Jimbo Wrote:
Well, I think the policy is pretty clear, and yes, as the community applies the policy in practice, I don't always agree with the outcome, nor do I expect to always agree with the outcome.
I am not sure why you are saying there is currently no policy.
because to the best of my knowledge there currently is no specific policy that says specifically what a "textbook" is.
This policy is currently "proposed", but is a long way away from being enforced:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Textbooks
This policy is a broad cover-all, but again never states specifcally what a "textbook" is, nor how to distinguish between "instructional resources" that do belong here, and "instructional resources" that don't belong here ([[How To Build A Pykrete Bong]] was instructional, and NPOV, but we deleted it anyway as mostly a matter of conscience):
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WB:WIW
Fact is that the wikibooks policy cannon is very incomplete.
--Andrew Whitworth