--- Gerrit Holl gerrit@nl.linux.org wrote:
And what about [1]? It has been very useful for me, but a "textbook"? Not really. A book on "how to get a girl" could cite http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.html, a publication by the Social Issues Research Centre. I find it a strange decision to allow only 'textbooks', no other educational books.
[1]
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bicycles/Maintenance_and_Repair/Wheels_and_Tire...
While not commenting on the merit of the "how to get a girl" Wikibook, I'd just like to say, as a co-founder of Wikibooks, that I never intended Wikibooks to only have what would classically be seen as textbooks (although that was the focus).
Manuals, self-help guides, and even longer format reference books that are so popular in bookstores (such as a 200+ page biography about Napoleon) should, IMO, also be welcome. I also don't see how having those type of works on Wikibooks is in any way inconsistent with the foundation's goals.
-- mav
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