Phil Boswell wrote:
I am not aware of the history of this cooperative
venture, but I am
somewhat disturbed by the fact that a group of people at Wikibooks are
trying to have this feature removed without apparently letting anybody at
Wikipedia know. ...
When I encounter a book at Wikibooks, such as
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Errata, I do not know if it is linked from
Wikipedia. The Special:Whatlinkshere pages do not show links from other
wikis. It is not easy to manually search Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikiquote,
Wiktionary, ... for links to particular books at Wikibooks, so I normally
do not do this.
Further, most Wikibookians only put the deletion notice {{vfd}} on the front
page of the book. Thus if Wikipedia links to a subpage of Errata, visitors
can arrive at the subpage without knowing that we are considering whether
to delete the page. I am not aware of any good way to fix this problem.
-- [[Wikibooks:en:User:Kernigh]]