Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reading spark plugs for racing/2

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. Splash 16:47, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Reading spark plugs for racing
This was transwikied by this VFD vote, then deleted as redundant with this Wikibook. However, it was pointed out on WP:VFU that the Wikibook is outdated, and that this may be encyclopedic after all. So it's now undeleted and procedurally listed here. Abstain. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 09:11, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * By all means, Transwiki it over. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 09:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * "transwiki" is not a sensible option here. The transwiki has already been done, and this article has already circled through transwiki back to VFD once.  Please choose something else. Uncle G 15:18:54, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
 * Then 'delete. It's been transwikied, and WP:ISNOT a how-to guide. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 02:55, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * In the VFU discussion it was asserted that the Wikibook was outdated. However, that assertion was false.  As per the transwiki logs, and the edit history recorded at Wikibooks, the article was transwikied only 9 days ago, on 2005-07-21, and contains all modifications to the Wikipedia article up to 2005-06-23, the last modification before it was flagged for deletion at the end of the transwiki process.  In the VFU discussion, Samw later retracts that assertion, pointing out that xe had taken the lack of images in Wikibooks to mean that the article was different, when in fact it was not. The images had simply been uploaded by the original author to the wrong place.  They had been uploaded to Wikipedia, and not been uploaded to Commons, even though they were public domain and should have been.  Thus they didn't automatically appear in the transwikied article.  Uncle G 15:18:54, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
 * Delete. This task-oriented page is a much better fit on the Wikibooks How-to bookshelf than it is here.  The differences between the version at the close of the first vfd and the current version are no improvement in this respect. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 16:00, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well-written, informative. Note that although some do not like how-tos in Wikipedia (which would have astonished Diderot), there is no policy against them. See How-to. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:46, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * NPOV would also have astonished Diderot. Robert A West 21:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Dpbsmiths' surprising revelation. Kappa 19:16, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The content is already in Wikibooks, which is a much better place for it, and if it needs to be updated there, update it. How-to is not policy either. Robert A West 21:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, just make sure it is descriptive rather than prescriptive. - SimonP 23:02, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per my comments on the votes for undeletion, I (& I'm sure the original author) would be happy to rework it so long as we get some feedback. I like the "descriptive" rather than "prescriptive" comment.  I'll start with that. Samw 03:05, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Rewrote Reading_spark_plugs_for_racing. If that's reasonable to most, I can work on the rest of the article as well.  Samw 03:15, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep- I have learned how to do many things from various encyclopedia, there is no reason this shouldn't be in one too-=Motorhead 15:54, 4 August 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.