[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[Nguyen Anh (DAM)]

Dear All,

As we all know, the difference between Citizendium and Wikipedia is to
have a reliable encyclopedia, with an "expert oversight". In this
precise case, it seems obvious that the "Binary economics" has its place
on Wikipedia, but not here as there is much controversy on that subject.

I perfectly agreed that as, up to now, there is no large acceptance of
that theory in the Economics field, measured by the number of articles
published in peer-reviewed journals.  Futhermore, Citizendium should not
be the place where everyone is coming with his own theory, but the place
where al accepted theory is presented.

So, I do agree that this article should be kept in archives and not be
seen by all users. Someone belonging to the Econ Group (I am from... But
more from the finance side.. sorry) should try to write a short and
neutral article on it.

Anh 

-----Original Message-----
From: cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org
[mailto:cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Larry
Sanger
Sent: 27 April 2007 00:33
To: 'The Citizendium Editorial Council'
Subject: [Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

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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