Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Operating System Design

My Perfect OS
As for me this is an original research, what do you think? --Derbeth talk 19:17, 15 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment. It does reek of original research and pov. "Trying to determine the best_____" is not a good sign. -- LV (Dark Mark) 19:26, 15 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Little to no content, little to no active work being done (in stub form after a year).  Purely opinionary.  It sounds almost like someone with no programming experience wanted to convince someone to write him an OS.  I think it ought to go.  --Gabe Sechan 20:54, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep In its new form, its perfectly fine- a book on OS design rather than opinions on OSes.  In this form, I hope it gets a lot more content added.  --Gabe Sechan 17:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Not a textbook. And the title does not imply NPOV. Juliusross 01:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete "Everyone is invited to help with this book, however before editing the page directly click the 'discussion' tab and comment on the pages as this book is based around the opinions of a group, not just one person." That is, the book is a soapbox for opinions (violates WB:WIW) and does not use neutral point of view. I have considered rewriting this book into an introduction for A Neutral Look at Operating Systems, but none of the content seems to be useful. --Kernigh 02:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This book became Operating System Design. --Kernigh 05:41, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I thought wiki was also about fact and accuracy - there were computer before the US discovered them (Babage Turing et al ) This isn't even factual -please delete
 * Delete Irredemable factual errors and strong appearance of being original research. The goal of this Wikibook seems to try and determine the strongest features of each operating system for inclusion in some as yet unwritten new operating system.  NPOV issue may be a little harsh, but I will grant that it is largely opinion as well for most of what is written in this Wikibook.  Surprisingly, several different people have contributed to this Wikibook, so it isn't just a single soapbox.  Ditto on the above reasons to delete as well.  --Rob Horning 18:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a textbook. --JMRyan 23:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete I was going to put this one up for VfD myself, but i wanted to give it a day to shape up. It didnt. FINISH HIM --Whiteknight T C E 23:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, with conditions. There are plenty of courses at a range of institutions on OS / OS Kernel design. I would be tempted to move this book to somewhere like Operating System Design, remove original research, and clean it up... AmishThrasher 00:52, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Okay, I ripped its guts out, it still needs a lot of work, but it does look like it's salvagable. Amongst other things, I've moved the page from My Perfect OS to Operating System Design, added some content from Wikipedia, and ripped out most of what was there previously. As I said earlier, there are a number of Computer Science courses at various Universities which focus on Operating System Design. This book now has potential as a useful resource for the students of those courses. For those who have already commented, it may be worth taking another look at it before deleting. AmishThrasher 02:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I haven't reed through it completely, but I think now it can be left at Wikibooks. Perhaps we should insert Disputed, but IMO it's not a subject of speedy deletion now. --Derbeth talk 09:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Good job AmishTrasher, I think we can keep the book now. Heck, I'll even come in and contribute to it a little bit (if i have time between all the other books i'm working on). --Whiteknight T C E 17:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Not a textbook. Mikkalai 18:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I love the changes that have been made, particularly dealing with the NPOV issues. I see no reason to remove this book in its present condition.  Thanks AmishTrasher.  --Rob Horning 19:03, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

The book in question has already been removed, and replaced with a link to the new Operating System Design book. I think this solution will satisfy everybody here, so long as Operating System Design keeps a handle on the POV issues of the "My Perfect OS" book. This discussion will be archived in 1 week. --Whiteknight T C E 13:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)