Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:ISIS / ISIL / IS
- 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 delete. MER-C 02:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
A collection of ISIL and a bunch of distantly related stuff. No one maintaining it Legacypac (talk) 07:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- Delete unless the editor responsible can explain what on earth he's doing. This users book creations are something I can make no sense of. While he's not maintaining that copy of the ISIL book, he's created 6 other versions in his userspace. User:David.c.welch/Books/Terrorism: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Book 1, User:David.c.welch/Books/Terrorism: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Book 2, Book:Terrorism: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, User:David.c.welch/Books/ISIL, User:David.c.welch/Books/ISIL1 and User:David.c.welch/Books/ISIS / ISIL / IS. I have nominated them all for deletion through WP:BOOKPROD as these seem to be test books.Bosstopher (talk) 14:31, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- I found this after I removed the PROD on this book. It seems that the user has made several iterations of the same book trying different ways of doing it and this is the current one in the series. Collecting this information into a book is a useful way to give a broad overview of ISIL for non specialists/laymen. JBH (talk) 20:03, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- So why does it start with swearing? How would a person find this anyway or use it? Legacypac (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I removed that header from the book before removing the PROD. I assumed it was vandalism because of the subject but did not check the diffs JBH (talk) 21:48, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- So why does it start with swearing? How would a person find this anyway or use it? Legacypac (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I found this after I removed the PROD on this book. It seems that the user has made several iterations of the same book trying different ways of doing it and this is the current one in the series. Collecting this information into a book is a useful way to give a broad overview of ISIL for non specialists/laymen. JBH (talk) 20:03, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
I got the following email from the user that created these books: hi i am sorry about the is isis isil pages i would like to not delete them until i have had a chance to go over them what i would like is to save them where they are draft or something like that so not to loose them. if you would be so kind as to point me in that direction and i will do what it takes to do it the correct way next time. i am just a bit lost on the process and would like direction if that is possible David c welch. I know zero about books on wikipedia. Anyone want to help him out? Legacypac (talk) 20:54, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I got the same email. I made a post on his talk page trying to explain what's going on, but I dont really know that much about Wikipedia books so there was only so much I could say. Bosstopher (talk) 21:11, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- Delete The book is a massive, indiscriminate collection of vaguely related articles. It is so large that my computer is unable to download it as a PDF, and the PediaPress preview doesn’t work on it. According to PediaPress, this book, if printed, would be well over 4300 pages. According to Help:Books/FAQ, books have a maximum size of 800 pages, so this “book” would actually be six books.Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:14, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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