User talk:KXL

You have been "dumping" (to use your own phraseology) some pages on The Complete Peanuts Annotations that were previously on Wikipedia. Wikibooks is, however, for textbooks, and the pages you have added do not appear to be textbooks. I will leave things a short while to give you a chance to put me right if I have misunderstood the situation, otherwise these pages will be deleted shortly, Jguk 12:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid what you've been told at Wikipedia is wrong. Wikibooks is a separate Wikimedia project. This means we are independent of Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is independent of us, although there are, of course, many linkages and similarities as you'd expect of sister projects. Just as Wikipedia has its own inclusion criteria, so Wikibooks has its own inclusion criteria too - and it does not follow that just because something does not meet Wikipedia's inclusion criteria it must necessarily meet the inclusion criteria of another Wikimedia project.


 * Wikibooks' inclusion criteria is for textbooks. This can include annotated texts if they are suitable for study of the books as part of, say, a course in English Literature. But they ought to have the feel of a textbook, rather than just be a series of what are essentially footnotes. It is somewhat unfortunate that many Wikipedians are unaware of our inclusion criteria and therefore end up making misleading suggestions where there is book like material added to Wikipedia which is outside its scope.


 * On the face of it, your additions are not those of a textbook. Now, it may be your intention to develop these pages further so that they are part of a textbook - in which case there would be no objection to them staying here and forming part of that textbook. However, if that is not your intention, then the content unfortunately does not belong here and will therefore be deleted. All the best, Jguk 12:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

OK. Good luck in finding a suitable home for it. Incidentally, I think the best "annotated text" we have is Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter. If you ever are thinking of providing an annotated text textbook, that would be a good guide to follow. Kind regards, Jguk 13:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)