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Undeletion[edit]

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Hello thanks for educating me about how it supposed to work, but my content (page) was speedily deleted and I had no chance to save the content so I can merged it in the existing book in accordance to the rules. Would you let me recover the content in the deleted page below? For a history of the （very short) discussion see User_talk:C.t.chin#copy_.2F_paste. Emailing the content to me would be great, thank you so much!

7 December 2015

   (Deletion log); 08:46 . . QuiteUnusual (discuss | contribs) deleted page OpenSCAD User Manual/General 2 ‎(copy paste without attribution)
   (Move log); 08:45 . . QuiteUnusual (discuss | contribs) moved page OpenSCAD User Manual/General (by c.t.chin) to OpenSCAD User Manual/General 2 without leaving a redirect ‎(we don't want your username in the book title)

C.t.chin (discuss • contribs) 04:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

where do you want it merged to? QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 10:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Deletion[edit]

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High School Trigonometry, High School Engineering, High School Chemistry, High School Earth Science, High School Life Science, High School Biology, High School Calculus, High School Geometry, High School Probability and Statistics[edit]

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Based on the fact that PDF version of the books was uploaded to Commons in 2009 with a compatible license, I believe the correct thing to do is attribute our books to that copy. It will be done by attaching a template to all pages of the books. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 15:12, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


We have received an OTRS ticket, number 2015011310024438, from the CK-12 Foundation requesting that these books (which are copied from CK-12) are properly attributed to them. The relevant text of the OTRS ticket, for those without access is:

"...I am a science associate with the ck-12 foundation. I'm writing on behalf of ck-12 in regards to the versions of our flexbooks you have published on the wikibooks site. To begin I should say that we are extremely pleased to be featured on your site and greatly appreciate you taking the time to import our texts. We would like to ask that you attribute our content using the guidelines present on the ck-12 website. We also ask that you add this attribution to the individual concept pages; I stumbled upon a few of them and was concerned until i went back to the book and chapter pages and saw the attribution."

I can confirm the email comes from CK-12 based on the mail headers, etc. In responding to this request I have reviewed the CK-12 attribution guidelines here and noted that their license is CC-BY-NC. This license is incompatible with Wikibooks. Specifically, it does not allow commercial use, and Wikibooks does. Given this, I believe we have no choice but to delete the books.

I, or any admin, could delete these after 7 days as a copyright violation without an RFD, but given that some of them are featured books, I am raising this RFD to encourage others to check my interpretation of the license issue is correct. Note that I have named the nine books that are obviously CK-12 copies, but this deletion requirement may apply to other books from the same source - I will add them hear if I identify more. Thanks. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:05, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

The importers of the content should also be notified and even admonished for such an extensive violation. Admins should do random content cross-pollination checks as they delete the pages by selecting some random bits of text and see if they find a match in other wikibook works. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 14:04, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Note that this is more a violation of the terms of use than of copyright (in the consequence that it is an unauthorized relicensing of the works).
One thing that I've been thinking about is the WHY we can't have non-commercial content on Wikibooks. It seems counterproductive in the primary goal of creating free content and not an issue to any of the parts involved in the work we do here. It seems simply a political decision and we may need to revisit it as it needn't be so, any primary objections would be about cross pollination but as this instance proves in a connected world that argument is very weak. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 23:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
The decision to only have material that was reusable for commercial reasons was made by the Wikimedia Foundation, it isn't something we can change locally unfortunately. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 08:52, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
This is quite interesting. A PDF of the CK-12 material was uploaded to Commons (here) in 2009. This is licensed with CC-BY-SA. It is therefore possible the material we have is permitted, if it was based on this older version. It'll need some more digging. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 12:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
I am interested in proper copyright problems where some git copies and pastes things from elsewhere without any permission. The kind of nitty gritty isn't my concern and I would be all for providing whatever attribution they want and then ignoring the problem. If someone from the Foundation (the Wikimedia Foundation of the CK-12 Foundation) instructs us to delete then we should, otherwise we should just carry on as normal...--ЗAНИA Flag of the Isle of Mann.svgtalk 13:26, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

It's annoying always having to find this in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, when are we going to take care of these books? Thanks. --atcovi (talk) 15:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

There are two choices: delete them, or retain them. If the latter, then every page has to have a URL linking back to the original source for attribution purposes as this has been demanded by the copyright owner. While interpretation of the "by attribution" part of the license is possible, I think the copyright holder is making a reasonable request as just providing attribution on , say, the main page of the book, is not really providing a clear link to the source. It is because of the need to edit the 100s of pages to do this that nobody has done it yet. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 12:55, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Could this be done by bot? Seems a simple though tedious task. Liam987 talk 19:05, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, easily - there's standard tasks in the pywikipedia bot framework to do this kind of thing (I used it before for adding reference sections and categories to books) and AWB could also be used. My bot has been out of service for quite a while but I could look into reviving it. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 12:43, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

The Wrestling Universe[edit]

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Unsuccessful after nearly 3 months of voting, the page seems to have an introduction, subpages, and pictures. This wasn't closed by any other admin/crat so I might as well step in and close it. --atcovi (talk) 11:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Original research and no meaningful content, no NPOV, and not edited in over a year. See also The Wrestling Universe/John Cena. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:14, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

@Justin - The Page in the Heading doesn't look meaningful, but scrambled words. But this is room for improvements, this page can easily be turned around. The John Cena page I call for a Symbol keep vote.svg Keep , I'd leave it for anyone to improve. --atcovi (talk) 00:38, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I have improved this article to the best of my ability, I do not think it falls into any of the deletion criteria @Justin. But it's up to you now if you are going to close this request. Thanks for bringing this page to the public's attention. --atcovi (talk) 01:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Trigonometry/Trigonometric_identities[edit]

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Unsuccessful - Whoops, pretty late here. Closed because there are no objections.

This page is now redundant with the other pages in the Trignomentry book. It is also left unused , very little content and few contributors.--Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 08:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

  1. No discussion on this issue? Or should I mark it for speedy? --Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 17:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
like this page has enough info to educate readers. It could also be left for expansion by a different user later on, what'd you think about this? (btw can you show the other pages with "very little content"?) --Atcovi (talk ↔ contribs) 08:10, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
@Leaderboard any comment on my question before I close this as a keep? (Welcome back btw) --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 20:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
Still delete. This page is effectively useless. This page only talks about one identity , which is already covered here.--Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 09:34, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete There's really not that much to add. I second the motion. --Vito Francisco 22:34, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Symbol keep vote.svg Keep I think the whole book calls for attention, its structure may seem fuzzy. I suggest we keep the page while a major revision takes place. --Vito Francisco 20:31, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
[count me as a "keep" vote] If there aren't anymore objections to keeping this page (as it's 3 vs 1) by... Jan 14, 2016, then this will be kept. thanks --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:12, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Template:Booksearch[edit]

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Seems to be more towards "keep", after a couple of months of discussion --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

An unnecessary and nearly-unused wrapper for Template:Book search. Liam987 talk 18:18, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Template:Book search was created before Template:Booksearch, and since these two templates have the same content (except Template:Book search has cats), i've gone ahead and left Template:Booksearch as a redirect to Template:Book search. --Atcovi (talk ↔ contribs) 19:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
A soft redirect doesn't work for a template, as the soft redirect will be transcluded whenever the template is used. I've made it a normal redirect. Liam987 talk 12:28, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. --Atcovi (talk ↔ contribs) 12:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm I right in assuming that this discussion is ended and the solution applied by the proponent satisfies as being better than an outright deletion ? (Will assume yes if no reply is forthcoming) --Panic (discuss • contribs) 01:01, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@Panic2k4: Yeah. I think that a redirect would be better than a deletion, and knowing that the user has not opposed to my redirect... I've decided I'm going to close this as unsuccessful. Thank you. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

All pages contained in category:pywikibot and it's sub-cats.[edit]

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The consensus to delete this title seems to be pretty clear, and I was surprised to see it still lingering here after all this time. This book is now deleted and the up-to-date documentation can be found on MediaWiki.org. --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 10:31, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

I propose this hole pywikibot manual for deleting. The origin pywikibot manual is hold by mw:, you'll find it as mw:Manual:Pywikibot with all it's content. The pages at Wikibooks are just older copies, they are outdated and nobody will update it here. The local copy may confuse developers and the duplication is not useful at all. Xqt (discuss • contribs) 16:10, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Why don't you propose that the media wiki book be only hosted by Wikibooks (it seems the better project to have it), not that I particularly care, only addressing your duplication concern. I really don't see lack of advancement in itself as a proper reason for deletion. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
The manual is nearby the Mediawiki software (and its manual) where it concerns to. Maybe it was the first thought coming from meta. It does not make any sense to spread manuals on several platforms, especially when nobody keeps it up-to-date. This would be confusing bot owners. It is a property of that instruction manual of an often used bot framework in perpetual beta state to be outdated within a short time. Therefor I guess it would be a good idea to delete this page duplications, which you can verify by the version histories. Xqt (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
I fail to see the rationality in discussing notions like "nearby" when we are talking about the same Internet software infrastructure and same hardware setup (Wikimedia) especially after the merging efforts being made. In any case this isn't the place to argue about that particular need.
I'm not taking a position of opposition against your request at present, just pointing out that the grounds your are formulating it are very weak and in my view misdirected...
In regards to Wikibooks the nearness to the software isn't an issues, nor is it the duplication, in fact the issues you raised (confusion, etc) are good points to press the developers to, especially in light of general Wikimedia policies that fragmented the scope of each wiki subproject, move the manual here (in fact every manual that resides in the Media Wiki project), even facilitating future translations of the same. Our project is the best one to develop manuals and textbooks, that unarguably is our raison detre. Look for instance how we centralized our use of images on Commons, the logic is the same... --Panic (discuss • contribs) 20:08, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
@Panic2k4, Xqt: It seems to me that since these manuals are for Mediawiki software, and are self-referential to Wikimedia, they should be kept at Mediawiki, especially since the software is used for non-Wikimedia sites. If we imported the manuals, it would follow that we should import all the descriptions of extensions and parser functions and so forth. That's what the Mediawiki website is for; to host it all here would muddle our mission and would be self-referential. But that is all a whole debate in itself. If we're going to have one, we should have them all, and so it makes no sense just having this one manual here, which is only an outdated version of the one at Mediawiki anyway. Liam987 talk 21:01, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete per my rationale above. Liam987 talk 21:02, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Delete. it is a mess, unlikely to be fixed. this was imported from meta, Pywikibot/userlib.py is some automated code documentation, which we already have on https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/. John Vandenberg (discuss • contribs) 14:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Delete. @Liam987, Panic2k4, Xqt: As above: confusing, outdated, and inconsistent with the status of the rest of our (MediaWiki-based) documentation. Fhocutt (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 20:05, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

What's the status on this? The discussion's quiet and I see a clear consensus to delete. --Fhocutt (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 12:32, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Things happen when they happen here. It'll get deleted when an admin has the time and inclination amongst dealing with the spam and vandals. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:53, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if this can be resolved quickly. We have mw:Google Code-in 2015 coming up, and these pages cause confusion for beginners, because they appear high in Google results, seem authoritative because they are 'Wikimedia pages', but they are wrong/misleading/out of date/empty/etc.
If they cant be deleted quickly, how should we tag them so alert the reader of their lack of utility? John Vandenberg (discuss • contribs) 22:00, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
A notice can easily be added at top of every page pointing to an updated resource (not a generic portal) or a portal can be prominently displayed on the cover page indicating that the book is out of date.
I dont agree with the arguments for the deletion, will not support but also not object to it as the content seems to be freely available elsewhere in an updated form. My view is that Mediawiki manuals should be on Wikibooks, the same rational that made us move our images to Commons all the other non-Wikibooks issues are just that, not a Wikibook problem that we need to address. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 05:12, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Panic, then I must ask you to look at the content again. It is not a manual. Most of the pages are auto-generated junk. e.g. Pywikibot/family.py - what do the plus and minus mean in those lists? Some pages like Pywikibot/Basic use could be used in a manual, but however is full of incorrect information about pywikipedia (a dead project) instead of pywikibot, and anyone wanting to seriously write a manual about pywikibot for a real audience would start by using the equivalent pages on MediaWiki, such as mw:Manual:Pywikibot/Basic use. John Vandenberg (discuss • contribs) 05:44, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Esper[edit]

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All pages deleted --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:36, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

The wikibook Esper and its associated pages are essentially a personal wiki. This is not a conlang of note and there is no reason for it to exist on Wikibooks. The creator of Esper and its Wikibooks page also created an Esper article on Wikipedia which has since been userfied and deletion for this same reason. 89.240.76.148 (discuss) 09:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Symbol comment vote.svg Comment w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Esper (language). --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 10:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Delete per nom. Liam987 talk 15:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom, but perhaps transfer it to Wikiversity which might be able to host this kind of material. 46.254.186.36 (discuss) 23:36, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
I think under userspace would only be acceptable on Wikiversity, not necessarily a "made up language". --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 12:31, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Hopefully I'll get all the pages in Category:Esper deleted around next week. This can be closed once all the pages are deleted. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Cookbook:Char Siu[edit]

Not sure if this page qualifies for speedy deletion, so I am requesting it to be deleted here. I've noticed that Cookbook:Char Siu is an exact copy-and-paste of Cookbook:Char Sui (note the switched "u" and "i") and, according to Kgroat's edit summary on Cookbook:Char Siu, was intended to be a move to the correct name for the page. I am requesting it to be deleted to make way for a proper page move from Cookbook:Char Sui to Cookbook:Char Siu. (There is only one revision in Cookbook:Char Siu's page history, not including my addition of the {{rfd}} template.) CabbagePotato (discuss • contribs) 06:25, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@CabbagePotato: I think this easily qualifies as non-controversial housekeeping. I've changed it to a speedy deletion request on the page. @Kgroat: registered users can rename pages using the move tab at the top of the page. Please use this feature rather than copy-and-pasting because it preserves the edit history. Green Giant (discuss • contribs) 16:48, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Journey_to_Kepler_Worlds[edit]

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Speedily deleted as "Spam, vandalism, or nonsense". --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 16:32, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

I believe this page does not comply with Wikibooks' Policies and Guidelines, not offering any legitimate neutral point of view and also being potentially offensive for ocasional readers (exhibiting defamatory statements towards other cultures).

The only contribution made by the user at issue was a page already deleted as it provided no meaningful content.

The user's intentions are questioned. --Vito Francisco 15:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

nominate "Subject/headline"[edit]

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Unsuccessful - Seems more like a test, then an actual proposal. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:02, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

.original research; .being a source text; .being a game guide; being an attempt to use Wikibooks as a personal webhost; or .having profound issues with neutral point of view.


Could you properly link the page you are proposing to delete Jacobkoh? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 14:15, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Labdoo Guide/How To Start[edit]

Please delete as content outdated and no update planned, as we moved to a local wiki in our homepage.

Not a valid deletion criterion. Other editors may choose to expand the material. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:21, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Labdoo Guide[edit]

Please delete as content outdated and will not be updated, as we moved to a local wiki

Not a valid deletion criterion. Other editors may choose to expand the material. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:21, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Modern Greek[edit]

Request to delete Modern_Greek/Lesson_7x. Content fully integrated on updated page Modern_Greek/Lesson_2.1x

Done. You appear to have moved all the content by copy / paste. The site license requires the history (i.e., the record of the original authors) to be maintained. If you want to do something similar in future please use the {{Now merged}} template to request a merge. Thanks - QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:10, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks @QuiteUnusual:. Yes, I've copied a few pages to fresh pages. I'm still sorting through the old content. I have just tried a "now merged", hope that it worked. Many thanks. Aphoneyclimber (discuss • contribs) 13:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Request to delete Modern Greek/LegacyLesson_5b. There is nothing here that doesn't separately exist in Modern Greek/Lesson 02.2 which is the correct structure.

NOTE: There are on-going rfd's and merge requests for this. There appears to have been no active work on the Modern Greek Wikibook for many years and my attempts at getting previous contributors involved appears to have failed. I have made many changes / improvements and have had no comments, so I expect no discussion regarding these on going changes. Hopefully as the content grows some more contributors will be attracted.

Romanian/List of words[edit]

If we put the large amount of numbers − amounting to 2/3 of the content − aside, it doesn't provide readers with any helpful information about the Romanian language. Some of the translations are even in Polish, not in Romanian. --Robbie SWE (discuss • contribs) 11:19, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

So you are requesting deletion of a single page? @Robbie SWE --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 01:43, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
@Atcovi: Yes, I am. I just started going through the Romanian pages so more deletions might be necessary in the near future. PS: upon further investigation, we have Romanian/Months and days of the week and Romanian/Numbers from 0 to 999, which contain the same information as the page I proposed for deletion. --Robbie SWE (discuss • contribs) 10:17, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol keep vote.svg Keep It needs a bit of cleaning up, but is clearly essential for the book as a whole.--Abramsky (discuss • contribs) 10:29, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol keep vote.svg Keep and clean up.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 02:59, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

World Civilization for High School students[edit]

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Speedy deleted as abandoned with no content. The only thing in the book except the contents page was a link to a different book. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:34, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

The page has very little content and the subject is already covered in another Wikibook. --Doostdar (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

United Kingdom History[edit]

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I think a one month discussion can be enough to close this. The page has been Symbol delete vote.svg Delete d because it's obvious that this page is not going to be improved any time soon. This book has nothing but contents, and no edits since 2007. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:28, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Pages has no content except for it's contents page, which lists several pages that are red (not created). No edits to it's main page since 2010. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:26, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

  • Symbol delete vote.svg Delete Basically nothing added since 2007.--Abramsky (discuss • contribs) 10:30, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Symbol delete vote.svg Delete per nom and Abramsky: TOC-only page since 2007. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:52, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
    Is there a deletion policy? If there is, could we expand it with the following: a page that consists of nothing but table of contents for more than a year since its creation should be deleted, even speedily so. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
    Answering myself: the policy is at Wikibooks:Deletion_policy. Its general guidelines contain three items, the first of which deals with books and the second and third of which deal with "modules" - subpages. Thus, the relevant item of the policy is this: "In general, keep stubs that can be improved on, but delete stubs that are too narrowly defined or do not have a decent definition of what they are about." Using this policy, this page would not be deleted. But I think the page should be deleted and the policy should be updated. --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 17:01, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
I think a one month discussion can be enough to close this. The page has been Symbol delete vote.svg Delete d because it's obvious that this page is not going to be improved any time soon. This book has nothing but contents, and no edits since 2007. --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:28, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

PostgreSQL/Working with PostgreSQL[edit]

The page is a draft, there is only 1 extention since 2010. The content of the page has very few relationship to PostgreSQL. It's mainly a short description of some SQL commands which are common to all SQL implementations. Kelti (discuss • contribs) 09:24, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Symbol keep vote.svg Keep this page concerns the data types and constraints so it won't be common to all DBMS. Moreover, I had planned to take care of this book in a few weeks... JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 21:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Cookbook:Space Cake[edit]

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Unsuccessful - Marijuana is legal in some parts of the world. If marijuana is illegal in your location, then don't use the recipe. Thanks --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 23:04, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

I think that the marijuana recipes should be deleted and not allowed on this website. Marijuana is illegal, and if a minor were to see those recipes and make it they could get caught and say that the recipe was found on wikibooks in the cookbook. This can cause a huge lawsuit against you guys. I use you all the time, I don't want this website to lose it privileges due to giving out marijuana recipes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Birdie1999 (discuss • contribs)

Where is this page you are proposing to delete?? --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 20:00, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Nvm.. found it through your contributions. Marijuana is actually legal in a few countries/states (Some states in India, Uruguay, the Netherlands in coffeeshops), so I say Symbol keep vote.svg Keep for this (if this is going to be an actual RFD) --Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 20:08, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Symbol keep vote.svg Keep This gets real sticky real fast, of course, but in my opinion this could be considered "protected speech" in the US, and I don't know what jurisdiction WB falls under anyway. We might want to consider a warning as a CYA thing... that while the recipe is provided for the use of people in places where marijuana is legal, WB doesn't condone breaking laws. Chazz (talk) 20:17, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Edit: I note that there is already a warning there... but it might be strengthened, and a similar warning put on the ingredient page as well. Chazz (talk) 20:19, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

List of Computational Sustainability Courses[edit]

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Speedy deleted. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:45, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

This page was created by mistake (the CORRECT page has been created as a chapter of another wikibook Artificial Intelligence for Computational Sustainability: A Lab Companion/List of Computational Sustainability Courses)

Annotated Republic of China Laws/Civil Code[edit]

The copy of the Civil Code on en.wikibooks, Annotated Republic of China Laws/Civil Code, is actively harmful to the readers by providing law information that are years out of date. It is not explicit whether the whole thing is from a single snapshot in time, and if so, which revision it is. The ROC government already provides translated Civil code that's up to date at http://law.moj.gov.tw/Index.aspx. It also doesn't try to keep a record of every revision to the Civil Code like at like zh.wikisource.org. Also, I'm not sure why it's at wikisource for Chinese and wikibooks for English, but please don't move the proposed for deletion content to wikisource. As I mentioned, hosting outdated legal information is actively harmful to readers. --Makkachin (discuss • contribs) 00:52, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Being out-of-date is not a valid deletion criterion. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:43, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
  • Speedily keep. As http://law.moj.gov.tw does not always archive outdated legal texts, amended Taiwanese laws may be considered evolving works, thus not very good on English Wikisource. As the project starter, I am aware of amended articles. Annotated Republic of China Laws/Central Regulation Standard Act groups unamended articles together for better efficiency to make a page, with Annotated Republic of China Laws/Central Regulation Standard Act/Article 8 listing historical texts. I will soon hide amended articles from the main pages and later move them to subpages. Thanks.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 23:56, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
    • The harm aspect remains. I would suggest there be a warning header at the top, and a link to the up-to-date translation that's freely provided by the government so users can ignore the harmful content that is kept at this site. --Makkachin (discuss • contribs) 00:19, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
      • What exactly is harmful? This tone is too excessive. Taiwanese governmental translations of legal texts have no official status in courts of law, so any bad translations of current texts may also be harmful. Please be more respectful.--Jusjih (discuss • contribs) 02:05, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
        • If you didn't like my wording, I can use a more vague terminology and say the existence of this translation is "problematic". If you don't see what's problematic about it, then you didn't understand my explanation and there is no point in reiterating what was already stated. How would you imagine serving completely outdated legal information to the users without any warning serve the reader's benefit? --Makkachin (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
  • Comment: If this was directly sourced from public domain translations made by the government of China (an if!), does not this better fit to Wikisource? Since in that case, Wikibooks contributors will not be able to expand or correct the text, will they? My if stems from Annotated Republic of China Laws/Civil Code, where it says "The translator is presumed to be the Republic of China, as it appears on the R.O.C. government website." --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 11:48, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
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