Re: NPOV and NOR as a local or a globalpoliciesonWikibooks?

"Andrew Whitworth" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
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The point of the textbook is that it is instructional. So long as the book 
is adequately instructional (and so long as it doesnt violate any other 
policies), the format and presentation of the material seems mostly 
irrelevant to me. Allowing a young children's book to be written as an 
allegory or as a fable or other quasi-fictional device is far different from 
opening up wikibooks as a general-purpose fiction repository.

--Andrew Whitworth


>From: "KH" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <[email protected]>
>To: "'Wikimedia textbook discussion'" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] NPOV and NOR as a local or a 
>globalpoliciesonWikibooks?
>Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:30:58 -0700
>
>I read the link thoroughly.  I can see a gap in your definition:  A reading
>textbook used in the elementary school level.  All texts at very early
>grades are fiction to motivate and relate to very young readers.  Plus 
>early
>grades are still learning sounds so you have to make up stories that 
>contain
>only sounds that have been learned.  So the definition is most definitely
>not complete. You would not find an early reader on the fiction bookshelf 
>at
>a store.  They are purchased as a textbook.
>
>Not to be a welt on your tush but I am not convinced of the definition of
>what a wikibook is.
>
>-Kathy

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