[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[DAVID INNIS]

As a point of *process*, I think we should have more than one editor agree to the deletion.  The article can be written more neutrally by reviewing other sources for binary economics and involving more authors and editors.  It certainly won't get approved as it is, but that doesn't mean it can't be one day.  I assume we are talking about setting precedents here.  I'm not sure that we want a controversial article to be easily deleted by one editor, lest we lose a lot of articles.  I do think, however, that the Editorial Chief's input should count for something, perhaps not as much as an editor for content on the subject, but certainly as a voice for content of Citizendium as a whole.
   
  Matt Innis

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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