WP:Advisory Council on Project Development

The Advisory Council on Project Development was a group of Wikipedians that was formed at the invitation of the Arbitration Committee, with the endorsement of Jimbo Wales. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Giano_II/archive_11#Recent_emails_etc: Invitations were sent] by Kirill Lokshin to an unknown number of people inviting them to become members. The criteria for selection had not been made public.

The announcement was met by immediate disapproval by a range of community members and a request for comment was created. Disapproval appeared to focus on the ArbCom, a body elected to arbitrate disputes, creating what was perceived to be a far-reaching Advisory Council on project development and other issues without community-wide input, and that the membership of the council ought to be elected.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development#Statement_by_SlimVirgin] Those supporting the creation of the council countered that since it was just an advisory think-tank, it would not have any powers and that it was not unusual for organizations to create advisory committees without elections.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development#Amazing._It.27s_standard_that_any_deliberative_body_may_create_committees_to_advise_it.] As a result of the request for comment, the project was scrapped.

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