Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Purported Ancient Worlds

Purported Ancient Worlds
Looks to be pretty simple, going nowhere. -within focus 23:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment The book currently doesnt violate any policies that I can think of, but It does seem ripe for future violations. The difference between the statements "atlantis might have existed", and "atlantis did exist" is a small difference, and if such a change was made by a malicious (or ignorant) user, it is unlikely to ever be caught or reverted. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 22:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep. It's not doing any harm. --Swift 23:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't even understand the reason  M in un  ''Spiderman 18:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 4-5 pages of possible original research that has had essentially no development since mid-May as well as being incredibly simple and unpromising in its current state. -within focus 02:51, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, alot of this stuff is common knowledge, and at the same time the book does try very hard in it's prose to avoid trying to present myth as fact. At least, this is what I have seen. Also, Book creation takes a long time, and there are plenty of books with some material that haven't progressed in a year or more. This kind of inactivity, while unfortunate, is not grounds for deletion of a book. Books are allowed to be incomplete, and they are allowed to be stubs. Typically, we have only taken a hard line against books that are "hopeless stubs", or "eternal stubs". --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:02, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - This is something that can have citable references and become something of a scholarly study, but I would agree that in its current state it appears destined to become one of the eternal unfinished works of Wikibooks. I disagree that neither malicious nor ignorant users would have POV violations last long on Wikibooks for this book, or at least as long as they would last for any Wikibook given the equivalent volume of people who view the content.  POV violations do get caught and corrected over time, and a surprising number of people do actually read Wikibooks content, even obscure volumes like this one.  Books like this are precisely ones that we should encourage development to broaden the range of users and participants on Wikibooks, rather than yet another computer programming langauge book.  --Rob Horning 21:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Closed as survive - talk page marked -- Herby talk thyme 15:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)