Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:The Great Depression and Geology

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 Keep. It has been agreed upon that "United States Academic Decathlon Curriculum (2010–2011)" is an appropriate topic for a book. NW (Talk) 00:51, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Book:The Great Depression and Geology[edit]

I originally moved this book to User:EvilPizza/Books/The Great Depression and Geology (2) on the grounds that this book has a rather weird scope (Great Depression, Music, Geology, ...), and seems to be geared towards the needs of a particular community, rather than the public at large. Books located in the Book: namespace should have one particular topic, not several, and they shouldn't be tailored to a specific community, but rather to the general readership.

This is a textbook example of a userbook, IMO. That is, a book where the user has complete control over the content of the book and which can be tailored to fit the needs of whomever the user wants, provided it complies with policies on the biographies of living persons and whatnot, . However, EvilPizza objected and recreated the book again. Normally, books like these are userfied, and I would argue for userfication, but considering that User:EvilPizza/Books/The Great Depression and Geology and User:EvilPizza/Books/The Great Depression and Geology (2) already exists and are duplicates of Book:The Great Depression and Geology, I see little point in keeping Book:The Great Depression and Geology. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To bring more context, this book follows the layout of the USAD 2010-2011 curriculum topics. However, since there are two existing copies of the page, I would argue to delete the bookspace copy. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 19:42, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, so that's what EvilPizza was talking about. Perhaps it could be retitled to "2010–2011 United States Academic Decathlon Curriculum"? That would be an acceptable community book IMO, since the scope would be clearly defined. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:38, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per Headbomb's suggestion. --SJK (talk) 09:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There's another duplicate at Wikipedia:Books/The Great Depression and Geology. But for Book:The Great Depression and Geology I think a rename would be appropriate. Reach Out to the Truth 14:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think this can be closed as rename now. I'll make the moves and the redirects. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:55, 26 March 2010 (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.