[Cz-biology] Giant panda/naming

[Larry Sanger]

Well, only three people have voted so far.  Make up your mind before you
look at the voting page, please.  Unless there is a reasonably significant
percentage of the Biology Workgroup voting, I would not consider the results
legitimate.

Indeed, probably we should weight biology editors' votes appropriately.

But the important thing now is to vote:

http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=vyb92ak9gguddpvk

--Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org 
> [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Marielle
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:03 PM
> To: Biology Workgroup List
> Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] Giant panda/naming
> 
> 
> I made a list of pros and cons with examples here: 
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Workgroup#Naming_convention
> 
> Also, do we really want to have a pure majority vote?  In 
> this instance, some sort of ranked vote might be appropriate, 
> especially as there are so few voters.  With such a small 
> pool of people, the voting outcome has too much randomness to 
> really show what a majority would think.  We should really 
> have statistically significant results to make an official 
> policy- otherwise there's no purpose to voting to begin with. 
>  Also, should we really be able to see the results of the 
> vote before we vote?  Right now, of course, there's no risk 
> of an information cascade, but there are still psychological 
> factors at work.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Larry Sanger 
> <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
> > An interesting idea approach to the poll:
> >
> > 1. Only common name: "Giant Panda"
> > 2. Only scientific name: "Ailuropoda melanoleuca"
> > 3. Both names, scientific one in parentheses: "Giant Panda 
> (Ailuropoda 
> > melanoleuca)" 4. Both names, common one in parentheses: "Ailuropoda 
> > melanoleuca (Giant Panda)"
> > 5. Other 1 - please give details at talk page
> > 6. Other 2 - please give details at talk page
> > 7. Other 3 - please give details at talk page
> >
> > I'm sure Daniel knows that this does not of course settle all 
> > questions we might have about naming conventions for 
> species, but it 
> > does nicely focus the main debate, it seems to me.
> >
> > I would encourage you all to participate--in the interest of my own 
> > neutrality I won't, except as a "tiebreaker."
> >
> > Direct link to the poll: 
> > http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=vyb92ak9gguddpvk
> >
> > --Larry
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> [mailto:cz-biology-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf 
> Of Daniel 
> >> Mietchen
> >> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 3:01 AM
> >> To: Biology Workgroup List
> >> Subject: Re: [Cz-biology] Giant panda/naming
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello together,
> >> I set up a poll for this, which can be reached from 
> >> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Biology_Workgroup#Naming_con
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