Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2013/August

Closing noticeboards
I propose to close Reading room/Projects and Reading room/Technical Assistance as they are not used and could be replaced with the General noticeboard easily. I would w:WP:BOLD be bold, but the nav.template is fully-protected (although it says semi-protected) Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 15:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * They are used, from time to time. They do not appear to me to do any harm.  So I for one see no need to close them.  One would need to think very carefully about the distribution of functions amongst the reading rooms, too.


 * I do note that being bold (the link you want, btw, is not to the Wikipedian guideline but to the Wikibookian one) should be leavened with reasonable discretion. Closing reading rooms isn't something to be done unilaterally.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 23:09, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It's easier to watch a fewer boards than many. Reading room/Technical Assistance has two threads, but there are no responses at either of them. As there are not many threads in general, it would be easy to keep track of threads even if there are a couple more on the noticeboard.  Ebe123 (discuss • contribs) 01:30, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hm. I don't think it's significantly easier to watch slightly fewer boards, if one uses a watchlist.
 * The two threads that are there appear to be old ones that, for one reason or another, the archiving bot doesn't like. Not sure there's anything to be inferred from them, except perhaps that the bot is cantankerous as all bots.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:45, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Don't see the need to close the boards. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 14:51, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * More than addressing a particular taste there is also the problem of that the change has been too recent and continual alterations are even a greater deterrent to utilization/usefulness.
 * I confess that I prefer simplification but since the change has already made (fragmentation by specific subjects) I don't see any advantage in going back.
 * I'm opposed to the proposal on those grounds.
 * My preferred pet peeve with the Reading rooms is the stupid even rule breaking archival of open subjects in the proposal and administrative "forums" were subjects aren't ever given a resolutions/closure. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:41, 1 August 2013 (UTC)