Help talk:Contributing

My guide
I created a personal guide for creating new books at User:Whiteknight/New Book Guide. This guide represents my own personal opinions on the matter, but I think it is a helpful resource nonetheless. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 23:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Can I do this...?
I currently run an Open Source C++ project, and I was wondering if I would be allowed to start a new book documenting the usage of functions and methods in this project. It could be considered a way to make users familiar with the code. Thanks. --- Zor (talk) 08:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)


 * This is a gray area. Please see What is Wikibooks for more information. You should raise this in the general reading room with more details about this project. --Swift (talk) 09:36, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Can I do this? (2)
Would I be allowed to put together a collection of homework questions and their explained answers? Many of these questions are from textbooks (not verbatim, but close enough), and sometimes pictures are included from the textbook, or the online homework problem. Would I be allowed to include the questions, the pictures (from a book or online source), and (obviously) the answers? Also, if I'm not allowed to use their pictures, would I be allowed to reconstruct my own, and use those? Maslen (talk) 14:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Copying any other material unless it is appropriately licensed to allow copying, or public domain, is forbidden by copyright law. The same applies to images. Even if the text is free to copy, often the images are not. As a book, your idea is fine, but you need to find a way of constructing it without breaching somebody else's copyright. See Copyrights for more information. QU TalkQu 14:07, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Could you please give a yes/no answer in regards to whether I'd be allowed to add the questions from other sources ( if not verbatim, with my own pictures)? Copyrights doesn't seem to be particularly clear on this topic. Maslen (talk) 14:59, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book and the Scouting book both incorporate verbatim questions from a published source and provide answers created by the community. The amount of text in the answers far exceeds the amount in the questions.  Illustrations are a more dodgy topic.  I have seen images deleted from the Commons because they were reproductions of some other copyrighted work.  Wikibooks hosts few images (we limit that to fair-use images, because the Commons won't host them).  Wikibook's upload page redirects to the Commons where there are people well-versed in those questions.  You could take that up with them and see what they say. --Jomegat (talk) 15:23, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Suggested Edit to Academia meets the real world
Our textbooks are started by people who are familiar with the subject. Content is continually augmented by Wikibookians. This There is no is no lone professor seeking additional income... Ricreational (discuss • contribs) 21:09, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Physical science
Chemical change BekeZulu (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Copy editing
No hyphen with "ly" words, such as in the first paragraph of this page: "publicly-usable database." Should be "publicly usable database."148.75.173.19 (discuss) 03:18, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


 * , thanks. Svartava (discuss • contribs) 03:47, 27 March 2023 (UTC)