Piotr "Derbeth" Kubowicz wrote:
What do you think of
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Christianity/Living_as_a_Christian and
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Imamat_or_Successorship_After_the_Last_Prophet…
I noticed there are more and more users who contribute to books that
are made with strongly islamic point of view (we already have some
texts about islam:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Islam), with
nicks like "Truebeliever", "Believer" etc. I'm afraid that we
might
attract some zealots who see us as a good place to develop
propaganda. Generally, I think that we should think how we should
treat books about religious topics.
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.
--Jimbo