The point of the textbook is that it is instructional. So long as the book is adequately instructional (and so long as it doesnt violate any other policies), the format and presentation of the material seems mostly irrelevant to me. Allowing a young children's book to be written as an allegory or as a fable or other quasi-fictional device is far different from opening up wikibooks as a general-purpose fiction repository.
--Andrew Whitworth
From: "KH" kathy@teachernotes.org Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "'Wikimedia textbook discussion'" textbook-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] NPOV and NOR as a local or a globalpoliciesonWikibooks? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:30:58 -0700
I read the link thoroughly. I can see a gap in your definition: A reading textbook used in the elementary school level. All texts at very early grades are fiction to motivate and relate to very young readers. Plus early grades are still learning sounds so you have to make up stories that contain only sounds that have been learned. So the definition is most definitely not complete. You would not find an early reader on the fiction bookshelf at a store. They are purchased as a textbook.
Not to be a welt on your tush but I am not convinced of the definition of what a wikibook is.
-Kathy
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