Wikibooks talk:Talk page

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I say we make this an official guideline (because it doesnt need the weight of an enforced policy). -- 21:56, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't this be better as a Help page in the help namespace rather than as a policy? Jguk 12:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

A guideline at best. Kellen T 16:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Move To Reject, and include in Help Namespace
I think we all have the gist of this one. It doesnt need to be an actual policy, however the information here is certainly valuable enough to keep around. I am motioning to Reject this proposal, and move the information here to the help namespace. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 16:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Kellen T 17:32, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed, just another thing why Archive rather than delete, the talk history is a safer (a restricted number can edit it) and takes less resources (as in space, navigation),work consuming (no need to be managed) place to keep the, herr, history of the page. --Panic 00:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The search feature only allows you to search existing pages, not their histories. --Swift 05:22, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. I have moved this page to rejected. I will work on moving the relevant text from this policy to the help namespace. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 00:26, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Is it permissible to copy the contents of the existing books whose copyrights have expired verbatim
I am looking at few books in the http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=shabda. As per the site, the content is in public domain. However, I am not sure if we can re-type the content to create an wiki book.

The reason why I want to recreate the book instead of using the scanned versions specified are a. they are scanned versions and are not being searchable b. since the books specified are quite old, sometimes the content is not very clear.

Please let me know, if wikbooks discourages recreation of books whose copyrights have expired. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ksrikanth gen (discuss • contribs)


 * For books that have actually been published and which are now in the public domain, Wikisource is your best bet. There, source documents are preserved with few changes other than proofreading.  Wikibooks is good if you plan to create a new textbook from scratch. – Adrignola talk 21:44, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposal: move page to Category:Useful Wikibooks pages
Hi all.

I don't know how many people are still watching this page. But nonetheless I have a proposal on its use:


 * Remove the page from Category:Wikibooks rejected policies and guidelines and remove header describing it as a "rejected Wikibooks policy or guideline".
 * Add it to Category:Useful Wikibooks pages and adjust its content to reflects this.

The reason for doing this is, as far as I know, there doesn't exist a page on wb describing how to use talk pages and best practices for using them. So the help system needs a page to help newbies on how they could be used. "Category:Useful Wikibooks pages" contains mainly help pages on various topics, and this could be useful to people who want to learn about wb usage. Any views on this? -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 10:42, 8 October 2019 (UTC)