The general gist of what I'm trying to propose is
under what
circumstances can content from a Wikipedia article be used as a
seed to start an expanded Wikibook. A Wikibook about Nikola Tesla
was started, in part, due to an edit war on Wikipedia where some
Wikipedia editors wanted to add content, but it keeps getting cut
due to the fact that the article already is quite large.
It's a sad thing if Wikipedians say it doesn't belong there as it is
not encyclopedic and Wikibookians say it doesn't belong as it is not
instructional material.
The Wikibook, titled "The Biography of Nikola Tesla", was IMHO a
rather well put together Wikibook with title page, about 7
"chapters", and a couple of appendices. Indeed, other than the
fact that it was the subject of an edit war at Wikipedia I thought
it was a very well organized Wikibook, particular in comparison to
most of the rest of the content on Wikibooks. It was a little
sparse on content for Wikibooks, but that should be something that
happens over time to expand and is precisely the purpose of
Wikibooks. This Wikibook was ungraciously deleted over my
objections because of a simple majority vote of those on the delete
page.
WB:WIN - Wikibooks is not Wikipedia. The majority of Wikibookians,
seeing that the book is deleted, see that a biography is not in
itself an instructional resource. It may have fit in if it was part
of a history of physics Wikibook, but by itself it seems that it
wouldn't do (and even then, an "edit for time" would have been
necesary).
I guess that I'm trying to modify the deletion
policy somewhat to
allow *some* forking of Wikipedia content, provided that the
content on Wikibooks really is an expansion of the Wikipedia
article and not just some POV fight or fork of Wikipedia content.
The nature of Wikibooks certainly allows almost any article on
Wikipedia to be turned into a book, provided there are interested
parties willing to write the content. Forbidding any fork would,
in effect, kill almost any Wikibook stub right now.
We do not allow any content that isn't considered to be instructional
material. The spirit of WB:WIN is that if you want to expand a WP
article, then do it on WP. Personally, I am opposed to any Wikipedia
forking in general because of the fact that I consider encyclopedia
articles are not by itself instructional material. Based on your
post, [[The Biography of Nikola Tesla]] would have been deleted
whether we have the changed policy or not, due to it originating from
an edit war.
I have to say that, to some real extent, the "books" part of
Wikibooks is really a misnomer: it's not clearly intuitive that we
are writing textbooks of instructional material on this wiki.