decided as part of its Votes for Deletion and comments left here by other people. There seems to be a bit of an overlap between them all which probably added to my own confusion. Like Georgia Water Law looks like it is/was a chapter within Georgia Water which in turn looks like it is/was part of Water Resources Directory/USA/Georgia. Sorry about that. Have you mentioned these differences on SBJohnny's talk page in addition to repling to him on my talk page? He may not notice your reply on my talk page.

Am I correct in assuming you don't have a problem with Georgia Water being moved as subpages of Water Resources Directory/USA/Georgia, just with Georgia Water Law? --darklama 19:06, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Having looked at some of the work you did on these pages the same day. It would appear these are all meant to serve as redirects for the same book, more or less. Is that correct? I'm a bit confused on what all you need me to undo to put things right. Just undo my moves on Georgia Water Laws and fix links on Water Resources Directory? --darklama 02:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you please make a comment also... txs
We are discussing GFDL and wikibooks and book communities, rights and what nots in "Call for comments" a future policy could and probably should emerge from that discussion in not only to clarify things to all users.--Panic 17:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Where is everything supposed to be, actually?
I've been ignoring the speedy deletion requests surrounding this book, as I'm not sure what you actually want done. Are they supposed to be under "Georgia Water"?

I'm not sure darklama can undo what was done (admin tools might be needed, and he's not an admin). Currently I'm not even sure where everything is, but let me know if there's anything we can do to get it back on track. -- SB_Johnny | talk 22:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

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