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Scribus[edit]

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Keep . The content is not empty, the original author is still active, and there is a French version which could be translated. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

This book is full of redlinks that will never be completed. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 22:16, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

  1. Wait December 2016‎ is not so far I suppose. The author could be back at the end of the school year. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
  2. Keep: Scribus: Basic concepts contains a recipe and therefore this is a stub that is not absolutely devoid of meaningful content. Policy: Wikibooks:Deletion: "delete pages with no meaningful content". --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 08:43, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Food Safety Guide[edit]

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Delete Stub double of HACCP. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

This book is full of redlinks that will never be completed. |Wikibooks=PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions|#default=PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions}} 22:20, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

  1. Delete too small to be helpful for six months. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:45, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
  2. Keep . There is a subpage, not all red links.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 03:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

LGBT Young Adult Literature/Annie on My Mind[edit]

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Keep . JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

The page was transwikied from w:en:Annie on My Mind and looks almost similar to the Wikipedia article. Nothing has improved much since, despite some edits, to make the page look less like an encyclopedic article. To rephrase my rationale for deletion, this is Wikibooks, not Wikipedia or a collection of encyclopedic articles. I contacted the one who transwikied the page; he said to go ahead and have it deleted. I could have requested speedy deletion, but I saw a few other editors making contributions, like Thereen and Sandbergja. Therefore, I'm requesting deletion here instead. --George Ho (discuss • contribs) 04:28, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

The Wikipedia material can be a part of a book, so it's not purely encyclopedic. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Linter SQL RDBMS[edit]

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Delete . JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

The one-page book has been abandoned eight years ago when its author became inactive, and it's only a bunch of external links.

Science:_An_Elementary_Teacher’s_Guide/Curriculum Materials and Technology[edit]

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Delete . Kind of request by the author. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

This page has little useful information and, as teacher of the class, I do not plan on developing it further. I removed it from our Table of Contents and recommend its deletion. Flattail (discuss • contribs) 02:08, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

English-Hanzi[edit]

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Delete --Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 02:55, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

This book is just a collection of phrases translated into Hanzi. This book should be scrapped and a new one started, and covers topics like food, how is your day, actions, etc. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 01:26, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Examples from English-Hanzi[edit]

Train[edit]

  • English-Hanzi/Train: A train is a vehicle with a series of carriages. It runs on a railway. A train can carry a lot of passengers or cargoes.
This is not a page of copyright violation. --Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 22:01, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
@Efex3: I did not list it here because it is a copy violation. I listed it here to show that it is a collection of sentences. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 16:11, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Trump 'looks forward to visiting China[edit]

For this example, I found this article on the BBC. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 18:46, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
This is wrong. This is from the policy:
Although we do not permit verbatim copies of pre-existing works, we do permit annotated texts, which are a kind of text that includes an original text within it and serves as a guide to reading or studying that text. Annotated editions of previously published source texts may only be written if the source text is compatible with the project's license.
BBC has a non-Creative Commons copyright license. The text is incompatible. Also, even if it were correctly licensed, this is not a guide to reading or studying that text. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 04:02, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
There are guides below the text helps to read and understand.--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 04:22, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
@Efex3: While that may be true, the text is still copyrighted. And also, here is the English guide:
US/ state secretary/ Rex Tillerson/ told/ China/ state chairman/ Xi Jinping, Ronald Trump/ president/ looking forward to/ visiting/ China, to enhance/ between both countries/ 's/ understanding.
Your book has not been verified, as you are using a translator. First of all, it is Donald Trump, not Ronald Trump. A native Hanzi speaker needs to check over the book. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 13:46, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Deleted this one as unverified news that may be out of scope. As a native Hanzi, I will check other unverified news as well. This is not Wikinews.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 06:07, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

More unverified news[edit]

I am listing more unverified news that should be deleted as out of scope:

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jusjih (discuss • contribs)

@Jusjih: News doesn't belong on Wikibooks, regardless of whether it's verified or not. (Nor could the Wikibooks administration afford to take on the burden of verifying news on top of what they do; speaking as a Wikinews reviewer, where we sag under that burden.) --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:03, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Exactly. Does Wikinews accept verified early events to be written as news reports? If yes, I may want to join there as I cannot always catch up today's events, and some old news reports online are gone and accessible either by archive.org or no way. When reviewing the book, many are just simple facts that may likely be kept. Here are even more unverified news to likely delete:
@Pi zero: n:Wikinews:Newsworthiness#New information seems to exclude 8-day-old events, so I will not bother verifying unverified news to move to Wikinews. Am I correct?--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 01:46, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
@Jusjih: You are correct. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Deleted the above 10 pages while too old for Wikinews. Thanks, Pi zero. I will find more to list here.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 06:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

More unverified news:

--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 01:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Discussion of English-Hanzi[edit]

This book is a series of English-Chinese materials for language learning, but not a book of food, how is your day, actions, etc.--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 03:22, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

@Efex3: So is this book a collection of statements? If so, then should there not be another book that teaches individual words and phrases? PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 03:30, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
This book contains a variety of materials used for language learning. It is better to have a method to search for related topics. As you are a software specialist, could you help create a method for searching related topics of this book?--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 04:02, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
What about {{Book search}}? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:16, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete I thought we had an ongoing discussion about deleting this book, in which the primary issue was copyright; a legal issue, not to be dismissed lightly. I find, though, that as part of some bookkeeping tasks that tbh I failed to check as closely as I presumably should have, that discussion was closed — in a nothing-more-to-be-done sort of way — and archived (at Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/English-Hanzi) despite what looks to me like a gradually forming consensus for deletion. It looks as if the most recent votes were by me and User:Dan Polansky, both for deletion. Did I misunderstand how all that ended? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:01, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
The original discussion should not have been closed. On a related note, I'm also not sure why non-admins have been closing RFD's and RFPs anyways as they generally should get reviewed by an admin before that process happens. --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 18:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

You should delete the pages which are copyright violated, but should not to delete the whole book.--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 21:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

This was Efex3's response to copyright concerns in the previous discussion, as well. Dan Polansky's remarks there had already articulated the counterargument before the response. The key phrase in Dan Polansky's remarks was:
While not every page in the category suffers from this problem, it seems to be best to deal with the pages on a summary level, seeing that the approach taken by the author was reckless toward copyright. This should be deleted ASAP.
--Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:00, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
The fact is that some of "copyright violated" examples are not true. Please see the previous discussion here--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 21:58, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
It is only a historical problem even though there is copyright problem in some pages.--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 14:13, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
We should act preemptively in regards to protecting the project from copyright infringement issues but on acting on our own guidance we should also refrain being too aggressive in our policing, and act only on what is a clear infringement resorting to more deep erasures if the copyright owner asks for a pull-down. There are logic reasons to act this way... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 16:42, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
As a new administrator here, I plan to check the content to see which to keep or delete, but not to delete the whole book.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 05:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
Recalling Dan Polansky's remark about "reckless toward copyright", and I'm not convinced the author suddenly knows better (the only example I recall was examined and found to have only made the problem worse), it doesn't seem to me that the Wikibooks adminsitration should be taking on the open-ended task of trying to apply the sort of copyright standards to all this material that the author has not been applying. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 02:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
is this to be a phrasebook or sorts? Something like Omniglot, but for Mandarin phrases？If so, I can see the value of it. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 02:35, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Previous discussion of English-Hanzi[edit]

Comment I am transcluding the last discussion here. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 18:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

I have removed the transclusion of Wikibooks:Requests_for_deletion/English-Hanzi since that is very confusing. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 19:57, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
To remind, the previous discussion is at Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/English-Hanzi. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:06, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
*Please see the previous discussion here--Efex3 (discuss • contribs) 17:22, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Template:Rfd-survived[edit]

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Consensus to keep. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 12:07, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Not needed, I have managed to incorporate this feature into {{talkheader}}. See Template:Talk header/sandbox and it's subpage, Template:Talk header/sandbox/text. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 01:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

  • Keep In my experience, we don't delete things like this just because it's possible to do without them. On the contrary, at most we mark them deprecated or historical or some such. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 05:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 15:15, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 18:52, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

The new creations of PokestarFanBot[edit]

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Deleted

Today this unapproved bot has created a group of pages to be reviewed (but I don't want to), sometimes under its owner account, consisting in some static lists of the books pages. However, there wasn't any previous discussion about these new subpages whose books authors didn't need, and they are redundant of the categories, the TOC and Special:PrefixIndex. So I think that it's just an experiment to keep in the PokestarFan's PC files or user subpages. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

  • Delete JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete Doesn't see a purpose to compensate for the overhead of these pages. Seems like a sort of thing to discuss extensively with the community before perhaps acting. The unapproved bot aspect is also not good. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
So just delete all of the bot's pages? EDIT: I've gone ahead and blocked the bot as "Unapproved bot". Please leave me a msg on my page if this is incorrect. Thanks. Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 19:08, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
@Atcovi: The block seems reasonable to me. The behavior of the bot has been problematic at best, and I seem to recall JackPotte talking about blocking any account running that bot other than for a pre-approved limited test run (don't recall if they said they would, or merely said they were considering it). At any rate, I do think the bot has been run too casually. We don't usually get to the point of blocking bot accounts, because usually their operators are very conservative about running them prior to community approval.

At some point, presumably, creating a really massive number of these pages even in a userspace would become a problem. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs)

+1. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:47, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete , obviously. I am glad the bot was blocked, and I would be happy to see the operator blocked as well. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:51, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
As an admin, I have to do tedious work like this... I'm working on deleting several pages from the bot and the main account. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 13:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
might as well Delete . I would volunteer to delete the whole thing but im not. anyways, nuke. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 14:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Wikijunior:How_Things_Work/Binary[edit]

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Merged. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:49, 25 February 2018 (UTC)


Wikijunior:How_Things_Work/Binary is a duplicate of Wikijunior:How_Things_Work/Binary_Numbers. The second of those two articles is better developed and has much more content. GKFXtalk 14:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

  • Merge.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 02:58, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Merge JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:10, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
    • There's not very much content in the deletion candidate that doesn't exist in some form in Binary Numbers, so while a merge is obviously the correct policy thing to do, in practice there won't be very much merging to do. GKFXtalk 08:15, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Merge. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 19:08, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

If nobody opposes this, I will mark this RfD Merge in 7 days. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 22:33, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

@PokestarFan: Don't, please. You've been asked not to close RFDs. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 01:46, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Merge. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 02:32, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Windows Command Prompt Commands[edit]

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Delete per consensus and user request. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:27, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Could be possibly speedy. 1) It is redundant to Windows Batch Scripting; 2) contains copyvio by pasting output of Windows cmd.exe command helps, e.g. in Windows Command Prompt Commands/mkdir; you have to click on "[Expand]" in the page to see the content. Please don't merge anything into Windows Batch Scripting. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

  1. Delete Even if this text is spread over the Internet, its original copyright is not compatible with ours. Moreover its original author had announced that he won't finish the book, so there won't be any relevant content in the medium term. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 18:15, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm self-nominating the book an will probably never finish it. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 23:18, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
  1. Delete per JackPotte.BukhariSaeed (discuss • contribs) 02:56, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

World History/Effects of the First World War[edit]

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Purged. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 14:25, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

I just found it a likely copyvio, maybe except the first two versions, thus requesting deleting most versions, not all of them.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 05:37, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

It had been copied by EikwaR, so I've just restored the older version before hidding the others. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 14:25, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

User:Gjoniikarrrica[edit]

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Deleted - speedy would've been fine. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 02:42, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

This userpage appears to be a copy of an article (Gjon Karrica), which was deleted five times on English Wikipedia in 2015. The user has made no other visible edits to Wikibooks. I think it is outside the project scope per WB:HOST and WB:SOAP. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 00:25, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Start an Internet Business[edit]

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Deleted. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:35, 25 February 2018 (UTC)


This "book-stub" has been around for several years, originally in a copyvio form, but now with just a discouraging message. I appreciate that any business (let alone an internet business) will be tough but is that really in line with the Wikibooks purpose? We have several business-related books at various stages of development but this is one that we could do without (unless someone wants to make a go of it or merge it somewhere). Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 21:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

  1. Delete as nominator. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 10:21, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
  2. Delete It has never been a book. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment The topic itself isn't out of place, imo. There doesn't appear to be significant content there to justify calling it a "book", though, nor a framework for a book. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment This almost reads like a leaflet. It could be expanded but I doubt there will be enough to fill the "sense" of a book. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 13:45, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Yes, there's no sense of incipient book-ness about it. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:08, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete In addition to/support of the above: it uses first person singular pronouns, seems to plug a couple of commercial sites, and is signed with "I hope this article is informative and very helpful to you." --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:08, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Delete then delete. It is like a leaflet or brochure. Types of things are common on the internet. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 02:31, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:Guides and manuals[edit]

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Deleted. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)


I’ve been looking at this category for a few days now but I cannot see where it fits. The text on the page talks about "How to" guides as an example but it seems to me that if someone is searching for a how-to, they will probably search for the subject more than this category. There appear to be numerous books that could theoretically be categorised here but I imagine the need to create subcategories will arise. I don’t see this category as being necessary for organising books, but I might be wrong. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 10:20, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

  1. Delete as nominator. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 10:21, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
  2. Delete Doesn't fit to our classification Category:Subject:Books by subject, and the Universal Decimal Classification would be more appropriate if we needed one more. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
  1. Delete not fit. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 20:10, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Love Intimacy and Romance[edit]

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Deleted. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:37, 25 February 2018 (UTC)


Hello,

I uploaded this document by mistake, I want to delete this page and want to unpublish my book from Wikibooks.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Irene Pearson (discuss • contribs) 08:27, 1 February 2018‎

There isn't any Love Intimacy and Romance book here. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:50, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@Irene Pearson: It looks as if you did upload a cover image to Commons (which is one of our sister projects), with a back-cover-type description of the book. That image is here, and you could request its deletion by editing that page (follow the link) to add the following markup (I think):
{{delete|request by uploader}}
--Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:16, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@Pi zero:, its {{speedy|request by uploader}} for a immediate. the "delete" is for a deletion discussion for community discussion. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 14:50, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
@Itene Pearson: Done on Commons. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 18:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Open_and_Distance_Education/Course_Design/Overview[edit]

It is an orphan. I decided to put the content on the parent page "Course_Design".

@Rjbfigueroa: Done . Next time you can add a {{speedy}} tag. See Wikibooks:Deletion policy. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:10, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Python Programming/pyFormex[edit]

The website for the module is down, and so the page is not needed. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 00:26, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

  1. Delete Empty page. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:55, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
  2. Delete virtually empty page, aside from 1 sentence. Artix Kreiger (discuss • contribs) 13:41, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
  3. Comment A Google search shows the website for the library has moved to http://www.nongnu.org/pyformex/ , so that issue doesn't justify deletion. It might be that that specific library is too niche a topic for the scope of the book, but in any case I feel like this isn't the right place for that discussion (as opposed to the talk pages of the book), at least at first. -- Duplode (discuss • contribs) 23:24, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
  4. Keep The website http://www.nongnu.org/pyformex/ is not down; and pyformex is on pypi[1]. The page is a stub, but let us keep it until someone decides to expand on it. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:40, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Merging multiple pages of Python Programming[edit]

I have merged these to Python Programming/3rd-party modules. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 21:19, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Keep There are at least two problems:
  1. You didn't add everything into Python Programming/3rd-party modules (eg: "import MySQLdb").
  2. The topic of Python Programming/3rd-party modules seems to large to me, and its content must be too long to avoid scrolling a lot when searching a needle in the haystack on a slow page. Moreover, this lack of precision is undesirable to create the links to the sister project (eg: w:numpy, w:PyQt), which could bring us more visitors.
JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 09:46, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Page merges inside a project only require community consensus if you seek reassurances regarding your actions, consensus should be gathered among the project's editors and a merge tag is not necessary, you do the job yourself unposed or express your "merge" concept on the project's talk page.
I move that this talk stream should indeed be move to the project's talk page and no merge tag be used on individual project pages (this is not Wikipedia).
PS: Page merges are distinct from deletions (like the one above on the same book space (deletions merit a discussion if content or structure is lost, as we do not outright delete stubs and proposed for deletion content may be of use elsewhere)). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Keep Per JackPotte and Panic. There would be no real gain out of such a merge; it would result in a potentially overlong page that merely agglutinates disjoint topics. --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 23:31, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Keep obviously. If the Python Programming book team (which is basically me) decided to introduce a nested chapter structure, they would do it by renaming, not by copying and deleting. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:42, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Programming for Palm OS[edit]

Programming for Palm OS/SuperWaba[edit]

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Keep --Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 03:54, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

This page has been a stub since it was created 12 years ago. PalmOS no longer exists and SuperWaba no longer supports PalmOS, so I'm inclined to conclude that this page is never going to be expanded into anything useful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:c900:919b:489f:5442:6216:25e8 (discuss • contribs)

Nominated the entire book. PokestarFan • Talk • Contributions 18:45, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Deleting old GCSE Books[edit]

Most of the GCSE books seem to have been completely abandoned (with the last true edit being a decade ago). Furthermore, the specifications have changed, meaning that course materials are now radically different. - Neutrinopenguin 01/04/2018

It's not obvious because we're talking about more than 200 pages: Category:Subject:General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education. So they could have an interest, at least historically. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 08:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Since I am planning on writing new guides for them, would it be perhaps acceptable if I mentioned they are uncompleted and unfinished as well as linked from there to the new guides then?

Neutrinopenguin 10:58, 1 April 2018 (GMT)

Sure. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Pinyin[edit]

Similar to English-Hanzi, should unverified news be deleted?

--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 03:41, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Rather than delete them, I think it should suffice if these news articles are cited from the source which they are taken from. For instance, the last article which you have linked above is exactly the headline of this BBC article. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 04:04, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
News sites have no sense of humor regarding copying of their material; it's their livelihood, after all. Wikinews has extremely stiff anti-plagiarism standards (no, not just copyright violation, plagiarism). I recommend against Wikibooks poaching on Wikinews territory, in this regard. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 07:42, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
n:Wikinews:Newsworthiness#New_information excludes 8-day old events, so even if verified, Wikinews will not accept them. If we cannot keep them here, maybe Wikipedia has articles to retrofit them, like history of Afghanistan. The same way may apply to deleted unverified news under English-Hanzi.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 18:47, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
I'm only responding to the initial question. To Wikibooks the validity of the any news (linked or referenced) is irrelevant if it does not constitute the basis of the book's project and even then the burden is (and should be) reversed to prove that the information is false, before taking action. In any case single page deletions of an active project should always be first discussed on that project's talk page. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:01, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
Category:Book:Pinyin has even more unverified news.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 17:31, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
If something looks like a news article, and is part of a bunch of things that look like news articles, and isn't vetted by the standards of actual news articles, its publication does active harm in, and to, the world. The very fact that Wikibooks is not set up, infrastructurally, to apply these sorts of standards rigorously makes it unsuited to hosting such material. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 22:31, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
  1. Keep as to prevent deletion as no one stated opposition. Even on close remember to make a note on the project's talk page and if Jusjih is interested in saving his "verification work", he can probably create a template and tag all the "offending" pages if no one objects or at least place his research/conclusions or opinions on the relevant page's talk. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 21:16, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
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