[Cz-editcouncil] Adding your own writings to bibliographies

[Larry Sanger]

Dear Council members,

As you know, we sometimes pass things "by unanimous consent" (as the phrase
goes in parliamentary procedure).  Basically, the Chair makes a proposal and
asks if there are any objections.  If there are none, then the proposal is
adopted.

I would like to amend our Policy on Self-Promotion:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Policy_on_Self-Promotion

by adding the following exception:

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* Similarly, if you wish to have books or articles of yours added to the
"Further reading" section of an article, please ask someone--a specialist
who can judge what the "Further reading" section should look like--to do
this for you. 

* Exception: if your book or article is the only writing, or one of the very
few writings, available on a topic, or if it is typically included in
bibliographies on the topic, then you may include it in an article yourself.


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Further tweaking of the rule may be in order, but the above seemed to me to
resolve potentially some of the questions that have arisen about the rule on
the wiki recently; and it also seems fairly harmless.

If there is no objection, we will retain this change.  If there is an
objection, or if anyone simply would like us to vote on it (whether or not
there is an actual objection), you have every right to do so.

The Chair.