Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2011/December

secure login link
Just to note that your secure login link MediaWiki:Loginend still points to secure.wikimedia.org, rather than https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin Billinghurst (discuss • contribs) 11:38, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I think I've got the immediate problem fixed. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:21, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Block User:Yuwen
Can someone block User:Yuwen as a promotional account? Thanks--Breawycker (discuss • contribs) 15:13, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This has been done. --ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 15:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Transwiki:Holocaust denial
Hello admins, I'm going through some of the transwiki backlogs on wikibooks and I noticed that Transwiki:Holocaust denial has already been partially copied to the page titled The Holocaust/Holocaust denial. However, as the editor left out the bulk of the information from the transwiki, I request assistance in deleting The Holocaust/Holocaust denial and then moving the Transwiki:Holocaust denial into its place, with the dewikification tags still in place. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 07:42, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Additionally, is there a way to include Transwiki:Examination of Holocaust denial in the proposed The Holocaust/Holocaust denial page, or is it advisable to move it to a subpage? --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 08:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Transwiki:Fishing for pike
A similar request to above, River Fishing/Predators/Pike seems to have been transwikied from wikipedia, but its content would benefit from Transwiki:Fishing for pike. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 09:01, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Block User/Delete Page
User:Hoacomay is a promotional account, created Wikijunior talk:Kings and Queens of England/The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 07:03, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks QU TalkQu 10:06, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Promotional Accounts: User:Fastcash6, User:Applrep64, two others
Hello, User:Applrep64 and User:Fastcash6 are clearly promotional accounts. By the way, it appears you've blocked "Fastcash"es 1-5 already; is there a way to block that term in account creation?

Also, two others might be promotional accounts: User:Deny98 is a description of self and link to Facebook page, no other contribs, User:Drugstore created an ad on their page, then blanked it.

Regards, --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 14:12, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for alerting us to these accounts. I have blocked three of these four accounts and have deleted their associated content.  I am going to wait on Deny98 as the case against this account is not yet a slam dunk. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * We've had three variants of Fastcash now so I've blacklisted the user name QU TalkQu 15:57, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I did a CU and underlying IPs are so spread out we'd have to block a /16 at minimum to have an effect. So the username block is a good move. – Adrignola discuss 16:08, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Fastcash is back: User_talk:Fastcash7, User:Fastcash8. Apparently, the name creation block didn't take. --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 07:52, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Fastloan1‎
Another promotional account. User:Fastloan1‎ Anyone want to take the long odds that this isn't Fastcash returning? (No? Of course not.) The up side is, it looks like the name block finally took. --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 20:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't take that bet. Thanks again.  That user is blocked. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 21:27, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

User:Dingsheng
Promotional account: User_talk:Dingsheng. --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 17:09, 29 December 2011 (UTC)