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Salute, Jonathan! and its translations

• Interlingue/Occidental (w, original)
• Audià
• Cristianés
• Ekumenski
• Germanisch
• Globasa
• Guosa (w)
• Idiom Neutral (w)
• Ido (w)
• Interlingua (w)
• Interocidental
• Lingaust
• Lingue Simple
• Lingwa de Planeta (w)
• Masa Tang
• Meteza
• Mini
• Mirad
• Monav
• Monkel
• Mundeze
• Negerhollands (w)
• Neo (w)
• Nordien
• Novial (w)
• Novlingue
• Numo
• Proyo
• Romanica (w)
• Solresol (w)
• Toki Pona (w)
• Volapük (w)

There are a couple of issues here:

1. Beyond their introductions, all of these books are written in languages which are not English, making them out of scope for the English Wikibooks.
2. 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.
3. 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 (discuss • contribs) 00:24, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 01:01, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Author of the book here. I originally wanted to put it in the Interlingue Wikibooks https://ie.wikibooks.org/wiki/Principal_p%C3%A1gine 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 (discuss • contribs) 06:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I just realized that we do have a proposal to reopen the Interlingue Wikibooks: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikibooks_Interlingue along with an Incubator page here. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wb/ie/Principal_p%C3%A1gine

How easy would it be to migrate the entirety of Salute Jonathan to there? — Mithridates (discuss • contribs) 06:30, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 13:16, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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:

1. 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.
2. The Interlingua one can move to the Interlingua Wikibooks (maybe Romanica too if they want as it is sort of a dialect of Interlingua).
3. 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).
4. 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 (discuss • contribs) 13:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 16:51, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 14:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 14:02, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Done — Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 14:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for checking! I don't personally see an issue with moving them to your user space right now. Cheers — Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 17:21, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 04:09, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 09:52, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 01:38, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

I've undone the speedy deletion as Caro de Segeda posted a resource for Monav. — EJPPhilippines (discuss • contribs) 07:18, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

You can delete all the ones that I have created myself, I have already moved them to other places. — Caro de Segeda (discuss • contribs) 12:39, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

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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 (discuss • contribs) 09:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 05:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 22:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

International Baccalaureate

Not actually a book in and of itself; rather, it is just a compilation of links to other books —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:24, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Could this be salvaged as a shelf? Pppery (discuss • contribs) 05:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 02:18, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Character List for Baxter&Sagart

Seems completely out of scope as an educational book; it's just a list of characters and outlinks —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:53, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Adding Character List for Karlgren's GSR and Character List for Schuessler's CGSR for the same reason —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 23:55, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 07:27, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 12:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 14:10, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

I have pinged over at Wikiversity Colloquium to ask about suitability and have looped you into the conversation over there. Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 18:20, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 02:43, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

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 (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:32, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Suomen kieli käyttöön

Multiple pages in this book are written entirely in Finnish, which is out of the enWB scope. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 00:09, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 11:24, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 11:57, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

files from Phoenix Wright

Used for decorative, not educational, purposes (WB:NFCC#8): File:AAIME Official Artwork.jpg, File:PWAAJFA episode1.png, File:PW JFA Official Artwork.jpg, File:Gyakuten Kenji 2 Official Artwork.png, File:AJ officialart.jpg, File:PW T&T Official Artwork.jpg, File:SMB2 dream staircase art.jpg.

Galleries (WB:NFCC#3): File:Moonflow 27.jpg, File:Macalania 18.jpg, File:Chauncey LM.jpg , File:King Boo LM.jpg, File:Boolossus LM.jpg. — Ирука¹³ 16:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

My thoughts below:

• File:AAIME Official Artwork.jpg Delete purely decorative
• File:PWAAJFA episode1.png Delete purely decorative
• File:PW JFA Official Artwork.jpg Delete purely decorative
• File:Gyakuten Kenji 2 Official Artwork.png Delete purely decorative
• File:AJ officialart.jpg Delete purely decorative
• File:PW T&T Official Artwork.jpg Delete purely decorative
• File:SMB2 dream staircase art.jpg Delete purely decorative
• File:Moonflow 27.jpg Keep low resolution and seems to be illustrating something
• File:Macalania 18.jpg Uncertain
• File:Chauncey LM.jpg Keep seems to be actually illustrating something
• File:King Boo LM.jpg Keep seems to be actually illustrating something
• File:Boolossus LM.jpg Keep seems to be actually illustrating something

Cheers —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

WikiLang

• WikiLang
• about 70 subpages; see Special:PrefixIndex/WikiLang/ for a full list
• Transwiki:WikiLang/Gothic alphabet/𐌰
• Transwiki:WikiLang/Jeju
• Transwiki:WikiLang/Plattdüütsch Phonology

These pages were imported from m:WikiLang in 2021 for unclear reasons. It was originally a proposal for a new Wikimedia project which was rejected in 2017. The main page still contains the project proposal from meta, and the subpages contain a mishmash of encyclopedic content (e.g. WikiLang/Africa), word lists (e.g. WikiLang/Blackfoot/Animals), and miscellaneous project content (e.g. WikiLang/Media, WikiLang/News, etc). While the goals of this project may be laudable, this material doesn't add up to a book, and Wikibooks is not a launchpad for new Wikimedia projects. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 22:05, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

See m:Meta:Requests_for_deletion/Archives/2021#WikiLang_pages. This also already exists on Wikiversity as v:Portal:Wikilang. I guess we don't need both. Pppery (discuss • contribs) 19:15, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

AT&T Mobility FAQ

• 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 (discuss • contribs) 22:20, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 22:34, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

@Kittycataclysm: See the newly developed Wikibooks:Outdated books. JJP_Master (she/they) 00:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 21:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

I think this might be a more extended discussion, so I'll bump it over to the talk page of the draft policy! —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 21:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Algebra/Chapter 10/Symmetric Polynomials

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 (discuss • contribs) 15:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

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_Master (she/they) 17:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Keep since there is a good amount of content. If Abstract Algebra is appropriate, it seems like a fine idea to move there. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 22:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Eh, yeah, I supposed moving it is better. I just don't think it's suitable for where it appears. GoreyCat (discuss • contribs) 01:40, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/A

The following pages are also nominated for deletion: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/B https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/C https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/D https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/E https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/F https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/G https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/H https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/I https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/J https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/K https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies/L

These are now all duplicate pages that were: (1) originally created by @Xeverything11 in Dec 2024

   by extracting portion of History_of_wireless_telegraphy_and_broadcasting_in_Australia/Topical/Biographies;

(2) then "blanked" (all content removed) by myself in Dec 2024

   contemporaneous with discussions with @Kittycataclysmat and @Leaderboard in Reading_room/General (topic: Page Size);

(3) then reverted by @JJPMaster in Feb 2025 with a suggestion that the pages needed to be referred for Speedy Deletion here.

The individual alphabetical pages are now duplicates and orphans and should be deleted. The original pages have been updated over the last two months and the existence of the duplicate pages serves no purpose and is confusing — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samuel.dellit (talk • contribs) 11:59, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Puredyne

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 (discuss • contribs) 04:35, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 11:30, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Anarchist FAQ

The book is mostly copied from https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq, which is licensed only under the GFDL. This violates WB:COPY, which says that "you cannot import information which is available only under the GFDL". jlwoodwa (discuss • contribs) 02:57, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

JJPMaster said in an edit summary that the copyright holder was "contacted with instructions to email VRT". jlwoodwa (discuss • contribs) 03:37, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Much of the content was copied before dual licensing was introduced at Wikibooks and is therefore not a violation of the policy that was in force at the time. This is therefore not a valid deletion reason for any content that pre-dates the introduction of dual licensing MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 11:37, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Delete - the fact that the content of this book is almost entirely copied from an outside source is itself a problem, regardless of the license of that work. The purpose of Wikibooks is to develop new freely licensed texts, not merely to create copies of existing texts. A 2009 request for deletion was closed as "keep on the condition it is developed and not hosted as a completed work". Over fifteen years later, this still hasn't happened, and there's no indication that it ever will. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:36, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Template:Qr-twwp

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 {{Copypaste}}, 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_Master (she/they) 17:37, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Transwiki:Takeminakata

Copied Wikipedia article, per WP:NOTWP. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 23:48, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Immanuelle requested that this be imported in December 2024 (Wikibooks:Requests for import/Archives/2024/December#Multiple pages for User:Immanuelle. @Immanuelle: Do you have any plans for this page? Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 05:15, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

@Omphalographer Yes I do have plans for it. I was meaning to import it to here User:Immanuelle/sandbox/Suwa_Faith and work on it. But I thought the request was never responded to. It is part of a project for making a book talking about types of Shinto shrines. Although I cannot promise I will complete it soon. Immanuelle (discuss • contribs) 07:44, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Oh, and if that's the case, you can move this and I'll withdraw this request, is that correct? Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 00:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Can we merge in the history here? Immanuelle (discuss • contribs) 22:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

I  withdraw this request per above. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 05:35, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Ghouls of the Miskatonic

I don't think that a plot summary of a book is in-scope here. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 18:43, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 21:23, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 13:27, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Your problem is it is just the plot... it needs to include an educational textual analysis to be in scope MarcGarver (discuss • contribs) 12:47, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 22:08, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Annotations to The Joy of Music

Abandoned with minimal content. —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 15:48, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

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 (nbarth) (talk) 02:42, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Template:Deleted page

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 (discuss • contribs) 15:36, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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 (discuss • contribs) 02:28, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

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. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 03:18, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

@Omphalographer: Have you seen this reply? JJP_Master (she/they) 15:28, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 00:20, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

I deleted the categories mentioned above, moved all the generic titles to the title blacklist, and for those pages that used {{Deleted page}}, I deleted then applied creation protection. An uninvolved admin can delete {{Deleted page}} and then close this request. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 02:39, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

File:Answer-Keys 06.jpg

The following discussion has concluded. Please open a new discussion for any further comments.

Deleted per minimal consensus, and per lack of objection. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 14:55, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

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This non-free image had around 400 uses, all of which were due to its use in a widely transcluded template, in violation of the ninth non-free content criterion. Now that the image has been removed from that template, it is now orphaned, violating the seventh non-free content criterion, and should therefore be deleted. JJP_Master (she/they) 23:51, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Seems reasonable to me —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:12, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Cereal Grains Through History

Abandoned with no meaningful content —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:18, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

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.

Courtesy ping to @Karosent as the author of the book for their input. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 02:42, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Everyday Hindi–Urdu Phrases/Chapter 1: Greetings and Introductions

Strong suspicion of LLM use —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:19, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete definitely appears to be LLM-generated. Ternera (discuss • contribs) 14:38, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Introduction to Urdu Poetry

Strongly suspect LLM use —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Delete definitely appears to be LLM-generated. Ternera (discuss • contribs) 14:37, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Introduction to Lambadi Language

Strongly suspect LLM use —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 01:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)