Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion (books)

Mark process as historical

The book namespace is soon being deleted per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Delete all books within the book namespace which means Book prod makes no sense for the book namespace. The process still applies to user space books. I feel like this is completely opposed to our current norms around userspace today with test books and books with just one article almost definitely being kept at MFD if brought up there as completely harmless. If there is truly harmful content that would fall under BPROD but not CSD (I can't come up with an example since books really are just lists of links to Wikipedia articles) it could easily be dealt with at MFD as the usage rate is super low. I've watched Category:All books proposed for deletion for well over a year now and have never seen a user book actually being deleted. The policy should thus be marked historical. WT:MFD and WP:VPP notified --Trialpears (talk) 08:43, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support. I guess since this is a policy we need to have a discussion about it, but per WP:NOTBURO I hope this can be WP:SNOW closed before too long. Having a dedicated deletion policy for a namespace that no longer exists makes about as much sense as [example of your choice of something that makes zero sense]. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 15:46, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

  Definitely, I've just been a bit too eager trying to get rid of the outdated user book part before so thought it would be a bad look not to do it properly. --Trialpears (talk) 15:58, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

 Done. I've gone ahead and done it. If we aren't doing books anymore, which we are not, this process is obviously deprecated by default. Beeblebrox (talk) 16:43, 19 June 2021 (UTC)