Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:United States

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was delete this version, but encourage someone to create a disambiguation page. As a temporary measure, I'll redirect this one.. Courcelles 00:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Book:United States

Duplicate book of The United States. This book is inferior of it. JJ98 (Talk) 06:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is mostly a directory to other books. As such, it will not render properly when applied to the PDF or Pediapress software. Wikipedia books are... fragile... at the moment and this will not do anything useful, and might actually cause temporary damage to/shut down the poor server that handles the conversions. The section that lists other books is made redundant by a category on Wikibooks on the United States. The whether related articles should be in a book on the whether of the United States. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:07, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Convert to disambiguation This should probably be converted to a disambiguation, a la Book:Wikipedia Signpost. In general however, the US books need a good overhaul. Have a main book similar to Book:Canada, then convert the rest to Book:History of the US, Book:Demographics of the US, etc... Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 07:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There really isn't a disambiguation need here, and the category provides navigation. Might be useful to re-create as a redirect to Book:The United States, just to prevent future duplication. --RL0919 (talk) 14:56, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Disambiguate per Headbomb. I considered converting this one myself but wasn't sure what format to use as I hadn't previously seen Book:Wikipedia Signpost. In reply to RL0919, WP:CLN makes it pretty clear that categories and lists (including disambiguation pages) are not redundant to each other. While I personally like using categories for navigation, many readers do not use categories for navigation because they don't even know that they exist (with the category links inconspicuously located at the bottom of the page). --Tothwolf (talk) 17:46, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The thing is, a list article is still an article, but a list of books is not a book. And by normal disambiguation standards, none of the book titles linked on this page require disambiguation. So I can't see how CLN applies or what purpose a dab page would serve. --RL0919 (talk) 20:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.