Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Google guide

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete - Liberatore(T) 17:05, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google guide

Article is an instruction manual/tutorial for using Google --mtz206 17:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep if rewritten and/or merged with Google. Delete otherwise. Grafikm_fr 17:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if rewritten as per Grafikm_fr. Delete otherwise. --Casper2k3 18:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if rewritten, but it would require a lot of rewrite. Perhaps something vaguely like Google user interface--but then become more encyclopedic rather than tutorial. As is, it appears to serve as a way to advertise the creator's website. --Straif 18:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Transfer to Wikibooks, Wikipedia is not a howto guide, and we already have lots of information on Google. --Hetar 18:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete There are good google articles already and this is not a useful starting point for any extra material. I don't see why anyone should put effort into salvaging something so inappropriate so just get rid of it. Hawkestone 19:07, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a how-to, and a lot of the stuff there is pretty trivial anyhow. Trebor 20:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Trebor. Henning Makholm 22:13, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. For the same reasons mentioned above. Wikipedia is not the place for "How To" guides. There are plenty of these posted all over the net now, not to mention in, OMG, printed books! Dr. Cash 23:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. Metamagician3000 00:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Rename to Google query, rewrite a bit editorially to turn it from howto style into factual style (for example, replace If you click on "Similar pages", Google will give you similar pages with that page. by The link "Similar pages" in an entry links to a list of pages with a high degree of similarity to the page referred to by that entry. or some equally unreadable but encyclopedic phrase), add an intro, and bingo, we have a new article. Lambiam^Talk 01:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. — nathanrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 04:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a how-to guide. Fagstein 06:02, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per above. --MaNeMeBasat 10:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.