Wikibooks talk:Policies and guidelines/Vote

Fictional works should be excluded

• "if it's a book which gets a Dewey code, it's non-fiction."
• "any book you might expect to find in the non-fiction section of your local library or bookshop is acceptable"

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A topic that wouldn't be taught as a serious class should be excluded

• "If ... you can take a class in the topic as a student, then it's an instructional guide. ... "How to repair your car" would count. "How to play minesweeper like a pro" would not."
• "If any public school, college, or univeristy teaches the subject as a for-credit course, then ... that ... would be a wikibook. That would include how to program video games, but would not include how to play them."
• "The purpose of Wikibooks is to host works which constitute a curriculum of textbooks from Kindergarten through the university level. The cookbook ... qualifies, since such courses are taught."

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Non-books should be excluded

• Books that either have no book-like goal, aim to be a wiki-based community project of some sort, or aim to be more like an encyclopedia should be moved to Wikicities.
• Examples given: Transwiki:Savoir-faire, Business ideas

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"eternal stub" semi-books should be merged

• Wikibooks modules that will never ever come close to the scope and length of a proper book should be merged where possible
• Affected wikibooks: How to try sushi for the first time, How to catch a pickerel, How to find a book, Letter writing, Fiction technique, etc.

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book size modules should be move into own books

• Wikibooks modules which are large enough to be a book of its own should be split off.
• Affected wikibooks: Programming (only those modules which with enough content - the others stay as part of Programming in acordance to the "eternal stub" semi-books should be merged rule)

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