Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2009/July

Bfbggon
An account created apparently for the sole purpose of being obnoxious. --Pi zero (talk) 18:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Blocked, indefinitely, for putting explicit pictures on multiple users' pages. -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

report vandalism
Lets not forget
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 * Special:Contributions/Bfbggonnnn --Ans (talk) 14:00, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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 * Special:Contributions/Bfbggonnnnnn --Thenub314 (talk) 14:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, they've all been blocked by myself or SB Johnny. I've escalated this and two of our CheckUsers, SB Johnny and Mike.lifeguard, will be looking into whether an IP range block will be feasible. -- Adrignola talk contribs 14:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks relatively safe to block... there are some other accounts with no edits, and a medicinal product spammer that's probably unrelated. Keep an eye on Category:Requests for unblock just in case, please. -- SB_Johnny  talk 15:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I've also added the offending image that was being posted to MediaWiki:Bad image list, so it won't be displayed as a picture (only a link) if this ever becomes a problem again. -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:05, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * He was actually using a number of different ones across wikis... better to go after the vandal than the images in this case. -- SB_Johnny  talk 17:57, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Renaming Real analysis
Is it possible to rename Real analysis to Real Analysis? Thanks, Thenub314 (talk) 09:22, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done -- Adrignola talk contribs 13:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks!Thenub314 (talk) 15:40, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Lost VfD?
After pursing the Orphaned page list I came across a VfD page that probably belongs elsewhere. It was located at Wikibook:Votes_for_deletion/How_To_Build_A_Teardrop_Trailer. I moved it to Votes_for_deletion/How_To_Build_A_Teardrop_Trailer which seemed to be the style of archiving VfD's. If this was somehow the wrong thing to please let me know. Thenub314 (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks right to me. After being renamed, the archive page is now pointed to by the  template on the book's talk page.  The archive page had also been alphabetized under , since it was an orphan root page in main space (not in     space).  --Pi zero (talk) 13:02, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * As a matter of curiosity: [ diff] --Pi zero (talk) 13:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Renaming Geometry for elementary school
Is it possible to rename Geometry for elementary school to Geometry for Elementary School? Thanks. Thenub314 (talk) 14:18, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Why not? Kayau (talk) 04:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I asked here because administrators have tools that allow them to rename many pages at one time. I could do it myself going from page to page, but the chances of me making a mistake with the number of pages in that book was fairly high.  I thought I would ask here and ensure that it got done correctly the first time, and hopefully that would make less work for everyone.  Thenub314 (talk) 10:04, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd like to note, for other admins' benefit, that there is a bug (with a workaround) with the mass moving. If the main book page doesn't have a talk page, any talk pages of subpages won't be moved with the subpages. The workaround is to add a talk page to the book's main page.  Then, all the subpages and their talk pages will be moved.  There's a bugzilla bug open, thanks to Mike.lifeguard on this, but it's been open for quite a while. Yes, the words I've heard about improvements for Wikipedia getting priority over other Wikimedia wikis are true. -- Adrignola talk contribs 13:23, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Importing from the English Wikipedia
Hi all,

When the page chess/Sample chess game was imported from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, its earliest edits weren't included because they were at a different title, namely "Chess/Sample game" as can clearly be seen from this diff. I've temporarily undeleted the English Wikipedia page and history merged it so all the edits are at the right place. I'd like a Wikibooks admin to import these nine edits, namely all edits before the one by Zundark, from the English Wikipedia to the Wikibooks page chess/Sample chess game. Thanks. Graham87 (talk) 07:50, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I've merged in the edits you requested to the history of the above page. The partial history for the page now includes those nine edits. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much. I've re-deleted the English Wikipedia page. Graham87 (talk) 13:43, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

A copyright question
As always, I am confused over copyright issues. A contributor added A Brief History of SMSQ/E by copying and pasting from Wikipedia (or perhaps wikisource?). This wouldn't preserve any list of editors as I thought was required by GFDL. On the other hand I thought one thing that moving to this new combined license was supposed to allow was the ability to copy some segment of text from one place to another (provided a link to the original is provided?) Also I am generally confused about which license older documents fall under. Have all existing pages been reliciensed? If anyone understands these issues better then me I could use a tutorial. Also if anything needs to be done with this article it should be done. Thenub314 (talk) 13:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * My non-expert opinion: The GFDL would require a list of editors. CC-BY-SA would require attribution through a link.  I don't see a link in the edit summary of the page's creation or on the talk page.  So it doesn't meet either license's requirements.  Given that the page is an essay, I don't see it as textbook material personally.


 * The intro says it was written for the Wikipedia article (since removed) and that it is GFDL-licensed. |post OSnews says it was copied to Geocities to preserve it.  I don't think that's correct.  The Wikipedia edit was in 2004 while the Geocities page was last modified in 1998.  So the licensing derives from however the Geocities page was licensed.  Given that the page has no licensing information, I would say that it's a copyright violation to have it here. -- Adrignola talk contribs 14:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I have contacted the contributor, Sanbeg on their talk page regarding this. -- Adrignola talk contribs 15:53, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * A list of editors may not equate with a list of copyright owners (and rarely does on Wikis), copy paste is allowed if credit is given to the original authors of the content (by GFDL or CC-BY-SA), in case of a copy for Wikipedia a reference that part of the content came from there will suffice (having the edit history is a plus). The works licenses must be equal, except for the GFDL to CC-BY-SA conversion, relicensing of works can only be done by the content owners.
 * For what I understand of the explanations above originally it was on Wikipedia (2004) so that makes it GFDL, depending on the date it was taken to Geocities it could have been converted to CC-BY-SA, but the requirements to indicate the copyright owners would be the same.
 * One easy way to resolve the issue is to request Wikipedia for a undelete and a traswiki of the article. Can it be done ? --Panic (talk) 18:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Request for semi-protection
I am wondering if someone could semi-protect this page? This is the replacement page for Departments and needs to be semi-protected accordingly. Thanks. Arlen22 (talk) 18:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done this one as it's clearly a "high impact" page if it is vandalised. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 21:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)