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

Repeat IP vandal
has blanked or vandalised several pages in the last few minutes. He looks like a repeat offender, could an administrator intervene and block/warn as necessary before more problems occur? Thanks. Tempodivalse 23:49, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have blocked him / her for 1 month. Recent Runes (talk) 23:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tempodivalse 01:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be active just now, but hit my talk page with apparent nastiness... Chazz (talk) 19:29, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That would be because the account was locked shortly after the edit. I blocked it indefinitely here, but you can see that Wikibooks was not the only one hit. – Adrignola talk 20:34, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Merged Irish Language Lessons -> Irish
I've forgotten how to properly request a finish to the merge I've done with Irish Language Lessons to Irish. All content that remains on Irish Language Lessons has been picked through and selectively merged already. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 07:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The tag is done with the Template:Now merged. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 19 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes_check.svg Done. – Adrignola discuss 13:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

IP block - please remove
Admins, I did something stupid. I'm a long time editor of Wikibooks. I've written two books: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology and http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=using+spss+and+pasw and am gearing up to write a third over the next few months. Anyway, I'm also a tinkerer and was playing around with the tor client (I don't actually use it, but I was trying to see how it works). In the process, I set up a tor relay point on my home computer and left it on for a week or so. I showed up at wikibooks today to do some editing and, lo and behold, my IP is blocked! Turns out my home IP (96.228.140.71) has been blocked as a a tor relay. I immediately shut down tor and uninstalled the software. But, from what I've been able to read on wikipedia and here, such blocks last a while. I'm wondering if there is anyway to have that block removed? The tor software is no longer on my computer and I'd really like to get back to contributing to my books (I'm writing this from a different location). --Rcragun (discuss • contribs) 18:52, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, you could request that an administrator enable the IP block exempt on your account, that would probably do the trick (although I'm not familiar with how WMF deals with TOR relays).Tempodivalse 19:04, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * How do I make that request? --Rcragun (discuss • contribs) 19:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Nothing to it, really. You can ping an individual admin on his talk page linking to this thread and asking that IP block exempt be turned on for your account. I'd suggest user:Adrignola or user:Darklama, they're the most active. Or, you can just wait for an admin to notice this thread here. (Alternatively, you can log on to our IRC channel, #wikibooks, for real time help. That might be faster if someone is online. ) Tempodivalse 19:31, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll try pinging Adrignola. Thanks! --Rcragun (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes_check.svg IP block exemption granted. – Adrignola discuss 20:37, 19 January 2011 (UTC)