Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Serial Programming orphan-stubs

Serial Programming orphan-stubs
Serial Programming:RS-422 Technical Manual, Serial Programming:RS-423 Technical Manual, Serial Programming:RS-449 Technical Manual, Serial Programming:MIL-STD-188 Technical Manual and Serial Programming:Serial ATA Technical Manual (and maybe some others) are all contentless stubs since November 2004. Most of them have nothing linking to them and are all linked to from the Serial communications bookshelf (otherwise I'd just leave them alone as being an unfinished part of a book). So what should be done with them? This Serial Programming collection seems to be worked on by someone who's "bitten off more than he can chew" and it's ended up a real mess I'm sorry to say. GarrettTalk 04:47, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep - I would recommend that they stay as stubs for the most part. They are all on the Serial Programming bookshelf, and dispite my trying to move them onto the larger Computer Science bookshelf, they kept getting taken off by an editorial dispute.  The perception was that at least they were on a bookshelf of some sort.  See also Talk:Programming:Serial Data Communications I was the author who started the Serial Programming wikibook, and that is a huge bite to chew, and incredibly technical to really move beyond where I'm at right now.  I'll get back to it shortly, but I got "into" trying to clean up Wikibooks as a whole instead of just this one little Wikibook. I got into an editorial conflict over the organization of that Wikibook with an anonymous user who wanted to make that Wikibook into a macropedia (I've railed against that elsewhere as well) of serial programming techniques, and I fought back arguing that there really was a coherant book strategy I was trying to follow in writing that Wikibook.  The solution was to start this Serial Programming bookshelf, which there is some merit to getting that accomplish.  Some of this content is forked/duplicated from Wikipedia, and I don't mind some of that disappearing.  There is however some tables and lists of pin connections and some various miscellaneous content that would be inappropriate on Wikipedia but would be useful reference materials for future Wikibooks on this subject.  There is also some blatant vandalism or new user experiments and some of that perhaps should go.  It is my intention that some of that will become coherant modules that will fit into the larger Wikibook I'm writing, but it just takes time.  --Rob Horning 13:22, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep but merge all these 'books' into a single book called Serial Programming. The neat thing about this is that all the 'subpages' would automatically conform to WB:NP. - Aya T C 15:23, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Kept - This VfD was lost to the history heap, but I'm adding back here to the archive. Garrett added this comment: "# various Serial Programming orphan-stubs - kept, now situation etc. is explained and resolved)"  --Rob Horning 19:27, 5 November 2005 (UTC)