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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.

You can deal with most vandalism yourself: fix it, then warn the user. If there is repeated vandalism by one user, lots of vandalism on a single page, or vandalism from many users, tell an admin here, or in #wikibooks (say !admin to get attention).

For more general questions and assistance that doesn't require an administrator, please use the Assistance Reading Room.

Special:Contributions/AxGBot2

Please check the username, they have "bot" but this is not a bot account. Also, please take care of their page creations. MathXplore (discusscontribs) 05:00, 26 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Please revdel and delete username

https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page/test&diff=prev&oldid=4445183 Spam. —Justin (koavf)TCM 12:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done thank you! —Kittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 13:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

World Of Color Grad Nite May 12, 2023-Present

I think this page is out of scope, but IPs are removing the SD tag. Please have a look at this page. MathXplore (discusscontribs) 03:02, 17 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done thank you! —Kittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 03:25, 17 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8700:2D04:B074:733A:A2D8:319F

This IP has repeatedly recreated WICKED over and over again, which is not allowed. Can admins block this IP? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 20:11, 22 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8700:2D04:EC8F:77C8:994C:3CDA keeps creating these same pages. Can admins block the /64 range? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 06:41, 23 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Four days later, this Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8700:2D04::/64 range keeps creating out of scope pages. Can admins quickly block this range? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 06:54, 27 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
This /64 range keeps creating List Of Movies And Specials FX. Can @Kittycataclysm and @SHB2000 block the Special:Contributions/2603:8001:8700:2D04::/64 range? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 16:11, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
The /48 is now blocked. There is a pattern of nonsense over months across the whole range, with no good edits (and no genuine accounts on the range - CU confirmed). MarcGarver (discusscontribs) 19:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, Marc! --SHB2000 (discusscontribs) 20:08, 28 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

1 year+ backlog on Wikibooks:Requests for import

On RFI, there is a request that has not been fully completed, despite having been made in March 2023. Additionally, there are several other requests from months ago where the page content has been cut-and-pasted, but the revisions were not imported, contra the requests for "import and merge." Additionally, there is a simple import request that I made recently. JJPMaster (she/they) 00:55, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Unprotect Template:=

This template is currently now unused since it is now a magic word in MediaWiki. Can admins unprotect this template? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 09:26, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand—why does it need to be unprotected if it's unused? —Kittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 19:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
It is no longer a high risk template. MW has already made {{=}} a magic word, so this template is now unused as it is replaced by this magic word. English Wikipedia had already unprotected w:Template:= because of this. Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 21:20, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
My question is why don't we just get rid of it? If it's already been replaced by a magic word, is there any reason we need to keep it at all? Are you hoping to make edits to the template? I'm just confused about why you want it to be kept but unprotected. —Kittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 21:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Two reasons:
  1. Historical reference
  2. So that a message like "Error: The retired template {{=}} has been transcluded; see mw:Help:Magic words#Other for details. To fix this, use only the code {{=}} to generate the = character." could be displayed if someone tried to use it instead of the magic word.
JJPMaster (she/they) 22:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Kittycataclysm I think Template:! should also be unprotected for these reasons above. Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 07:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done both – I think we would need to discuss this thoroughly before deleting this, but I cannot see the harm in keeping it for historical purposes. --SHB2000 (discusscontribs) 12:02, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Requested move of Category:Users who are bots

That category should be at Category:Wikibooks bots instead, for consistency with c:Category:Commons bots, c:Category:All Wikipedia bots, etc. JJPMaster (she/they) 01:40, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@JJPMaster I have no issue with this move and am happy to do it. If we adopted this move, would you be willing to recategorize all the users with the new category? —Kittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 13:29, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Kittycataclysm: Yes, I can just edit {{bot}} to change the category it uses, and use AWB to take care of the rest. JJPMaster (she/they) 13:41, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sounds fine. Leaderboard (discusscontribs) 14:44, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  DoneKittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 19:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Fixed. Although, I did have to precede the normal edits with mass null edits to update the category they were listed under, and that marked the first time I've ever been rate-limited. JJPMaster (she/they) 20:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protect Template:Color

This template should be semi-protected as it is used in a large number of pages, specifically 1,350 pages, so it is a high-risk template. Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 07:17, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done --SHB2000 (discusscontribs) 11:59, 9 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Special:Contributions/2A02:A311:BC:2E00:9916:E3C8:70C9:6CDD

This IP has repeatedly created inappropriate pageS. Can admins block this IP? Xeverything11 (discusscontribs) 21:47, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

  DoneKittycataclysm (discusscontribs) 23:33, 10 December 2024 (UTC)Reply