Robert Scott Horning wrote:
Wikibooks and what should and should not be there. In
particular, Jimbo
also changed the wording of an official policy from:
"As a general rule, any book you might expect to find in the non-fiction
section of your local library or bookshop is acceptable."
to become instead:
"As a general rule, most books you might expect to find in the
non-fiction section of your local library or bookshop are not
acceptable. This is for textbooks."
This definition is not only , in my opinion, not only cumbersome,
but also open a serious question: What is a textbook?
Just as an example why a cookbook is not a textbook? In many school
cookbook are used as a textbook. Morover they are used in some small
lecture course about cooking. What should be consider as a textbook?
Just what is normally used in American High school?
And should the subject only be limited to normal subject textbook are
written about?
For instance there exist a lot of book about chess (and many of them
not only dealt about chess, but are even organized in lesson). Anyway
I have never seen a textbook about chess (because chess is not taught
at school).
Thank you
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