Wikibooks:Reading room/Administrative Assistance/Archives/2022/April

Please block Cubdhbh

 * persistent vandalism. -- Johannnes89 (discuss • contribs) 15:06, 1 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry if I overstepped, I just kept watching the disruption I hate April Fools day on Wikipedia Praxidicae (discuss • contribs) 15:13, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Probably deserves sanctions for vandalism and making threats on Annerl. --SVTCobra (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the heads up. This user is now blocked. --Xania [[Image:Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Mann.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag_of_Ukraine.svg|15px]] talk 01:21, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Unable to edit page - : World_Stamp_Catalogue/India
I checked edit source for this and nothing happened.

I'm not blocked, and I didn't see any protection icons.

Can someone unprotect this page to allow for Linter identifed concerns to be rectified? Thanks. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 14:02, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I have checked and the page is not protected. Are you getting an error when you attempt to edit the page? Or are you getting an error when you save your changes?--Xania [[Image:Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Mann.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag_of_Ukraine.svg|15px]] talk 14:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I click the 'Edit Source' tab and nothing happens, I don't see an edit window, I just see the page. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 14:35, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm also having problems adding comments here ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I've just made a test edit on World Stamp Catalogue/India without problem.
 * I also tried with my test account, User:Mrjulesd(alt), again no problem.
 * I can't see why you would have a problem, unless perhaps your IP is hard-blocked somewhere. Is there any indication of this? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 15:40, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Nothing in the block log related to my IP, and I CAN edit other pages. I can edit the specfic page when logged out. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 22:46, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I've also been able to make edits on 'uneditable' page by using Chrome over Firefox. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 22:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Which makes me wonder if there's something very specfic going on? ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 22:49, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Just wondering if it is anything to do with your JavaScript. You have User:ShakespeareFan00/common.js and meta:User:ShakespeareFan00/common.js which could interfere possibly. Try disabling these. Also you could w:Wikipedia:Purge and w:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache. You could experiment by removing gadgets from your Special:Preferences.
 * Just some things I would try. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 23:00, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * First Thing I Disabled was user side scripts, and it did not change anything. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 23:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Have any of my suggestions made a difference? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 07:46, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Sadly not. I can edit the page logged out, or in Chrome though ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 07:50, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmm I don't know quite what else to suggest. One possible route is to ask at w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). They tend to be pretty helpful there, and could have come across this before. If you do so, please link to this page so they can get a good idea of what has happened. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 07:57, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You say you can edit in Chrome. What browser are you using that is failing? That's the most likely problem given you can edit other pages. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 13:36, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Firefox Nightly 101.0a1 (2022-04-24) And I've noted both the issues I've had upstream with their web compbatibility tracker. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Low quality contributions from Special:Contributions/2601:240:E000:FB10::/64
There have been a number of low quality contributions from this range. For example The Lingo Show/Words, StoryBots (Google Sites), StoryBots (Google Sites)/Netflix, The Lingo Show/Words 2. I can't see much pedagogical purpose in these pages, and they're not structured into a book that could be useful to readers. Any communication with the IP is quite difficult as there is a lot of hopping in this range.

I propose we block the range, and delete their contributions.The block should only affect a single connection, as IPv6 ranges are formed that way. Any comments? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 12:30, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree. I've tried to encourage some kind of improvements to that page but they have not been responsive. The page existed for 10 days and I deleted it earlier today and protected it against being created again for a while. I haven't blocked any users yet as I felt they edits were in good faith. What do others think?--Xania [[Image:Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Mann.svg|15px]] [[Image:Flag_of_Ukraine.svg|15px]] talk 14:29, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * thanks for your view. Well they haven't edited since their pages were deleted, so a block at this point seems pointless. To the IP (if they can see this at all): please do not create any further book pages without first creating an account. Failure to comply may result in further page deletions and blocks. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 07:45, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * They created 3 Little Words Mini and 3 Palabritas Mini so I have blocked the range. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 22:39, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Think Python/Lists
In looking through this with a view to correcting LintErrors, I've found a different issue..

Namely that the text here doesn't match the earliest GFDL version I can find for the given chapter at [] and some of the material that is different seems to match with the PDF version which is under an incompatible NC license. Which SPECFIC version was imported, and where is the supporting evidence that all the material included was under GFDL to start with? ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 06:45, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm sad to say this, but I think the book should probably be deleted. According to it was released under the  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, which is sadly incompatible with Wikibooks. -- Jules  (Mrjulesd) 12:17, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The original version was under GFDL at some point, the preface says as much, so it's not as straightforward as it would seem, At some point the GFDL version would have been compatible with the licensing here. However, if there are additions in the PDf version those would have to be removed of course. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Well you have to try to untangle the GFDL content from the CC BY-NC content, if that is at all possible. To be frank, CC BY-NC content is very unlikely to create legal problems for the WMF as it is a freely-licensed and available non-profit host. The prohibition against CC BY-NC was mainly to reduce the encumbrance of other entities seeking to use the content commercially,. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 20:34, 29 April 2022 (UTC)