Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Helium

Helium
Helium, Lithium etc.


 * See also Periodic Table for the source of these headaches. --Rob Horning 11:11, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

The content is simply copied from Wikipedia. I think it should be replaced by wikipedia. --Derbeth 08:45, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete - But I'd like a quick review just before we do that. This is indeed forking of Wikipedia content, and there doesn't even appear to be an attempt to fix this content to make it work on Wikibooks.  We are never going to have "articles" that the red links imply, nor should we.  If this were to be a compendium of elements to get into the depth that the CRC handbook does for each element, that would be another story.  This is not the case, however, for what has been done here. --Rob Horning 11:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Looking at this, it appears that we need a more general cleanup of General Chemistry, including perhaps renaming pages to a more standard naming convention. New contributors are seeing red links and adding content that is inappropriate to Wikibooks.  IMHO, the periodic table is fine, just that the links need to be changed to point to Wikipedia instead.  I'm not going to do that until we clean up all of the messes from people trying to add content "filling in" this table. --Rob Horning 11:19, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Deleted - I went through and deleted all of the element pages that had been added earlier. They were either very short stubs or complete duplication of Wikipedia content.  Periodic Table remains, but I renamed it to a subpage of General Chemistry instead with all links for each element going to wikipedia instead.  This section can be archived in about a week from now.  --Rob Horning 23:50, 22 October 2005 (UTC)