Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Wikibooks:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense
A proposal to delete this and the 68 other pages that start Wikibooks:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense (see for a full list). I can't see anything to be gained by keeping this. Wikibooks is not a jokebook and there seems no benefit in keeping this, Jguk 13:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This is in a sense restarting the whole VfD of Votes for deletion/Jokebook. I made my comment about my opinion on that content and it also applies here.  The Big Cheese Himself wanted this removed, and I also received a scathing critcism of Wikibooks from another board member specifically about this book (in spite of the fact it was deleted from the main content space of Wikibooks... a fact that apparently was ignored).  There is a tradition of pages like this on Wikipedia, and it was started by one of the admins here who felt that tradition should be continued on Wikibooks as well.  I'm not going to fight the wind here if most users want this removed, but there is some genuinely humerous comments that users do make about Wikibooks and add to various pages that, while inappropriate for the actual main line content of this project, do tend to liven the day and make it fun to be an admin.  Wheither an entire deleted Wikibook (in this case the Jokebook) deserves this sort of treatment is something that can be debated, IMHO.  The full contents of the old Jokebook were transwikied to Lollerpedia so there is really no pressing matter to keep this content and it seems to have found a home even if some people want it gone.  The non-Jokebook stuff is trivial and really doesn't need to stay either, but is a way to help make it so you don't take yourself too seriously.  In short, chill out and relax.  --Rob Horning 16:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not against keeping some humour as a sideline (we shouldn't need to be serious all the time), but couldn't we restrict this sort of thing to just one page rather than the SIXTY-NINE we have at present?!?!? Jguk 19:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense. -- Jeandré, 2006-03-01t20:34
 * Delete I have posted some junk to "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense" myself, but never understood the concept. I really do not know what belongs there, and what does not. --Kernigh 05:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I thought this whole debate was settled months ago. I love the Jokebook. It's my favorite part of Wikibooks. I love reading the blonde jokes, Russian jokes, "In Soviet Russia Jokes", and lawyer jokes. Whenever I think of or hear a good joke, I like adding it to Wikibooks and sharing it with the world. Please. Don't delete the Jokebook. -- User:71.96.150.44 08:21 PM, 4 March 2006 (CST)
 * The Jokebook might be a nice idea, but like An Unexpected Visitor and Wikimania05, it does not belong on this wiki. Also, I have made some formatting improvements to Lollerpedia that do not exist in BJAODN: compare Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense/Jokebook/Radio Yerevan and http://www.zodanet.com/lollerpedia/index.php/Radio_Yerevan, for example. Now, I was thinking of combining jokes: is there a way to make a 182 Radio Yerevan shaggy dog story? --Kernigh 23:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep self-referential page; Delete the jokebook subpages. Sj 04:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

'''VFD now closed. Front page kept, link to lollerpedia added, subpages deleted''', Jguk 22:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep front page, Delete jokebook pages as per Sj above. If we have to hide the jokebook pages under BJAODN to make it acceptable to the Powers That Be, then it's not worth keeping.  But add a link to lollerpedia to replace the link to the Jokebook.  --JMRyan 21:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)