[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo

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Delirium wrote:

> I may be misremembering, but I don't recall an explicit and narrow 
> requirement that Wikibooks be "educational" when it was set up, and 
> certainly not "educational" in the narrow sense of "something that a 
> university would teach".  Of course textbooks were a major sort of 
> book that people had in mind, but I don't recall anyone saying that 
> *only* textbooks would be permitted (not to mention defining what 
> constitutes a "textbook"!). 

Some empirical evidence for this:
  -- The "about" page has never said it is limited to 
textbooks---textbooks are only one part of the list of things that 
Wikibooks is for
  -- Some of the earliest Wikibooks are non-textbook but informational 
books, such as videogame walkthroughs

-Mark

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