On 4/29/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Although I haven't been active there lately, this is certainly the sort of thing that I would have been happy to be rid of even then. There was enough of a battle to get rid of the Postal/ZIP codes. It really all comes down to the vision that people want to apply to Wikisource. I would hve bee satisfied with having only published works and historical documents, but had to concede that others may have other visions. Since I am not a programmer I had no idea about how to follow what these are about, and my own ignorance alone would not be an adequate criterion for deletion. Cleaning or deleting these is a project which should be led by someone who understands them.
Many of the articles have been there a long time with no further edits other than incidental ones like adding category tags. Toi keep the peace it may be necessary to go through the deletion process one article at a time.
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Oh, even doing it one article at a time will bring up nasty debates with Wikipedia and Wikibooks. There is no getting around that. But I do agree that they should be gradually phased out, so that links can be corrected/changed and Wikipedians can find alternate places for source code examples.
The same goes for reference material, as well (if the multi-WS decides to nix it--the English sub-domain has chosen to exclude it from the project and will begin phasing it out shortly).
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