Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/America's Army: Special Forces

America's Army: Special Forces
Keep: I strongly disagree with Aphonik's opinion that this book has "no meaningful content concerning the game". The book is unfortunately not very well named. The image at the top of the main page has the more appropriate name, "America's Army: Special Forces - Community Tactics Guide", which describes the majority of the content. I think an action more appropriate than requesting the speedy deletion of the book would be to indicate that it is a module that needs attention. Canscorch 02:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Current policy says that wikibooks is not a host for videogame walkthroughs and tactics guides. Wikibooks is for textbooks. Now, if this book used America's Army to teach a topic, and wasn't just a walkthough, we might be able to keep it. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 16:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but Transwiki. Although the current book is far from a walk-through, from the research I've done I believe that this should be Transwiki'd. This can be indicated by adding the tag to the top of the module. It appears that there is a WikiWiki called StrategyWiki where several similar guides have been trans-wiki'd to. I also suggest that probably most things under Computer and video games bookshelf should suffer the same fate. Canscorch 04:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - For a Wikibook that has been on here for almost the whole history of this project, it is a sad commentary that it is being removed and transwikied out of hand with barely a whimper. I'm glad that at least somebody decided to post a VfD first and solicit comments before the content was completely removed and deleted.  --Rob Horning 06:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

*Keep - My personal view, admittedly biased, is that this was an effort to compile every last bit of knowlage about the game into one place. It was meant to be a resource even to advanced players in which the smallest aspects about the game can be researched. How this should be dealt with, I don't know, but that was my view about the direction the wiki should take. --DesertFox_59 {X} 05:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Transwikied - I changed my mind and Transwikied it to http://strategywiki.org/wiki/America%27s_Army at Cansorch's suggestion. --DesertFox_59 {X} 20:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep!!! You are quoting a PROPOSED POLICY, located at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Game_textbook_guidelines.  Furthermore, it is up for debate if the book contains "more than just a walkthrough or database", because of its Cheat Detection guide, information on the weapons, etc.  Perhaps move the strategy portions over to Strategywiki, and keep the rest of the information intact?  And yes, I do still keep tabs on this project I started, and that someone suggested deletion is very disturbing to me. -LonePhantom, from work
 * Comment. To be fair, the Game textbook guidelines policy is slated for "rejection", and is not the policy that is cited here for reasons to delete this book. WB:WIW states unambiguously "Wikibooks is for the creation of textbooks", not "walkthroughs", "stragegy guides", or "Books that are not textbooks". Granted, there is no firm definition yet of what precisely a "textbook" is, but I think you will be hard-pressed to create a reasonable definition for the word that includes such works as the America's Army: Special Forces book. There is a working proposal at Textbooks that is much more relevant to this discussion, and while it is only "proposed" at the moment, it does have a large following among current contributors. Beyond that, it would seem that all further arguments here are moot, because the book is already being transwikied. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 16:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


 * This now exists at Strategywiki and has been expanded beyond its content here. Delete as with Doom if no-one objects. --Swift 02:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I would tend to agree. No sense forking content unnecessarily.--Whiteknight (Discuss this) 14:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Deleting. (Undelete?) -- much more developed on the other wiki, mostly stubs and vandalism on the pages here. -- SB_Johnny | talk 10:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Training Tips for Close Quarters Combat
America's Army: Special Forces/Timing tips for Close Quarters situations Guide attributed to external source. --Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 18:35, 2 July 2021 (UTC)