Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Chinese bookshelf

Chinese bookshelf
This page was originally a splash page at Chinese leading to Chinese: Contents. It contained a splash image that was duplicated (and consequently self-linking) at Chinese: Contents and flags of Chinese-speaking countries/regions. In Oct 2004, User:Sped moved it to its current location and replaced all the content. In Nov 2004 218.80.208.18 added in copyrighted material.

Since then, I have copied the flags to Chinese/About_Chinese and the Chinese Wikibook has stopped using a splash page. Additionally, the bookshelf convention is listed as deprecated in Wikibooks:Naming policy. When in effect, this page acted as a confusing barrier between users and the information sought, essentially acting as a second splash page. — Everlong
 * Delete — Everlong 19:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - It looks like there are several other issues that need to be resolved with this page as well. On the whole, creating a bookshelf shouldn't be that big of a deal, but the idea of a bookshelf is that there are going to be several Wikibooks "on" the bookshelf... or at least linked from it.  There are a few bookshelves that don't do a good job, or have duplicated content from elsewhere.  I think it is better to "force a need" for a bookshelf, such as what happened when the IT bookshelf was broken up into the Computer Science, IT, and Computing bookshelves simply due to the huge number of Wikibooks on that one bookshelf.  Otherwise, it should perhaps be moved to a sub-section of the Languages bookshelf.  On the whole, this discussion shouldn't take place here on the VfD page, but rather on Talk:Main Page or better yet Talk:All bookshelves (which unfortunately does not have any discussion on it for general bookshelf organization).  Once you (Everlong) have moved stuff around that doesn't belong on the Chinese bookshelf and put the proper links on the Languages bookshelf to make sure nothing gets lost from this bookshelf, feel free to add  somwhere on the bookshelf to make it a speedy delete.  --Rob Horning 21:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Languages bookshelf. &mdash;Snargle 06:20, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I would say to make it a redirect and merge with Chinese (Mandarin), which is the strategy I used with BSD bookshelf -> Guide to UNIX/BSD, but the entire page is useless except the three Wikipedia links. If the three links must be retained, copy and paste them to Chinese (Mandarin). It is also not necessary to keep the older revisions which were cover pages. There were several edits over what flags to include, but Everlong is correct that the cover image and other flags are preserved by the current Wikibook. --Kernigh 03:51, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reasons stated above. --Whiteknight T C E 18:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Is the general concensus then to delete? there are 3 votes to delete, no votes to keep, 1 vote to merge, and there has been no discussion on the point for over a month. --Whiteknight T C E 18:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Deleted. There has been ample time to mount a defense for this page, but now it is gone. --Whiteknight T C E 17:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)