CZ:Editor Application Review Procedure

The editor application procedure

The application procedure for editors is the same as the procedure for authors, except that editor candidates should also send to personnel@citizendium.org two additional items: a CV or resume attached (or linked), as well as some links to Web material that tends to support the claims made in the CV, such as conference proceedings, or a departmental home page. Both additional requirements may be fulfilled by a CV that is hosted on an official work Web page.

Note: it is perfectly acceptable for an editor to get started as an author. To become an editor, then, a person could simply place links to a CV, and perhaps other supporting material, on his or her user page, and then send a link to that page to personnel@citizendium.org.

Also different are the items the editorial personnel administrators will add to the new editor's user page. They will use the {{ewelcome}} template and, unless the editor specifically requests otherwise, the links to online work and/or CV the editor supplied.

Editorial personnel administrators may be either editors or constables. The persons making decisions about editor applications will be editors, not constables, but any constable may "fill in" an editor's user page once a decision has been made.

The editor application review procedure

The procedure is virtually identical to that for authors; see Application Review Procedure. Here are the differences, and additional notes:

• Duly designated editorial personnel administrators can make decisions on editor applications.
• If there is some significant question about a particular application, consult the editorial administrator list.
• We check for (and, if necessary, request) more pieces of information (see above). We must be quite sure that the person has the main credentials he or she claims. This requires a link to a credible Web site where the person's e-mail address can be found, or some equally credible means of establishing bona fides.
• We use {{ewelcome}} (the "editor welcome" template) rather than {{awelcome}}.
• We add both [[Category:CZ Editors]] and the category of the most appropriate workgroup, such as [[Category:Philosophy Editors]].
• Forward to sanger [at] citizendium.org (or whoever the moderator of citizendium-editors is) the e-mail address of the new editor and ask him/her to send a list subscription invitation to the new editor.
• In the welcome message, it would be a good idea to include a link to the discipline editor category page (e.g., Category:Philosophy Editors) and perhaps a few other pages such as the workgroup home page (e.g., CZ:Biology Workgroup).
• Finished applications are filed in the "Editors - Yes - Done" folder, not in the authors' folder.