Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letter writing

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was transwiki. This has been done. Joyous 02:28, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Letter writing

Here's the scoop. I tried to get user Richardr443 to wikify this article because it does not fit the Wikipedia guidelines. it's a how to article. He kept removing the tag and then finally he vandalized all of my pages with a wikify tag when it isn't warranted. And then I suggested that it be transwikied to Wikibooks. I moved the article over to Wikibooks myself. And I put a speedy delete tag on it. And now, he's logging on with the IP of 24.9.112.127 and doing the same thing...removed the moved to Wikibooks tag and vandalized my pages again and he removed the speedy delete tag. Could we just delete this article from Wikipedia please? And if you go there, please re-add the vfd tag since I'm pretty sure he'll have it removed by the time. it's been moved to Wikibooks (link is here). Anyway, please remove this article and put me out of my misery. :-) it does NOT belong on Wikipedia. --Woohookitty 05:54, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Good call, this does belong on Wikibooks, delete. Mgm|^(talk) 09:24, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, we don't do how-to articles. Rhobite 17:24, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. --Neigel von Teighen 17:26, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. If a friendly sysop pops by, this is probably a speedy delete candidate. If you want to delete it, feel free. I did not use the speedy delete tag because it kept getting removed. But since it's been moved to Wikibooks already... --Woohookitty 18:21, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • It's transwiki'd, but I think it's helpful to build consensus on VfD in cases like this one. Rhobite 20:07, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: This thing contains a lot of relevant information that isn't in Letter, for example the parts of a letter. No vote, but it's a pity the wikify tag didn't go down too well... replacing "should" with "it is recommended that" would go a long way. Kappa 20:04, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. If you check the talk page, I tried to be helpful. It has been transwiki'ed, so I think this can be deleted now. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-02-4 20:25 Z
  • You forgot to copy over the page history. Now that's done, the transwiki process is complete. Reminder: Because the transwiki process does not destroy content or history, it does not have to be discussed here (though many controversial moves end up here). Rossami (talk) 22:04, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Understood. This definitely qualified as controversial. And thank you for the tip. --Woohookitty 22:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Richardr443 recreated the article verbatim after it was deleted. How do we put a stop to this? This is ridiculous! Is there any way of preventing him from recreating this article? I wish we could just throw a wikify tag on it but I tried that and he removed the tag and then undid all of the formatting I had tried to apply to the article. --Woohookitty 01:34, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I didn't get a chance to have a say about my article-- You deleted it too fast. Any way, the word encyclopedia comes from the Greek words enkyklios paideia, meaning general or well-rounded education. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, and to say that any article that is actually useful has to be moved to an obscure part of another site is strange. I searched for my article on Wikibooks using the query Letter Writing, and didn't even get a match. It must have been put in an obscure place (I didn't even hear of Wikibooks before Woohookitty told me anyway). In any case, useful articles make Wikipedia more interesting and individual articles more distinct from one another. The greatest strength of Wikipedia is that people can find almost anything they want to know by typing it into the search box. Don't deny anyone the right to find what they want to know!-- Richard

I have turned the page into a redirect to the wikibooks article for now. This isn't ideal but at least it redirects any users working on it to its new location. -- Francs2000 | Talk [[]] 02:01, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Francs. Richard, the article is at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transwiki:Letter_writing It is under Transwiki:Letter_writing because that's where articles go when they are transwikied. Eventually it will be found under Letter writing just like it would be on Wikipedia. If you hadn't heard of Wikibooks, than I suggest that you look around the world of Wiki more. Thank you. --Woohookitty 02:08, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Richard what was your objection to the original wikify tag? Wikipedia doesn't do "how-to" information, at least in the form "you should do X", so your article had to be edited to fit in. Kappa 02:13, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki Omar Filini 07:09, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki. Megan1967 04:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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