[Cz-editcouncil] Resignation

[M. BALDWIN-EDWARDS]

Dear Christian,

I have already expressed to a few other members of the Council that I will return if there are some structural reforms. Maybe some open discussion on the Forum would be the place to start: there is already one thread started by Larry (focused on allegedly abusive comments made by me to him and whather the EIC should accept these...).

Anyway, I remain open to persuasion on such issues...

Best wishes

Martin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christian Kleineidam 
  To: The Citizendium Editorial Council 
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [Cz-editcouncil] Resignation


  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 blue
  Constable: 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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