[Cz-editcouncil] Resignation

[Christian Kleineidam]

Dear Martin,

I would hope that you would withdraw your resignation and let us as the
Editorial Council find a way to deal with this problem.
Citizendium is at it's nature supposed to be democratic and the question
about who has the authority to evaluate specialist articles should be
discussed here on the Editorial Council.
Afterwards we should decide as Editorial Council about the issue by voting
about it, if there are disagreements.
It's not Larry's job to decide about how far his own power goes in a case
like this.

To me the problem lies in roles not being clearly defined.
In this case it's about whether Larry's role as Editor in Chief gives him
the authority to demand that the article about the financial crash contains
a mention about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

I think that Larry clearly has the right to voice his opinion about the
topic from the perspective of contributing in citizendium like every other
user.

One solution to clearly mark roles:
When Larry writes with the authority of being Editor in Chief on a talk
page, he uses a different font or color than otherwise.

One idea:
Normal user: black text
Editor in that field: pale blue
Editor in that field who specializes into the subject of the article: deep
blueConstable: red
Editor in Chief: green

Afterwards Larry can use black text like every other user in cases like this
without somebody thinking that Larry tries to overrule the Editor.

Thanks
Christian Kleineidam
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