FAST-TRACK of remove uk.gov.social-work

[Tony Evans as Control]

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FAST TRACK ANNOUNCEMENT remove uk.gov.social-work
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In the procedures established for maintaining the uk.* hierarchy
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html> there are provisions, where
there is a consensus and the proposal is straightforward and
non-controversial, to proceed by the "fast-track" method, so as to avoid
the necessity for holding a full vote.

I have now received a request to fast-track the following proposal:

delete newsgroup uk.gov.social-work

This proposal will be activated no earlier than five days from the posting
of this notice (i.e. not before June 25th), unless there are
objections (of which six or more, or any one which seems to the Committee
to be well founded, shall suffice to halt the process).

Objections should be emailed directly to Control at
<con...@usenet.org.uk>.

Objections will be resolved by the committee (comm...@usenet.org.uk)

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Newsgroup line:
uk.gov.social-work Social Work policies and practice


RATIONALE: uk.gov.social-work

Examining the posts available via two well known news servers, it
is apparent that the newsgroup is dead. The posts made during 2012
and 2013 so far can be broken down as follows:

9: Creative Support
7: Lewis Robinson
6: commercial spam
1: facebook
1: linked in spam


The Creative Support category refers to 3 threads, each cross posted
to uk.misc and alt.support.schizoaffective. The google groups
profile of those that follow up suggest that they are picking up
the posts via "uk.misc", as that group is in their top newsgroups,
placed above both uk.gov.social-work and alt.support.schizoaffective.

The "Lewis Robinson" category refers to 7 posts, each without a
followup, which appear to be letters of complaint to various NHS
and local government organizations, and "CC'ed" to the newsgroup.
They were all posted by the same person; none generated a followup.

The "facebook" category refers to a single post which is hard to
categorize beyond being short, and about facebook.

Ignoring spam, these 17 posts are the only the only traffic on the
group. If they were all on-topic and relevant, they would hardly be
indicitive of a healthy group.

I feel it is approprate to ignore the "facebook" post as it started
no discussion, and is appears to me to be off-topic.

While the Lewis Robinson posts are (arguably) on-topic, they generate
no discussion, and are in my view insufficent to justify the group.

The "Creative Support" posts are, frankly, difficult to dismiss
out-of-hand; however, they are crosposted to an arguably more
approprate group (alt.support.schizoaffective). And also crossposted
to uk.misc.

Regradless of their merit, I believe the group is dead and should be
removed.


CHARTER:
uk.gov.social-work

1. This group is not Government owned nor Government moderated.
2. uk.gov.social-work is for discussion regarding the quality,
policies, provision and practice (or theoretical practice) of:
1. any statutory social work service.
2. any service (statutory or voluntary-sector) that is
substantially funded or purchased entirely by a local authority
social work department (including 'Privately Funded Initiatives'
and PPP's).
3. the differences between the services outlined above and any
other social-care service (Eg. private or voluntary, including
those in other countries), where it is relevant to the
discussion to compare such services.
3. Local government employees are reminded that they should not breach
workplace confidentiality policy at any time.
4. No commercial advertising is permitted, although short hyperlinks to
relevant information is acceptable.
5. All posts must be in plain text. Attachments, HTML and other types
of formatted text are not permitted with the exception of:
* Short hyperlinks to relevant information/resources.
* Encryption signatures or similar (Eg. PGP).
6. Participants should ensure crossposting between newsgroups is
relevant and kept to a minimum.
7. Groups within uk.gov.* are for the discussion of the operation and
policy of the Body concerned. Discussions relating to Government
policy ought to take place in the relevant uk.politics.* group,
where such a group exists.

END CHARTER

Proponent:
Mike Bristow <mi...@urgle.com>

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Tony Evans | Email: con...@usenet.org.uk
Control | Web: http://www.usenet.org.uk

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