User talk:Pbb

Coding Cookbook
This surely overlaps with the http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Source_code which is also much more extensive and has more comments attached to the code. Without explanatory comments it surely doesn't qualify as a textbook or even an instruction manual. Is there any point in having both? --kwhitefoot 12:25, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Good question! Well, to begin with, before I started I searched to find a similar project and didn't find anything. I haven't search Wikisource, since (quote from Help:How to start a book) "Original, finished work should go to Wikisource. Wikibooks is a place to develop books", and this seems to me something that will never be finished. I have taken a quick look at Source code and must say I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the missing links and unclear structure... -- Peter 12:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I do agree with your opinion of the structure of Source code and also that the Wikisource guidelines are far from clear. In fact there was request to have Source code deleted, see Proposed_deletions.  I suggested it should go to Wikibooks instead but the fuss seems to have died down now.  People are still sporadically contributing to the book so perhaps you might have more impact if you try to improve that book rather than write a new one.  Unfortunately there seem to be two versions: Source code and    --kwhitefoot 22:26, 22 March 2006 (UTC)