Wikibooks:Requests for import/Archive 2

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Contents 1 Simple imports 1.1 January 2008 1.2 February 2008 1.3 March 2008 1.3.1 Inorganic Chemistry 1.4 April 2008 1.5 May 2008 1.6 June 2008 1.7 July 2008 1.8 October 2008 1.9 November 2008 1.10 December 2008 2 Import and merge

[edit] Simple imports

[edit] January 2008

• w:Holden Astra
• w:Volkswagen Golf
• w:Volkswagen Jetta

For my used car buying book. --Solumeiras (talk) 19:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

The first one is Done here. The other two failed because of too many revisions probably. I'll see if anyone else has any luck with them. Mattb112885 (talk to me) 18:47, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

No luck; Here and here with {{Import failed}} on the talk page.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:11, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Cuisine of Aghanistan (Wikibooks already has a page for Cuisine of Aghanistan but there isn't any information on it.)

  Not done - That page doesn't exist.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 00:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

  Failed - I added an 'f' to "Afghanistan" and found the page, but the import still failed. I guess there are too many revisions for the import tool to handle. --Jomegat (talk) 04:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

  Here  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

How did you do that Mike? --Jomegat (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] February 2008

w:Denmark I want to edit it to put in Wikijunior for Europe. Thoughts? Laleena (talk) 02:00, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Doneish. Able to import 1 revision here. I learned some things about this import, and i'll make a note about it at WB:AN. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 02:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• w:Introduction to metrics, norms and inner products. As a result of a deletion discussion (here), the view was that the content should be moved to Wikibooks. Once the import is (or is not) carried out, please let me know via my Wikipedia talk page so I can delete the original. Thanks. Proto (talk) 11:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Done – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 13:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• w:Mediation Preparation. Can someone import this how-to? Thanks. Carlosguitar (talk) 03:05, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Done You can get it here. --Jomegat (talk) 03:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• w:Plate tectonics

For use here. Thanks, Laleena (talk) 01:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Done, but not all the versions would come over. You can see it here. --Jomegat (talk) 01:51, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

• w:Iranian Revolution

For use in the Iranian History textbook. Thanks, Laleena (talk) 15:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Done sort of. I got the text to come over, but only the most recent revision. You can get it at the expected place. --Jomegat (talk) 19:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

• w:Frobenius solution to the Hypergeometric Equation

A method which is better on Wikibooks. Carlosguitar (talk) 00:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Done You can find it here. --Jomegat (talk) 01:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

• w:Volcano

For use in the Volcanoes wikibook. Thanks, Laleena (talk) 13:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Done kind of. I managed to get the article to come over, but not the history. THe article is here. --Jomegat (talk) 15:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

• w:Template:Step - For navigating through the book in a linear fashion. Ross Uber - Talk - Contributions - 21:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Done: Template:Step  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
• w:Template:Navbox - For navigating through a book in a total table-of-contents fashion. Ross Uber - Talk - Contributions - 21:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Not done: Already exists at Template:Navbox.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inorganic Chemistry

I have a rather long list of requests for importing from wikipedia, but then, Inorganic Chemistry happens to be a lot of factual matter.

• w:Molecular_orbital_theory → Transwiki:Molecular orbital theory
• w:Molecular_orbital_diagram → Transwiki:MO diagram
• w:Lewis_structure → Transwiki:Lewis structure
• w:Orbital_hybridization → Transwiki:Orbital hybridisation
• w:VSEPR_theory → Transwiki:VSEPR theory

These articles serve primarily encyclopaedic content but can serve as a starting point for the Inorganic Chemistry - Chemical Bonding module.

Thanks--Thewinster (talk) 19:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Done – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 20:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that not all images are not locally avaiable, like the portait of G N Lewis on the Inorganic Chemistry/Chemical Bonding/Lewis Dot Structures Is this some flaw or was intentionally done? Am i allowed to create copies of the images on wikipedia on wikibooks as well? --Thewinster (talk) 19:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Those would be images that were uploaded to Wikipedia rather than to the Commons. You can copy them from Wikipedia to the Commons yourself if you like. Basically, you'll need to find the full resolution image on Wikipedia and save it to your local PC. Then log into the Commons and click the upload link. You will be presented with a set of choices, one of which is "It is from another Wikimedia project" - that's the one you'll want. That will take you to a page with a form. At the top of the page will be a link to "the CommonsHelper tool" which is very useful for capturing info about the picture. I'm sure you can figure the rest out by reading the prompts, but if you run into trouble, please ask. There's prolly a page about this process somewhere. Hope that helped. --Jomegat (talk) 21:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I could have figured out a lot of it myself once i was told those images were not on commons. But the whole reply was bubbling with enthusiasm! :D Thanks for the "from other wikiedia project" bit! --Thewinster (talk) 16:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

• w:Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) has a lot of recipe-ish content. Random832 (talk) 00:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

  Here – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 02:57, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• Could we import to Wikijunior:Famous Inventors/Early Inventors/Galileo this entry fromw:Galileo_Galilei? I want to try out the import before I try it with my students' modules. Did I get this request right? --Jsigler (talk) 18:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

  Here (only 1 revision) & a note on your talk page.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 21:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for this big request. Would you please import over to a transwiki the following Wikipedia articles on inventors for our [[Wikijunior:Famous Inventors|Famous Inventors] wikijunior book? w:Alexander_Graham_Bell w:Samuel_F._B._Morse w:Guglielmo_Marconi w:Henry_Ford w:Wright_brothers w:George_Washington_Carver w:Cyrus_McCormick w:Thomas_Edison w:Benjamin_Franklin w:George_Westinghousew:Marie_Curie--Jsigler (talk) 03:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem! Only one revision for each :( Located at:

• Transwiki:Alexander_Graham_Bell
• Transwiki:Samuel_F._B._Morse
• Transwiki:Guglielmo_Marconi
• Transwiki:Henry_Ford
• Transwiki:Wright_brothers
• Transwiki:George_Washington_Carver
• Transwiki:Cyrus_McCormick
• Transwiki:Thomas_Edison
• Transwiki:Benjamin_Franklin
• Transwiki:George_Westinghouse
• Transwiki:Marie_Curie

 – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

• w:Algebraic chess notation SunCreator (talk) 19:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
• Done - I got both, but Transwiki:Algebraic chess notation had too many edits, so not all the history came with it. Transwiki:Chess opening theory table came across with all its history though. --Jomegat (talk) 19:15, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 2008

• w:mKR (programming language) (start mKR book) Rhmccullough (talk) 10:33, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think this should be imported to Wikibooks. Some of the reasons for suggesting its deletion on Wikipedia apply here as well. This seems to be original research, which means there probably isn't going to be a realistic way to independently verify what is being written isn't just being made up. I think this would be more appropriate for Wikiversity which does allow original research. --darklama 12:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

It seems that a wikibook on this topic would be some sort of a manual. Question Writer 3 Manual may be a precedence. A number of wikibooks require some leniency on the original research clause.

The noteriety issue may be a tougher sticking point. I'd be willing to overlook that if there was the chance that it might develop into a good wikibook. There isn't much on that Wikipedia page; how about dropping the import request, being bold and just starting the book? --Swift (talk) 16:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Question Writer 3 is a software program that has plenty of existing material available that I can find by a Google search, so I don't see the precedence there. My concern is that there appears to be little if any material that documents the mKR programming language that could be used to determine if a book written on Wikibooks about it is factually accurate, complete garbage or being invented as the person goes. It is in that sense that it is original research because it cannot be verified either way. I don't think it meets Wikibooks' inclusion requirements, but it does Wikiversity's. Other books that have had similar problems have been deleted as well. --darklama 16:56, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Good points. I chose to point to Question Writer 3 since I stumbled across User:Hskeet's comment on Whiteknight's talk page where he explanes that he had "been commissioned to write the manual by the owners/developers of the software". It seems that the principle author of that Wikipedia article is also the software author. In a sense that would be a pretty solid proof of validity, but naturally, that would not guarantee future edits.

I'd like to see wikibooks embrace manuals like these, but not without ensuring verifiability. --Swift (talk) 17:28, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] July 2008

• w:Philadelphia slang (Reasonably well-sourced slang terms. Not appropriate for wp.) Mdsummermsw (talk) 14:12, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I fail to see how this is appropriate for wikibooks either. Wikibooks is also not a dictionary. This page does not have the makings of a textbook.

[edit] October 2008

• w:Waterzooi Recipe for Cookbook Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Done You can find it at Transwiki:Waterzooi. --Jomegat (talk) 17:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Note for Jonathan Oldenbuck - now fully cleaned up and moved here Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 11:15, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

• w:Sailing (The article has outgrown usual encyclopedia size. There's a lot of good stuff to serve as the basis for a book.) 216.31.225.194 (talk) 23:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

  I had a look and couldn't see much in the way of sailing instruction. There were several references to useful terms, but no really actionable information which will help you learn to sail (better). --Swift (talk) 01:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

  There's a lot of articles where the discussion says "this article is too long" relating to sailing, of which this is one. My thought was to gather several of these together and dewikipedia-ize them into a book. I had in mind a larger scope than this one article covers, combining several related articles into a coherent document, but, not being entirely sure I know what I'm doing, thought it would be best to start with a single article. Wcoole (talk) 00:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

  Done. I couldn't get the article history though, as there have been too many revisions. (Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't). You can find the imported article here. --Jomegat (talk) 01:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] November 2008

• w:Corned_beef_pie (Move the recipe in the article to cookbook.) Glane23 (talk) 15:03, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

  Done — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Note for Glan23 - now fully cleaned up and moved here Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 11:15, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

• w:X-SAMPA (For use in modified form in Conlang book.) Pi zero (talk) 16:09, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

  Transwiki:X-SAMPA — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 17:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

• w:Wooden reed care seems to belong here more than there. LtPowers (talk) 18:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

  here - can probably be useful in a bunch of different books.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 18:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] December 2008

• w:Methi na Gota (This seems like it would belong in the Wikibooks cookbook, rather than on Wikipedia.) Madkayaker (talk) 17:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC) It turns out the article was in violation of copyright, per WP:CSD G12, so I am removing my request for import. Madkayaker (talk) 18:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

• w:Rule_Mining_Best_Practices (seems to belong here more than there.) Fairguy21 (talk) 16:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

here   --Jomegat (talk) 18:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Note for Fairguy21 - now fully cleaned up and moved here Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 11:15, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

• w:Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstancesand accompanying template required for the page to look right w:Template:Tenn voting example. may need NPOV and factual cleanup.--216.118.68.193 (talk) 16:20, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

  Done Now avaialable at Transwiki:Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances. I didn't tranwiki the template, but rather subst-ed it before the import. --Swift (talk) 04:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Import and merge

Use this section for imports that need to be "history-merged" with a module that has already been started using copy-paste.

• A Wikimanual of Gardening/Cephalotus: Pardon me, I should have requested this be moved from Cephalotus. Can the history of the page be merged with the cut/paste and cleanup I did here?. Cheers, Cygnis insignis (talk) 02:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Done  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 03:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Can we try an import and Merge of histories for Wikijunior:Famous_Inventors/Inventors_in_Communication/Nikola_Tesla_(Radio) from w:Nikola_Tesla.

Import failed, so I just put a template on the talk page and a note in the history.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)