Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations/Addition/Novial

Novial
I think that, with an overrun of this book, it could really be featured. Good guides to pronunciation, etc. However, you should note that, although the rest of the book is excellent, there are no Lessons 8 & 9. However, the readers are good, and I think this will be a useful and helpful guide to someone interested in this language. Laleena (talk) 13:42, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose - this has large numbers of redlinks, and even the blue links lack depth of coverage. This is not yet a textbook one could use to teach from. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 14:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose The first few chapters are little more then long unexplained lists of vocabulary, and the remainder of the book consists almost entirely of long, unformatted blocks of text. Even places where simple formatting would set apart quotations or exercises, there is currently none. The large numbers of redlinks that Mike pointed out are troubleing as well. A few redlinks are perfectly fine, but the redlinks in this book represent nearly 50% of the explanatory text of the book (excluding pages which are only lists of vocabulary words). --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to note that the latter part, "An International Language", is not part of the textbook. As stated immediately under the title it is a translation of the original book on Novial into Novial.
 * The chapters of the textbook are essentially complete in themselves. Everything is explained and many examples provided. This might look like "unexplained lists of vocabulary" but if you actually read one lesson you will see that it is a continuous text. Each chapter starts with a reading text and is immediately followed by the vocab list for that text. If you click on a highlighted word in the text (a new word, which the beginner has not seen before) it jumps to its position in the vocab list, so the learner can read its translation and jump back. There follows explanations of new grammar and word-formation with many examples.
 * I'm not stating this to support its being a featured book, but it's interesting to see how ready people are to pass judgement on something without reading it, or at least a fair part of it. But such is Wikibooks. Novialiste (talk) 00:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:X mark.svg|15px| ]] Not done After having re-read the book in light of your comments, I am against the nom and would like to close as a good book that needs one step up for FB status. Thanks, Laleena (talk) 23:03, 29 January 2008 (UTC)