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about deleting MegaUniversity

Hi, I am making wikibook "MegaUniversity" for my university class project, but actually the page is deleted, I do not why?

and in addtion, I mistakenly created 2 URL "MegaUniverstiy" and "Megaunicersity" Is there any way to delet one (the latter one " Megauniversity")totally, it means delet title itself.

Since I have to make the front page "MegaUniversity" for my classmate to bridge their links for creating each chapter, I do not wanna delet the page "MegaUniversity"(the former one). I am very sorry, but I am a totally begginer to do this, would you let me know what I should do for not deleting the content??—The preceding unsigned comment was added by G096016 (talk • contribs) 18:20, January 13, 2008.

I deleted those pages because they were not part of a textbook. I'm going to undelete Megauniversity and Megauniversity/Anadolu University for you. Please make sure that this is a textbook; we do not accept macropedias. I will be watching the development of these pages; as you develop them, if it is clear that they don't fit within project scope, then I will delete them again, per policy. If you have questions about what constitutes a textbook, feel free to ask the community what they think of your book. If I can be of further help, please don't hesitate to ask here.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I understand what you mean, we try to make "book", Thank you for your help.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by G096016 (talk • contribs) 02:13, January 14, 2008.

Myanmar deletion

Where can I find the site I was working on? It was actually work in progress, part of a class on distance education. Please let me know. Thank you.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Arthurwolf (talk • contribs) 09:38, January 14, 2008.

Undeleted: Megauniversity/Myanmar  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 16:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Naming

No real idea what these Megauniversity related pages are really about & AGF for now but surely teh subpages should be named per policy Megauniversity/whatever? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Rename: yes; should be fine now. Undeletion: probably temporary, by the looks of the new content.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Regex filter

Oooh that is so nice. May need to steal that for commons & Meta - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 19:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Abolutely! Another bland but every-wiki-should-have script is the enhanced undelete; feel free to spread that around if wikis don't have it already.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:17, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Also the modified rollback. Upon successful rollback, takes to contribs pages so you can check for more vandalism to revert. Also, if using our User Welcome script, you have a warn tab to warn them while looking at contribs. I love it when scripts work together :)  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

While you were typing I was stealing :) I'll look at the others tomorrow I guess (Meta hasn't got "gadgets" set up yet...). Help is appreciated - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 19:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

PS: Watch that script and others for updates. For this one, I just changed it to appear on Special:Contributions, which can be very handy.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:15, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

+Kudos

here :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 19:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

gadgets

Just to say they are now both on Meta & correctly attributed. Thanks Mike --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Please block this user

The person just vandalized Big Cats in the Wikijunior section. BTW, do you still work on WP? I came from there too. Laleena (talk) 22:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

We don't block on the first "offense" unless it's clearly malicious (this looks like a test edit). If they continue, I'd consider a short block. I'll watch the IP for a bit.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 22:59, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Brito

Hi saw your message on the page I started. Sorry this was a test page to see how the idea of parallel Latin English would work. The idea is a collaborative project to translate a wide range of source material from Latin (or indeed Greek) into English using parallel text, with notes and references to help beginners and also to get more classical texts into the public domain. I have a sneaking suspicion that I came to the wrong place & there is something called Wikisource that I should have used. Let me know. This was just a test anyway. Ockham (talk) 07:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Unless the end result is going to be a textbook (this sounds more like a translation) then either Wikisource or Wiktionary would be my bet. There's no rush to move things elsewhere. You should ask an admin for those projects what they think - whether this would be a good fit there. I'm not well-versed in the intricacies of other projects' inclusion policies, so I can't help out too much. Happy editing.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 17:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes Wikisource is the right place, and I have set up shop there. The experiments I set up should really be deleted. Ockham (talk) 08:18, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll do that later today. 12:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

User

My Apologies for creating User:Celeron i didn't noticed it was considered as a promotion. I hope this username is alright. Terra (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks good. "Intel Celeron" just popped into my head - it was borderline, but you have a new account regardless. If you ever need help with anything, you can always ask here or at WB:HELP where the whole community will see it. Have a good day.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 17:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Axioms page

Sorry, I'm new here. I clicked on Axioms and it said there was no page for it, so I thought I would start one. I was unaware that the page was created in an error. Go ahead and delete it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jmeddy (talk • contribs) 17:40, January 16, 2008.

Well if you want to create that page, that's great. But Wikibooks is for textbooks, and what you've started doesn't look like the beginnings of a textbook. Instead, it looks like either the start of an encyclopedia article or a dictionary definition. If you want to continue writing on this subject, you might want to contribute to Set Theory/Axioms, Algebra/Arithmetic/Numerical Axioms, Topology/Separation Axioms or Data Structures/Tree Axioms for example. Unless you're going to expand that page you created into a textbook, it's going to be deleted in about a week. You're welcome to expand upon it instead, or contribute to pre-existing modules. Happy editing!  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 18:02, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

subst

Hey Mike. Quick question: what does subst: do on templates? I haven't been using it and have this feeling that I should have been. But can't for the life of me find out what it does. Thanks --AdRiley (talk) 07:13, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

subst: will replace the template with the actual wiki markup, instead of doing a call dynamically. This is good for user talk templates in particular because we don't want the message to change later, and we want to reduce server load (which is obviously increased by fetching the template each time a page must be rendered. w:Wikipedia:Substitution for more.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 07:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

My user page

Please quit testing js on my user talk page. It was very annoying to check my talk page for new messages when there wasn't one, and even worse to find you, of all people, testing js on my talk page like you would in the Sandbox. Thank you, Laleena (talk) 00:34, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry. That error has since been corrected, and the script allows users to avoid sending notices when appropriate.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 00:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

'S okay. I don't mind as long as it's corrected. Laleena (talk) 01:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, as someone who might end up getting +patroller [no promises though ;)], you'll probably be interested in this script. It's not done yet; I want to add some additional features before letting people use it. You can see some stuff about it (which has since been removed because it's not ready).  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 01:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

One day

After having my conclusion supported with comments from one admin and non-admin, I went ahead an implemented it.

That's what I was talking about with "one day" since you asked for confirmation and within one day just went and did it. I apologize if you took offense. I know the conversation took more than a day, I was in it too! If someone opposes something I feel it should at the least be responded to like some of the others were. The user role says "Bureaucrat" but it certainly doesn't mean everything he / she does needs to be bureaucratic. I don't feel my point was even addressed. -withinfocus 23:17, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I didn't mean that bureaucrats imply bureaucracy, but rather that people want this to be a quick and easy process for users. Letting admins hand it out and revoke it

1. Ensures that as many eyes as possible will be looking for misuse and/or deliberate abuse and removing the rights; and
2. Ensures that users' requests are handled expediently.

Please don't take this to mean that the crats are slow or inefficient, but rather that there are only what 4 of you, where we have nearly 30 admins, perhaps half of which are regularly active here. It's an effort to keep workload spread out, which is the entire point of this proposal.

As for one day after a consensus check, it was two days, and I didn't expect that the shell request would be filled the same day. Nevertheless, people had already expressed their opinions and voiced concerns; the point of that was not a re-hash, but rather a sanity-check on my part. In essence, I asked "Am I misreading people's comments?" and the answer was "No." Ordinarily I woudn't have bothered with a sanity-check, but this is a rather bigger deal than most things, and it is true that the discussion was long, and convoluted at times; it was entirely possible I missed an objection, or otherwise failed to gauge accurately what people were saying. I don't think I did.

As a final word, just because I've been the primary advocate of this doesn't mean it's my job to reply to everyone's comments. Other people's comments, while not explicitly directed at you, were certainly opposing the idea of having this be a bureaucrat task, and I took that to be sufficient comment on what you brought up.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome to Wikibooks, but I actually already have an account, but it's on the Wikipedia (XarBiogeek). I'm awaiting the implementation of universal login, because it seems rather unnecessary to create separate accounts on each sister project… 24.92.255.104 (talk) 01:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. SUL may be a ways off; for attribution purposes you may want to reconsider. It's up to you.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 01:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Open?

user:124.217.251.166 seems cross wiki & open proxy? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes. already blocked on some projects, on the CVN blacklist and all pages tagged ;) Not all by me, but people are really starting to work together these days.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Err great - but you only blocked it for a week? Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Pending a portscan. It actually looks like that (and one other) are not OPs. Also, s3 has a replag of over a day, so I can't see reliably what they've been doing elsewhere. /me increases to a month, which is about as much as I can justify without more info.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

8080 open I think, cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Volcanoes

I'm reorganizing the book, want to help? You may disagree with the framework I want to expand on, but please tell me if so. My big thing is making it comprehensive enough to satisfy basic knowledge of the volcano, including the VEI scale, which just isn't covered in most books. Thoughts? Laleena (talk) 15:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I took a course on natural disasters last year, including volcanoes. I may indeed help out at some point. I'll take a look at the framework you're laying out, but that's about all I have time for today.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I was just starting the book. It is to begin with a framework and outline of 3 pages as I don't want it to be like what it was before-many pages of a framework for expansion by other users. It will begin with this collection of (probably) stubs and (hopefully) progress into a featured book, although I probably shouldn't hope so high. I will probably copy to the talk page to inform onlookers. Thoughts? Laleena (talk) 19:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge from Volcanism to Volcanoes been done. I also would like it if you started working on some of the pages. Thoughts? Laleena (talk) 22:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm currently doing some bot work cleaning up naming conventions, but I can take a look afterwards.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 22:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Simple English

Hi. You welcomed me over at simple.wikibooks, I decided to say hi to you. I am now going to be over there for a while. Laleena (talk) 15:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Look out for the spambots! Ohhh the spambots...  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 15:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Text editors

Hello ,I am Tejaswy from India,I wrote some articles about maximization of BTX,Now my problem is that I am not able to format it properly as i am new to wiki..and using the sand box is really a problem as we have slow internet speeds..this also deters many of my friends from using wikipedia to contribute.Could you please tell me some kind of software where i can format my articles and paste them ..like some html editors...i am looking up the net for it...nothing seems to do what i want it to do. Yourdeadin (talk) 19:20, 20 January 2008 (UTC)yourdeadin

I just replied.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 19:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I need help ....I do not have the time to remember the codes of wiki....is there some kind of a simple program which automatically format word documents into wiki format..so that i all have to do is copy the wiki code and paste it here?

I just wrote a artical in MS word and the formatting (tabs,tables,bullets) vanishes away as soon as i put it up in wiki...really frustrating...If there is some program that does that ...please let me know.

Yourdeadin (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC) Yourdeadin

I think that OpenOffice.org will export to wiki-markup, though I don't know how accurate it is.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 20:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Social Psychology/Introduction/Sources

I'm not sure what would be appropriate for this; the page Social Psychology/Introduction was tagged as being transwikied without proper attribution, so however that would need to be included into the page is what needs to be included. I meant to create the page in the main namespace rather than talk, but either way, I put it in so I could link it to the page. JeremyMcCracken (talk) 01:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought that's what was going on. I've deleted the page and linked to the WP history with a template on Talk:Social Psychology/Introduction. Thanks for the info.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 01:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured books

If I wanted to, could I close a featured book nomination? I am rather curious on the topic. Huh? Laleena (talk) 00:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

If you think consensus is clear, you can. Just make sure you close the discussion with regard only to the comments made - it's not a vote count, and your opinion doesn't matter any longer - only the strength of the arguments especially in relation to policy matter. I may check afterwards. As well, WK usually takes care of creating the templates if required, so unless you feel up to doing that too, you might leave him a note (if the nom was successful).  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 00:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Block request

Hello, please block me on four days because I'm Wikipediholic, and I want pass to me exam with english in friday. Thanks. Kasia vs my talk 22:18, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Ermm, you only registered an account today:

21:50, January 23, 2008 KatLos (Talk | contribs | block) New user

I'm not going to block you. Have some self-restraint.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 22:20, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm wikipediholic from other wiki-projects, so again:Please block me on two days. Kasia vs my talk 22:27, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

No you're not: [1] [2]. I'm not going to block you; have restraint.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 22:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)