Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Fabartus

(Expedited: Reviewer, Uploader)
Hi: I recently started updating, and indeed working to expand and actually finish the Trainz Wikibook, and hope to really get into it this weekend and early next week, so would appreciate a provisional 'upgrade' by a cognizant bureaucrat in advance of the formal vote here for those pages ASAP. I would have been 'here' making this request sooner but I've been having computer issues (Hard disk suddenly goes missing-double storm power outages created, so nursing/troubleshooting), Car troubles (two off the road, just this week alone), Spring Yard Work demands sapping aging energies , and a lot of matters to settle in a new educational organization Yesterdayz Trainz (and see also this thread), some backstory here (Don't click this last yet-you'll read it below @'here' below). Thankyou for your time. I'm looking forward to getting this project into shape. //Fra nkB 18:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Some members of Yesterdayz Trainz are willing to help, if only by proof reading, and some who are among the original Wikibooks writers, may also return to the project&mdash;since I've offered to act as de facto editor and intermediary here. (Suspect some 'culture clash', probably over images, for the work was all but abandoned in 2009&mdash;IIRC, all the sister projects were aggressively moving images to the commons and policing possible CopyVio issues!)
 * 2) I've made tens of thousands contribs since 2004 in at least nine Wikimedia projects, including 'nearly enough (?)' edits here, the Commons, Meta, and of course Wikipedia, as well as less ample tens of contribs to various others, including even WikiSpecies.
 * 3) In advance of overhauling the book, I've been pursuing Commons licensing needs in hopes of pre-clearing and clarifying copyrights issues and boundaries on screen shots and videos in particular 'here'. (Which 'promised examples' has been seriously delayed by the computer issues&mdash;now hopefully fixed [Loose HDD power cable], crossing fingers!) since the images needed where on this tower (Stable, working now over 56 hours, Whew! )  Any copyright savvy admin willing to help me get the right taggings, and answer the odd questions, please post my Talk.  Ditto any savvy admin willing to help me get a few templates together (I'm rusty, but was good myself back in '08), and answer the 'other' odd questions, please also post my Talk.   I can use an immediate assist on how to modify my .CSS page, and answer the odd questions on that (per the 'here' history on my vision disability), these bright pages are killing me, so please post my Talk, and give a code snippet to dim things down, and a refresher on how to find the script page. I'm really not up to wading through a lot of how-to these days. Much appreciated, I guarantee.
 * 4) I want the images upload privileges (short term solution) for partial page 'controls illustrations' such as will clarify greatly sections and pages specifically aimed at helping the very inexperienced new users. This will qualify under US law as fair use, educational, illustrating use, and so forth. I hope and expect most images can and will be located on the Commons, but some of that will require N3V releases, Meta, agency, and the various points in that Commons link.
 * 5) In advance of that happy state, I expect even a full page screenshot will qualify under fair use in the interim. I would appreciate feedback, caveats and advice on that; once I put a few beginners tutorials pages up including such and spruce up the current content with supporting images, I'm pretty sure we'll be able to quickly figure out together how limited or acceptable such illustrations will be.
 * 6) In the event of uploads, I'm considering just adding such to the commons with a note linking that discussion, pending other hoops to jump through in my limited time; but such fair use claims here would be on firmer ground, compliant with my understanding of US copyright law and Wikimedia Foundation practices.
 * 7) I'm also quite capable of nominating my own contribs for speed deletion at need per consensus decisions; I've done that a few times if not a few dozen. 
 * 8) As an example of such fair use consider, a discussion of evolutionary difference(s) between the Trainz GUI modes contrasting the 'major changes' releases of 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2009. The look-see-feel functions are very much the same, albeit with new minor color schemes/skin changes in each of the '09, '10, and '12. (The simulators have had a remarkably stable incremental growth, speaking as a computer engineer.) The relavant changes up to T'10 are added controls, or features building on the original Trainz Ver 1.x release. The world builder controls in 2006-to-2009 step were a major advance giving rise to it's eponymous suffix "World Builder Edition", which strongly simplifies placement of componets such as a variety of houses, public buildings, road features and such, including terrain textureing. (If you only knew how many hours I could have back had I gone to that sooner... it boggles the mind. Chagrin! )
 * 9) As far as expediting this process, besides my record as a editor, I've found it to be rather disconcerting to revisit a page recently changed as experienced this morning (e.g. I began to add page links templates) only to find a page was 'unreviewed' and I was looking at the old version. A bit confusing, and counter productive for all of us.

(Temp sysop privileges)
In line with {1, 4, and 5} above, it would be extremely helpful to be able to review any deleted images and the original book pages as originally built. A second thanks, Fra nkB 18:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Ability to do that would I think expedite bringing this product into a higher quality state. I'm thinking about 10-14 days will allow me to get a clearer picture and proceed respectful of my time. I'd happily clear any undeletions with another or others as you all see fit. As noted, my intent is where possible to park images on the commons.
 * 2) Also, whatever permissions are involved here in page moves and renaming would expedite serious reorganization. Note, subject matter review will be best left to the veterans and intermediate members of our Yesterdayz Trainz group in any event, unless any of you are an avid 'Trainzer'. I'm sure I'll hear the odd suggestion or three hundred from the forum on the Auran.com web board too. It's my hope that noisy bunch will then be able to refer the relative newbie Trainzer to the site rather than ignoring it as relatively useless which unhappy state has been the norm, from those who know of the Wikibook at all!