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

[Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari]

Dear Martin,
Thanks for your mail.
As you are aware,
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Rules_of_Procedure can
be followed to propose a motion to that effect.
With warmest regards
Supten
Chair, CZ Editorial Council

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:52 PM, M. BALDWIN-EDWARDS <baldwin at panteion.gr>
wrote:

>  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 <supten at gmail.com>
> *To:* The Citizendium Editorial Council<cz-editcouncil at voltaire.citizendium.org>; Citizendium
> editors announcement list <citizendium-editors at lists.purdue.edu> ; Citizendium
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> Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org>
> *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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