Wikibooks:Book of the month/November 2005 voting

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Vote for the book of the month of November 2005.

The voting for the Book of the month for November 2005 is open from October 1st, 2005, and will close on October 31st, 2005, 00:00 UTC. The book of the month will be featured on the main page of Wikibooks.

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.
The use of sock puppets as a way to pad votes is strongly discouraged. While you are not restricted to only one user account on Wikibooks, please use just one account for any voting activities on Wikibooks including the Book of the Month voting. Suspicious cases of duplicate voting may be reviewed using the CheckUser services of MediaWiki software.
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

Consciousness studies

Voting:

Comments:

A textbook on the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness that can compete with the best hard-copy textbooks on the subject.

Really impressive. Look at these schemas! Many images (all have proper licenses), well-formed text, lots of information - I think it's worth becoming Book of the Month. --Derbeth 23:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Very interesting and well-formed.--Sitnarf 14:43, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Raising Chickens

Votes:

Klingoncowboy4 18:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Greentara 14:35, 27 October 2005

Comments:
Unless this book gets three votes I will stop renominateing it I promise. Klingoncowboy4 18:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

America's Army: Special Forces

Votes:

Comments:

This Wikibook is a good example of a somewhat tough subject that has been organized and fleshed out with few "red links" anywhere. While perhaps it could be improved with further editing and more content, it does a good job with what is there. --Rob Horning 13:25, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like it. There's a plenty of very short (three-four sentences) chapters. It's not well-formated - text look rather ugly. --Derbeth 23:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

UK Constitution and Government

Votes:

Comments:

Another excellent Wikibook that has not been named a Wikibook of the month, but is never the less a well written book and deserves some attention. --Rob Horning 04:12, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

With some expansion, this will be an excellent resource, and I believe making this Book of the Month will give it the extra attention it needs. Pureblade 18:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]