Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2022/January

The proposal
This would allow users to submit amendments to our strategy guides policy.

Debate
There are 2 options here. 96.18.219.55 (discuss) 18:24, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) Keep: This would keep the status quo.
 * 2) Amend: This would allow the community to amend Strategy guides with consensus.

Repeal
NOTE: I am removing "Repeal".

Keep

 * Keep We just talked about this. Your arguments about (1) the potential for fancruft are overcome by just having more eyes on projects: encyclopedia articles about popular culture can attract fancruft as well. Video game strategies (2) are books: I've read several myself. And (3) any topic could have POV concerns. I don't even understand the motivation for this. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:31, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Speedy close This is nonsense: now that it's been revised, the proposal is just "Allow us to amend policies". This is a wiki: that's true of virtually every page. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree with the points Koavf raised. Furthermore, I'd note that Neutral point of view and other Wikibooks policies still apply to strategy guides. In the strategy guide policy at Strategy guides it is explicitly stated that content must follow neutral point of view policies. Even if it were not explicitly stated in the strategy guide policy itself, sitewide policies like NPOV would still apply. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 23:29, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - A lot of Wikipedia gaming articles have been relocated here, many of which were deleted for 13-15 years, and now they have found an official purpose for reuse, as they did not benefit Wikipedia's scope but ended up greatly benefiting Wikibooks' scope. Also, the original proposal for reversing the ban on strategy guides raised an excellent point about how chess and, I think, board games were allowed to be covered but that it makes no sense that video games were not allowed to be covered. Another thing is that CC-BY-SA license is not subject to copyright, but the images and media are and fall under a strict fair use license with rationale required. 2005-Fan (discuss • contribs) 03:08, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a pointless proposal. Even if "Amend" were to be the majority vote, this doesn't mean that a user can unilaterally make changes to the guide - consensus is always required (which doesn't need this proposal at all). Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 04:40, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * KEEP per above arguments. -Gifnk dlm 2020 Happy New Year 🎄❄️⛄️🎇 (talk) 05:16, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note:this user might be a sock puppet.96.18.219.55 (discuss) 17:05, 10 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Keep poor arguments and it seems like the IP is targetting Gifnk dlm 2020. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 21:09, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Community Wishlist: "Fix export at Wikibooks"
Noticed this came up at the Community Wishlist Survey over on Meta at Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Fix export at wikibooks to PDF, MOBI, .... Since it's directly related to Wikibooks, I figured I'd post about it here. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 16:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing this out . I will support it. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 19:47, 31 January 2022 (UTC)