Template:Book namespace deletion

The book rendering service was deprecated in 2021.
See the alternative options. For details of how to restore a book after deletion, see: Wikipedia:Books/archive.

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On 24 May 2021, the Book namespace was formally deprecated.
On 18 June 2021, consensus was reached to delete the book namespace and all pages within it, although individual books will be restored upon request.
On 13 July 2021, the Book namespace was uninstalled from the English Wikipedia.
All books were moved to subpages of Wikipedia:Books/archive at the end of June where they remained for a month to allow users to keep books in userspace and allow for refunds after namespace deletion.
On 3 August 2021, all books were deleted.

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