Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/An Unexpected Visitor

An Unexpected Visitor
I had completely forgotten about this little Wikibook that has been hiding out on the Arts bookshelf. This is original fiction, and IMHO needs to be transwikied to the Fiction Wikicity or some as yet unnamed fiction Wikimedia project. This is a neat book, but the discussion about keeping or removing fiction from Wikibooks has been decided some time ago, and I guess this book was ignored during that whole discussion.

WB:WIN clearly states that Wikibooks is not a place to publish original works, specifically mentioning fiction in a sub-clause. This Wikibook predates that change to the policy though. I'm not sure how many other books like this are on here. I certainly don't want to see somebody coming here and suggesting that they can start a new book like this, using this book as a model. --Rob Horning 18:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Move to http://novelas.wikicities.com - that is the Wikicity for fiction. This process has occured before; Ardvark the Aardvark moved there from Wikibooks. I edit Novelas occasionally, so I might do the move within the week. If we move the book, but the authors do not give permission, we might need to give the book a new title (GFDL section 4A). --Kernigh 06:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I was unaware of this requirement of the GFDL. I know Richard Stallman had a reason for putting this clause in, but  it does seem link a serious legal hassle to deal with this whenever you do a transwiki of something.  If we were just moving the content from one Wikimedia site to another, I don't think this would be a problem simply because we would be moving the physical address location.  Because we are moving this to another organization entirely, yeah, this is a problem.  --Rob Horning 18:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Normally it is easy. One wiki is called "Wikipedia", for example, and the other is "Wiktionary", so transwiki automatically changes the title because it moved something from one book to another. In this case though, we transwiki an entire book. --Kernigh 00:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment From Author of An Unexpected Visitor - Feel free to move this book to the Wikicity for fiction. I am a big fan of Wikipedia and use it on a daily basis. I was not aware of this Wikicity. It seems like a good home, especially if people edit and add to the story. -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Acohen843 (talk • contribs).


 * Transwikied and deleted --Kernigh 03:13, 24 February 2006 (UTC)