Dnia Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:51:43 +0200, Jimmy Wales napisał(a):
1. NPOV is crucial. Textbooks are not advocacy. They
are to instruct
and inform, not brainwash and convert (in either direction!).
2. Wikibooks is for _textbooks_, not any random sort of nonfiction book.
One of the tests we should use is: "Does this book serve the specific
textbok needs of any actual class offered at any actual accredited
institution?" That will be a good way to cut out a lot of nonsense at
the start.
I suggest leaving only these religious books which can be useful for studying a religion
from a scientific point of view (looking at its features, history, culture etc.).
Currently Christianity is written generally with respect to NPOV.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Islam may be interesting but needs some
POV-cleanup (quote from main page: "But in the view of muslims it is the first
religion in the world, that is the history of islam starts from 'Adam'"). The
same applies to
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Islamic_Civilization (with problem
with possible copyright violation). But in my opinion
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Imamat_or_Successorship_After_the_Last_Prophet… and
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Islam_Way_of_Life should be deleted.
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