Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of free mathematics books


 * 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 speedy delete (author requests deletion). — Mets501 (talk) 20:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

List of free mathematics books
Listcruft. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. — Mets501 (talk) 19:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Wikipedia is not a bibliography. No indication that these books are in fact "free", or what prevents someone for charging for them. Agent 86 19:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. JPD (talk) 19:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * How about if I change the title to "List of Online Mathematics Books (or Documents?)"? It's really a shame that we can't do something like this collaboratively through Wikipedia. It would make a lot of students' lives all over the world much easier! Please decide quickly. If the page is to be deleted, I'll post this info on my blog at wordpress.com, and possibly place an external link on the Mathematics Wikipedia page (if that's ok with you of course). --Roccorossi 23:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a web directory. JPD (talk) 20:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If they're free as such, could some of them be moved to wikibooks? RHB Talk - Edits 09:33, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Some of them charge for use beyond personal use, the MIT Open Courseware ones have a Creative Commons License specific to MIT, and others have varied copyright notices. Another gives a list of 'free texts' Its a big mix, and that was only seven I picked at random RHB Talk - Edits 10:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete - seems pretty obvious to me. As nice as the idea is, Wikipedia is simply not a Web portal. —msikma (user, talk) 20:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * None of the things listed at WP:NOT are speedy deletion criteria. — Mets501 (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and cancel the page. I'll post a link to opendocs.wordpress.com. Thanks anyway. I realize that this whole thing is problematic for you. Don't worry about it. Putting everything on my blog should be a good solution anyway. Roccorossi


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