Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/RC Airplane/RCAP

RC Airplane/RCAP

 * Keep - I originally started the RCAP wiki on Wikepedia, there it was transwikied to Wikibooks. Now I am faced with another move... when will it stop? Please someone contact me when actually moving and/or deleting this article so I know that I have to change some links to this article.... (unsigned comment by user:Jandirks, July 27 2006)
 * Hi, Jandirks, I understand your frustration. Since you are the author, could you please say whether ot not this can become a book (and I do not mean textbook!), and if in the case that you'll be working on it, you'll be writing it as a book? --hagindaz 03:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Hagindaz, I would be willing to make this to a book, if I knew how to do that. Where can I find more information on that? --Jandirks 12:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any specific definition of what a book needs to look like here. Basically, the problem we have is that this book is too small, and simply an instruction manual, not a "book". If you work to expand this book, add a good navigational structure, and include other topics, there shouldnt be aproblem. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 12:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, suppose I don't have the time in the near future to work about it and add more information to make it look more like a book. What then? RCAP gets deleted? I think there is some valuable information in the article that I gathered while setting up my own UAV. It is helpful for other people for sure. Where should RCAP belong? First it was deleted from Wikipedia, now it maybe gets deleted from Wikibooks too.. Where should I put this information then? I think there are numerous Wikibooks that should be deleted because they are small.--Jandirks 12:24, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There's a distinction between a complete short guide and a incomplete book with a lot of content missing (both could be the same size). I know the line between the two is blurred on a wiki (where each "chapter" is just a page in a database), but I suppose the question that should be asked is whether you can see a set of modules in print sold at a bookstore. A book with very little content would not get deleted and would stay here on Wikibooks for years, even without any further edits (otherwise many of our best books would have been deleted long ago!). --hagindaz 13:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I think I will just wait what happens... If I have to go back to Wikipedia, so be it, if it stay here, I guess that is ok too. So far, 2 votes and both want to keep it here.--Jandirks 07:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree that this situation needs to stop in many ways. I did try to alert Wikipedia editors and deltionists about this situation by adding a strong warning that How-to content is certainly unstable and may be deleted if it is added here. Some of the people working on Wikipedia "feel good" if they have a place to move content, and Wikibooks has been a common "dumping ground" for content they find for some reason or other unacceptable but doesn't violate NPOV standards or copyright issues. This said, the content you have here is sort of in between Wikipedia and Wikibooks at the moment in terms of style and organization.  For now, I would treat it as a stub, and if content like this needs to be deleted we should establish some sort of stub policy to address this issue if people consider this to be cluttering up Wikibooks.  It also needs cleanup in term of general editing and proofing.  --Rob Horning 11:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ahem, where does it say how-tos may be removed from wikibooks? -- SB_Johnny | talk 11:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Again, there are absolutely no problems with transwiki. Nearly all transwikied howtos can comfortably be added to books or become books. --hagindaz 03:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)