Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/DSST Astronomy

Speedy Delete DSST Astronomy
Seems to be an advertisement because it only has one thing in it, an external link to a collage website. Arlen22 (talk) 15:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

NO SPEEDY DELETE - VFD instead. What is DSST? Arlen22 (talk) 15:22, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

It seems like these pages were created and then left for others to expand, they all have a link to the page where you can get a fact sheet for the test. Should these be left or deleted or moved into one book, I am talking about all the books in Category:DANTES_Subject_Standardized_Tests? They could prove helpful to those taking the course. We could make the outline he talks about and have it link to wikibooks that talk about that subject. I think it might be good if we would merge these into one book. The user that made these pages is User:Wellvrsd. Arlen22 (talk) 15:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Symbol comment vote.svg Comment There's an outline at DSST. These books need to remain separate, however, like the various books in Category:GCE Advanced Level.  They are not intended to be combined into one and I would oppose such a move.  Keep them all or delete them all but don't merge them together. -- Adrignola talk contribs 17:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Symbol keep vote.svg Keep all of these. There is value in the links on those books linked from DSST so I doubt we gain anything from deleting them. --Swift (talk) 18:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The links can be useful but just by themselves they do not constitute Wikibooks material, as middle ground solution, and as advanced by Arlen22, a project named "DANTES Subject Standardized Tests" (by renaming of the DSST page) should be created and all lose pages be made part of that same project, give it some time (6+ months) to see if it evolves beyond a collection of external links and if it does not we shouldn't keep it just because it is a collection of the links, since that can't be described as textbook material What is Wikibooks?. --Panic (talk) 00:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * These collections of links are useful as a spring-board for prospective editors to add content. There is no gain in deleting these.
 * Unless the test is usually called by it's full name, the acronym is more appropriate. The Wikipedia entry title is the acronym and given it's military origin it's not hard to imagine that this is the colloquial form. I've created a redirect at DANTES Subject Standardised Tests in case anyone searches for that term. --Swift (talk) 07:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I think it should still be called "DSST", and I think the link is provided as a reference to start writing. You have to go in and find the fact sheet for the article you want to write. After more studying I have come to the conclusion that these are for students to use as a test prep. I don't think we should rename them, I was just using the full category name. I also agree we should keep them separate. I will eventually make a note of what I think it is. I just learned what they are from reading the main user's page and talk: User:Wellvrsd|User talk:Wellvrsd Arlen22 (talk) 02:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keeping the title of DSST will obfuscate the subject. I advanced that title also in consideration to the ongoing discussion about book titles. What is that you see as beneficial in keeping the pages separated ?
 * I only skimmed the pages and indeed there is no real content to talk about, all project titles seems to share the definition DANTES (I didn't knew what it refereed to before reading it here and I see no benefit in keeping the related links separated especially as each page would need a very similar introduction to what it is, where the tests are accepted and other shared and necessary information.
 * I haven't a real position on what to do here, except that I share the view that the effort put to create the listing could constitute a stub but if no work is done, it will fail as be material for Wikibooks.  --Panic (talk) 02:39, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I added links to the PDF files for each test to DSST, which is better than what many of the stubs had. The stubs just had a link to the website, where readers then had to find the PDF.  Now the pertinent information is linked to from the central page.  DSST A History of the Vietnam War needs to be Symbol keep vote.svg kept, but I don't care about the stubs now that better links/their content is on another page which most definitely won't be deleted.  -- Adrignola talk contribs 03:52, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Delete creation of pages to promote site. See other pages created the same way Special:Contributions/Wellvrsd. If the pages aren't deleted the link(s) should be removed. The idea of adding links here is to get traffic for the site by using Search engine optimization via the search engines. SunCreator (talk) 14:29, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I like and what adrignola did. I   DSST, DSST A History of the Vietnam War, and any others that  have more than just a link.   Symbol delete vote.svg Delete all the others. Arlen22 (talk) 16:38, 1 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Delete. Per SunCreator. Link spamming with no meaningful content. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 21:20, 1 September 2009 (UTC)