Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2015/March

Template namespace revisions and broken link to external tool
Is the template namespace exempted from revision control? Why so? (In fact I see it beneficial to have the Wikijunior rule apply to that namespace) It messed me up today as I saw an edit pending review, a template red link but no template creation on the review page. The server side hadn't refreshed yet. Page creation wouldn't be p.r. listed but the template had a subsequent edit. I noticed also that the link to "External tools: Transclusion count" on the "What links here" page seems to be broken. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

What are we suppose to do with the images/pages here?

 * Category:Files with unknown source ? Three images are there, doesn't these images need to be deleted?
 * Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion - Mainly the "Introduction to Geochronology", they have been all tagged as "redundant" by Spenchristoph for all of the pages, and as well as for these pages: High School Biology, High School Calculus, High School Chemistry, High School Engineering, High School Geometry, High School Life Science, High School Probability and Statistics and High School Trigonometry? Surely all of these pages can't be in this category for so long, so what action should we take? --atcovi (talk) 14:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, you have the rights , so do what you think is best. However ,
 * Note that the 2 flower images seem to be very old (>10 years). That could either moving it to Commons, or keeping it here as a reference for a very old image.
 * The 3rd dinner image should be uploaded to Commons directly and then deleted here. Shouldn't be any non free image..
 * As for the 'High School' books, better do not delete. There is an associated Request for Deletion page there. --Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 16:06, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * For the dinner image named "Salmon1.JPEG", I have uploaded to Commons. But due to my trouble with uploading images there, I'm going to wait for a couple of hours to see if they're are any violations with this image. If not, I'll delete the image here. --atcovi (talk) 18:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ I have deleted the Dinner image, and the source/author have been linked to Dinner's image, and Dinner's contributions. If I did anything wrong, please fix it. Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 23:35, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Spam bots
This user(User:Chuck_m_42 has been spamming, he has created irrelevant pages. Or(if at all) , the title of the page is improper. --Leaderboard 14:09, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I actually wouldn't consider that account a spambot - there's no evidence of spam. From their contributions thus far, they appear to be someone who does not understand the concept of Wikibooks and simply created an off-topic page. I've gone ahead and deleted it and left them a note with a link to our guide on using Wikibooks. --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 08:12, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Vandals

 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/46.16.3.211 - Keeps vandalizing A-level Computing/AQA/Computer Components, The Stored Program Concept and the Internet/Structure of the Internet/TCP IP protocol stack‎.
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.22.0.227 - Keeps vandalizing Wikijunior:How Things Work/Nuclear Bomb.

These two have been given warnings, but nonetheless has ignored the warnings. --atcovi (talk) 14:36, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/43.241.131.130 - as well. Has been getting warnings by User:Ruy Pugliesi. Has ignored the warnings, keeps blanking/vandalizing Data Coding Theory/Hamming Codes. --atcovi (talk) 14:38, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I reverted all the 11 edits by the address. It took some time as it wasn't working because of some reason that I didn't understand.

I suggest that we wait. Any further vandalism should lead to a ban.--Leaderboard 14:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * They have stopped for now. If they strike back we should immediately temporarily block them. --atcovi (talk) 14:43, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the report, we'll keep an eye on it. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * One more: Probably 2nd strike we block this since it only made 3 out of 3 bad edits? https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/203.104.11.25 --atcovi (talk) 00:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I blocked this one for 24 hours. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Can a few of the admins here be a bit more active?
Sorry if I'm being bossy/rude, but we need an admin a bit more active. We've been having a lot of vandalism today with no admins around to block/take action. Is it because of timezones? Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 00:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Have you considered using IRC to get the attention of an admin? I'm almost always on there 24/7 as AlexZ_ in both the #cvn-sw (SWMT channel) and #wikibooks... --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 08:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Most of the anti vandal work here is performed by the Global Sysops. If there's nobody around try the #wikimedia-stewards channel which the Global Sysops and Stewards use. In terms of the local admins, there's only a handful and we have real lives too I'm afraid. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Alternatively you can also try either posting on my talk page or using "Email this user". I usually respond to email in less than an hour as long as it is not the middle of the night UTC. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @Az1568 - I've been there a lot as well, I'll contact you from there.
 * @QuiteUnusual - Ok, thanks. --atcovi (talk) 12:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree with atcovi though. What he says is correct. I know though that there are very few admins... we could consider adding more admins probably.--Leaderboard 19:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Spam bot
This user(Special:Contributions/172.56.1.31) has been spamming. He is most likely a spam bot. This is becase it is somehow interested in editing that and only that page with the same content(why?). --Leaderboard 19:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, s/he keeps spamming about "Boxing" on. They are also using different IP Addresses, such as: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.0.145, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.0.240, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.0.212, and more. The spamming of "boxing" is on Talk:Fighting. I say we keep an eye on Talk:Fighting since that is where this IP is spamming about it. There are more IP's as well, check the history of the page for more IP's. Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Since there are several IP's, nearly same as the original IP, keep spamming about Boxing, the IP is most likely using a Proxy. --atcovi (talk) 21:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The IP's have been blocked with a range block by Ruy Pugliesi: Link 1 and 2 . Maybe when they spam again we block this range longer after each block? --atcovi (talk) 13:53, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Request for deletion needs to be closed?
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Requests_for_deletion#Corset.2FPopular_culture - Started on August, first vote was on September, later on in the months 3 more voters have voted. Shouldn't this be closed since the consensus is keep? Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 00:06, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * You've already closed it, and I've placed the concluded template for that issue.--Leaderboard 13:46, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I posted this before I got ahead to closing the Deletion Requests. I just thought only admins can close deletion requests, but looks like I've gone ahead and closed those requests. Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 13:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Though I think that only admins can close deletion requests, I don't think they'll mind with what you have done.--Leaderboard 13:51, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I talked to Pizero on IRC about it and he/she said it was fine. --atcovi (talk) 13:54, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Though there are times when closure should be left to an admin (anything controversial, anything that would require admin action), I don't think there's any problem with an uncontroversial no-action closure by a non-admin. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've removed an rfd template from a page whose rfd was closed, and added rfd-survived to two talk pages. (This is another example of why I mean to create a semi-automated assistant for rfd closure; lots of fiddly details to take care of.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:07, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Please help me move content in Wikibook "Sensory Systems"
On request from the Wikipedian administrators, I am trying to re-structure the wikibook on "Sensory Systems", which has gotten too long. In the process I ran into a problem: I would like to move the section Sensory Systems/Computer Models to Sensory Systems/Neurosensory Implants/Vestibular Implants

Somehow I have gotten myself into a pickle with the restructuring, and am not allowed to do that (despite the fact that I have ensured that the latter link is empty. Could you please do that content-move for me? Thanks, thomas --Thomas.haslwanter (discuss • contribs) 13:27, 10 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm puzzled by the background on this. What do Wikipedian administrators have anything to do with the structure of a Wikibook?  Or is that a typo?  Off hand it seems there's no such thing as a book getting "too long"; the concept of "too long" could apply to a Wikipedia article, or an individual page of a book, but not to a book as a whole.  (And I really do hope "Wikipedian administrators" was a typo, because Wikipedian administrators have, on the face of it, no business having an opinion about how a Wikibook should be arranged.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)


 * In addition to Pi zero: The only way to move a section from one page to another is Cut & Paste, normally. In this specific situation you have to decide whether you want to get the full content of Sensory Systems/Computer Models/Vestibular System Simulation to Sensory Systems/Neurosensory Implants/Vestibular Implants. If so, you may move this page and remove the line  from the Computer Models page. By the way, are you familiar with the feature of embedding pages? Look for "embedding" or "embedded" like templates in the Help. -- Juetho (discuss • contribs) 13:59, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I believe Thomas was responding to an edit notice and believed it was an "administrator" who had requested the restructure. There was a separate discussion on this problem here and the issue is now resolved. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:09, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Name usurpation
Hello, I am the global user Blackcat (my home wiki is it.wiki am sysop on Commons). I wish to usurpate the user:Blackcat on this project because it has one edit only (older than 10 years). Can you address me to the proper page for getting that please? -- 151.15.180.63 (discuss) 18:53, 21 February 2015 (UTC) P.S. Here the confirmation of my identity.
 * Renames are performed on Meta, not here - please go to SRUC. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:40, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons
There seems to be 38 files in here, I'm here to bring awareness of this category for the sysops around here to clean up all this. Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 03:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * File:SOCAWS9495.pdf - Can safely be deleted since they're aren't any pages using the file. Probably that page might be using it but we can remove that page when we delete this image (since it's available at commons)(?) --atcovi (talk) 03:49, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've gone through and verified them all on Commons and deleted the duplicates hosted here. --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Great. --atcovi (talk) 00:59, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

I am blacklisted.
Dear Wikibooks Administrators, my user name for Wikipedia is "George Rodney Maruri Game". It works there with no issues. When I tried to log in here, I received the following message:


 * The user name "George Rodney Maruri Game" has been blacklisted from creation. Wikibooks does not allow names that are misleading, promotional, offensive, or disruptive. Please select another username that complies with this, or if you want to seek approval for a username, you can do so by filing a request in the administrative assistance reading room.

I understand that it is not any longer necessary to create an account for each Wiki site as once one creates an account for one site it works for all of them. But, just in case, I tried to create an account with the same user name and I got a message reading that that account already exists. So now I know for sure I am blacklisted and I would like to know why. I have never vandalized any article or been disrespectful to other users or their contributions. Why have I been blacklisted? I courteously ask you to grant me access to Wikibooks.

With no other matter to discuss I end this piece of communication.

Kind regards,

George R. Maruri —Preceding comment added by 181.196.18.222 (discuss • contribs) 00:58, 28 February 2015
 * That specific username is not blacklisted... however the overall length and order of letters within it might be inadvertently triggering a blacklist entry on the local or global level. In any case, you would not be able to create the user "George Rodney Maruri Game" here as it already exists globally on all WMF projects. All you'll need to do, is simply login with the same username and the password that you use on other Wikimedia sites. --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

All Connections
''First of all, sorry if I am posting this topic in the wrong section, if you are an admin you are free to move it to another section. Cheers!''

Hi guys,

I am an old editor on Wikipedia: TudorTulok. Never edited on WikiBooks, but with your guidance I will be able to help.

I have started a Quora blog one year ago, where the project got some interest there. AllConnections on Quora.

The most important to read is this: We write a book.

It would be a book about connections that I would write it by myself, but the book gets so massive that I need external help.

I create my own wiki at allconnectionstheory.com but it had been attacked by a spam bot from a server in Moscow.

I have blocked that wiki, and I had in my mind that it would be more useful to import the book here, and never to start on my site.

I have a collaborator. He is very enthusiastic. In the beginning me and him will be the first editors.

I will close my allconnectionstheory.com and bring the book here, with all the notes.

I am proposing to change the name of the project to Framework of Everything. I will be the administrator of the book till the my final firs desired shape. After the completion of the shape of the project, I will move to a different approach of the same project, to the practical side of the project, applying the framework to practical outcomes.

Yours,

--TudorTulok (discuss • contribs) 19:30, 7 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, TudorTulok.
 * Wikibooks hosts educational textbooks. We tend to be a lot less stuffy about sourcing than Wikipedia, where things that are common knowledge can get rejected as "original research", but when things actually are original research we point folks at Wikiversity.
 * Our books don't have administrators as such.
 * What sort of book do you mean this to be? If it's original research, you may want to inquire at the Wikiversity colloquium.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:43, 7 March 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ Pi zero, your suggestions and help are great. Many thanks for your help! I will continue there. Good luck to all of us! --TudorTulok (discuss • contribs) 22:10, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

About https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUnreviewedPages&namespace=6&level=0&category
Am I allowed to copy images from here, and upload to commons with all rights to the original uploader? (person who uploaded here at Wikibooks) --atcovi (talk) 14:06, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think yes, as long as it is within the Commons rules.--Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 17:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Leaderboard is correct - the critical issue is that they meet the Commons rules. Therefore, you cannot upload anything to Commons that is Fair Use (it will be tagged here as Fair Use). I suggest you use the Commons Helper here which takes across all the attribution, etc., correctly. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 10:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m..org:
Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like .m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Sorry for writing in English but I thought as administrators you would be interested. Thanks, Nemo 22:26, 1 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Strongly Spam and Vandalism are bound to increase. Not to forget all the Selfies; rattled edits and pics.
 * Sorry Nemo to mention it here, but the fact apart from what I mentioned in the poll, is this will increase pressure which already prevails on reviewers and admins, bureaus, autos. Further it will give chance to the current vandals to mortify what and how they feel like. Basically ENJOY :( ... Vishal Bakhai - Works[[Image:Flag_of_India.svg|15px]] 00:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You'd be better off commenting at Meta - it is unlikely anyone will read comments made here! QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)