Wikibooks talk:Reading room/Proposals

Proposals?!?
Won't that be doing what the general reading room is doing already?!? I prefer feature requests, with a narrower scope. Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 01:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That scope is too narrow. This page was going unused and nobody here is a MediaWiki developer to properly respond to requests, which, if not specific to Wikibooks, need to be filed at Bugzilla anyway.  The general reading room will be for miscellaneous topics.  I'd even want to call it that if it weren't for so many links to it.  And the rooms are more like discussion rooms rather than reading rooms anyway. Take a look at Wikinews and how they break their rooms down.  Even Wikipedia has a page for proposals.  If anything, we've got an additional reading room in the form of the general assistance page over the administrative and technical assistance pages you'd see at other projects.  – Adrignola talk 02:10, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * FYI adrignola, at WP we have the technical, proposals, policy and miscellanous village pumps. The help desks are separate from the rest, and are divided into the help desk and new contributors' help page. That is different from the way WB is currently doing. Kayau ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 08:44, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * FYI, Featured requests were intended to be Wikibooks specific. The motivation for the creation of this particular subpage was due in part to discussion on Wikibooks' mailing list asking if the wikibooks community had a wish list of things they'd like to see changed to the software. --dark lama  15:32, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

On Wikibook, Baptist Theology
Baptist Theology (BT) should be renamed. Or be included as a part of a larger book.

Reason #1: The term "Baptist" is used only to identify a group of Christians who believes in believer's baptism and some other nonessential beliefs, distinguishing themselves from Paedobaptists (baptizing infants). Baptists are also called Credobaptists (baptizing believers). So having a book, titled Baptist Theology suggests that Baptists have a distinct system of theology, or a monolithic view of the Bible — which they haven't. Baptists have many shapes and forms, and only unite in this: "we don't baptize babies."

Reason #2: The title Baptist Theology suggest an overview of what Baptists are or believe. Knowing Reason #1, then BT should present a view of Baptists in contrast of Paedobaptists.

Reason #3: If you are pursuing a sytematic theology, then that is a weightier reason to let go of the title. A baptistic overview of anything in theology must be a minor section of a chapter on a given subject. Example: A chapter on Civil and Ecclessiatical Gimovernment, subsection: A baptistic view of the separation of Church and State; or a chapter on Government of the Churches, subsection: a baptistic view of the autonomy of a local assembly.

Reason #4: There are no Wikibooks available yet to be compared to BT. It aopears to be vague and out of nowhere. Maybe we should wait for other books to be developed before we go to this direction. John.madrid.1689 (discuss • contribs) 18:07, 1 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Shelf:Theology --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 19:46, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Books
Hi...mvuka here am struggling to get the book of the great king of the Zululand... king Shaka Zulu.

Please help me with that book. Thanks in advance. Mvuka (discuss • contribs) 15:01, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * While you can make a book about Shaka Zulu, it will probably be hard to assemble an entire textbook, guide, etc. to a single historical figure. It would probably be better to include a chapter or module about him in a book about history or maybe even leadership. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)