User:Dan Polansky

Dan Polansky is a user of Wikibooks, and a contributor to Wiktionary.

Babel
cs-N Tomuto uživateli je čeština mateřským jazykem.
en-3 This user can read and write fluently in English.
de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.
sk-1 Tento redaktor má základné znalosti slovenčiny.
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Admins

See also Wikibooks:Administrators

• User:Mike.lifeguard
• User:Whiteknight (his blog on Wikibooks)

Books

• General
  • Rhetoric and Composition - Featured and great. Recent changes
  • Shaving
  • Consciousness Studies
  • Managing Groups and Teams
• Computing
  • How To Search/Google
  • Java Programming
  • CSS - Recent changes
  • JavaScript - Recent changes
  • Inkscape - A stub. Recent changes
  • LaTeX - Is featured. Recent changes
  • HyperText Markup Language - Recent changes
  • MediaWiki User Guide - Recent changes
  • Regular Expressions
  • GIMP - Recent changes
• Psychology
  • Consciousness Studies
  • Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Bookshelf

• Wikibooks:Bookshelves
• Wikibooks:Departments
• Wikibooks:Subject pages
• Bookshelves are deprecated, says my talk page.

Capitalization

Capitalization of sections: no policy. See also Wikibooks:Reading room/Assistance#Capitalization_of_sections.

Capitalization of sections in featured books

Featured book	Capitalization of sections	Note
Rhetoric and Composition	title case
Special Relativity	sentence case
Lucid Dreaming	mixed, mostly sentence case
Guitar	title case
C_Sharp_Programming	mixed, mostly sentence case
Anatomy and Physiology of Animals	title case
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine	title case

Category

• Each book chapter should be placed into a category sharing the name with the book. {{chapter navigation}} does it automatically. Alternative: {{BookCat}}.

Deletion

• Wikibooks:Votes for deletion
• Wikibooks:Deletion policy
• {{vfd}} – vote for deletion.
• {{delete|justification for speedy deletion}} – request for speedy deletion

Featured books

Featured books:

• Wikibooks:Featured books
• Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations
• Wikibooks:Featured books/Templates - contains lists of featured books
• Category:Featured books

Formatting

Table formatting

Formatting	Note
class: prettytable
class: wikitable	Looks just like prettytable. Looks differently from wikipedia.
{{prettytable}}	Looks just like the two above.

Icons

• {{done}} - Done
• Person's position:

{{subst:icon|info}}

{{subst:icon|keep}}

{{subst:icon|delete}}

{{subst:icon|merge}}

{{subst:icon|transwiki}}

{{subst:icon|redirect}}

{{subst:icon|comment}}

Inclusion

Inclusion criteria, on original research: WB:WIW.

Index

• JavaScript/Index
• LaTeX/Index
• {{CompactTOC}}

Links

• Wikibooks:Welcome
• WB:PAG -- policies
• Category:Wikibooks policies
• Wikibooks:Bookshelves
• Wikibooks:Naming policy
• Using Wikibooks
• /monobook.css

Moving

• To move a whole book: TODO.

Navigation

• {{prognav}}
• {{chapter navigation}} - used by Rhetoric and Composition
• Category:Navigational templates

Notes

• TOC
  • Some on the main page - LaTeX
  • Some in a dedicated chapter, to which the main book page redirects.
    • JavaScript/Contents
    • Principles of Economics/Contents
• TOC title
  • "Contents" - preferred per WB:MOS
  • ""Table of contents"
• Contributors
  • Where to put them?
  • None - LaTeX, and some other featured books.
  • Javascript/Appendices/List of Contributors

Policies

Policy	Description	Note
WB:PAG	Guide to the policies and guidelines that are generally accepted and considered important — even essential — by the project's founders and community.
WB:MOS - Manual of Style	Titling Structure Title pages Main pages Print versions Internal Linking Headers Content layout Mathematics HTML guidelines Display guidelines Footnotes and references
Category:Wikibooks policies	Category of policies
Wikibooks:Bookshelves	On how to manage bookshelves.	Rather rudimentary.
Wikibooks:Naming policy	How to name books and chapters, using "/". Seems to use title case.	Naming of sections seems to be missing.
Using_Wikibooks/The_Wikibooks_Writer	Guide

Print version

• {{Print version}}
• {{Print entry}}
• Case: HyperText_Markup_Language/Print_version
• <!--__NOTOC__-->__NOEDITSECTION__

Rooms

• Wikibooks:Reading_room
• Wikibooks:Reading_room/Assistance
• Wikibooks:Votes for deletion

Rules

• Book chapters have no categories, only the books; they have the one category named exactly same as the book.
• Do not create two-paragraph stubs or placeholders of books. If you want to create a book, do it in a greater scope to get it started. A link to a policy is missing.

Templates

Templates:

• {{tlx}}
• {{delete}} - Speedy deletion.
• {{vfd}} - Request for deletion.
• {{Todo}}
• {{dynamic navigation}}
• {{Sample|sampletext|caption eq}}
• {{Print version}}
• {{PDF version}}
• {{bi}} - book with infobox
• {{rc}} - recent changes
• {{mbox}} - for building message templates
• {{Warning}}
• {{Print entry}}
• {{Subpages link}}