Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Glossary of Astronomical Terms

Glossary of Astronomical Terms
This is one Wikibook I didn't know about when we made the policy change on WB:WIN regarding glossaries and dictionaries. It is an outstanding reference book in its own right, and has done a better job with some of these terms than Wikitionary.

I am proposing one of two possibilities:


 * 1) Doing a transwiki to en.wiktionary (our loss but a big gain for that project)
 * 2) Merging this into the Astronomy Wikibook (turning that Wikibook into something really outstanding)

I don't think it should remain as an independent Wikibook, however, in keeping with the spirit of the idea that Wikibooks is not a dictionary --Rob Horning 16:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wiktionary or delete. Do not merge this into the narrative of Astronomy! I'm not kidding. Nothing in there is suitable for the main text, with the possible exception of the "canals" entry. Trying to merge the entire thing into astronomy would just create a big headache for me and waste your time in the long run. If you're talking about consolidating it into a one page glossary for Astronomy, that's more of an option, but also something I don't want for the Astronomy book right now. It would need a lot of cleanup to become something resembing a glossary, and I suspect it would constantly suffer from drive-by contributors adding in material of dubious value. I've long been thinking about what to do with GAT and have been avoiding it. Make it go away. --Brian Brondel 21:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I just dropped a note at the Wiktionary Beer Parlour to see if anybody there is interested in helping with a transwiki of the content... or at least if they think it is a good idea to send that content over to Wiktionary. If they don't want it, I'm fine with just deleting the content.  IMHO a specialized glossary on Wiktionary of astronomical terms might be something useful to link to, but that is something for another discussion elsewhere.  --Rob Horning 16:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * As per this earlier conversion, I'd say this is welcome at Wiktionary. --Connel MacKenzie 16:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * In the process of moving it to Wikt:Appendix:Astronomical_terms --Dangherous 16:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki Dangherous's link now redirects to Wikt:Wiktionary:Astronomical terms. --Kernigh 03:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say that a lot of this is encyclopaedia, not dictionary material. I know we'd like to have a lot of it in Wiktionary, stripped down to simple defintions, but I think it will have far less value in Wiktionary than in it's present form. A technical glossary is a lot more than a dictionary. Richardb of Wiktionary. 4/4/06