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Latest comment: 2 years ago5 comments4 people in discussion
I just noticed that the editor-in-chief position is listed as "vacant". I've been editor-n-chief for about 20 months now. That's about the 3rd or 4th longest tenure of anybody in the position. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About. Yes, I know that it's a conflict of interest, but I'll change that to "Smallbones".
Latest comment: 1 year ago5 comments3 people in discussion
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
Specific text to be added or removed: I have updated the history section in this diff, but have left the material commented out due to an obvious conflict of interest (I am the current editor-in-chief, and on top of that, one of the citations is to my own writing). While it is traditional for EiCs to add themselves to the infobox, this involves adding new prose to the article body, so I am requesting an edit out of an abundance of caution.
Reason for the change: Currently, the editorial history only goes up to 2015 -- much of the article is in bad shape, but this seemed quite obvious and straightforward. My guess is that any person who cares enough about the Signpost to update the article probably also cares enough to write for it, meaning we have a dire lack of qualified editors without conflicts of interest.
References supporting change: Numerous, although additional sources need to be found for a couple things that can currently only be referenced to talk pages. While citing the Signpost is within policy (per WP:ABOUTSELF), citing talk pages seems to be stretching the absolute limits of credibility, so I refuse to do it.
Without commenting on COI/OR/ABOUTSELF issues: This commented-out diff is inaccurate in parts and contradicts the timeline in the Signpost's official About page.
Go Phightins! would continue until August [2016], when the role was passed to Andreas Kolbe and Pete Forsyth. - the cited article doesn't say that regarding Andreas; to the contrary, the wording there makes it pretty clear that he had already been serving in that role ("delighted to welcome Pete Forsyth as my new co-editor-in-chief"); he had already become co-editor-in-chief in May 2016.
@HaeB: Yeah, well, now there's two of us down here with conflicts of interest! I guess trying to iron out the timeline is a harder task than I thought, so I shall retreat to the newsroom in ignominy and try to figure it out again. jp×g05:14, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
This is extra-stupid, since I was the one who linked the dates in the About section too -- I am currently doing a review of all Signpost releases anyway, so I will get to all of this in due time (so far I have gotten to 2006). I didn't actually think anyone would respond to the edit request this soon, so I figured I had a couple days to wrangle in some proper citations and go over the dates again. Serves me right! jp×g05:18, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
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