Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/DiceFree

DiceFree
This is a book giving the rules of a role-playing game (which means it is not a textbook), and, according to DiceFree/Development History, it looks as though it has been invented here on Wikibooks, Jguk 08:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. This was a tricky decision, but as far as I can see, this game was either created here on wikibooks, or it was created shortly before it was written about here. Regardless, as the material was created by a wikibooks user, and is not verifiable, it violates the no original research clause. Furthermore, because it is based on the original research of a member here, it is possibly in violation of NPOV also. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 17:50, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - is there an alternate venue to send this to? Off the top of my head I can think of the RPG Wikia, but they seem to be more about settings rather than systems (although that mission description could perhaps be changed). Whatever venue is found, Oni d20 and JAGS-2 need to join it there. GarrettTalk 23:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - It looks like the incubator project is going to be serving as a more reasonable place to start totally new concepts like this. I have mixed feelings about this concept (developing an RPG via Wiki), as I think this is a really cool idea and would like to be able to find a home for this sort of content within the Wikimedia family of sister projects.  Wikibooks does fit as the best current Wikimedia project for this sort of content, but it really doesn't fit with other Wikibooks and is a very different sort of idea.  Anthere seems to like my idea that I proposed for new projects on the incubator, and if there is more than a couple of people willing to get involved, we could move this to the incubator as a new kind of project there.  Do you think we could dig up five supporters to create an RPG test Wiki?  --Rob Horning 15:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete (but re-home somewhere). This is not any sort of educational text. --Irrevenant 12:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Re-Home in RPG Wiki Josen
 * Comment I am making an archive of DiceFree on my user page. Josen
 * Wikibooks is not a web hosting service. While I havn't enforced that principle too often and only deleted a few pages in user space, it still shouldn't be a place of last resort to perserve content like this that has been voted off.  Please don't just move to your user space except as a very temporary measure.  Using the user space as a way to avoid deletion is likely to just make me and other admins upset and make it very likely to be deleted anyway.  If you think it belongs on Wikibooks, defend the content.  It either belongs on Wikibooks or it doesn't.  Subpages or content on your user page should either be directly information about you as a user, or be experiments that may eventually end up in a book, with that in mind.  BTW, most of the pages in user space that I've deleted were from vandals anyway, simply to turn "blue shirts" into "red shirts" that they deserved to remain, blocked forever.  --Rob Horning 06:46, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Deleted. User:Josen has stored a complete copy of this book in his user namespace as well, although I have not yet deleted it from that location. I will send him a message letting him know that the material has been deleted, and he needs to either remove it from his user namespace, or transfer it somewhere else. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 16:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)