[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[Robert P. Tito]

All,

To ensure that possibility I suggested the move to Binary_economics/ 
Archive.
Only a healthy and populated (and active) economics group may decide  
over deletion, not some editorial board with people (excuse the pun)  
without economic knowledge.
Deletions are for the workgroups only, they decide not us we may  
advice and no more.

cheers

Rob

On 27-Apr, 2007, 4:33, at 4:33:45 , DAVID INNIS wrote:

> 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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