User talk:JCraw

Welcome to Wikibooks! Not that you probably need a welcome because you certainly don't seem like a stranger to wiki.

The current TOC represents a basic outline that I worked on to help give structure to the algrebra book. Prior to that outline, the book had no structure, and was a mishmash of all sorts of unrelated subjects. I went through the book and removed all the nonsense, and tried to reorder the good material, but as you can plainly see the "good material" is a pathetically small quantity of text.

Since the book is so absolutely pathetic, and since no other editors are particularly active in contributing to it, you essentially have free-reign over it, if you want. Wikibooks is a little different from Wikipedia in that authors tend to focus on one book at a time (instead of editing several articles) and books here tend to only have one author at a time. Some of the more popular books, of course, draw larger crowds of people.

My point being that if you intend to serve as an author to this book, you will be the only one, and "consensus decision making" involves you doing whatever you want to do. You can delete the current text, or you can keep it and expand on it, you can change the TOC and the templates and whatever else you want to change. The entire world could benefit from a good, free algebra text, and if you have a vision, run with it.

I would be willing to lend my help and support to you in any aspect that you need. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)