Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2012/December

Rename over old Page
I messed up and created 2 pages. Could you please rename Sailing and its subpages to Sailing. The existing content in Sailing has been subsumed into the new version in Sailing, so the overwrite of the old version is exactly what I want, but don't have permission to accomplish. Thank you --Wcoole (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 19:08, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks--Wcoole (discuss • contribs) 20:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

CU request
These spambots are probably related to each other and to Foshtkisb@en.wikiversity as well. I've requested the stewards to take a look at the one on en.wikiversity. Please consider investigating the ones on this project. Greetings, Mathonius (talk) 11:06, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ and all linked accounts blocked. They were already locked but adding the block applies the autoblock to the underlying IP. Thanks QU TalkQu 11:36, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate categorisation of user talk page
User_talk:Blibrestez55 pops up in lots of odd categories. This looks all wrong, but I am not sure whether the user has broken any of our specific policies or guidelines. Recent Runes (discuss • contribs) 21:02, 11 December 2012 (UTC)


 * The use of site-wide categories in user-space is not covered in any policy but it would be difficult to argue that a) it is a proper use of those categories b) it has any merit beyond providing an increasing visibility to those pages at the cost of the functionality of said categories. I see no issue in turning those site wide categories in user specific ones and post an explicative notice on to the use.
 * If the user can come-up with a good reason for the utilization in a way that it doesn't reduce the benefits those site-wide categories to the rest of the community then we can address it further. It may even happen that the user will not object to the change at all.
 * I made some tests in regards to user-space categories a while ago, there are interesting possibilities there (like some sort of user tagging that exist in some other social software), but using the general purpose site-wide categories seems indeed detrimental to the good of the community, in my view if on purpose the classification as vandalism even if strong would apply. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 05:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * PS: If the intention is to declare an interest of the user in regard to specific subjects I wouldn't object to a subject subcategory labeled "Users with declared interest" or something like that but linking to the user main page. This could be helpful to aid the creation of subject specific edit communities... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 05:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Further odd aspects of this page are:
 * The text seems to have been copied from http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Charter_Proposal (which is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2).) and the words "Burundi_Librestez Community Statistics Foundation" substituted for the words "the Council" in the original text.
 * Eleven of the categories are for the pages belonging to pre-existing books.
 * The use of general purpose categories like Books_by_subject, Categories, APDIP_Books and Help can not be appropriate for a user page.


 * My overall impression is that this user page is just nonsense and a subtle attempt at vandalism. Recent Runes (discuss • contribs) 22:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)


 * If you are certain in regards to source use of the Apache License, Version 2.0. Delete the page as copyright violation. That license is not compatible with ours. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 22:15, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Book CSS/JS creation
Please create MediaWiki:Perbook/Outline of U.S. History.css and MediaWiki:Perbook/Outline of U.S. History.js from User:Hagindaz/per book/Outline of U.S. History.css and User:Hagindaz/per book/Outline of U.S. History.js to enable book-specific features. --hagindaz 11:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)