Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/balaji.md au

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Dear all, I am a Specialist doctor in Intensive Care and I have started and editing a wikibook titled Intensive Care Medicine. I wish to be able to import many existing Wikipedia articles and incorporate the content as required to various sections of the wikibook. Please could you assist me with this. Kind regards Balaji.md au (discuss • contribs) 05:35, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm a little uncomfortable with this request as you aren't demonstrating good editing practices and allowing you to import en masse is likely to increase the work of other people tidying things up. Take this page, Intensive Care Medicine/clinical/ards, as an example. Bad formatting means the bullet points aren't working, you haven't added to the page so it isn't categorised properly. This page, Intensive Care Medicine/organ/ventilation, has all the headings wrong. When you import from Wikipedia you will need to dewikify - remove the links, fix the categories, etc. I'd like to see you fix the pages you've already started before bringing lots more in. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:18, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I am trying to read through, validate and then add content, including original text. To read through such volumes of advanced medical material with the view of creating a quality text consumes significant effort. Apologies for the formatting which I thought is less of an importance at this early phase of the book. In such advanced areas of medicine it is hard to find collaborators easy. I hope you understand. Kind regards Balaji.md au (discuss • contribs) 11:31, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * also please note the area of expertise of the expert authors may not be primarily into MediaWiki editing. I sort of feel bad to have requested the permission. Happy to leave things as is! Cheers. Balaji.md au (discuss • contribs) 11:37, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I understand your point, and yes the content is more important than formatting. However, we generally do not have editors who want to clean up other people's work. That means any problems might get left in the book. I think you might be under estimating the amount of work required after a page is imported. As a suggestion, please request some (say five) articles you'd like imported at WB:RFI. We'll import them and you can then judge for yourself if you, or your colleagues, are happy to do the work to incorporate them. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 13:47, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Whilst I realize your concerns for integrity of contents, I am a bit disappointed with the many presumptions made and the 'jumping to conclusions.' It may not be a mandate to have a Neutral Point of View in discussions, but would be preferable. I would like to make it clear that none of your presumptions were my intentions. I clearly realize the difference between an encyclopaedic article and a text book content. I also realize the rigor needed for generating text book contents. I only wanted to appropriately credit the original authors and preserve the history for articles, if any, that were ported from the Wikipedia site. The articles you had mentioned as being incomplete are actually declared as being incomplete. Building such texts is a slow process spanning over years. The book's creation and location had been broadcasted to members of reputed international societies and has generated interest among experts who consider this a valuable project. I neither underestimate nor intent on delegating any clean-up work! I also appreciate the facility that exists to import select articles (Perhaps, that is all I needed in the first place as a reply!). Again, text books in such areas of human enterprise will grow slowly as more experts come forward to contribute, spending their valuable time with magnanimous intent.Cheers Balaji.md au (discuss • contribs) 01:23, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The point I was making was not that the format was more important; I never mentioned anything about the differences in content between encyclopedias and textbooks. My point was that your edits demonstrate that you don't know how to use the MediaWiki software or the way that software is used to structure books. However, given your belief that I am stupid, I have no intention of assisting you further. Good luck. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 11:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)