[Cz-editcouncil] Article deletion question

[David Goodman]

As a layman, relying of the format  of the article and the use and
nature of the references as much as the arguments, it seems obvious
that the article is advocacy, rather than encyclopedic--and even by
Wikipedia standards would probably be nominated for deletion as an
essay.

Holding it for future work by those qualified seems an obvious
temporary solution. At Wikipedia, any one of a number of people would
undoubtedly start editing to improve it, but in a non-systematic way.
We should wait for people prepared to do it properly.

But it is possible that the author might be prepared to revise the
article in the light of the unanimous criticism that it is receiving,
and in all fairness, that should be tried first. Even if it needs
substantial rewriting after that, there will be a better starting
point. And we might get better future work from the author involved.

DavidGoodman


On 4/27/07, Nguyen Anh (DAM) <Anh.Nguyen at dexia-am.com> wrote:
> 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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