- 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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Pkbwcgs ( talk) 21:58, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Book:CE PE Exam Study Guide II
WP:NOTWEBHOST - This is a personal study guide with a list of articles to pass an exam and this is not suitable for Wikipedia. Pkbwcgs ( talk) 16:54, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- Comment - Waiting for statement from User:Clemenzi. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:32, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- Keep. Reply from User:Clemenzi: The Book:CE PE Exam Study Guide II page is not a "personal study guide". On the contrary, it was created as an Actual Study Guide for me and anyone else who must take the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying Computer Engineering test as required to practice Computer Engineering in many state (as happened to me) ... and anyone interested in that breadth of knowledge. I have already been contacted by two other engineers who thanked me as they used this WikiBook Computer Engineering Study Guide to successfully pass the PE CE exam. Unlike for many engineering fields, there is no other specific Study Guide available for that PE exam!! If you are unfamiliar with the Professional Engineering system, at least in many stated one is "required" to obtain this license when acting as a "consultant" -- this happened to me and will be happening to more in the computer fields (S/W and H/W) since there are now exams in those computer fields. It is not something any of us in computers may be able to avoid in the long-run.
- Thus, removing this Wikipedia entry would be removing from the public the only available thorough Study Guide explicitly for Computer Engineering. If you do intend to do that, please first let me know via another message so I can at least re-post the work elsewhere with wiki-links. After reading the discussion about eliminating WikiBooks and realizing that this is perhaps part of that effort, I could move the body of the page (list of wiki-page See Also links) to a normal wiki page called perhaps "Computer Engineering Study Guide" or "Computer Engineering Reference List" appropriately linked to Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination and Computer engineering. Then it would still be "available" ... just not a WikiBook.
- Otherwise, I will re-create the page on our website. Either way, I do believe it is important that the work is not lost to the public (searchable, etc.) ... and it did take a lot of effort to assemble. Also, just FYI, I have made some contributions to Wikipedia to make sure any cost associated with maintaining this and any other pages I have been involved in developing were for sure covered, and I intend to contribute more in the future. Therefore, I would hope it could maintain a home on Wiki somewhere as a service to anyone else who has to take this very substantial and sometimes legally required exam, or who is otherwise interested in Computer Engineering as a field.
- Again, just please let me know if deletion will occur so I can at least make one of these potential changes to save the work for others.
- Keep - This does not appear to be a webhost violation. The book covers a coherent topic with the elements consisting of the body of knowledge for computer engineering. -- Whpq ( talk) 17:34, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
- Keep - It appears that if there is an issue, it is a change to the content, and will not require the deletion of the content. Deletion isn't necessary. Robert McClenon ( talk) 00:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- Keep Per clarification by Clemenzi above; I think we should withdraw this now and PRESERVE it (e.g. part of what we are set up for). Britishfinance ( talk) 18:42, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- Comment (eithre keep and rename to Book:Principles of Computer Engineering, or similar, or delete as non encyclopedic) This should be renamed, no? The content looks fine and coherent (so above voters say, I only glanced the index). Having some course as a guideline is ok, I presume. But we do not host college manual, that we should delete. (or should I go and create book for each of my classes?) - Nabla ( talk) 18:52, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
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