Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/IgnorantGuru

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I now can no longer edit the book I wrote on Wikibooks - not a very brilliant system IMO. You could at least give the editor flag to authors of their own books. Otherwise I will take my material elsewhere.

I therefore obviously request permission to edit my own book at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_To_Backup_Operating_Systems  There are few if any other editors who will have knowledge in this area and will know whether edits are valuable or not. So the book will just become static, while in fact it needs to be updated regularly.

I thought the whole point of wikibooks is that others can contribute. Now you've made it so that people who have something to add have to jump over hurdles to do so and beg for permission, such that most of them probably won't bother. Sounds like I should take my material to another wiki where participation is encouraged rather than discouraged. I put it here expressly so that others could contribute their knowledge easily. It's one thing to lock a book when there is an abuse problem, but to do so by default, and beyond the control of the original author, is preposterous.

Your reply is most appreciated.


 * While I can understand this users' dismay, I have to say that the tone "grant me this right or else" seems overly combative, and his assumption of ownership ("few if any other editors who will have knowledge") seems a bit excessive and against the whole idea of Wikibooks. Additionally, I doubt that his "right" to edit has been revoked; I think that if he investigates, his edits will be present but not yet published. Chazz (talk) 19:08, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, perhaps we would be more likely to grant this right if the last couple of edits on said book were not, in fact, pointers to your own blog, IG. Chazz (talk) 19:11, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for demonstrating the kind of bureaucratic and ego games that result from this kind of censoring/editing policy. Some people are more interested in getting in the way of others accomplishing things than accomplishing things themselves, and that's how bureaucracy kills the usefulness of any endeavor.  And the script on my blog is no less valid a resource than any other - especially since I wrote the script there specifically to complement the wikibook and help readers. IgnorantGuru


 * All sighted revisions of the page in question have been de-sighted and edits by anyone will show up immediately at this point. Problem solved. -- Adrignola talk contribs 22:15, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for making this change. IgnorantGuru