Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2007/November

GFDL-presumed
Wikipedia has phased out this option. I know it is only for "legacy" images, but should we consider phasing it out for those images where it's been applied?

As well, if suitable replacements are found for these images, should they be replaced and deleted? ie Image:2-butanal.PNG can be replaced with commons:Image:Butanone-structure-skeletal.png, so we don't need the GFDL-presumed image any longer. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 19:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism in Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation Page has been vandalized with lewd comments.


 * I think I found what you were referring to - was it here: Wikijunior:United States Charters of Freedom/Articles of Confederation? A link to the page would make it easier to find these things and fix them (there are several pages on Wikibooks related to the Articles of Confederation).  If you don't mind checking the reversion, I'd appreciate it. Also, let us know if I found the one you meant. --Jomegat 21:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Problem reading How to make a circuit board
Most titling in English but all text in another language!

Can this be corrected so we can use the book?

Thanks Keith —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.117.188.16 (talk • contribs) 19:23, November 9, 2007.
 * I can't find the page you are referring to. Can you provide a link? If I understand you correctly, the page must be a translation in progress, in which case, you'll just have to wait until it's done. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 19:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The page is  Practical Electronics / PCB Manufacture

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.117.188.16 (talk • contribs) 19:33, November 9, 2007.
 * Yes, it is/was being translated from Czech by Filip Dominec. Sorry I can't help more. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 19:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Haggar vandal attack
I've done all the reverts/deletes I have time for. There is a substantial amount of page moving that needs patient dealing with. I'll CU before I move on. Cheers -- Herby talk thyme 12:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I moved several. I think I got them all.  --Jomegat 14:25, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm going to remove some revisions from at least the high-traffic pages; don't panic if you see pages disappearing. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 14:38, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Can you please get rid of the pixelated porn on this page?
Hi, Great contributions, apart from the painful-looking pics on the bottom of the page.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/False_Friends_of_the_Slavist

Thanks


 * I've checked this page, and don't see any images that look "painful". Can you be more specific? --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

jet propulsion book
hello please have a look at the jet propulsion book. there are obscene images loaded with even if not fully focused


 * I've been through every page of that book, and saw nothing obscene or inappropriate. Can you be more specific? --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:01, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Lots of copyvios
has added a bunch of recipes which are copyvios. Someone to keep an eye on. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 19:35, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Can an admin block this account please. I've reverted what I have time to do now, but there's a load of page moves which need sorting. Thanks --AdRiley 11:04, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Blocked, un-moved & reverted. :) --Az1568(Talk) 11:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Lunar Boom Town Game Manual
Can anyone help me? I understand that strategic game manuals moved or were tossed off Wikibooks since they were not perceived by some as the kind of future textbooks wikibooks wishes to be developing at this time. The resulting free/commercial book development site looks useful to us at Wikiversity in getting the players to tell us developers what is fun and educational. Therefore I thought I had completed the registration process and had cross linked between my account and startup book there and the Wikiversity Lunar Boom Town development labs and courses to start routing interested participants between the different site activities. Now I can not find the links nor the web site. Anyone with a link to the strategic games manual development site please provide it to me here or at Lunar Boom Town. Thanks! v:user:mirwin
 * Most (all?) the game guides that have been transwikied were moved to Strategywiki. I don't know if that's what you're looking for, though. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 02:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * What exactly is "Lunar Boom Town"? The Wikiversity page you pointed to doesn't really have an explanation as to what it is all about. Wikibooks doesnt allow videogame strategy guides, but we do allow books about how to create videogames, or books about videogames (such as critical commentary, analysis, history, etc). Also, are you trying to create a new book, or are you looking for an old book? I guess I am a little confused by your message. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:10, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Sitenotice
I added the thing about the logos to the sitenotice, but I can't get it to give us a dismiss link. I have scoured Meta and MediaWiki.org, but alas, I could find nothing useful, and I've given up. The sitenotice itself is fine; I just want the ability to hide it, as I'm sure some of the other users do. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 05:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The sitenotice message is very small, I don't think we need to worry too much about hiding it. I know people like a clean interface, but when you consider that we already have the gigantic donation notice up there, it doesnt make much sense to worry about hiding 1 short sentence that people really need to look at anyway.
 * However, if you are intent on hiding it, Darklama is probably the person to ask. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 13:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * On Darklama's advice, I've moved it to the MediaWiki:Watchlist-details, where a) only registered users will see it and b) it can be hidden. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 03:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Video upload formats
I have read information that one can add a link to videos to the wikibook pages but I don't see the appropriate video file extensions that are allowed to use as I only see the appropriate image file extensions to use. Can you help me out on this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Respectyoda (talk • contribs) 04:46, November 14, 2007.

About the Spanish Learning pdf file.
Sir, i tried to open the pdf file( spanish.pdf), which is a featured file too... i want to learn this language. please help me

Arbitrary section name
If we gave prepayment to any vendor and they fail to fulfil the requirement what was the entry will pass if they deducted some amount from our actual amount.

REquire General/Journal entries

On-line Australian Catalogue
have joined the site lasabailey is the handle Larry Bailey

Adobe Reader 9 Unable to Read PDF file when I click on either French PDF link or a Bender PDF link
all i get is a blank window popping up; Adobe help page says i can't read your pdf file. what can i do?

I'm using IE 7, and Vista 32-bit'

Thanks,

Danny Dwinell dannyjin@toast.net