[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[David Shapinsky]

Larry

 

I agree with Andy and with you.  In my view you are correct about this one.
>From the get go, the "voice" asserts rather than describes or explains a
position.  If it offered statements such as "Some argue.." It might be more
acceptable.  

 

Cheers

David

 

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From: cz-editcouncil-bounces at voltaire.citizendium.org
[mailto:cz-editcouncil-bounces at voltaire.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
N. Carpenter
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:38 PM
To: The Citizendium Editorial Council
Subject: Re: [Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

 

Larry,

As a provisional process, I suggest that it is fine for you and the
editorial council to review the disputed article and for to delete the
article as long as there is no strong opposition by the larger group. I also
suggest that we trust you to make the judgment about what constitutes strong
opposition in this context. 

As time goes on, we will develop more robust procedures, but something like
this strikes me as a reasonable way to proceed for now. I'll be interested,
of course, in hearing colleagues' suggestions -- I'm by no means wedded to
this idea, and I'm sure the group can refine it or replace it with something
better if necessary 


All the best,

Andy.

On 4/26/07, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote: 

Dear Editorial Council members,

I'm going to try to have something like a kick-off mail in your box this 
evening, but I wanted to get your input on something in the meantime.

We have a shortage of active Economics editors.  I asked several who are
involved to comment on this article, which struck me as being quite biased: 

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Binary_economics

And we got a comment back, here:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Binary_economics#Editorial_Opinion

The opinion seems to me to entail that we should delete the article.  In
particular, two items:

(1) This comment is most important: "I do not think the current entry can be

revised to make a suitable entry for Citizendium."

(2) The article "reads as promotional literature."

Our rules at present state (see
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Article_Deletion_Policy) that the first
two comments in particular are grounds for an *editor* to make a decision to
delete an article outright.

So I would like to ask your opinion about a question of *process* here: 
should we, in the absence of any other active economics editor weighing in
on the matter, rely on the opinion of a single editor to delete an article
on the above grounds?

--Larry

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