City Naming Discussion

[FortyJ]

According to the CoS, Article C, Paragraph 6:

Naming rights must pass through all citizens before a citizen is given a second naming right in the chain (from Article 1). That is, if you've already named a city you do not get to name another one because you moved positions in the Chain of Command.

The Judiciary has also ruled that this standard applies to all registered citizens of Fanatika.

All current officers, both elected and appointed, have already named a city. We therefore turn to the citizenry for naming our new and future cities. The problem is that we have no set standard for accomplishing this feat.

I believe there are essentially three valid approaches to this issue:

1. The Domestic Department will post a discussion thread for each new city in which names will be proposed by citizens and then voted on in a subsequent poll.
2. The Domestic Department PMs, e-mails, or otherwise attempts to contact the highest ranked person in the citizen registry so that individual can name the next city. If that person is not reachable, or fails to respond within a short period of time, the department attempts to contact the next person on the list and so on.
3. All citizens post their city name choice in a dedicated thread for this subject. These names are added to the registry sorted according to seniority (ie. the citizen registry). Names will be assigned as needed during the turn chat from this list.

Edit: The summary of the Judiciary Ruling can be found in the Judicial Log, Post #7.

 

[FortyJ]

I believe that the Option #3 is the best method available to us. It is the most timely, the easiest to manage, and it is consistent with our current procedures. It would be as if the general citizenry were treated as the next tier in the COC, right after Appointed Officials, with respect to City Naming Rights.

The other two proposals add unnecessary work to a position (either Domestic Department or the Cartographic Office) that already has a tremendous amount of work involved. Not to mention, the burden should be on the citizens themselves to make sure that their names are registered, not the other way around.

 

[Cyc]

I also agree that #3 seems to be the best approach. Putting the brunt of the responsibility on the citizens themselves will remove a lot of unforeseen problem as well. If the citizen has not registered a name, then the Cartographic office can not be held responsible. One question though, if we start using names registered in the dedicated thread, prioritizing according to the citizen registry, we will be using two list. Let's say a person has registered a city name on the dedicated list, and has been waiting for weeks but is number 20 on the citizen registry.Now a person who is (let's chose a number blindly) #12 on the citizen registry comes along the day before the chat where #20 is to get a city named, and puts there name down on the dedicated list. Does #20 keep getting pushed back regardless of how long they have waited, or the length of time a more senior citizen has thrown their name in the hat? We might want to clarify this prior to any real proposals.

 

[Octavian X]

I would assume the city names would follow a the citizen registry.

Or, perhaps, we could devise another city naming method for when the CoC runs out. Perhaps various citizens could post names in a thread, and then those names be used to put up a nulti choice poll. The poll results could be used for naming.

 

[naervod]

Just a question, we have lots of registered citizens that don't participate much. Will we have to wait for them to submit a city name, or is there a deadline for naming a city?

 

[FortyJ]

I believe the intention of the rule was to allow all citizens the right to name a city. However, I do not believe that the rule should obligate us to track down all the inactive, non-participating citizens and force them to name a city.

I believe we should treat non-honored, non-elected, non-appointed citizens as the next level in the CoC with respect to naming rights. That means that they can register a city name and it will be added to the registry (in order of registration). Whenever a new city name is needed, the DP will simply select the next name in the list.

This should more than adequately provide enough city names for our needs, but in the event we do run out, we can use a temporary name until the next turn chat. During that time, the officers in the CoC could re-register their second choices and notice could be provided to the general citizenry as a warning to post their choices before they are passed over.

 

[Cyc]

I agree with what you've said. Originally, I was under the impression you were using two lists (the name register for 1, and the citizen registry for the 2nd). But now it appears you're just using one list for the non-honored, non-elected, non-appointed citizens. This "one list" approach should be much easier.

I also agree there should be a "second city" (no pun intended) list for the people who have already named a city. An officer of the Cartographic Office will have to put them in the correct order (folowwing the first order).