User talk:Mike.lifeguard
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[edit] Wikipedia's JavaServer Pages article and Java Programming/JSP page
Hello,
The Wikipedia JavaServer Pages article contains HowTo information about JSP which should not appear on Wikipedia and would be useful on the Java Programming/JSP page. I would like to transfer the page to wikibooks with the history information and merge the two pages on wikibooks. I think I have to ask an administrator for such an operation. Ftiercel (talk) 08:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Done - see Transwiki:JavaServer Pages. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:17, 16 September 2009 (UTC)- Spoke too soon... the xml is huge, and the import keeps timing out. I'll do the most recent revision, and maybe during lower traffic time I'll try again. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:30, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Open discussion about Wikibooks vs Wikiversity
I want to open a discussion about Wikibooks vs Wikiversity. On my opinion, these two sites are too similar and it duplicates the information. Learning books and universities have the same targets. You will have information on one site for a given language and you will find the equivalent on the other site for another language. What is your opinion ? Ftiercel (talk) 08:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
- If it's an open discussion, I may as well note my response when asked about potential areas of collaboration between the two on CQ's talk page on Wikiversity. The third paragraph there that relates to this discussion is that there are class projects on both sites and even we can't always tell whether they are better at Wikiversity or Wikibooks, as pointed out from the linked VfD discussion. A point to note is that Wikiversity used to be part of Wikibooks. I wouldn't have been in favor of the separation had I been here at the time, but I think it's highly unlikely that they would ever be merged together again. It would seem that Wikiversity has yet to fully distinguish itself from its former parent. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
- Open is open, so I'll chime in here. The key difference between WV & WB is that WV is intended for original research while WB prohibits it. The recent How to Use Wikibooks for My Students effort would have been better suited to WV IMO. --Jomegat (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming Mjquin_id to Mjquinn_id
I am asking for a rename; before I use the account here too much (and there is another one pending). Does WikiBooks need more admins? -- Mjquin id (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
- To do the rename, please show me a diff proving you own the account w:en:User:Mjquinn_id. We do need more administrators, but those would be drawn from the ranks of our current experienced editors. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 21:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Global rollback
Hi! I have a question for you, plis ask me: I'm a rollbacker in the English and Spanish wikipedia. I do rollbacks in the Spanish, english and deutsch wikipedia. With the global rollback, I will rollback the Catalan, Asturianu and Aragonés wikipedia too, so If I send a request for global rollback, the admin accept it? Thanks, --Javierito92 (talk) 19:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
- Probably not -- but you're certainly welcome to join us for wider cross-wiki countervandalism efforts. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Image missing a fair use rationale
You're asserting that because the unaltered image I captured and uploaded was of a GPL'd piece of software, the image itself falls under the GPL. I can follow that line of reasoning. Then you assert that because the image that falls under the GPL, a license classification that (from what I understand) was created specifically so that Fair Use would not be needed, needs Fair Use established. Do you mind explaining to me why this is or what I am misunderstanding? --Brandished (talk) 22:48, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, I simply forgot to remove the notice to you when I fixed the licensing on the image. You don't have to do a thing - but thanks for being on the ball! :D — Mike.lifeguard | talk 01:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- I was thinking it might have been something like that, I just wanted to be sure. I'll go ahead and remove the notice. --Brandished (talk) 17:19, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Interpretation
In classifying uncategorized books, I've come across some that have a lot of text but don't say much. They are by the same user and have external links that may be spammy. Professional Crime Fighting Science and Crime Fighting in The United States have links to businessbookmall.com while Basic Concepts of Crime Fighting Science has a link to half.com. All are pretty poorly written and the odd usage of "crime fighting" over "criminal justice" or "law enforcement" is the least of their problems. -- Adrignola talk contribs 15:49, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm generating reports on the domains - I'll see if there's a pattern here. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 16:54, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Seems there was. Abigor removed links, and (I think) blacklisted the domain globally. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 01:14, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Twinkle
Just a friendly reminder that Twinkle will have to be updated ever so slightly to reflect the new location of Wikibooks:Requests for deletion, {{rfd}} and {{rfd warning}}. Thanks. -- Adrignola talk contribs 04:44, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
- Will do - thanks for the reminder. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Split
I saw your modification to this template and wondered if you aren't making it the same thing as Template:Subpages. Is there a distinction I am missing? -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:44, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
- Nope, you can check the original wording. I guess {{subpages}} can be merged into {{split}} — Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:09, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Anonymous Talk Page Blanker Dude
Hey Mike. Remember the guy who came here a while back and was blanking anonymous talk pages (they had warnings on them). It was a nice little game of cat and mouse, and now he's back. I have blocked several new accounts tonight (see the block log), but I suspect he will create more and continue the mischief. Maybe this is a job for a CU? The other option is to just delete the pages he's been blanking. The warnings in them are pretty old by now. I don't really like that approach though, because old warnings inform my actions in response to new vandalism. --Jomegat (talk) 04:05, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- Done and done. There were a few more accounts - all blocked now, along with at least some of the IP space available to them. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 14:57, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template:SpambotIP
You were the author of this template and it is part of your User:Mike.lifeguard/DBQ-50 list of unused templates. Is it used by some template via substitution or is this template no longer needed? -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- Nope, it isn't needed. I've deleted it now. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 17:24, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] User:Whiteknight
Did Whiteknight request removal of his permissions at Meta? He's no longer listed as an administrator in the listing and I was wondering whether I should remove the userbox on his userpage and update Wikibooks:Administrators to reflect this. Actually, he's not listed as a bureaucrat or checkuser either. Checking his user rights log, the last action was his, but he only removed the bot flag. -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:02, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, the log is here. I imagine he wouldn't mind having userboxes removed etc. — Mike.lifeguard | talk 17:13, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Huib
Howdy,
You have some space for me here? I guess I will try to be active here also :-D
See ya, Huib talk 17:39, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- I think we could make some room :) — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:58, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
