Ian Woollard wrote:
2008/5/24 Ray Saintonge
Being a difficult concept is no excuse for bad writing.
Being a difficult concept is no excuse for bad copyediting. There's a difference between a difficult concept and bad writing a mile wide and a mile deep. And copy editors usually don't know the difference.
You make it all sound so one-sided by starting with a hostile attitude toward copyeditors, assuming that most don't know the difference. I don't see anything about what you would do to bridge the gap.
The illness would just serve to reduce the time during which the article could be considered a BLP. :-)
Which part of them not having that illness, and thus being around and able to sue, didn't you understand?
Please don't take yourself so seriously.
Ec