[Cz-editcouncil] CZ Editorial Council Resolution 0013 MedPedia's disclaimer

[Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari]

Dear Anthony and Others,
The method of proposing formal amendments to Resolutions at the CZ EC is
described as:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Rules_of_Procedure#Amending_resolutions
If any of the honorable members does not follow the said procedure, the
current version of the Resolution text will proceed for voting as scheduled
by the Secretary.
With warmest regards
Supten
The Chair, CZ EC

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Anthony Sebastian <
Anthony_Sebastian at msn.com> wrote:

>  *It might help to look at MedPedia's disclaimer's wording:*
>
> **
> "The Information on Medpedia is not Medical Advice"
>
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>
> Anthony.Sebastian
>
> **
>
> *From:* cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org [mailto:
> cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] *On Behalf Of *Larry Sanger
> *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2008 7:04 AM
> *To:* 'The Citizendium Editorial Council'
> *Subject:* Re: [Cz-editcouncil] CZ Editorial Council Resolution 0013
> discussionreminder
>
> Point of order: on the Proposals System page that contains the text of the
> disclaimer, there is now a "proposed amendment."  Which is the text that is
> up for consideration by Council?  Could we have a definitive declaration
> about that?
>
> I'm not authorized to make any definitive declaration about that myself,
> but fwiw, I am inclined to say, strictly for reasons of
> procedural clarity, that it is the text that first appears, not the amended
> text.  All amendments must be duly proposed, i.e., here on cz-editcouncil,
> and approved.
>
> Any Council member has the right to propose an amendment of any sort.  Go
> ahead.  Please don't complain, after we start voting, that we ignored all
> the amendments that were proposed on the Proposals System page...
>
> By the way, such matters of procedural clarity are why I think the full
> text of a resolution should appear on a subpage of [[CZ:Editorial Council]]
> and no where else--not Proposals System pages that are, as they should be,
> easy to change.  Think of Proposals System pages as rough drafts.
>
> --Larry
>
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