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Minesweeper

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LaTeX/Internationalisation

"Internationalisation" is the British spelling for "internationalization". Redirects are cheap, so not sure how this classifies as broken or unnecessary when it can be potentially useful. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 09:35, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

@MarcGarver: Given you deleted this, any thoughts? SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 09:46, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

We don't have redirects, as a rule, that are simply to support different spellings. But I don't really care about this one - so if they want it back, they can have it. MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 09:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Done —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:15, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

City Of Heroes

A book that was deleted when strategy guides were not allowed. See discussion - 17:13, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

This book was deleted about 16 years ago and only one page had a significant amount of content. It could all be undeleted but would probably be better re-made from scratch.--Xania ^talk 01:34, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Undeleted it with many first-level subpages. Yet City Of Heroes/Archetypes, City Of Heroes/Powers, City Of Heroes/General Help, City Of Heroes/Enhancements, City Of Heroes/Binds and City Of Heroes/Badges have even more subpages to be undeleted.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 22:50, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Undeleted many subpages of the above subpages, less obviously useless versions. Yet any administrators are hereby advised to check Special:Undelete for more to be undeleted.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 21:52, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Remaking this content from scratch might be difficult - the game shut down in 2012. There's a small community of users running private servers based on leaked source code (!), but far fewer than when the game was active. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 07:55, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

How to Survive in Minecraft

A book that was deleted back when strategy guided for video games were not allowed. You can see the discussion here. -🇺🇦Слава🇺🇦Україні🇺🇦Героям🇺🇦Слава🇺🇦(talk)🇺🇦 17:15, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Support --Xania ^talk 01:38, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Mass undeletion of books that were deleted when strategy guides were not allowed.

Couldn't we just mass undelete these books? Garfieldcat1978 (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC) Letting bot archive as needed.

Listing which works would be much better.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 22:51, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Deletion

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Developing A Universal Religion

Transwiki to Wikisource. This book by User:David Hockey survived VfD in 2005 (Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Developing A Universal Religion) but it should not have. Another VfD is from 2006: Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Purpose, for what was part 3 of the book. The book was originally uploaded as four separate parts, located at Thinking And Moral Problems, Religions And Their Source, Purpose, and Developing A Universal Religion.

The book contains multiple inaccurate claims and its title makes it unsuitable for Wikibooks. Material in Wikibooks should strive to be factually accurate and neutral, which this book cannot be. Since this book by David Hockey was previously published, and there is a pdf to check the text against (File:Developing a Universal Religion Parts 1-2-3 & 4.pdf), it can be hosted on Wikisource.

The book presents a philosophy of the purpose of life and ethics, not a religion. The book does not involve God or gods except that it portrays evolution and the life on the Earth as a quasi-god for being alleged potentially omnipotent and by its occasional capitalization of "life" as "Life". It is not true that any philosophy of purpose of life is a religion and the book does nothing to distinguish itself from philosophy as a religion.

The book's key tenet is that we should adopt as a surrogate purpose of life to "support life’s continual evolution and focus upon helping it to achieve an omnipotent ability". There is nothing factually neutral about this idea; it is one person's philosophical position. And it is not just a minor part of the book that can be edited away; it comes in part 3 and is built upon in part 4. This follows from Developing A Universal Religion/Looking For A Purpose/What Purpose Can We Use?: "Given that there is no detectable purpose pre-designed into life or the universe, then, if we must have one, we must adopt a surrogate. To my mind, the only viable option is to support life’s continual evolution and focus upon helping it to achieve an omnipotent ability. Such a purpose is universal and rational; it is a purpose that will last as long as life itself lasts. It accommodates the whole of life, and shows that we care about more than just our own well-being. It declares that we value life for its own sake and think little about the death that must follow, taking it simply as the price to be paid for living."

The book contains multiple dubious claims about life's omnipotent potential. There is nothing factual about it: not only can life not become omnipotent but it cannot become nearly omnipotent either. To begin with, given our current knowledge, there is no chance life could ever inhabit planet Pluto and the book does not support this idea in any way; and there is no way life can spread from the Earth to the Earth's nearest star given our knowledge. One can find multiple such claims and I will quote just one: "This omnipotent consequence of evolution is just that—a consequence." It is trivial to come up with capabilities that life including humankind may never achieve; one needs just a little bit of imagination. The argument that our ancestors could not have imagined our present capabilities has very little force to support the idea of future near omnipotence. It is obvious but you can read more at Quora: Is evolution omnipotent?.

The book examines some of the ethical consequences of its proposed ultimate purpose, e.g. in Developing A Universal Religion/Determining Moral Behaviours/Killing. Its examination in unconvincing. For instance, it says "The rationale for stating that it would be wrong to kill an individual is easy to state: any individual’s actions may contribute to the objective of supporting Life’s continued evolution, thus each life is valuable and should be preserved", but it is not obvious that each and every human including those severely disabled can contribute to Life's continuing evolution, so it does not follow that each human life should be preserved. Those following the stated purpose could decide to exterminate a technologically weak nation and take its resources and there is nothing obvious in the stated purpose to prevent them from doing so; the author does not seem to realize that.

As for the previous VfD:

• As for the book being "well written": It may be fairly well written from a stylistic perspective, having been created by a single author outside of Wikibooks and published, but it is not well and plausibly reasoned as shown above.
• As for "Looks like a real book to me": It surely is a real book, which alone does not make it includable in Wikibooks.
• As for "There are formal footnotes and references to other sources that have at least some academic credibility." Footnotes and references do not save the book from being non-factual and non-neutral, and the whole of the text is nowhere close to being referenced using Wikipedia's referencing standard. The few references scattered throughout the book do not save the book content from criticism.
• As for "This is a philosophy book, and that can be tricky to work with, I know.": Most philosophical books ever published do not fit Wikibooks since they are not neutral and their factual accuracy can be disputed. Philosophical surveys can be made to fit, though, mostly in the form of "some authors argue that X, other authors argue that Y".

The stated problems with the book cannot be addressed by collaborative editing, starting with the observation that it is not about religion and that it depends on a posited purpose that is not neutral. It should not stay in Wikibooks. Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 07:55, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Make it rain wikisource! Wikisource tastes good in pasta. ^L10nM4st3r / _{Roar at me} 22:06, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

I will move it and its subpages via s:Special:Import only one at a time. Please be patient unless someone has any better way.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 04:30, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

@Dan Polansky, L10nM4st3r:Please see s:Wikisource:Administrators'_noticeboard#Mass_import_from_Wikibooks with an objection that the book might not be acceptable there. I am not exporting yet.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 19:47, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Delete, but if the PDF is under a compatible licence, which I presume it should be if the import was done correctly, consider moving the original PDF to Wikimedia Commons? Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 01:39, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Plain text PDFs are generally out of scope on Commons unless they are source documents, which this is not. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 00:51, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Since Wikisource does not want the book due to being self-published (which it does seem to be), I am happy to keep it in Wikibooks. However, the book should probably start with a heavy disclaimer to the effect that the book contains original research, may be inaccurate or may reflect the point of view of a particular philosopher not accepted by mainstream philosophy. As incorrect as it seems to be, the book seems interesting enough. The book could be assigned in a philosophy course: "Read Developing A Universal Religion from Wikibooks a identify defects in its arguments"; or the like; a professional educator would probably be able to create a better formulation for an assignment, including perhaps "determine the kind of -isms the book falls under" or "identify authors developing similar themes" (which is more challenging since one needs to know the literature). The book is not much worse than a lot of bad material that passes as "philosophy" is some countries. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 10:18, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Delete This seems to be very much outside the scope of Wikibooks per "Wikibooks is an instructional resource". Also seems to contain a lot of original research. If its to be transwiki-ed, then Wikiversity seems a better project for it. Thenub314 (talk) 18:24, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Waiting for v:Wikiversity:Import#New_requests_for_import to reply.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 21:34, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I'm a Wikibooks reviewer and Wikiversity curator. Technically I can handle this request but I decided not to do that for now (v:special:diff/2548035). As I pointed out at v:WV:I, I'm not sure if others have agreed with that suggestion. This is just a curator decision, so other custodians or curators may override my decision, but once there is clear consensus about moving to Wikiversity, then that will make things easier. I hope this can help you. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 05:45, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Zoph

It is outdated and no longer updated, documentation is now kept in the git repo. https://gitlab.com/jeroenrnl/zoph/-/tree/master/docs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeroenr (talk • contribs) 23:52, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

• Keep but update it or leave a notice saying it’s not updated and change the title to reflect that. -🇺🇦Слава🇺🇦Україні🇺🇦Героям🇺🇦Слава🇺🇦(talk)🇺🇦 10:32, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

  Done. Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 00:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

  @Mbrickn:, it would be best to also change the title of the book to be clear that it’s a historic guide. -Slava Ukrajini Heroyam Slava (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

  "How about something like "An outdated guide to Zoph"? No idea what zoph is though. ^{— L10nM4st3r} / _{ROAR at me!} 12:20, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

The Computer Revolution/Computers and Environment/Nanotechnology

Consists of excerpts from third parties. Those from New Scientist, do not appear to be under a compatible licence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbrickn (talk • contribs) 07:33, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's enough of a violation for deletion? Based on a copyvio comparison, the text seems mostly paraphrased. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 19:44, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Dynamical Systems

This seems to be abandoned book, the only content is largly vacuous. I don't believe it is likely to be extended or worked on because it is both a technical topic, and represents to original author's goals for such a book (graduate level vs undergraduate). Thenub314 (talk) 20:46, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

It does seem abandoned; the single existing page hasn't been updated since 2018 and the main book page hasn't been updated since 2019. Unless someone quickly decides to pick up on it, I can't really see it staying here at Wikibooks :/ —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 13:35, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello there,

currently I'm working over at the German page, because I have begun to work with a new, more intuitive terminology. My current plan is to first finish the German version and then possibly to translate it. To finish the German version will take at least until the end of this year. Until then, you shouldn't expect any progress. Afterwards, I may feel inclined to pick up the project, depending on my human rights situation. --Mathmensch (discuss • contribs) 09:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Solitaire card games/Gay Gordons

Is this game real or not? Garfieldcat1978 (discuss • contribs) 19:24, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

I based it on Gay_Gordons_ on Wikipedia, which is sourced. Champion (discuss • contribs) 09:23, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

• Delete has been practically abandoned since Nov 11, 2015. --SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:22, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
  • Same goes for a lot of the pages in that book and that does not seem to be a valid reason for deletion. Champion (discuss • contribs) 09:20, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

  Is the page incomplete per the scope of the book? If it is incomplete/lacking substantial content and abandoned, then I could see it qualifying for deletion per Wikibooks:Deletion policy#Meaningful content. If it's not incomplete, then I don't think it has to be recently-updated to be kept. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 17:57, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep Seems OK. Could be better.--Xania ^talk 03:28, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Chess Opening Theory/1. e4/1...e5/2. Nf3/2...Nc6/3. Ba6

This is a hoax created by an IP; David Okike never played this. Endwise (discuss • contribs) 11:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Delete Nonsensical position, no evidence; only mentioned in a Reddit post discussing its existence as alleged by this article and subsequently imported to Lichess (!). 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:48, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Files from Illustrated Guide to the world of Spira (FFX and FFX-2)

Used for decorative, not educational, purposes: File:Float 13.jpg, File:Grabbed Frame 15.jpg, File:Gandof.jpg, File:Ohalland.jpg, File:Braskascan1.jpg, File:Tidus FFX.png (WB:NFCC#8). — Ирука¹³ 13:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Sure, I think I can agree on the removal of these 2005-Fan (discuss • contribs) 12:24, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Chess/Santa Claus Opening

Fictional title, attributed directly to a single "Chess.com user" with no further evidence. All relevant information is already contained in Chess Opening Theory/1. e4/1...e5/2. b3 (which is also located within the appropriate book). 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:56, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Chess/Fedida Gambit

Created (and added to related pages) by Special:Contributions/Samuel Fedida as original research with no secondary sourcing, not attested in databases. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 17:02, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Chess Opening Theory/1. d4/1...a5

No information provided, more than unusual with e.g. just 20 games attested at https://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m=3&n=1128&ms=d4.a5. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 17:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Chess Opening Theory/1. e4/1...e5/2. Na3

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Jumarkese

Language constructed by the creator of the book (see also Talk:Jumarkese) and not attested anywhere else; delete as original research and per precedent (e.g., Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Socialese, Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Phaehrae, Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Neo, Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Esper). 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 16:00, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I agree that this is precedented and the book has no place here. Is there any argument for moving it to another wiki project before it gets deleted? —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 18:34, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

If there are no arguments, I will just go ahead and delete it. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 18:14, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Book of the Astronomy

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