Robert Scott Horning wrote:
There is a group on Wikibooks, following the textbook
only philosophy to
an extreme, that suggests How-to books do not belong on Wikibooks
either, along with the removal of Video Game texts and even biographies
were suggested for removal. One of the justifications for this is that
Wikia projects exist now for these subjects and as such they are no
longer needed on Wikibooks.
This justification does not come from me and makes no sense to me.
If, however, the community of Wikibooks is purging content that does not
fit with the initial mission of Wikibooks, I see no problem with that.
Please do not portray things that I have not done, am not doing, and
have nothing to do with as being somehow things that I am doing for some
alleged financial benefit.
What has really surprised me, and I think shows how
rediculous the drive
to remove content from Wikibooks has gone, was the reaction I got to
suggesting a formal textbook about video game design focusing on Doom
was met with substantial resistance and even outright rejection.
I would assume that it is quite easy to find a course on video game
design, and then to write a textbook for that course, using Doom as an
extended example. Why should this be problematic?
I even
cited specific univsersity courses and majors from prominent accredited
educational institutions to demonstrate that such a textbook would not
only exist, but might even be useful for teaching one of these formal
courses. I still contend that content like this is being rejected
because of the topic alone.
Well, I do not agree with that at all.
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