CZ:Signed Articles

What are Signed Articles?

Signed articles are introductory, overview, general review, and perspectival articles attributed one person or a small group of people. Such articles have two fundamental requirements: first, they must be characterizable as reference material, and neither brand new research nor mere polemics; second, they must be crafted by people who are unquestionably experts on the topic in question.

The Citizendium may enter into an agreement with external organizations, which become Citizendium editors for the express purpose of using the wiki to host articles. Such organizations may then have their own homepage and categories on the wiki, in which they organize the presentation of the articles in their care. All such articles should, however, live on subpages of "signed articles" pages (see below).

Furthermore, any Citizendium workgroup may play this role, if it selects a project editor according to a process the Editorial Council can regard as fair.

Guidelines for editing

While they may contain some recognizable bias and opinion-stating on the part of an author, the Citizendium will not publish anything that rises to the level of polemic, much less propaganda. Furthermore, in the interest of maintaining a solid reputation for political, religious, and other sorts of neutrality, we may refuse further articles on a topic from a certain point of view until the articles con

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