Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII
Another FF one -- Herby talk thyme 18:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep I'm happy with keeping video game guides here especially if they were created before new guidelines were written. If video game guides bring more people to the project then that's a good thing. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Poland_2.svg|15px]]talk 22:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Just like we've been doing with the rest of them. Keeping guides here was "forbidden" some time ago and there are better homes for them elsewhere like StrategyWiki. Please remember to set up a page like Second Life as the redirect including the page protection and deleting the talk page. -within focus 06:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to strategy wiki; it is also GFDL, and it is intended specifically for game guides such as this. PCU123456789 (talk) 18:51, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Videogame guides are not textbooks, cannot be used to teach a class in a school or other academic place of learning, and do not belong on wikibooks. That this book might help to bring traffic to our project does not matter. This book, and all videogame strategy guides are outside the mission of wikibooks, and do not belong here. The current text of WB:WIW states "Wikibooks hosts educational resources", and also says "[wikibooks] ...is for textbooks. A textbook is a book which is actually usable in an existing class". Videogame strategy guides do not meet this criteria. The proposed rewrite of the WB:WIW policy, located at What is Wikibooks/Unstable Goes further by explicitly stating that videogame strategy guides are not allowed here, and that policy is getting very close to being accepted wholesale by the community. I am not against a last-ditch effort to move this book to a more appropriate place, but this book is a violation of policy, and therefore must be deleted. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 21:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - The video game guides were never removed from Wikibooks gracefully and with the full concensus of Wikibooks users. It was more of an aquiescense that perhaps rather than trying to fight city hall that everybody involved with their development could simply go elsewhere.  And I believe that Wikibooks lost considerable energy and new talent as a result.  I know of several Wikibookians that got their start developing sections of the video game guides that later went on for some of the more "traditional" textbooks.  That several of these video game guides are still here on Wikibooks is more of a testament about how divisive this whole issue became and that the issue was never really fully resolved.  --Rob Horning 23:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, but make sure it's transwikied first. -- SB_Johnny | talk 23:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Copied the info with a list of contributors to Final Fantasy VIII/Characters, Final Fantasy VIII/Other characters, Final Fantasy VIII/Timeline, and Final Fantasy VIII/Guardian forces. -- Prod-You 06:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)