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

Recusal and Block Request
Kittins_floating_in_the_sky_yay (contribs) started out making some defensible contributions to Wikibooks, but then quickly descended into attacking Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book. He has twice replaced the content of the front page with text asserting "brainwashing cult" spaced over a period of four weeks or so. I believe these actions merit a lengthy (perhaps indefinite) block. I could block this user myself, but I would like to recuse myself on the grounds that I am highly biased. Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book is a project on which I have spent literally thousands of hours developing. I elect to not determine the block period, as I don't think I can do so fairly. Thanks for input. --Jomegat (talk) 12:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Having reverted two of their edits on the 18 of May myself, the fact that they have returned exactly three weeks later ought to show that these actions have been sustained and that a short block period will not outlast their patience. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have blocked them for 2 months to give them time to calm down. They seem to contribute only in monthly intervals. I think its likely they won't even notice the block until next month. Based on the intervals in which they contribute I'm not ready to say yet they came here specifically to attack Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book, but that might be the case if they continue despite having been warned and continue to do so when they can contribute again. --dark lama  13:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks d l . That seems fair to me.  --Jomegat (talk) 13:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

212.219.90.97
If you look at the recent contributions of 212.219.90.97, you'll see they are causing widespread vandalism. I'd like to bring this to the attention of an administrator. I've rolled back their recent edits. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I blocked the IP for three days. Thanks for the heads-up. --Jomegat (talk) 15:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Request for test
I am seeking some help testing a helper script I have written that supports a template I have also written. Some background - I am currently planning a book that I intend to write for Wikibooks. During this planning process, I decided that the existing tools for referencing and citing textual sources in a wikibook do not meet my needs. Specifically, the and tags provided by the cite extension require a reference and citation to exist on the same wiki markup page. This condition rarely obtains for books. Books are long, comprise many pages and the rendering of citation and footnote text generally occurs on a wiki page other than where the citation or footnote reference occurs.

So, I decided to create a template, called Bref, that uses the cite extension in a way that allows the separation of text source and footnote references from citation and footnote data. However, the cite extension tag creates back links to references. In order to separate references and reference data so they may exist on different pages, Bref renders these back links meaningless (more details about this is found on the Bref documentation page). Consequently, I created a helper script that effectively deletes these back links. I have tested the helper script myself, but would like at least one other user to test it to ensure I have not hardwired something into the script that means it works for me, but not for anyone else. Instructions for using the helper script are found at helper script instructions. For the cautious, the script is located at User:Dnessett/Template/Bref/Clean Back Links.js. It is pretty simple and a moderately experienced javascript programmer should see it is not harmful. The easiest way to determine that the helper script is working is to go to the Bref examples page and render one of the footnote or reference pages. Good candidates are the references pages for Example 1 and Example 4. If the helper script is working properly, no back links should appear at the beginning of each entry. Dnessett (talk) 18:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Small correction
Hi admins! Please correct interwiki ru:Форум → ru:Викиучебник:Форум in Reading room/Navigation (protected). Tnank you. Best regards, Innv (talk) 00:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Request to Nuke duplicate pages
I created a duplicate subtree of some pages in my namespace and would like an admin to nuke the old version. The reason I didn't move the subtree is I needed to edit most of the pages to conform to their new location. So, I copied them from my personal wiki after the modifications. I know I can put a quick delete template on all of the old pages, but there are approximately 30 and that would take a lot of time. The subtree that should be deleted is the one based at Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples. Thanks. Dnessett (talk) 21:20, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. You missed two (Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples/Example3/Chapter1/Markup Page 2 and Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples/Example3/Chapter1/Markup Page 3). However, you saved me a great deal of time in deleting the others for which I am grateful. I have placed speedy delete templates on the two remaining pages. Dnessett (talk) 17:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px| ]] Done What missing pages? :P -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:02, 27 June 2009 (UTC)