On 3/17/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
I'd say this one is going to close as no consensus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...For_Dummies_books
So, friends, can you help me to find merit in this article? To be reconciled to the existence of what up to now I am unable to see as anything other than an absurdity? Or is Tony right, and AfD is fatally borken?
Merit, you say? Imagine this: There's an article about the Dummies series itself. Imagine this article makes a claim like "Most books are now about lifestyle rather than technical subjects". By linking to the actual list you could form your own impression.
I don't totally accept the "It's on the publisher's website, we don't need to duplicate it" argument. Is the publisher's website going to be published on the Wikipedia 1.0 website? Is it going to be printed? etc etc.
No, I don't see a *lot* of merit in this article. But I don't see that Wikipedia would be much better off without it either. (Assuming it's not a copyvio).
Steve