Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/How to find a contractor


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

The result was delete. Jaranda wat's sup 06:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

How to find a contractor

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Wikipedia is not a how-to guide. I commend User:Construction Deal on such a well-written article, but wikipedia simply isn't the place for it. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 21:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki - perhaps Wikibooks or Wikisource? Not sure which one this should go to.  Worth keeping per nom, no doubt, but not here.  --Dennisthe2 21:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd be fine with that. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 22:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete/recommend WikiHow to author Probably not suitable for Wikibooks or Wikisource. WikiHow is much more appropriate, but its not a Wikimedia project and uses a different licensing scheme (so transwiki is probably not possible). Bwithh 22:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Given that, if the author hasn't done so already, I'd propose that it be kept nonetheless until it's transferred to WikiHow, with the db-transwiki speedy tag placed when that's completed. Yeah, it's not a strict transwiki, but close enough. --Dennisthe2 19:46, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, not of any real use, Wikipedia is not a how-to-guide. I suggest that you should search the Yellow Pages (that's what Yellow Pages is for) and no need for such guides. Terence Ong 14:52, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, a bad contractor can bankrupt you. There is a need for such guides... wikipedia just isn't the place. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 15:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, maybe I can come up with a way to re-write it. Make it less of a How-To guide. Any suggestions would be helpful. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Construction Deal (talk • contribs) 23:36, 16 January 2007 (UTC).
 * We might be able to merge some of it into contractor... Hmmm but I really do thing it should be uploaded to http://www.wikihow.com/About-wikiHow. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 00:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I like JS' idea, but if anything, I suppose linking from contractor to an article (if it doesn't yet exist) on Wikihow would definitely be the way to go. Damn straight we need this, at any rate - so no doubt you did a beautiful job here. =) At any rate, thanks for the understanding as we go through this. --Dennisthe2 04:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks again - I'll upload to wikihow (still learning all about this) and hopefully I won't have any problems there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Construction Deal (talk • contribs) 18:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC).


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