Wikibooks talk:Policies and guidelines/Vote

'''Archived discussions... /Archive 1''' (September to November 2005)

Old content from November 2005
I have archived old material from November 2005 and earlier. --Kernigh 17:23, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * To find older discussions from this talk page, see /Archive 1.
 * If you are interested in the five polls that never opened, I copied them to the box below.

Fictional works should be excluded
 * "if it's a book which gets a Dewey code, it's non-fiction."
 * "any book you might expect to find in the non-fiction section of your local library or bookshop is acceptable"

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A topic that wouldn't be taught as a serious class should be excluded


 * "If ... you can take a class in the topic as a student, then it's an instructional guide. ... "How to repair your car" would count. "How to play minesweeper like a pro" would not."
 * "If any public school, college, or univeristy teaches the subject as a for-credit course, then ... that ... would be a wikibook. That would include how to program video games, but would not include how to play them."
 * "The purpose of Wikibooks is to host works which constitute a curriculum of textbooks from Kindergarten through the university level. The cookbook ... qualifies, since such courses are taught."

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Non-books should be excluded


 * Books that either have no book-like goal, aim to be a wiki-based community project of some sort, or aim to be more like an encyclopedia should be moved to Wikicities.
 * Examples given: Transwiki:Savoir-faire, Business ideas

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"eternal stub" semi-books should be merged


 * Wikibooks modules that will never ever come close to the scope and length of a proper book should be merged where possible
 * Affected wikibooks: How to try sushi for the first time, How to catch a pickerel, How to find a book, Letter writing, Fiction technique, etc.

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book size modules should be move into own books


 * Wikibooks modules which are large enough to be a book of its own should be split off.
 * Affected wikibooks: Programming (only those modules which with enough content - the others stay as part of Programming in acordance to the "eternal stub" semi-books should be merged rule)

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"Please do not vote yet" vs. "For each item, vote support or oppose"
This is a place to vote, and even has a current poll going on, but it says "please do not vote yet" and calls this a first-draft page. How about we change that so that people understand that they can currently vote and that this place really works? --Cromwellt|talk 06:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Read the talk page. Pretty much all of these were tossed out, due to various problems.  As written, almost none of them will ever be up for a vote. --Gabe Sechan 09:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)