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Salute, Jonathan!
and its translations
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Interlingue/Occidental
, original)
Audià
Cristianés
Ekumenski
Germanisch
Globasa
Guosa
Idiom Neutral
Ido
Interlingua
Interocidental
Lingaust
Lingue Simple
Lingwa de Planeta
Masa Tang
Meteza
Mini
Mirad
Monav
Monkel
Mundeze
Negerhollands
Neo
Nordien
Novial
Novlingue
Numo
Proyo
Romanica
Solresol
Toki Pona
Volapük
There are a couple of issues here:
Beyond their introductions, all of these books are written in languages which are not English, making them out of scope for the English Wikibooks.
All but one of these books are in fact written in constructed languages, most of them in recently created conlangs. In some cases (e.g.
Sin Chao, Jonathan!
), I can't find any reliable sources describing the target language outside of the translation itself.
Most of the translations (i.e. other than
Salute, Jonathan!
itself) were abandoned within the first five or so chapters (out of 100); none of them are complete, and there seems to be little effort to complete any of them.
While I recognize that this is an unusual project, and potentially one which could have some value, it's not at all clear to me that the English Wikibooks is the right place for it. —
Omphalographer
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I'm really not sure what to do about these ones. While I recognize that this approach is certainly one method of teaching a language, I'm not sure that it constitutes an educational textbook. We do require that the English Wikibooks be written in English—for language-learning books, this typically means that the instructional parts are in English while the exercises are in the language being taught. I do think that if the language doesn't have much supporting evidence outside the book itself, it can safely be deleted. —
Kittycataclysm
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Author of the book here. I originally wanted to put it in the Interlingue Wikibooks
but it somehow got locked when I wasn't paying attention and so I ended up putting it here. Getting it unlocked requires going through the process of starting an Incubator and all the rest so I opted for here and then started putting some English-only content once it was done. It's sort of in the same vein as books like Lingua Latina per se Illustrata that have separate versions with teacher notes and whatnot.
Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 1 - with notes
After it was done the auxlang community really took to it which was a nice surprise. I think Ido has the largest number of chapters at the moment at 15.
If the vast content of this book could be used to justify a quick reopening of the Interlingue Wikibooks to move it there, I'd love to do that. I imagine that an incubator with 100+ book chapters would be enough to open a Wikibooks and that's what this is. —
Mithridates
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06:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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Ah, I just realized that we do have a proposal to reopen the Interlingue Wikibooks:
along with an Incubator page here.
How easy would it be to migrate the entirety of Salute Jonathan to there? —
Mithridates
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06:30, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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Hi @
Mithridates
! I'm not sure how incubator projects work, but I fully support migrating these books there. You may want to inquire over there and link to this discussion to support your request to move the content over there. Cheers! —
Kittycataclysm
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Hi! Actually I have a third idea to propose after thinking about this again today (haven't been here much since I finished the book): I noticed that there is more English content than I remember and that might make it an awkward fit for the Interlingue Wikibooks. I definitely agree that having all the auxlang translations for new auxlang projects goes well beyond the scope of this Wikibooks. Finally, there are some auxlangs that are notable with their own Wikipedias.
So the idea is the following:
Leave the original here and I can continue the work on the version with English notes and grammar. That will make it the same as Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, English by the Nature Method, Athenaze and all the rest.
The Interlingua one can move to the Interlingua Wikibooks (maybe Romanica too if they want as it is sort of a dialect of Interlingua).
For Ido and Lingua Franca Nova which have a Wikipedia but not a Wikibooks, I'm a little bit unsure...technically they could have their own version like the original one but would require English explanations. I could let them know and see if they are willing to do so and see what they think (work on adding English to the books vs. move the content elsewhere).
The rest can move to a Github repo, then be deleted, and the front page of this book can have a single link to the repo.
Any thoughts on that? Adding the extra English content will be easy as it is my book and I know it inside and out.
Edit:
this page
I just added. —
Mithridates
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13:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking the time to consider this! Here are my responses/questions:
Is the original
Salute, Jonathan!
(Occidental)? Since that one is quite fleshed out, I agree that if you edit it so the primary language of the book (e.g. headers, instructions, etc) are written in English while leaving the actual story in Occidental, it would be okay and fit in more with instructional language textbooks.
For your points 2 and 3, I'm not sure how those other projects work, so I'll leave it up to them. I'm not quite sure why they would need to move, since in theory they could be revised with English as the language of instruction? Although, they have been left incomplete for a long time.
For your point 4, I have no problem with that. Cheers! —
Kittycataclysm
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Hello again, it's the weekend so I have a bit more time to work on this. I've decided to merge the extra content from the following five chapters since the difference is fairly small and the original chapters should now have this English content. Could you delete these five pages now that they are no longer needed?
Mithridates
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Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 1 - with notes
Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 2 - with notes
Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 3 - with notes
Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 4 - with notes
Salute, Jonathan!/Capitul 5 - with notes
Mithridates
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14:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
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Done
Kittycataclysm
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23:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
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Hi again! No luck trying to find a home for the random language translations on other auxlang wikis, can't find one that is actively maintained.
The thought struck me that maybe I could just put those ones on a sub page of my user page, would that be permitted? If not, I think I'll just stick them somewhere in GitHub and call it a day since none of the people who started the translations seem to care enough to do anything about them. I'd rather not see them outright disappear but since they aren't mine I don't care enough about them to do much more work than copy and paste them somewhere.
(I would leave the ones in languages with an ISO-639 code and Wikipedia here, of course) —
Mithridates
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14:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you for checking! I don't personally see an issue with moving them to your user space right now. Cheers —
Kittycataclysm
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17:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks a lot! I've started a single page where I will put them all here
User:Mithridates/SJ
and will proceed slowly due to lack of time and also to avoid stepping on any toes / asking you to delete too much at a time and possibly deleting the wrong content.
For this week I have put the content for the languages Audia, Cristianès, Guosa, Lingaust, Mini, Mirad, and Monav on that page as they all have a single page of content and didn't take much time to move. Please delete those. Once they are gone I will add a note on the main page letting people know where they have gone (in addition to a thank you for their interest in the book! I do love how many people have recognized it as a good source material for teaching a language). —
Mithridates
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04:09, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
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Keep
the translations for languages that have an article on the English Wikipedia, i.e. Guosa, Idiom Neutral, Ido, Interlingua, Lingwa de Planeta, Negerhollands, Neo, Novial, Occidental, Romanica, Solresol, Toki Pona, and Volapük.
Translations for languages that don't have an article can be kept if they have reliable sources, which I was able to find for the following languages (if you think they are not reliable, please let me know):
Globasa:
[1]
[2]
Mini:
[3]
[4]
[5]
Delete
and move to
User:Mithridates/SJ
the rest of the translations, i.e. Audià/Audian, Cristianés, Ekumenski, Germanisch, Interocidental, Lingaust, Lingue Simple, Masa Tang, Mirad, Monav, Monkel, Mundeze, Nordien, Novlingue, Numo, Proyo, and Scuian/Meteza. If you can find reliable sources for those languages, please let me know.
In particular, I could not find resources for Audià/Audian and Monav after searching through 15 and 17 pages on Google, respectively. It doesn't help that
their
translations
don't explain what those languages are and where to find resources for them. This makes contributing to those translations almost impossible until @
Caro de Segeda
can provide resources to us. It's possible that the resources may have disappared from the Internet, or that those languages were created by Caro de Segeda him/herself. If you can find resources for Audià/Audian and Monav, please let me know.
I'm notifying the primary contributors of the translations: @
Caro de Segeda
, @
Frzzl
, @
Greatscotteh
, @
IHateNumbers234
, @
Jayeless2
, @
Morozof
, @
Omnihom
, @
Omoutuazn
, @
PovriNaivon
, @
Sir Beluga
and @
Tyoyafud
. —
EJPPhilippines
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Caro de Segeda said on
Reddit
that Monav was created by him/her and that he/she didn't publish any resources about it other than
Hai, Jon!
. With
zero
other resources to rely on for contributing to the translation, and the fact that Monav is in
User:Mithridates/SJ
Hai, Jon!
should be speedy deleted. —
EJPPhilippines
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I've undone the speedy deletion as Caro de Segeda posted a
resource
for Monav. —
EJPPhilippines
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07:18, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
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You can delete all the ones that I have created myself, I have already moved them to other places. —
Caro de Segeda
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I don't know if this is helpful since it wouldn't apply to most of these, but
s:mul:
could hold some of these. —
Arlo Barnes
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I don't think that would be within the scope of that project. I'm not aware of any other situation where Wikisource publishes translations of texts created on Wikimedia projects - that's usually left up to other language editions of the same project. —
Omphalographer
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In this situation there isn't a separate
s:ie:
distinct from Multilingual Wikisource (see
meta:Wikisource#List of Wikisources
). In fact, there are very few multilingual wikis in the Wikimedia sphere; while this project
could
move to a Miraheze-hosted or similar wiki farm location, I think it would be a missed opportunity. I suppose an
Interlingue
book could be started in
shelf:Constructed languages
which would have all 100 chapters as an appendix (and likewise for the other languages), but that also seems non-ideal since it requires an English-language text that doesn't currently exist to be created.
WB:AT
seems to describe a similar situation to this one and prescribe Wikisource as the solution, and
WB:SOURCE
mentions fiction as out-of-scope for Wikibooks (even as in this case, language-educational fiction).
s:mul:Wikisource:about Wikisource
simply speaks of source texts and doesn't mention publication requirements, so maybe that is specific to some of the monolingual editions? —
Arlo Barnes
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International Baccalaureate
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Not actually a book in and of itself; rather, it is just a compilation of links to other books —
Kittycataclysm
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Could this be salvaged as a shelf?
Pppery
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05:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
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Probably, but are the linked books even useful? IB exams change from year to year - sometimes quite dramatically - so an old exam guide is of very limited value. Many of these books were written 10-15 years ago, and some of them (like
IB French
) even have comments indicating that they're no longer applicable.
Omphalographer
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Character List for Baxter&Sagart
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Seems completely out of scope as an educational book; it's just a list of characters and outlinks —
Kittycataclysm
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Adding
Character List for Karlgren's GSR
and
Character List for Schuessler's CGSR
for the same reason —
Kittycataclysm
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These three books do make a package and I agree they should be considered together. However, I strongly object to deleting them. They are really extremely useful resources. I use them every week and I know that many people who do work on Old Chinese phonology do so. There are lots of books out there that are lists of characters, these are called dictionaries. For example Axel Schuessler's ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, or Pulleyblank's Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin. I see it as entirely a good thing for reference works of this kind to be available free online rather than only in expensive books in university research libraries. If this is in violation of a Wikibooks policy, I would at least like that policy to be drawn to my attention and to have some constructive comment offered about which Wikiproject such a resource should fall under. I will also say on a personal note that I have put literally hundreds of hours of work into these projects and it would grieve me a lot to see this work simply vanish, in particular when I know that colleagues around the world use these books. --
Tibetologist
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Hi @
Tibetologist
, and thank you for the feedback! Official Wikibooks policy does not permit standalone dictionaries (see
WB:DICT
), though I understand the argument that it is a useful resource. I am wondering if there might be a home for it at
Wiktionary
or
Wikiversity
? Cheers —
Kittycataclysm
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12:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
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The policy says to use Wiktionary, but these books cannot be moved there. In fact they link there, you can understand me as having made an index to wiktionary, if you like, where the ORDER of the characters is extremely important, information that would be lost in Wiktionary.
Wikiversity is not a project I participate in, and in any event my books here are older than it, so this option was not available for me at the relevant moment. If you are offering to move my books to Wikiversity, that is very kind of you and I will very graciously accept.
Tibetologist
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I have pinged over at Wikiversity Colloquium to ask about suitability and have looped you into the conversation over there. Cheers —
Kittycataclysm
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18:20, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
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I concur. I'm just an undergrad who tries to learn about Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics in his free time but I've found this wikibook to be incredibly useful, and I keep it open in one tab while I watch Professor Nathan Hill's lectures that he uploads to youtube in another tab, and another tab for taking notes. In fact if I remember correctly Professor Hill actually pointed his students to this wikibook.
I'm not familiar with
Wikiversity
but if all the content were as accessible there as it is here then I think that could work.
ChromeBones
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Per
v:Wikiversity:Colloquium#Import_Resource_From_Wikibooks?
, I recommend copying and pasting, including attribution via the edit summary and talk page, add appropriate categories and links, and then it could be deleted locally. —
Justin (
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Suomen kieli käyttöön
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Multiple pages in this book are written entirely in Finnish, which is out of the enWB scope. —
Kittycataclysm
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I was going to say whether we should ask any fiwikibooks sysop to maybe see if this could be transwikied to fiwb if it's within the scope there. But
fi:Toiminnot:Käyttäjät/sysop
indicates that there are only 3 sysops, and only
Anr
and
Zache
have made edits this
year
. If they deem it to be salvageable, then transwiki + delete, otherwise straight-up delete. --
SHB2000
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It seems that the idea behind the book was for the pages to be bilingual, as it’s a language learning book. That’s why there are Finnish texts included intentionally even on the pages that are complete. There are similar books in dewikibooks and ruwikibooks as well. For the English version, I think the easiest way to proceed would be to clean up and adjust the page layout to fit enwikibooks better, and then translate the missing parts. By the way, if anyone wants to update the book’s name in English, it can be titled
"Using the Finnish Language"
or
"Put Finnish Language into Use"
for a direct translation.
Zache
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AT&T Mobility FAQ
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AT&T Mobility FAQ
AT&T Mobility FAQ/MEdia Net Configuration
AT&T Mobility FAQ/Data Connect Configuration
An
extremely
outdated FAQ on AT&T's cell phone services. Most of this document was written 20+ years ago as a Usenet FAQ; very little of it is accurate or useful anymore (particularly the two subpages, which have to do with obsolete configurations for "tethering" a computer to a cell phone). No objection if someone wants to update it, but there's clearly been no appetite to do that.
Omphalographer
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I'm wondering if it might make sense for us to develop some kind of policy on archiving books here. There are many like this one that have a good deal of content but are extremely out of date and just not useful as originally intended. ——
Kittycataclysm
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Kittycataclysm
: See the newly developed
Wikibooks:Outdated books
JJP
Mas
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she
they
00:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
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Ooh, thanks - something like that seems like it could be an appropriate way to handle this book. A lot of the other outdated books I've tagged have been so incomplete that they wouldn't have been particularly useful even as historical references; this one might at least have some interest.
Any chance we can get a separate namespace (maybe "Archive:") set up for archived book content? That'd make it possible to do things like exclude them from on-site search by default.
Omphalographer
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I think this might be a more extended discussion, so I'll bump it over to the
talk page of the draft policy
! —
Kittycataclysm
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Algebra/Chapter 10/Symmetric Polynomials
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I personally believe that
this
, and all of the sections should be deleted for the fact that this goes WAY beyond the scope of what was intended for the Chapter (Algebra II level polynomials).
GoreyCat
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Split
: Deletion here is not the best solution (see
w:WP:ATD
). Instead, this page and its subpages should be moved to another book, most likely
Abstract Algebra
JJP
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she
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17:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
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Keep
since there is a good amount of content. If
Abstract Algebra
is appropriate, it seems like a fine idea to move there. —
Kittycataclysm
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Eh, yeah, I supposed moving it is better. I just don't think it's suitable for where it appears.
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Puredyne
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Development of Puredyne Linux was discontinued in 2012, and the software no longer appears to be available for download anywhere. (An archive of the web site is still up - with a bunch of embedded spam links - but the download links are all dead.) Is this a suitable candidate for archival (cf.
Wikibooks:Outdated books
), or should it just be deleted?
Omphalographer
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I'd just archive stuff like this. Looks like a decent bit of work went into it, and you never know when someone might need to use Puredyne for some obscure project. I'd be willing to bet mirrors exist of it somewhere, or someone has it on a drive. If you want to find some stuff worth deleting, comb through
Category:Allbooks categories
MediaKyle
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Template:Qr-twwp
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This isn't exactly a request to delete the template, but rather to merge it with
{{
Copypaste
}}
. The
{{
Qr-twwp
}}
template serves the same purpose as
{{
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}}
, but without the seven-day period after which the page is deleted. This leads to confusion, as well as a perpetually full
Category:Queried pages
JJP
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Ghouls of the Miskatonic
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I don't think that a plot summary of a book is in-scope here. —
Kittycataclysm
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Delete
- at least, not a summary of
this
book. A summary and/or study guide to a notable work of literature might be in scope, but this is certainly not one.
Omphalographer
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Hi. I am the creator of the pages of this book. If I understand correctly, it has to be a summary of a notable work of literature? So what exactly is defined as such? I only started this as I thought it would be fun, interesting and encouraging to others who read the Arkham Horror novels, and I thought it was permitted as I've seen other summaries of books on wikibooks.
Dayne90
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Your problem is it is just the plot... it needs to include an educational textual analysis to be in scope
MarcGarver
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And ideally it'd be a text which has
already
been the subject of literary analysis, such that the analysis on Wikibooks isn't original research. A notable work of literature like
Frankenstein
or
Moby-Dick
would easily meet that requirement; a tie-in novel for a tabletop RPG probably does not.
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Annotations to The Joy of Music
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Abandoned with minimal content. —
Kittycataclysm
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Author of the book/page here. I wouldn't call it "abandoned": it's still a start, but I'm here and do plan to fill out the rest (most of the annotations are for the early part of the book though).
I'm an experience editor at Wikipedia and Wiktionary, but am not very familiar with Wikibooks standards. When reading this book, I found myself looking up unfamiliar terms and quotes and thought some annotations would be helpful when reading or especially studying the text. It's a notable book by a notable author (extensive Wikipedia page). Here the source text is not freely available, but annotations are easy to add separately. I looked at
WB:AT
and existing examples of annotations and tried to follow them. Per
WB:WIW
, the scope is instructional texts (including annotated texts), and minor works are in scope.
I'll grant that this is not large and not likely to become very long – many books only need minor annotations – but the content would certainly have been helpful to me when reading this book.
Are there specific changes you'd suggest or general guidelines to follow in this kind of book?
—Nils von Barth (
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Pinging @
Kittycataclysm
and @
Nbarth
Codename Noreste
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I think I stand by my original reasoning given that no work has been done on it, and I don't think it contains enough content to hang around in main space for so long. What about moving it to user space? —
Kittycataclysm
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Template:Deleted page
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Per
Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals#Retiring Template:Deleted page
, this is because the template is unnecessary given that creation protection (salting) is used instead. I am also proposing the deletion of the following categories used by this template:
Category:Protected deleted categories
Category:Protected deleted pages
Thanks.
Codename Noreste
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This seems premature -
Category:Protected deleted pages
is still in use for pages with generic names. Is there a plan to transition those pages to create protection; if so, can that be implemented before deleting the templates/categories?
Omphalographer
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JJPMaster proposed that the pages listed in that category should be moved to the
title blacklist
, and that
{{
naming policy notice
}}
shall be fully protected and used as an interface (title blacklist) message.
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Omphalographer
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JJP
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15:28, 11 February 2026 (UTC)
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I have, but I'm not sure I follow. These templates, and the categories which they populate, are currently in use. Once that's no longer the case, I have no objection to deleting them - but they need to be delinked first.
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00:20, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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I deleted the categories mentioned above, moved all the generic titles to the title blacklist, and for those pages that used
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, I deleted then applied creation protection. An uninvolved admin can delete
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and then close this request.
Codename Noreste
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02:39, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
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Cereal Grains Through History
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Kittycataclysm
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01:18, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
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Kittycataclysm
: The author (Karosent) objects to the deletion per their talk page:
:Yes, please do not delete this wiki book. It is a work in progress. It is just taking some time to make progress on it. Thank you.
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02:42, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
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