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Welcome to the Administrative Assistance reading room
You can request assistance from administrators for handling a variety of problems here and alert them about problems which may require special actions not normally used during regular content editing. Please be patient as administrators are often quite busy with either their own projects or trying to perform general maintenance and cleanup.
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[edit] Change Username To Raiku

I would like my name changed to Raiku, i am a wikipedia rollback. Raiku Lucifer Samiyaza (talk) 04:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Could you please make an edit on jawiki to show that you own the account w:ja:User:Raiku?  — Mike.lifeguard | talk 19:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Recusal and Block Request

Kittins_floating_in_the_sky_yay (contribs) started out making some defensible contributions to Wikibooks, but then quickly descended into attacking Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book. He has twice replaced the content of the front page with text asserting "brainwashing cult" spaced over a period of four weeks or so. I believe these actions merit a lengthy (perhaps indefinite) block. I could block this user myself, but I would like to recuse myself on the grounds that I am highly biased. Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book is a project on which I have spent literally thousands of hours developing. I elect to not determine the block period, as I don't think I can do so fairly. Thanks for input. --Jomegat (talk) 12:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Having reverted two of their edits on the 18 of May myself, the fact that they have returned exactly three weeks later ought to show that these actions have been sustained and that a short block period will not outlast their patience. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I have blocked them for 2 months to give them time to calm down. They seem to contribute only in monthly intervals. I think its likely they won't even notice the block until next month. Based on the intervals in which they contribute I'm not ready to say yet they came here specifically to attack Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book, but that might be the case if they continue despite having been warned and continue to do so when they can contribute again. --darklama 13:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks dl. That seems fair to me. --Jomegat (talk) 13:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Small correction

Hi admins! Please correct interwiki ru:Форум → ru:Викиучебник:Форум in Wikibooks:Reading room/Navigation (protected). Tnank you. Best regards, Innv (talk) 00:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Done -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:28, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 212.219.90.97

If you look at the recent contributions of 212.219.90.97, you'll see they are causing widespread vandalism. I'd like to bring this to the attention of an administrator. I've rolled back their recent edits. -- Adrignola talk contribs 12:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I blocked the IP for three days. Thanks for the heads-up. --Jomegat (talk) 15:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request for test

I am seeking some help testing a helper script I have written that supports a template I have also written. Some background - I am currently planning a book that I intend to write for Wikibooks. During this planning process, I decided that the existing tools for referencing and citing textual sources in a wikibook do not meet my needs. Specifically, the <ref> and <references /> tags provided by the cite extension require a reference and citation to exist on the same wiki markup page. This condition rarely obtains for books. Books are long, comprise many pages and the rendering of citation and footnote text generally occurs on a wiki page other than where the citation or footnote reference occurs.

So, I decided to create a template, called Bref, that uses the cite extension in a way that allows the separation of text source and footnote references from citation and footnote data. However, the cite extension <reference /> tag creates back links to references. In order to separate references and reference data so they may exist on different pages, Bref renders these back links meaningless (more details about this is found on the Bref documentation page). Consequently, I created a helper script that effectively deletes these back links. I have tested the helper script myself, but would like at least one other user to test it to ensure I have not hardwired something into the script that means it works for me, but not for anyone else. Instructions for using the helper script are found at helper script instructions. For the cautious, the script is located at User:Dnessett/Template/Bref/Clean Back Links.js. It is pretty simple and a moderately experienced javascript programmer should see it is not harmful. The easiest way to determine that the helper script is working is to go to the Bref examples page and render one of the footnote or reference pages. Good candidates are the references pages for Example 1 and Example 4. If the helper script is working properly, no back links should appear at the beginning of each entry. Dnessett (talk) 18:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Request to Nuke duplicate pages

I created a duplicate subtree of some pages in my namespace and would like an admin to nuke the old version. The reason I didn't move the subtree is I needed to edit most of the pages to conform to their new location. So, I copied them from my personal wiki after the modifications. I know I can put a quick delete template on all of the old pages, but there are approximately 30 and that would take a lot of time. The subtree that should be deleted is the one based at Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples. Thanks. Dnessett (talk) 21:20, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Done -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. You missed two (Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples/Example3/Chapter1/Markup Page 2 and Dnessett/Template/Bref/Examples/Example3/Chapter1/Markup Page 3). However, you saved me a great deal of time in deleting the others for which I am grateful. I have placed speedy delete templates on the two remaining pages. Dnessett (talk) 17:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Done What missing pages? :P -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:02, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bfbggon

An account created apparently for the sole purpose of being obnoxious. --Pi zero (talk) 18:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Blocked, indefinitely, for putting explicit pictures on multiple users' pages. -- Adrignola talk contribs 18:31, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] C++ Programming

The C++ Programming page has apparently been fully protected for at least a year now, apparently due to some sort of edit war... I don't really know, or care, about the reasons that it was originally protected, but I imagine that the original conflict has been either resolved or forgotten by now. Isn't it time to remove protection from the page?Ohms law (talk) 21:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

There are three different tables of contents for the book. It's something, isn't it? Unprotecting would be the easy part. Choosing a table of contents, apparently, was and is the hard part. From the number of C++ books, people just took their balls and went home, so to speak, instead of contributing to the C++ Programming book. -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:47, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry but you are new to the problem. The existence of multiple tocs aren't an issue. For correctness lets clearly state that there was no edit war, the issue was already readdressed many times but I'm always willing to explain one more time...
The edit conflict that generated the "issue" was a result of (an admin) unilaterally and against stated opposition, proceeded to unprotect the original toc moving it into toc1 and replacing the frontpage with what is presently there. This actions have been requested to be reverted at the time and several times since then...
As a last attempt to resolve the issue and because several Wikibookias requested action. I, using the normal process of discussion (clearly publicized to the interested book community and previous active actors on the dispute) obtained a status of nonblocking to the requested reversal (still pending as valid) that all previous admins refused to act upon (as they are allowed to do). More information for both of you is available on the talk page of the project there is a log of the book history and previous discussions on the subject can be examined on VFD and the Administrative Assistance archive... --Panic (talk) 02:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
A show of consensus is needed to resolve the problem with the book's main page. Unfortunately I think its likely the page will remain forever protected because some people just aren't able to move on and won't accept putting it to a vote to decide its future. --darklama 12:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] report vandalism

Lets not forget

Well, they've all been blocked by myself or SB Johnny. I've escalated this and two of our CheckUsers, SB Johnny and Mike.lifeguard, will be looking into whether an IP range block will be feasible. -- Adrignola talk contribs 14:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks relatively safe to block... there are some other accounts with no edits, and a medicinal product spammer that's probably unrelated. Keep an eye on Category:Requests for unblock just in case, please. --SB_Johnny talk 15:50, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I've also added the offending image that was being posted to MediaWiki:Bad image list, so it won't be displayed as a picture (only a link) if this ever becomes a problem again. -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:05, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
He was actually using a number of different ones across wikis... better to go after the vandal than the images in this case. --SB_Johnny talk 17:57, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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