Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/BOTM and COTM

BOTM and COTM
Since BOTM and COM have both been discontinued and the book winners for both have been made part of the initial list of featured books, I think the voting pages should be deleted. --dark lama  14:01, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep It may be restarted in the future and it's useful to know what's been nominated or actual past BOTM and COTM in the past. Even if we don't intend to use such features again in the near future we should just keep it anyway. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 19:51, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. "Just keep it anyway" doesnt strike me as being particularly persuasive, but I think these materials serve as a valuable historical record that could be used in the upcoming History of Wikibooks book. Furthermore, things that have historical value can be useful in determining precident and giving us a foundation for future decision-making. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 21:14, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment Why would voting pages have any historical value? If the historical use of BOTM and COM on this project are recorded in the History of Wikibooks book, then why would there be any need to keep them around for determining precedent? What prevents featured books from being used in determining precedent and as a foundation for future decision-making? Featured books replaces both BOTM and COM, so is unlikely to be restarted in the future, and even if they were started again, I don't see past votes needing to be kept around for that to happen. --dark [[Image:Yin yang.svg|12px]] lama 11:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep - I think this is a terrible idea. To begin with, what real harm is done by keeping these pages?  They certainly are a part of the history of Wikibooks, and there is no need to free up hard drive space on the servers keeping Wikibooks content.  The historical value is to see just where the BOTM and COM have been useful and perhaps why they failed to succeed in terms of what the original goals of those two projects were for Wikibooks.  Certainly patterns of usage by those who participated in the votes is something that would be useful to look over if anything like this is suggested in the future.  It will be important to see the original pages if this is to happen.  Instead, I would strongly recommend that the pages are hard protected (sysop only) against changes precisely because of the historical value as opposed to any sort of normal content pages.  And they should be kept in the Wikibooks namespace as they are project related pages and not something content related as well.  --Rob Horning 07:24, 22 April 2007 (UTC)