CZ:Charter drafting committee/Position statements/Martin Baldwin-Edwards
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On November 1, 2008 I resigned from the EC and all editorial positions, after extended public disagreement with the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) over expert editorial control (namely, supporting the text of an expert author) versus the EiC in his personal capacity and other non-experts; the issue of acceptable sources (e.g. popular journalism) was also a component. These issues have not been resolved since.
I believe that the Charter is the first opportunity since the creation of the Editorial Council to remedy some of the ad hoc "structures" and procedures of CZ, and replace them with institutions accountable to the Citizenry. The functions of the Charter should be to set out clearly the rights and obligations of all parties (authors, editors, constables, EiC, Editorial Council) and to empower and specify the creation of any necessary new institutions (e.g. a Judicial Board): clearly, these should be kept to a minimum. However, these institutional deficits have been responsible, in my view, for the departures of many of the former leading authors and editors on CZ. Now is a real chance to get Citizendium back on its feet again.
On November 1, 2008 I resigned from the EC and all editorial positions, after extended public disagreement with the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) over expert editorial control (namely, supporting the text of an expert author) versus the EiC in his personal capacity and other non-experts; the issue of acceptable sources (e.g. popular journalism) was also a component. These issues have not been resolved since.
I believe that the Charter is the first opportunity since the creation of the Editorial Council to remedy some of the ad hoc "structures" and procedures of CZ, and replace them with institutions accountable to the Citizenry. The functions of the Charter should be to set out clearly the rights and obligations of all parties (authors, editors, constables, EiC, Editorial Council) and to empower and specify the creation of any necessary new institutions (e.g. a Judicial Board): clearly, these should be kept to a minimum. However, these institutional deficits have been responsible, in my view, for the departures of many of the former leading authors and editors on CZ. Now is a real chance to get Citizendium back on its feet again.