Archive:Approval and Feedback

This is the future home of an Approval and Feedback Initiative: it's all about recognizing excellence.

Personnel

Persons interested in taking an active role in developing and managing this initiative (please add your name if you're seriously interested):

• Larry Sanger
• D. Matt Innis
• David Shapinsky
• Carl Hewitt
• Martin Baldwin-Edwards
• Supten Sarbadhikari
• Anthony.Sebastian
• David E. Volk
• Jaime Nubiola
• Roger Lohmann
• J. Noel Chiappa
• (add your name if seriously interested, i.e., if you're interested in doing real work for the initiative)

Mailing list

The mailing list for the Approval and Feedback group, acting as a subcommittee of the Editorial Council and with authority to approve A&F proposals, is cz-approfeed. The list archives are open to read, but only specifically listed members of the A&F group can subscribe.

Problems with current (March 2008) article approval system

• Rate of approval too slow
• Too much confusion about what the process is
• No simple, prominently-placed version of instructions
• No easy way to get the word out to specific sets of editors that we want reviews
• No set way for editors to simply *review* an article and thereby enumerate what an article needs in order to be approvable