Wikibooks:Book of the month/May 2005 voting

Vote for the book of the month of May 2005.

The voting for the Book of the month for May 2005 is open from 1 - 30 April, 2005, and will close on April 30, 2005, 00:00 UTC. The book of the month will be featured on the main page of Wikibooks.

Closed. Any votes added will be reverted.

Voting rules

Nomination

• Every user can nominate books of interest for voting and add them at the end of the voting page.
• A featured wikibook cannot be nominated again for one year.
• To nominate a book just add that book to the voting section of the voting page using this Wiki code: === [[Book Name]] === where "Book Name" is the name of the book. When you have done this add {{Botm}} to the top of the front page of the Wikibook.

Voting

• Every registered Wikibooks user can vote for as many of the nominated candidates as they like.
• Only registered Wikibooks users should vote while they are logged in (check by history of page). This is because it is impossible to detect multiple votes by a user using different anon IPs.
• Due to previous voting irregularities, we now require a user to show they are intending to participate with Wikibooks by showing a minimum of 20 edits in your edit history. This number may increase in the future if continued problems persist.
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• To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with # ~~~~ to add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
• Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see w:Approval voting).
• You may add short supporting or opposing comments to each candidate, signed with your name. These comments do not count in the voting process.
• Votes can be retracted by the voter until the voting closes.

Evaluation

• Voting ends 00:00UTC on the day specified.
• The winner is the candidate book with the most support votes.
• In case of a tie, the older book will be selected (by book history).
• Books with 3 or more votes will be automatically nominated for the following month.

voting rules are adapted from the Wikinews logo contest voting

Nominated books

Physics Study Guide (1)

(Automatically nominated with 4 votes in March)

Votes:

1. Lemontea 09:58, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

The Unicyclopedia (3)

(Automatically nominated with 4 votes in March)

Votes:

1. Gentgeen 21:36, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Andreas 07:50, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Reub2000 23:04, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

• Nice guide, almost makes me want to start unicycling.Reub2000 23:04, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How To Build A Computer (9)

(Automatically nominated with 4 votes in March)

Votes:

1. --Hyperlink 03:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. --Noogz 01:20, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. --Gentgeen 21:36, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. --Andrewcool 06:33, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. -- marsh 17:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. --Yayyak 10:27, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
7. --Reub2000 00:59, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
8. --Naryathegreat|(talk) 01:13, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
9. --Eyu100 23:26, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comments:

• Pictures and a little more flesh will really help, but the story looks pretty complete and easy to read - marsh
• Needs work on trouble shooting sections, more pictures. Hopefully being Book of the Month will bring more people to complete these tasks. Reub2000
• I agree with the above comments, but this is without a doubt the best book on the list.--Naryathegreat|(talk) 01:13, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mandarin Chinese (1)

(Automatically nominated with 3 votes in March)

Votes:

1. --EuropracBHIT 05:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC).

Comments:

FHSST Physics:Index (5)

1. Check out this book, it has a whole team of people working on it to use in schools in South Africa. It is not ready for the spotlight yet but this books looks like it might become a WikiBooks poster child of how to organize a collaborative team.--Karl Wick 20:02, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Constantijn 17:05, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
3. Gentgeen 21:18, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Marknewlyn 03:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Moldi 05:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)