Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2017/May

Visual physics and mathematics
Anyone is invited to contribute. Thierry Dugnolle (discuss • contribs) 13:40, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

If your machine is not powerful enough to do the shooting of your scripts, you can ask for help:
 * Thierry Dugnolle (discuss • contribs) 08:11, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Trash can image in Template:RfD
Is the trash can image in Template:Rfd necessary? While we want that template to be attention-grabbing, so that as many people interested in the relevant book as possible see it, I wonder if the trash can makes for too strong imagery. After all, RfDs do not aim at establishing consensus about the absolute worth of books, but merely about whether they are a good fit for the project, and RfDs not uncommonly result in relocation, rather than outright deletion. Removing the can would also be in line with the softening of the tone of the template text, done a few years ago (I couldn't find the discussions, if any, that led to the change). --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I think it's a good idea. 13 years ago, I stopped working at Wikipedia, because of a trash can image. Thierry Dugnolle (discuss • contribs) 20:40, 8 May 2017 (UTC) It was the reaction of a newcomer, who didn't understand the rules, and whose pride was hurt, like many other new wikipedians. With a little more experience, I understood that such practices are not a problem, and that it's better to lower one's pride to be a good worker, but newcomers usually don't already know that. As older wikibookians, we should be careful about their pride. At least, I think so. Thierry Dugnolle (discuss • contribs) 06:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Would you prefer a question mark image guys? JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 22:57, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I first thought of an exclamation warning sign, but that is too similar to Template:Delete and Template:Impending Doom. A question mark might work. Another option is using no image at all, as in the corresponding Wikipedia template. --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 00:20, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fwiw, for a Wikinews not-ready review we use Symbol question.svg. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 03:21, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * As an experiment, I subbed in this image to see what it would look like:


 * --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 03:56, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Good. Thierry Dugnolle (discuss • contribs) 06:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Endorsed. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 07:43, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It looks fine. --Duplode (discuss • contribs) 08:12, 9 May 2017 (UTC)