Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations/Addition/Book of Magic

Book of Magic
A small but very interesting book. Xania talk 20:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Symbol comment vote.svg|15px]] Comment Interesting but a bit thin at the moment. RobinH 16:17, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose Only 6 pages in the TOC, and one of those links is red. The pages that do exist are not complete and are frequently very brief. There is no inter-page navigation. There are only two images, when most of the material really could benefit from illustration, or even video files (which i admit is still a rarity for our books). "interesting" is not the same as "good". --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 16:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol comment vote.svg|15px]] Comment That's fine.  I didn't like your previous comment though about "the rush to nominate featured books".  I am nominating books which I have found useful.  A good book does not need to be 50 pages long.  A good book does not need to be complete (that's the good thing about "Internet books").  If we only chose the really big and prettily formatted books then we'd probably end up with a host of computer-related books (as the authors of these books are better at formatting wiki text) which wouldn't appeal to all of our potential readers.  We should have a wide range of books as featured books. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 20:18, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't trying to offend you with that comment, and i humbly apologize if i did. I really and sincerely feel that featuring 10 fantastic books will be better for everybody then featuring 100 books that are just alright. Also, i'm not judging on completeness because the one book that i've nominated so far was very far from complete (there are almost 20 new chapters I need to start writing!). Unlike the BOTM, books can be nominated at any time, and we can nominate as many books in a week or a month as we want. If a book isn't ready today, we can fix it and make it ready tomorrow, or even next week. We have alot of flexibility now with the new "featured book" system, and we really don't need to be in any hurry. As to the issue with book diversity, we have more featured books right now about made-up languages then we do about programming languages. There is nothing wrong with showing a little of our strength, even if it is in an unpopular subject. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 20:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol comment vote.svg|15px]] Comment I've commented on the talk page, I think it'd be better to discuss this on the talk page though so as not to clutter the votes.
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose - desperately in need of more illustrations, and perhaps some charts a la UML sequence diagrams. Webaware talk 04:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Not done --Whiteknight (talk) 13:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)