Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Serial Programming/RS-232

Serial Programming:RS-232 Technical Manual
This page was an attempt to fork from the main serial data communications book Serial Programming, and afterwards "highjack" modules from the Serial Programming book: The serial data communications modules modules and discussion pages were plastered with "this should be merged with the RS-232 Technical Manual book". Apparently this strategy didn't work out. The Serial Programming:RS-232 Technical Manual is as empty as ever, and should go down the drain, because of lack of contents, lack of support and duplication. 85.72.171.181 19:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I say merge instead of delete; make sure all info is properly merged, and then delete the book. --Dragontamer 22:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC)


 * There is nothing to merge. This "Technical Manual" (and a few more serial "Technical Manuals") are pure fiction. They are either empty, or point to, or redirect to sections from the Serial Data Communications book. The particular one, Serial Programming:RS-232 Technical Manual, consists of eight more or less coherent sentences - if you count generously (plus empty stub headers). On another note, the serial programming book suffers from its organisation which is based around the "historic" Naming policy. So it somewhat looks like a bookshelf, not like a book. This might lead to the confusion that people add all kinds of serial-related modules to the book. There are some remains of a "serial programming bookshelf" around, too. But that is yet another story requiring cleanup. 85.72.182.128 10:30, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - There isn't anything there worth keeping. The fork took place, but nothing happened.  It could be an interesting separate book, but it has not had any major work on it for months, and even that was mainly a political soapbox to argue about the DB-9 vs. DE-9 description of serial cables on the back of your computer.  If this were to become a technical reference book about RS-232 technologies (Serial Programming is a textbook), this would be a useful addition to Wikibooks.  --Rob Horning 19:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment The whole serial programming situation is so mismanaged, confusing, and difficult that it's hard to decide whether any one page needs to come or go. I think we should let this one be, for now, with a cleanup notice, pointing out that the material is forked, and that the naming convention is in a state of disarray. -- 04:23, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This is an older Wikibooks with several changes in directions by competing interests. It was also my first forray into Wikibooks, and I openly admit I made some mistakes on this one.  Still, I am trying to repair the damage, but at the same time give plenty of room for other ideas to come in as well.  I already annoyed one anonymous contributor (he did not edit under a registered user name) just by trying to keep the book focused at all, so yeah, I got a few arrows in my back over this book.  Still, it has been an interesting experience to write this book.  The naming convention is standard and conforms to WB:NP already except for the title page.  That is easy to fix and perhaps I should simply do just that if that is the source of the confusion.  --Rob Horning 06:28, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I certainly don't think we should delete it, because this book does have lots of good information. It does need to be cleaned up a little, but honestly: what wikibook doesn't need a little cleaning? We definitely don't need to delete this one, anyway. --Whiteknight (talk) (current) 06:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge the various RS-XXX Technical Manuals into a stub that someone can expand later. --Kernigh 20:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)