[Cz-editcouncil] Resignation

[Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari]

Dear All,
As of now, there is no formal procedure for resignation in the
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Rules_of_Procedure and
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Resolution_0007#I._Composition_of_the_Council
.
Martin is the duly elected Secretary of the Editorial Council and Chairman
of the Rules Committee, as per the above rules.
Martin, please inform the EC members whether you want to continue as the
Secretary of the EC or not. If you are not willing to continue, please
propose a Resolution that takes care of the situations due to resignations
in the future too.
Further, I'd personally request you to continue as the Secretary until your
successor is found and you can handover the job to him/her sharing your
experience and expertise in carrying out the designated responsibilities.
Looking forward to the opinion of the other esteemed members of the CZ EC.
With warmest regards
Supten
The Chair, Editorial Council, Citizendium: [
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:CZ_Editorial_Council_Members ]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:

>  Fascinating suggestion, Christian; I kind of like it.  We should talk
> about it on the Forums (http://forum.citizendium.org), however, not on
> this list.
>
> --Larry
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org [mailto:
> cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] *On Behalf Of *Christian
> Kleineidam
> *Sent:* Monday, November 03, 2008 5:20 AM
> *To:* The Citizendium Editorial Council
> *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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