Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:Countries of the World

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 * 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. RL0919 (talk) 15:38, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Book:Countries of the World

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Redundant to the countries of the world books per continent such as Book:Countries of the World: Asia, Book:Countries of the World: Europe and Book:Countries of the World: Africa. Having them all in one book is a bad idea due to technical limitations since it would take many hours to get it rendered using MediaWiki2LaTeX and PediaPress just said "Something went wrong when your article collection was packaged and uploaded" after 10 minutes of trying to upload it. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 21:46, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - This book only has one country. Its author just edited for the first time in six months, and hasn't requested to keep this book.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:12, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

I got no opinion about the deletion of the book. But you mentioned that mediawiki2latex would take many hours to create the PDFs. In deed it does. I am currently trying to render all community maintained book in alphabetical order. I reached the letter C after more than a month of rendering. But I got the PDF you are interested in on my disc. Here is the directory listing.

emily@emily-Latitude-E7450:~/kk$ ls Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World* -lh -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 633M Dez 29 02:54 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20Africa.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 398M Dez 29 06:05 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20Asia.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 2,3G Dez 29 11:02 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20Europe.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 301M Dez 29 08:10 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20North%20America.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 127M Dez 29 09:08 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20Oceania.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 409M Dez 29 11:04 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World%3A%20South%20America.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 emily emily 18M Dez 28 22:09 Book%3ACountries%20of%20the%20World.pdf

So just tell me which ones you would like to look at and I will transfer them to you. --Dirk Hünniger (talk) 12:47, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * That's great! I remember us discussing this in the remove links to books discussion a few months ago and got the impression this would be unfeasible. Are you intending on uploading these on the commons or make them accessible some other way? I would gladly help by adding links to the pre-rendered PDFs from book pages or pruning the Book namespace from non-community books. If there's anything else I can help out with feel free to ask and I'll see if I can do anything about it. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 14:59, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi,

I would like to make them publicly available. The only problem with that is webspace and administrative issues. So if some can give me access to some webspace I will gladly upload them there. The next question is: can we link from Wikipedia to external webspace? Is that ok with security and trustworthyness consiederation on Wikipedia. Or can we find a majority on commons to upload them there. I would like to upload them to commons, but I am quite sure they will be deleted very soon. The other possiblity is to request space in the horizon wikimedia cloud. So I am very happy with uploading them. But I don't know any administative path to do that in a generally accepted manner. So if you want to help, your task would be to find webspace that we can link to in wikipedia.

Yours Dirk Hünniger (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

And commons won't work due to "fair use" us copyright and licensing issues. Dirk Hünniger (talk) 16:05, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
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