CZ:Managing Editor/2012/004 - Approval of Editor-authored articles when no appropriate nominating Editors available

Statement of problem

Existing policy regarding article approval does not take into consideration the not uncommon circumstance in which an Editor has predominantly authored an article to a stage ready for consideration of Approval but no other Editor is available to nominate it for Approve it, owing a dearth of truly active Editors in any of the article’s Workgroup categories.

The question: Until Citizendium grows to the stage when the mentioned dearth of Editors no longer exists, or no longer is of severity to present a serious problem finding appropriate Editors to nominate articles for approval, should Citizenium allow Editors with established track-records nominate for Approval the articles they predominantly authored, with following provisos:

1. The Approvals Manager judges the Editor's responses to comments from authors-at-large to be satisfactory in terms of edits to the article and rebuttals to critiques.
2. The Editorial Council concurs with the Approvals Manager's judgment.