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Proposal to change title of "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" to "Wikipedia Manual"

The title is a misnomer. Obviously Wikipedia lacked a manual and this 3rd-party book was written to fill the gap. But now it's home is Wikipedia, which means this encyclopedia is not missing a manual.

Today it's Wikipedia's default main manual. Therefore I propose we change the name to "Wikipedia Manual"

It's shorter, it's semantically accurate, it's not puzzling, and therefore it's more professional. The Transhumanist 00:38, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

P.S.: It's also cleaner, and would no longer have "Wikipedia:" (the project namespace) in the title.

• Support – as nom. The Transhumanist 00:38, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Makes sense. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 00:58, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose It's name is "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual", that's the name everyone else, Amazon, John Broughton, etc., will continue to call it. To differ here would be confusing, and less professional. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 01:16, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Indeed, there is no reason to change the title of a book that someone wrote just because this is the online version. Certainly it's uncommon in the real world to buy an e-book and find that it was identical to a print book that you already had. That would be unprofessional. As far as the logic of the title, it stopped being "missing" as soon as he published the print version, so I think the author intended it to be a clever misnomer. I was expecting to see the author commenting here, and looked on his user page to see if he had been notified. Is it really possible that he wasn't? I would be interested in hearing his opinion. First Light (talk) 15:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Per the previous two comments who explained it perfectly. This is frankly a kind of silly proposal. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:38, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose per Emmette above. The Missing Manuals are a series of books, of which Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is just one. To break consistency with the others in the series, and with the original print version of this book, would cause unnecessary confusion. – PartTimeGnome (talk | contribs) 21:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Note 1: this discussion was started whilst the page was in the Book: namespace. See page-history and edit summaries, and thread below, for details.

Note 2: I assume the nom is unfamiliar with the vast Missing Manual series of books, of which this is an example. (Otherwise, the proposal is indeed kinda silly). –Quiddity (talk) 23:29, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Move back to proper namespace

I suspect this page's location (Book talk:Wikip...) is a mistake.

The subpages are ALL in the Help: namespace, and all templates point to Help: - the primary contents page should not have been merged to this (utterly separate project) Book: namespace location.

The search bar should not be printed, and therefor does not belong on this page.

On February 14th, an editor just cut & Pasted the entire talkpage history to here, Plus merged/redirected the main index, too.

Could an admin (or someone more awake than I) initiate the repair sequence? Much thanks. –Quiddity (talk) 07:40, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Inexpertly done. If anyone feels it necessary (or easy), feel free to do a proper WP:HISTMERGE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quiddity (talk • contribs) 23:29, 4 May 2013 (UTC)