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I've retired, so there's probably no need to do that.

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RETIRED

This user is no longer active on Wikibooks.

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Categories for Computers & Society

Hi! Thanx for query/comment. I figured out eventually the purpose of categorization for the Wikibooks. It seems to me to be the way to find the subject on the page in the book. Perhaps I have misunderstood and overdone it? As your note implies? --Михал Орела (talk) 06:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I think most of those categories will not be useful for finding books. We primarily use the Subject: pages for browsing now. Current practice is that all pages of a book should go in a single category which normally has the same name as the book itself; this is to help keep all the pages of the book together (like the binding of a book). The main page of the book is categorized by subject (like putting the book on a shelf in the library, this allows readers to find the book by it's content), and also by other methods, like the first letter of it's title (these methods are becoming increasingly superseded by the subject pages). So the categories you have created are not very helpful for anyone to find books on a certain topic, and are mostly creating unnecessary clutter. If you don't mind, I'd like to delete most of them, and re-categorize their contents to fit into the pre-existing system of organization. I should say that the confusion here is not your fault; we have very poor resources explaining how this sort of thing works at Wikibooks (which should not be the case, as it is very different from how Wikipedia is organized). Thanks for your quick response.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:50, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Done  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 12:50, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Please rename me

Hi, I have changed my username at my homewiki and want to to it here to. Please rename me to Calandrella. Here is confirmation. Thanks, Leo Johannes (talk) 19:15, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Copied to WB:RENAME.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Rename

I was gonna do it, I swear! I just had a few more things on my script I wanted to do while the ideas were fresh in my mind. This gadget is going to be really hot when I'm done with it! --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 20:19, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

They just left a note for every crat, which is really not necessary. But I saw the updates to a few things yesterday. This is the book creator one you're talking about?  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:36, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

SubCategory:Imagery

Take a look at this page, the contribs of the pages author, etc. See if you can make heads or tails of this. I'm thinking it's tinfoil hat crazy, but I would like a second opinion. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 11:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks that way to me too. I'll nominate it later today unless you beat me to it. I see you've asked the author already.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 13:10, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Think Python

Better? --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 23:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

WOW that was fast! Some formatting to fix up, but that's easy.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:44, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I guess it is all HTML...  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Capitalisation

Tx for your message. Quick question when u get a chance - I read over Wikibooks talk:Naming policy and the talk page, but still wasn't quite clear about capitalisation of Chapter Names. It seems perhaps it's user discretion, but that mostly Chapter Names are like Book/Chapter Name rather than Book/Chapter name. In which case, my inclination would be to make this change for the Outdoor Education chapters. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, this falls to the discretion of whoever is working on the book. I normally prefer to have the title capitalized, and the rest only the first letter capitalized. This is probably because the papers I write follow this convention. But as I say, it is up to whoever is writing the book.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:50, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Tx - gotcha :) -- Jtneill - Talk - c 18:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a request

Hey Mike, I'd like to request that my patroller and rollbacker flags be revoked; I don't feel right retaining them due to my inactivity. While I think this wiki is great, and I do have plans to become active once again in future, I think I should let these two not-used tools go for the time being. Since I believe we don't need Stewards to fill this request, i thought I'd just ask you if you could get around to it at some point. Cheers, and thanks for your assistance, - Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:35, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem; if you want them back, just ask.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 17:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)