[Cz-biology] Giant panda/naming

[Daniel Mietchen]

Hello together,

there was a time when geologists were voting about the acceptability of
Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory, and they rejected it with majority.

Surely, CZ naming conventions tend to be of a less fundamental nature
but I still assume that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Polling_is_not_a_substitute_for_discussion
-
rather on the contrary, it can stimulate and help guide discussions,
especially if combined with systematic presentations of pros and cons (thanks
for this, by the way) of the alternatives.
Cheers,
Daniel

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Marielle <marielle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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>>> 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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