- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was Redirect Wikipedia:Bookshelf and delete the rest. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11:46, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia:Bookshelf (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Wikipedia:Bookshelf/A-Z Keywords/1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
This is a very defunct initiative (the list not been updated since 2009[1]) - it says "The bookshelf contains 347 community books", but the category structure - e.g. Category:Wikipedia books (community books) shows we now have thousands of such books. Note: The top page (Wikipedia:Bookshelf) could (instead of outright deletion) be converted into a redirect (e.g. to
Wikipedia:Books) - that would keep its history visible in case
anybody (who can't see deleted pages) is researching wp, but I really don't see that page having much importance - e.g. its talkpage is currently a redlink. DexDor (talk) 09:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi DexDor, I am not sure if I understand the consequences of a deletion correctly. The bookshelf itself may have not been updated, but the number of books on the bookshelf has been growing constantly. Books are used by users who want to group selected articles for a variety of purposes (mainly downloading and printing). For me, it's helpful to have a central page where I can find all books that exist in Wikipedia (Disclaimer: I work for PediaPress). Would it still be possible to access and search all books after the bookshelf was deleted? Ckepper (talk) 12:09, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not sure what you mean by "books on the bookshelf". The nearest thing we have to a "central page where I can find all books that exist in Wikipedia" is the category system (see link in the nom). The lists I'm proposing to delete (at least those I've looked at) haven't been updated since 2009 - so they contain redlinks to books that were deleted years ago and they don't list thousands of books that have been created since then (there are currently over 6000 pages in the Book namespace). Thus, I can't see how these pages are useful (unless you are interested in knowing what Wikipedia books existed in 2009). Even if there was a bot that kept these lists up to date it would just be duplicating the category system (note: a database report listing uncategorized pages in the Book namespace would be useful). Current statistics: Book namespace: 6254 pages, Category:Wikipedia books (and subcats to depth 6): 5447 pages (both excluding hard redirects) DexDor (talk) 22:59, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.