Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/How to Learn a Language

How to Learn a Language

 * Keep - There are several books being sold - 20-70 pages - that are almost completely covered by information here. In the two published paper books I've read myself, they simply give examples of each method and have entertaining sidenotes to bulkup the pages.  Useful books no doubt though.  This page covers much of it well, and also links to many other resources.  Definitely keep. --Jowe 15:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I now see that you can in fact write a book on the subject! I'll mark the page for cleanup if this is kept. --hagindaz 02:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * keep Sblive 20:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - Agree with Jowe. This is the most helpful Wikibook I've found. - Gabriel Koulikov 06:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep -- This was very helpful in a discussion I just had in my wife, as we both want to learn new languages but are somewhat discouraged, given our failures to retain the foreign language lessons from high school.
 * Keep - This is really interesting
 * Yes, I agree with the above three comments that this book is "helpful" and "interesting." Fiction, jokebooks and encyclopedia articles also are. Could one of you please explain how that has any bearing on whether something is appropriate for Wikibooks or not? A book has never been deleted because it is not interesting to a reader, and has never been kept because it is. For some reason, I see comments like these quite often here on Wikibooks, but almost never on Wikipedia. --hagindaz 02:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Very useful. Hagindaz, it's hard to know how to respond, as I can't see what justification has been given for deletion. There may be a good reason, but I don't know what it is. --Singkong2005 05:58, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I am glad you have taken a greater interest in helping Wikibooks, Singkong. This page violates the community agreed-upon/accepted/enforced/not mandated by autocrat Jimbo policy that Wikibooks is for books, codified in the enforced WB:WIW. This is not a book, of any degree of completion, and does not remotely resemble a book. There are three possible solutions:
 * If it can be adapted into a book, it should be marked for cleanup.
 * If it can be merged into a yet to be created book, it should be moved back into transwiki.
 * If it doesn't fit into the above two categories, it should be deleted from Wikibooks.
 * Your personal opinion (and mine) is irrelevant. VFD should not be used for the creation of new policies of the modification of existing agreed-upon policies, but rather for the enforcement of existing policies. --hagindaz 21:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. As seems to be already agreed above, books can be (and have been) written on this topic. Another way of looking at it is that it could be a module used in all of the language courses - I don't know if or how that works in Wikibooks, but it seems to be a logical way to deal with such material. Anyhow, a cleanup tag seems the best choice.
 * I don't understand how your last comment on opinion & policy relates to this discussion. Deletion policy does state: "Please include a justification for deletion" and following that policy would help us know exactly what we were supposed to be responding to. I don't mean to sound harsh, and if you did post a justification which I missed, then I apologise. --Singkong2005 03:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Strong keep -- Even as a linguist and a language enthusiast, motivation can be hard to come by when studying a new language. This wikibook has given me a new insight on techniques for studying during my busy schedule. I would be grateful if such a book is kept.

The vote is very clear - so can we now declare this closed and replace the tag with a cleanup tag? Thanks. --Singkong2005 00:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)