Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Veela

Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Veela
I have no idea about Harry Potter but I believe the content of this page might be bullshit. The user who created this page had previously vandalised another Harry Potter page only a few minutes before. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xania (talk • contribs).


 * I dont know about it either. Let's ask matt, and see if "veela" is a real thing from harry potter. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 22:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Discussion out of Order - this is (yet another) attempt to deal with an individual page with the VfD area. Usually this is done as a spill over from a heated discussion on the "main" Wikibook talk page, which is where discussions like this ought to go.  If you have a problem with a whole Wikibook being inappropriate, go ahead and list it here.  This page should not go into minutae of editorial policies of very active Wikibooks like the Muggles' Guide, where clearly there is a community of people who can deal with if this should remain or be speedy deleted.  --Rob Horning 22:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Ahem, please don't bite the newbies... Xania is a wikipedian-wikibookian, who's been kind enough to do a lot of new page patrolling over the past few weeks, probably doesn't know about the tough times that the muggle's guide went through on this page (i.e., VfD) in the past, and also probably doesn't know that one of our most active administrators (Withinfocus) is quite actively overseeing that book. (Robert, you're spending too much time on wikipedia... I can tell because you're saying things like "out of order", and not welcoming new wikibookians in your usual, loving way. Xania is good people :-).) -- SB_Johnny | talk 23:46, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not trying to bite newcommers here. I'm just saying that I don't think it is appropriate to raise discussion about a rather insignificant page with only one line of text, considering it is just a stub anyway, to be dealt with as a major VfD discussion.  If there is a debate about the merits of this page, it ought to take place within the context of the Wikibook under discussion and not be worked over by the body of general Wikibookians.  In other words, this is an attempt to bite the newcommer, as in the newcommer who created this page in the first place.  I'm defending that person, not the one who nominated it for deletion.  VfD discussions are a huge bat to swing and destroy stuff, and can get out of hand very easily, and I don't think this discussion was appropriate in the first place, especially on this VfD page.  --Rob Horning 17:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem. I only learn from messing up!  But, just out of interest, is Veela a real person or not?  Was this vandalism? Xania 00:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * My bro says that at least some of the info is true. They are a species, Fleur is part Veela, but I didn't ask him about the "overpoweringly beautiful" part. -- Prod-You 02:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Deleted - Veela are in fact a "species" of human-like creature and the written blurb is true, and so this page's existence is valid. However, this page is a useless stub and isn't formatted in any way whatsoever like the rest of the Muggles' Guide's pages are. It's gone until properly created. I'm glad people find these stubs, because anonymous users are constantly creating them with five word entries. -within focus 15:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)