Wikisource talk:Proposed deletions

Clean up this talk page?

Can pre-2015 discussions be removed from this talk page? Outlier59 (talk) 00:29, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I have set the page to archive by bot (User:Wikisource-bot), where conversation is > 60d, and a straight incremental archive box, rather than per year (config file stored in top section). —unsigned comment by Billinghurst (talk) .

Closing translations

@EncycloPetey: After some proposed deletion a month ago, someone questioned the legitimacy of WS:T, as it was never officially adopted, which has led to the current proposal at WS:S.

Given translation requirements are under discussion, I thought that they should not be applied in the meantime. So, I'd left on hold all the translation-related proposed deletions, intending to close them whenever the proposal is closed.

From Special:Diff/14859882, I gather that you consider this requirement can still be used. I would be genuinely interested to hear how you perceive the relation between the standing proposal and these proposed deletion.

Thank you, — Alien  3
3 3 19:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Which "current proposal" do you mean? I see nothing there. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:58, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

This proposal, which was just archived out of WS:S (sorry, didn't notice that), even though it was never closed.

Also, WS:T still has {{proposal}}. — Alien  3
3 3 20:00, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

It should be closed as a success; there were 6 support, 2 oppose, and one withdrawn vote,. After it disappeared, I assumed someone had completed the process of finalizing the shift to policy. But it seems not. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:08, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

WS:WWI is an official policy, and has directed users to WS:T since 2006, when the third ever edit was made to that policy page. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Well, given we've been using it as policy for a while, and the proposal reasonably shows consensus to formally make it policy, how about replacing {{proposal}} by {{policy}} and dropping a note at WS:S? What would you think of that? — Alien  3
3 3 20:10, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Ah, just saw you already changed the tags. Dropping the note, then. — Alien  3
3 3 20:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Recovery of the "Al Mawakeb Research Center(AMRC)" page.

I had been the writer for the wikisource page titled "Al Mawakeb Research Center(AMRC)" which was created a few months ago yet I've logged back in to find it has been deleted. I tried looking into as to why the deletion had happened to find 2 archived deletion requests which I'd like to plead as to why my page doesn't exactly fit those criteria or at least anymore. on Wikisource:Proposed_deletions/Archives/2024#Al_Mawakeb_Research_Center(AMRC) it's an old deletion proposal made when I first worked on the page a long time ago only to take a short break. It was my first time writing on that page but since then when i brought back the page after I had fixed the format of the file.

the second deletion request which seems to be the reason as to why the page got taken down is Wikisource:Proposed_deletions/Archives/2025#Al_Mawakeb_Research_Center(AMRC). It talks about why the page is self-advertisement and leads to that as being a source as to why the page is deleted.

I am aware of Wikisource:What_Wikisource_includes#Original_contributions and that wikisource doesn't allow authors to publish their works here as a form of self advertisement but the AMRC page isn't self published by me as an author and the goal of the page is to preserve the works of the AMRC as it is a continually evolving project that publishes a multitude of works every year, so in a sense it's more of a hub to keep track and preserve these works online inside wikisource.

if there are any more questions regarding the page, I'd be happy to answer and if possible I hope that the page gets recovered. Rayyanae (talk) 07:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Who publishes the AMRC papers, if not the AMRC? That's what self-published means. No one is saying that you published them, but that they are self-published by the AMRC. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:40, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Is the AMRC a "verifiable, usually peer-reviewed forum"? That is a combination of both internal controls (e.g. the process of selection of aritcles, are they competitive?) and external recognition (is it cited by other prominent scholars?) E.g. scholar.google.com returns zero citations when I search for "Al Mawakeb Research Center" MarkLSteadman (talk) 16:37, 22 February 2025 (UTC)