Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/The Wealthy Barber

The Wealthy Barber
Some pages of this book are blanked by the author. Should we delete it? --Derbeth talk 13:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Tough call, because i think the book has some value to it. I think we should contact the author, and see why the pages are blanked, because it could have been an act of vandalism (younger brother gets on with his screenname...). Maybe he is just preparing new and better pages to fill the space. -- 14:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment As an existing published book, wouldn't it be wikisource material instead? --Gabe Sechan 17:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Not exactly, this book is ment to be a study guide of this publication. --Derbeth talk 18:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, if it is an aspiring annotated text (or companion guide, depending how the contributers work it), it should fit with policy nicely. -- 19:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment The author is an IP address which might be used by more than one user. It might be good to revert the blankings. --Kernigh 23:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep book, but delete blank pages. The content from the pages blanked by author seems to be irrelevant to the book. The blank pages can be deleted, but the table of contents and other stubs should be kept. --Kernigh 21:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I have left a message at the user pages of all three contributors (even the IP address) saying that the book has been suggested for deletion and that they may want to see this discussion. --JMRyan 11:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. A history of the book is in order.
 * 5 October, 2004. The book was created as a table of contents and four stubs and seven red-links by a logged in user.
 * 12 January 2005. A typo was corrected (a one letter diff) by a logged in user.
 * 3 October 2005. Pages were created for six of the seven red-links by an IP address author.  Then the six new pages were blanked.  Total editing time for all 12 edits (six new pages and six blankings): six minutes.


 * Delete. I'm voting to delete this as a permanent stub-set. But give the authors reasonable time to suggest here that they have plans for the book.  If they do, then ignore this vote.  --JMRyan 11:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I second JMRyan's vote. If the authors can show us that they plan to work on this project, then my vote immediately changes to keep. -- 15:29, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I wrote that stuff a while ago, and don't remember very well. Let me look through it before anyone deletes it, thanks .... --Karl Wick 23:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It was created in October with little content, and no new content has been added since.CatastrophicToad 20:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment A quote from Deletion policy: In general, keep stubs. Because this could potentially become a useful book, I believe that we should not delete the book. I also believes that the stubs are not permanent. Someone added blank pages to the book, but I do not think that should result in deleting the entire book. That is why I voted "keep book, but delete blank pages" above. --Kernigh 01:05, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * CommentHas anyone heard from the author. Doesn't look like anything has been added in quite awhile. If so, why would we delete it... I would agree with Kernigh... keep the content...delete the blank pages.--Mfinney 04:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


 * keep: it appear to an unfinished study guide. I think it follows the spirit of wikibooks and should remain. Relist blank page in another VfD... but make sure we the main book doesn't lose its context because of that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.57.8.2I5 (talk • contribs) 03:47, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete seems to be a permastub of a matter of little general interest, Jguk 14:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment - This book was added by none other than Karl Wick himself (the founder of Wikibooks BTW). It was put in at a time when the mission of Wikibooks wasn't nearly as clear, and some substantial experimentation was going on to see what kinds of content might just be on Wikibooks in the first place.  It was also the first attempt at trying to come up with an annotated text, along the lines of the much better done Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter, and intended to be a sort of "Cliff Notes" summary of the book.  I would lean toward keeping this book, but for now I will consider my vote to be neutral at the moment on its deletion status.  --Rob Horning 04:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I would like this to be something that Wikibooks does, study guide versions of books, "Executive Summaries" where people can get a good portion of the meat out of any book without having to read the whole thing. Also good for review or preview of a book.

Kept - I am invoking administrator action here to resolve this VfD, and declaring that this book is now kept. The discussion has wound down and no new points are being made. Feel free to archive this discussion in about a week. --Rob Horning 18:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)