Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2008/August

Pattern vandalism: Call the checkusers!
I just wanted to post a small note here, we have a few relatively new admins floating around who might not be aware of the whole "system" we have around here for fighting vandals. I got tipped off about this when talking to Johnny who says that, after reading some block logs, that some admins had blocked a few vandals who were actually the same person (from the same source IP address).

If you see multiple vandals who are all acting similarly, or who are vandalizing in the same kinds of ways, contact a checkuser. Checkusers can see the IP address behind a username. If there are multiple accounts coming from a single IP, we can block that address once, and prevent all future accounts coming from there. It's a neat little trick, and can save everybody a lot of time and effort, time that we can better spend writing books. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 01:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You mean such as the users who have been pasting the "Happy Birthday Wikibooks" stuff in the Reading Rooms? Yeah - I'll let a CU know.  --Jomegat (talk) 02:38, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, thanks for the link, Jim. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 02:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I guess I missed that, the other day. Some of these vandals can get very creative. Red4tribe (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Correction Needed
I do not know if I'm on the right page to report this. But in one of the wiki-books there seems to be an inperfection. On the page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Opening_theory_in_chess/1._e4/1...c5/2._Nf3/2...Nc6/3._d4/3...cxd4/4._Nxd4/4...Nf6/5._Nc3/5...d6 in the Theory table in the Richter-Rauzer Variation it would be impossible for white to 8. O-O ...

It seems the would stil be the Bishop on f1 or white should 8. O-O-O ... Could you keep me informed what the correct move should be?

With kind regards,

Victor Henzel


 * - this is not meant to be snarky, it is meant to be an invitation to be bold and fix errors as you come across them. That is the point of using a wiki :) "If you think it's wrong, fix it" is how things go around here - you don't need permission to change things. If you need help changing the page, come on back; we'll be happy to help. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 19:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

returned vandal
User:61.88.131.145 is still posting vandalism. I thought I should note it here.

S Pat   talk 02:21, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the alert. I reblocked. --Jomegat (talk) 03:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

xhtml error on page
I am unable to help fix this:

The page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Opening_theory_in_chess will not dispay background in IE 7.0.5730.13 or Firefox 9.51 but does display in Opera 9.51. However the page will not print the background or will any part print in color. I looked and found an error with xhtml.by testing at http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Opening_theory_in_chess&charset=

This is a useful page thanks!


 * I do not know the answer to your question, but my guess is that Mike.lifeguard does. He will probably get around to answering it here, but if he doesn't ask him on his talk page. Red4tribe (talk) 00:51, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed with Darklama's help. The page now validates; other uses of the template will be purged via the job queue.  &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 01:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Someone has been persistenly vandalising the Bartending book. Recently someone under the guise of 'reorganizing' the front page, totally messed up the whole indexing system and all of the links. It wasn't difficult to fix but it is very annoying because of the time I have spent on this book. Mike Hayes (talk) 06:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I took a look, from what I could see, it wasn't vandalism. Someone was making use of collapsible boxes that needed to be fixed and has links that need fixing. What was being used is still available at Bartending/Contents. --dark lama  16:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I must agree with Darklama, I do not see any vandalisim here.-Red4tribe (talk) 17:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Account blocked
Hello,

I am User:Pigsonthewing here, and on Wikiepdia (you can contact me by e-mail from the latter, for verification). My account here is listed as "permanently blocked" because of vandalism by another user. I have no idea what that's about. I've been advised to ask here, to reclaim the account Pigsonthewing (talk) 14:33, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 18:41, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You may now visit Wikibooks while logged in on another wiki and the account will be automatically created for you. &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; talk 18:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * So I can. Thank you.Pigsonthewing (talk) 22:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)