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Information for Voters: Commend Honeydewistania

Commend Honeydewistania
Information for Voters

Summary

Commend Honeydewistania seeks to recognize the nominee for their extensive contributions to General Assembly and Security Council authorship, various regional governments, and their work for the NationStates anti-fascist cause and its associated governments.

Analysis

The "Recongizing" clause that makes up the bulk of this proposal does an effective job listing Honeydewistania's extensive credentials as a WA author, grouping the resolutions into four categories: new GA resolutions, repeals of existing GA resolutions, SC resolutions, and co-authorships. The sheer magnitude and scale of Honeydewistania's WA authorship, how impressive it is, and the way it contributes to base-line commendability of the nominee is significant.

Despite this, however some Refugi have expressed concerns about the quality of the assorted proposals. For example, many of Honeydewistania's proposals were Repeals, which are easy to write compared to authoring full GA resolutions, and often felt like opportunism to claim authorship credit rather than a contribution to the existing GA cannon. There was also concern that 1B misrepresented GA#498 because the frame of "coercion" did not match the resolution purpose. Finally, there was some concern about the Commendation text's ability to appropriately frame the significance and Commendability of these proposals, for example avoiding an opportunity to explain the importance of co-authorships with new authors to the overall health of the WA community.

On the other hand, some of Honeydewistania's resolutions represent quality writing and are quite impressive, specifically including their work on SC proposals recognizing contributions to the antifascist cause (Commend Vippertooth33, Commend Sierra Lyricalia, and Commend The Red Fleet) and their proposal to Commend Singapore No2, all of which are appropriately situated by the proposed resolution. A possible better iteration of the resolution text, should this one fail, would elaborate more on these proposals while paying slightly less verbiage to the author's GA repeals.

The "Applauding", "Further applauding" and "lauding" clauses within this proposal recognize Honeydewistania's contributions to anti-fascist causes within NationStates, specifically through leading occupations of fascist regions and conducting infiltration work against those regions. While these contributions are certainly commendable, it is unclear if their significance is such that the nominee would warrant a Commendation absent the authorship clauses. Additionally, it should be noted the "Lauding" clause about the nominees work in Mariner Trench could use further elaboration as to the specific organization building actions led by Honeydewistania.

Recommendation

Given that there are competing perspectives as the Commendability of Honeydewistania in general and there are both strengths and weaknesses in the drafting process for the resolution, the Security Council Correspondent to the Councillor of WA Affairs of Refugia does not issue a recommendation on Commend Honeydewistania but does offer this comprehensive breakdown of the relevant arguments in hopes it can guide Refugi deliberations.


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