[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[Robert P. Tito]

All,

Since I am no economist I do not wish to comment on any article on  
topics I have no knowledge about.
However, having read the following:
"
(1) The article misrepresents the impact of the binary economics  
literature on the established body of knowledge known as economics.  
This impact -- rightly or wrongly -- is approximately zero on the  
theoretical literature. A quick search on the term will show that the  
only journals with articles in the last decade devoted to discussion  
of the issue are the Journal of Socio-Economics [an important  
journal, but not mainstream] and a highly critical article in the  
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

(2)The number of authors in this field is very small, but they  
publish extensively and have two institutions or think-tanks to  
promote their work. One of the leading people in this small group of  
authors is Rodney Shakespeare: it is, therefore, inappropriate that  
the Citizendium article, or any part of it, should be written by him.

(3) The article in its current form is not very helpful in explaining  
the paradigmatic challenge which Binary Economics is trying to make:  
it reads as a piece of promotional literature, rather than  
independent scientific work or a typical entry in an encyclopedia.
"
I must conclude the topic IS an actual economics topic, and should  
remain.
The content seems possibly questionable.
I propose to MOVE the article to Binary Economics/Archive allowing  
the economics editors a fresh start on the topic, as well as active  
authors the possibility to start writing a more precise article that  
can stand all criticism and is neutral.

But further - don't ask :)

I do hope economics will have a working group of authors and editors  
on short notice.

Regards,

Rob Tito



On 27-Apr, 2007, 24:33, at 0:33:11 , Larry Sanger 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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