[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo

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> Some empirical evidence for this:
>  -- The "about" page has never said it is limited to textbooks--- 
> textbooks are only one part of the list of things that Wikibooks is  
> for

And it was greatly opposed by many in the Wikibooks community - when  
[[User:Aya]] became a bureaucrat, that was one of the first things  
that changed, IIRC (it was this user that put down "anything found in  
your library" line).  In the user's critique of Wikibooks, the user  
felt that the project was a) too narrow in scope, and that b) many of  
its users ignored it.

>  -- Some of the earliest Wikibooks are non-textbook but  
> informational books, such as videogame walkthroughs

... which many consider as being inappropriate for Wikibooks and  
should be transfered to Wikicities (I happen to be in the opposition,  
though).  As a matter of fact, there is a growing movement to either  
make Wikibooks a Wikicities clone (by, say, adopting its policies) or  
to just move all Wikibooks content to Wikicities.

The fact is that bold moves are needed to clean Wikibooks up, and the  
reason that I left the Wikibooks community was that I couldn't see  
myself in the new Wikibooks, in whatever shape it may be.