Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Gardening

Gardening
While a gardening book would be nice, this one isn't it. It's about 100 years old, and it shows. You're instructed to use deadly poisons like arsenic and lead even! It covers two areas, the north (approximately New England and New York) and the south (approximately the US east coast, excluding the "north" and Florida). The tools are absurd. Horses??? Worst of all, the book has a wiki-hostile structure that discourages editing. The book feels closed and complete, probably because it is. It feels weird to edit this finished and historical work. Note: I think I might start a new book on this topic, but this one is in the way. AlbertCahalan 01:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. A lot of people like the idea of building on an existing work and that works fine for almost unchanging topics (e.g. World War II), but this book is far too out of date to rescue. It's a shame, a lot of work has been spent posting it. GarrettTalk 11:36, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Trans-wiki to Wikisource If this is indeed a copy of a historical book, this is something that is clearly what was intended for Wikisource. There are many books there, like the 1911 Encyclopedia Britainica, that are very dated in the material but still of incredible value as a historical reference.  I think this book is very similar.  To "update" a book like this and bring it into the 21st Century would be a worthy task, but that is part of another issue.  In that regard I would have to agree with Garrett and strongly suggest simply starting a new book from scratch, but perhaps using this book moved to Wikisource as a reference.--Rob Horning 14:33, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Project Gutenberg maintains the book here. AlbertCahalan 15:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This book has already been changed; it is no longer the same as the source text and cannot be transwikied and treated as if it is. GarrettTalk 15:55, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and transwiki as follows: (1) Create the new gardening book. (2) Merge the Wikibooks additions from the old book to the new book. (3) Revert the old book to the source (Gutenberg) text. (4) Transwiki the source text to Wikisource. Steps 2 through 4 can wait until someone wants to do them. --Kernigh 00:58, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Preparation for transwiki is in progress. Help separate contributions from Bailey's original text so Transwiki to Wikisource is possible... visit Pages to be transwikied/Gardening. --Kernigh 01:44, 20 November 2005 (UTC)