[Textbook-l] Problem with NPOV

[Piotr "Derbeth" Kubowicz]

Dnia Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:51:43 +0200, Jimmy Wales napisał(a):

> 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.

I suggest leaving only these religious books which can be useful for studying a religion from a scientific point of view (looking at its features, history, culture etc.).

Currently Christianity is written generally with respect to NPOV. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Islam may be interesting but needs some POV-cleanup (quote from main page: "But in the view of muslims it is the first religion in the world, that is the history of islam starts from 'Adam'"). The same applies to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/History_of_Islamic_Civilization (with problem with possible copyright violation). But in my opinion http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Imamat_or_Successorship_After_the_Last_Prophet_of_God and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Islam_Way_of_Life should be deleted.

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