CZ:Proposals/Editorial Council

These are proposals that will go (or are now) before the Editorial Council.

Self-Correction Policy

Summary: The Citizendium should adopt a policy that requires that we list all factual errors in previous versions of our articles--including unapproved articles--at the bottom of an article. This is the same standard that newspapers and other legitimate periodicals use. We are clearly obligated to adopt the same policy. Doing so will earn us good will from the public and increase our credibility considerably. Original proposer: Larry Sanger 08:57, 28 March 2008 (CDT) Next step: Submit to the Editorial Council for approval, hopefully by acclamation Driver: Larry Sanger To be done by: Tuesday, March 31 Notes: This came to me in a flash. It is quite simply something that we must do.

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Citing CZ article by authors

Summary: An author X, who wants to cite a Citizendium article he contributed to, should do so in a form like "Authors and X (2008) Life ..." (summary written by Proposals Manager) Original proposer: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) Next step: Create Proposal Driver: Lee R. Berger 01:44, 5 March 2008 (CST) To be done by: 5 March

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Medical Disclaimers

Summary: Add a disclaimer to drug and medical condition pages Original proposer: David E. Volk 10:21, 9 March 2008 (CDT) Next step: Wait for new Editorial Council to be instated Driver: David E. Volk To be done by: April 7, 2008

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Pilot to allow Citizens to take credit for pages

Summary: By popular demand, we would, to a limited extent, allow Citizens to take authorship credit of articles. This would (for now) take the form of a template placed at the bottom of the page, which would, in small and unobtrusive print, list the contributors to an article in alphabetical order. Contributors would add themselves. To avoid issues about what counts as an "important" edit, a person could take co-authorship credit for adding at least two sentences, and five people who have to be on the list before any names were displayed. We would try this out in just four workgroups (the template would be removed from articles in any other workgroup). Original proposer: Larry Sanger 22:08, 12 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Submit to Editorial Council after new Council is empanelled Driver: Larry Sanger To be done by: April 3

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Create workgroup style guides

Summary: To promote coherent style and subsections within each workgroup, aid new users with examples of equations, drawings and other how-to items Original proposer: David E. Volk 11:33, 29 February 2008 (CST) Next step: Awaiting vote by the Editorial Council Driver: User:David E. Volk To be done by: March 31, 2008 Notes: The idea is to have a workgroup-specific style guides to aid authors and editors for consistency

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