At 3:56 PM -0700 4/9/00, Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny wrote: >You are correct, Teri, it would take a separate motion to >delink. Before we begin the actual voting, can we ask Richard to restate his motion? The message from Richard said: Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:22:55 -0700 From: "Richard's" <RichPump@wf.net> >Due to the importance of this Executive Order to delink the Census Project! >I believe that it is equally important to confirm this Executive Order. >Therefore I make the Motion to over ride the National Coordinator's delink >of the USGenWeb Census Project. In the past, motions have tended to be opened for voting by quoting the entire email that introduced them, as above. It is often not clear how much of the quoted material is the motion itself, and how much is merely the author's rationale for making the motion. Like the Gingers, I am especially concerned that the presence of the word "confirm" in Rich's second sentence is potentially misleading if it were to appear in the text of the motion. If I were making the motion, it would be something like this: The National Coordinator's delinking of the Census Project not being done according to the procedures laid out in Article VI, Section 5, all links to and mentions of the Census Project from pages of the national web site shall be promptly restored to their state as of 4 April 2000. But, it is Richard's motion, not mine, so I leave it up to him how he wants to phrase it. Just so long as it is clear what will happen if it passes. (Do we also need to specifically mention that any redirection of URL's should be restored to their previous behavior, or is that implicit?) -- Teri