User talk:Mike.lifeguard/Archive 22



Categories for Computers & Society
Hi! Thanx for query/comment. I figured out eventually the purpose of categorization for the Wikibooks. It seems to me to be the way to find the subject on the page in the book. Perhaps I have misunderstood and overdone it? As your note implies? --Михал Орела (talk) 06:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think most of those categories will not be useful for finding books. We primarily use the Subject: pages for browsing now. Current practice is that all pages of a book should go in a single category which normally has the same name as the book itself; this is to help keep all the pages of the book together (like the binding of a book). The main page of the book is categorized by subject (like putting the book on a shelf in the library, this allows readers to find the book by it's content), and also by other methods, like the first letter of it's title (these methods are becoming increasingly superseded by the subject pages). So the categories you have created are not very helpful for anyone to find books on a certain topic, and are mostly creating unnecessary clutter. If you don't mind, I'd like to delete most of them, and re-categorize their contents to fit into the pre-existing system of organization. I should say that the confusion here is not your fault; we have very poor resources explaining how this sort of thing works at Wikibooks (which should not be the case, as it is very different from how Wikipedia is organized). Thanks for your quick response. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 15:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 12:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Please rename me
Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to to it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes (talk) 19:15, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Copied to WB:RENAME. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 19:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Rename
I was gonna do it, I swear! I just had a few more things on my script I wanted to do while the ideas were fresh in my mind. This gadget is going to be really hot when I'm done with it! --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 20:19, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * They just left a note for every crat, which is really not necessary. But I saw the updates to a few things yesterday. This is the book creator one you're talking about? &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 21:36, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

SubCategory:Imagery
Take a look at this page, the contribs of the pages author, etc. See if you can make heads or tails of this. I'm thinking it's tinfoil hat crazy, but I would like a second opinion. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 11:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks that way to me too. I'll nominate it later today unless you beat me to it. I see you've asked the author already. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 13:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Think Python
Better? --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 23:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * WOW that was fast! Some formatting to fix up, but that's easy. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 23:44, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I guess it is all HTML... &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 23:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Capitalisation
Tx for your message. Quick question when u get a chance - I read over Wikibooks talk:Naming policy and the talk page, but still wasn't quite clear about capitalisation of Chapter Names. It seems perhaps it's user discretion, but that mostly Chapter Names are like Book/Chapter Name rather than Book/Chapter name. In which case, my inclination would be to make this change for the Outdoor Education chapters. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this falls to the discretion of whoever is working on the book. I normally prefer to have the title capitalized, and the rest only the first letter capitalized. This is probably because the papers I write follow this convention. But as I say, it is up to whoever is writing the book. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 15:50, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Tx - gotcha :) -- Jtneill - Talk - c 18:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a request
Hey Mike, I'd like to request that my patroller and rollbacker flags be revoked; I don't feel right retaining them due to my inactivity. While I think this wiki is great, and I do have plans to become active once again in future, I think I should let these two not-used tools go for the time being. Since I believe we don't need Stewards to fill this request, i thought I'd just ask you if you could get around to it at some point. Cheers, and thanks for your assistance, - Anonymous Dissident  Talk 14:35, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem; if you want them back, just ask. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 17:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Question
You blocked this user back in October of last yr for infinity yet they somehow made this edit in March of this yr. How did that happen? Thanks
 * That edit was imported, so it is technically an edit made on enwiki, not here. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 17:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Replacement of IP address in module history
Hi Mike, On 21st Sept I edited the page French_For_Football/Phrase_Book while accidentally logged out, leaving behind my IP address in the module history. Is it possible for someone to replace that with my Wikibooks login ID? I assume you can match them up easily enough. As you are active on the user renaming page, I came to you as this looks like a similar operation. I see you are away for a while, but I don't mind waiting. Thanks Recent Runes (talk) 10:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, there's not, unless you can convince a sysadmin to muck around in the database for you (which is exceedingly unlikely - they simply don't do that). Sorry I can't help you. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 15:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, never mind. Recent Runes (talk) 19:17, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

OKFN Meeting
Reading the transcript, I see that you went to the OKFN meeting yesterday. Too bad neither of us could participate in the whole thing! I'm keeping a list of resources at User:Whiteknight/Friends including some resources that were mentioned in the meeting. I would like to try and establish real relationships with some of these other groups, try to promote our books, attract new contributors, etc. A lot of cool ideas at the meeting too, that we could look into. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 19:19, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I did stick around afterwards - one suggestion was to create a guide to licensing so people can more easily tell what content can be imported to Wikibooks (etc). I may try to recruit someone from Commons (Michael Maggs?) to help with that. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 22:18, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

RE: Global Kids second life curriculum
I've already been through this before. This is a curriculum. It is for education use. Read the beginning and that will be abundantly clear. Please put it back. It is NOT a GAME STRATEGY guide. It IS a TEACHING TOOL for disadvantaged kids. I now see that the Creative Commons © graphic was lost in translation, so I assume your issue is displaying the complete copyright info: ©2007 (CC BY-NC-SA). Spkemp (talk) 05:11, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't review the content thoroughly, that was based on a comment by another user. However cc-by-nc-sa is not GFDL-compatible (furthermore, it restricts the right to commercial use, which is unacceptable). Licensing is the core issue here, not content. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 16:07, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Can You Delete my Photo?
Hello, I am very bad with this kinda stuff, so I was wondering can you just deleted the photo you commented about or do I have to? It is mine, but I just don't want it anymore. ThanksAborz001 (talk) 20:03, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol delete vote.svg|15px]] Deleted, but there are other images with the same issue. Please be sure to provide license and source information for them all. Images without that information, or which aren't freely-licensed will be deleted. If you need help to figure out how to fix these, I can certainly help you. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 20:05, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

patrol page
The last two items ("SQL...." and "GRE Preparation Guide/Rescheduling your GRE Exam") can't be validated and have for some time remained on the list, bug ? --Panic (talk) 05:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like they're gone now. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 15:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

book rename
Hiya Mike,

I tried to do this with the "move all subpages" option, but way too many pages :-). Could you let loose your bot to move the rest of A Wikimanual of Gardening to Horticulture? -- SB_Johnny | PA! 06:04, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't be a problem to move subpages, as sysops have noratelimit. I'll try again, and if not run the bot. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 14:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup, despite noratelimit, we're limited to 100 pages... Probably that's configurable - I'll ask if there's a compelling reason to have it so low. Will bot-move the rest using

(A Wikimanual of Gardening)&rarr;Horticulture
 * ✅ &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 15:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and thanks for the bugzilla thing too :-). -- SB_Johnny | PA! 23:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. I find sometimes the developers don't realize how the software is being used, but Brion's generally good about that sort of thing (and was incredibly fast on that one in particular). &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 23:24, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Rename
Hello Mike, is possible you usurp this User:Sysopbot account for me? Because i have a irc bot with this name... and i have a project with this bot name. Regards Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt (talk) 00:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That will certainly require some discussion, as it's a group account for project administrators (though now defunct). Perhaps add a request to WB:RENAME and I'll get some input. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 01:43, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

About my tracker (music) contribution
Hello Mike.lifeguard,

Few days ago, I put a new link of my website on your tracker (music) webpage and you deleted it. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:COIBot/XWiki/jikoo.free.fr). Ok, I understood my mistake. I can't put it on many wikipedia websites. Now, I have no link on wikipedia. I am not a spammer at all or other things. I made my webpage to help everybody about audio tracking. There are lot of updated links and no advertising, and few community (United-trackers, modplug forum, Amiga impact forum...) helped me to do it. So now, is it possible to put two links : one on your Wikipedia website and an other one on wikipedia FR (because I am french) ?

Note, I was only on wikipedia FR before I made a contribution for Wikipedia EN. I wrote the Modplug Tracker article in french on Wikipedia FR (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ModPlug_Tracker)

Thank you very much. Jikooworld (talk) 02:51, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You may wish to contest the blacklisting at m:Talk:Spam blacklist. However, I think it will not be overturned at this time for the same reasons it was originally blacklisted. Thanks. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 03:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, it's not blacklisted anyways. Please consider whether it's inclusion improves the encyclopedia article - in all likelihood it does not. &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 03:35, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Apologies
Well I'm sorry about that :-) I thought that Non-admin closures are permitted in Wikibooks. Regards-<font color="maroon" size="4" face="Monotype Corsiva">Ravichandar <font color="aqua" face="Monotype Corsiva">My coffee shop 15:35, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Meh, kinda. One thing to keep in mind is that Wikipedia has a shortage of admins; we don't. But yeah, it's not a disaster <tt>:D</tt> &mdash; <b style="color:#309;">Mike.lifeguard</b> &#124; talk 17:21, 15 October 2008 (UTC)