[Cz-editcouncil] [Citizendium-l] New Editorial Council

[M. BALDWIN-EDWARDS]

Dear Fellow EC member,

I do not understand what this is about condition 4. Condition 4 is the rule requiring members to be at least 25 years old and to have a 4-year college degree or equivalent. This rule can be exempted by agreement of the Council and I certainly give my agreement to this in the case of the three author members below.

As members of the previous EC will recall, I opposed the existence of rule 4 from the outset, as being far too restrictive. May I suggest that we consider amending it forthwith? This seems necessary as there are still not enough members of the Council.

With best wishes

Martin Baldwin-Edwards
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari 
  To: The Citizendium Editorial Council ; Citizendium editors announcement list ; Citizendium general project announcement list ; Larry Sanger 
  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:07 AM
  Subject: [Citizendium-l] New Editorial Council


  Dear All,
  As announced on April 08, 2008, I had put up the following cases to the Editorial Council for being included as special cases as they are active members of CZ and also willing to serve the EC. As there has been no objection, within one week, i.e., by Tuesday April 15, 2008, 03:30 hrs,UTC, I am including them in the list of EC members.
  User Pages:
  1. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Robert_W_King - selected to be an Author member (2008 - 2010)
  2. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Christian_Kleineidam - selected to be an Author member (2007 - 2009)
  3. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Carl_Jantzen - selected to be an Author member (2007 - 2009)

  However, there is a caveat attached to it:
  When these people were originally invited to join, I did not adequately explain that they needed to fulfill condition 4.  Rather than embarrass them and us by withdrawing the offer, we are including them.  However, I will be advising any future Selection Officials that we must first ask all candidates if they fulfill condition 4.  The fact that these Citizens are included in this Council does not mean that we are simply scrapping condition 4 without a vote; it should not be interpreted as a precedent for anything other than how to deal with an administrative error."

  We are still short of 4 Editor members and 1 author member, the vacancies that we hope to fill up soon.

  We have a lot of work to do and I would like the Council to be formed fully before it can start functioning. Hopefully, this time round, there will be more active interest and participation from the selected Citizens

  With warmest regards
  Supten Sarbadhikari
  Chair and Selection Official, CZ Editorial Council 


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