Robert Scott Horning wrote:
BTW, have you seen the Wikipedia article on [[w:White
nationalism]]? Using this same logic, this article on Wikipedia should
be deleted on the spot and all of the participants banned as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism
is a perfectly fine encyclopedia article.
But let me give you a few quotes from the "White Heritage Security"
wikibook, and ask you to ask yourself what will happen when a grant
maker who is seeking quality volunteer efforts to fund will think about
our project when they see this? I want you to imagine the headlines
that would result from us being tolerant of such things...
"Whites may need to create a separate nation to defend themselves from
racial destruction by racial mixing."
"Other races exploit the white race in a number of ways to their detriment."
There's plenty more where that comes from.
Robert wrote:
>> The user that added this white power book has
otherwise done Wikibooks
>> quite a bit of good, and banning him would only make an enemy rather
>> than a useful contributor.
I responded:
> I very strongly disagree. Wikibooks does not need
such books, and it
> was an is an embarassment to see such a thing.
Robert again:
So, do you have a personal beef against
[[b:User:Zondor]]?
A _personal_ beef? Not really, no. A _professional_ beef? Absolutely.
This is a serious project, and we do not need the help of people who
behave in such a fashion.
The #1 complaint I have here about this whole thing is
not so much what
you've done, but how you've done it, particularly in regard to changing
policy without really explaining this policy change.
I have not changed policy. I did change one policy page, but only to
correct something that I think everyone will agree is obviously in
error: "As a general rule, any book you might expect to find in the
non-fiction section of your local library or bookshop is acceptable."
There are tons and tons of non-fiction books which are not NPOV, and
NPOV is, as always, non-negotiable.
--Jimbo