Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/User Reviews

User Reviews
User Reviews and all associated pages have no place in an NPOV project. --Chiacomo 06:00, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Neutral (with leaning toward weak delete) - I can understand why this would be put up for a VfD, but I'm not completely sure if this should be permitted or not. It may be possible to "review" products, or at least catalog information and describe various items in a NPOV manner (like the IMDB without user comments).  I don't know completely if you could do that in a non-encyclopedic fasion (making Macropedia issues also relevant in this case) but it is an interesting idea.  I've seen a couple of proposals on meta that were for similar kinds of projects, and if I recall properly there were some calls to move the project idea to Wikibooks (something I've railed against repeatedly on meta).  --Rob Horning 14:04, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * There's no need for spawning yet more projects. Wikibooks can handle products in a neutral manner by writing instruction manuals for them, which can point out both common failure modes of the product and interesting features in an unbiased manner.  Rather than having User Reviews-Canon XL1-S presenting one editor's opinion of how "horrible" it is as fact, Wikibooks could have a Canon video camera instruction manual that instead describes the construction of the zoom lens and how to operate it, in amongst describing the construction and operation of all of the other parts. Uncle G 11:02:31, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
 * Delete -- But, boy, would this make a great Wikicity! We should contact the author and encourage them to set it up over there (if there isn't one already?). It makes great sense as a wikicity because that site contains Google Ad Words, so that can kind of complete the whole experience (e.g. to browse the site of someone who sells exactly that product, or to look at a competitor). Highly useful indeed, but not a wikibook. Still, this is a great idea; assuming it keeps more "wikilike" instead of turning into just a message board where people argue and no one wants to read the whole discussion. (For example, if each review coverged into a "consensus" list of pros and cons for a product, you can quickly gather the collective opinion of dozens of people just reading a short list. Though, I would imagine people would like to write essays all of their own too.) MShonle 16:41, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; it's not really appropriate for Wikibooks, but I'm sure it would do well on Wikicity. Geo.T 01:11, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete A cool idea, that is not, and can be NPOV --Cspurrier 02:13, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; it's not appropriate--Tom Maioli 04:18, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's an idea that comes up with regularity at Wikinews, too. It's as inappropriate here as it is there.  The Neutral Point of View policy is a foundation issue that applies to all WikiMedia projects.  Reviews of stuff, written directly by contributors to the project, are inappropriate everywhere. Delete. Uncle G 11:02:31, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
 * Deleted, this violates the founding beliefs of all Wikimedia projects. In future I think this sort of thing could be shot on sight, informing the user of the existence of wikicities of course. I'm unsure if a POV reviews site would be allowed there either though. GarrettTalk 13:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)