Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/NetHack

NetHack
I did not start the NetHack computer game documentation project, but I had split this book into subpages and started a tutorial. Thus I believe myself to be the recent leading contributor. However, I now prefer to contribute to a fork that exists at http://strategywiki.net/wiki/NetHack

Some other such guides were speedily deleted, probably under the Deletion policy provision for deleting "A page which has been transwikied to more appropriate wiki." However, my interpretation of the policy does not allow me to call for a speedy deletion. This is because Deletion policy references Template:Transwiki, which states that "This page should be transwikied out of the English Wikibooks and into another Wikimedia project." Because Strategy Wiki is not a Wikimedia project, and because the project is appropriate for both wikis, I cannot ask for a speedy deletion; that is, there is no provisional for arbitrary wikis external to Wikibooks to seize content away from Wikibooks Further, despite the apparent movement to remove computer game documentation from Wikibooks, we have not implemented a procedure that would allow me to bypass VFD (or if we did implement a procedure, I am not yet aware of it). Thus, I ask to delete NetHack, and link the NetHack page to http://strategywiki.net/wiki/NetHack, and I request other users to indicate their positions in favor or against deletion.

The images for this Wikibook are stored on Wikimedia Commons under the "NetHack General Public License", so they are beyond the scope of this VFD. --Kernigh 04:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Agree with Kernigh's request for deletion. It's clear from Jimmy's comments that computer and video games do need to leave wikibooks, and it's sensible to interpret the deletion policy (which, incidentally, is still only "proposed" rather than "enforced") in a way that allows for deletion of this material once it has been removed to an alternative, non-WMF wiki. (Indeed, looking at the proposed policy, deletion of this material is allowed because it is not compliant with WB:WIW (as amended/interpreted by Jimbo), although I'd strongly resist this happening without transwiki first). On a more general point, of the books listed on Books possibly in contravention with WIW, it looks as though there's consensus that the computer and video games will go (although, quite correctly, the list of them on that page is being checked for factual accuracy), and that we will need further discussion about the other books listed on that page later, Jguk 05:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Deleted 15:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)