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would hve bee satisfied with having only published works and historical
documents, but had to concede that others may have other visions.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.

Ec

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).

Z