Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Make your own soap

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The result was Redirect to Soapmaking. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-03-11 01:06Z

[edit] Make your own soap

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Wikipedia is not the place for this sort of material. Last June, someone tagged this to be transwikied to Wikibooks, but the article has remained as status quo. If no one wants to transwiki or do anything with this, then it should simply be deleted.--Aude (talk) 13:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as non-encyclopedic. There's already a Wikibooks page about this topic. ObtuseAngle 16:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delte as a how-to guide. -- Whpq 17:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as how-to guide Parts of the article might be appropriate for merger into Soap, but the overall theme of the article is a how-to guide on making soap which violates the WP:NOT policy against how-to guides and instruction manuals. I'd say delete and, if necessary, merge things like an explanation of how soap works into Soap or Soapmaking or another appropriate article. Dugwiki 18:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, largely copied from soapmaking. Also, the latter article could use cleanup. --Ginkgo100^talk 19:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)d
• Stick it on Wikihow. We're not a guide of howtos. --Dennisthe2 20:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Fight Club. On second thought, delete per nom. --Dhartung | Talk 22:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete due to the article being what Wikipedia is not, specifically, Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. Kyra_~(talk) 08:56, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
• Hold On! I saw we take this information and move it somewhere better before deleting it from the main Wikipedia, therefore, I am saying temporary keep. Guroadrunner 21:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

One way to "hold on" would be to copy the article to your user space as a draft. That way the actual text of the article is preserved for you or other people to tinker with, but it won't appear in the article space itself. Dugwiki 21:46, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Have you checked out WikiHow yet? --Dennisthe2 22:39, 9 March 2007 (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.