Piotr "Derbeth" Kubowicz wrote:
What do you think of http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Christianity/Living_as_a_Christian and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Imamat_or_Successorship_After_the_Last_Prophet_...
I noticed there are more and more users who contribute to books that are made with strongly islamic point of view (we already have some texts about islam: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Islam), with nicks like "Truebeliever", "Believer" etc. I'm afraid that we might attract some zealots who see us as a good place to develop propaganda. Generally, I think that we should think how we should treat books about religious topics.
1. NPOV is crucial. Textbooks are not advocacy. They are to instruct and inform, not brainwash and convert (in either direction!).
2. Wikibooks is for _textbooks_, not any random sort of nonfiction book. One of the tests we should use is: "Does this book serve the specific textbok needs of any actual class offered at any actual accredited institution?" That will be a good way to cut out a lot of nonsense at the start.
--Jimbo