On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:23:21 -0400, "Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunatly most authors have very few distinct editors. .. And it's hard to differentiate editors who simply fixed a typographical mistake and editors who actually read the content (it's not to hard to find examples of people copyediting fairly obvious vandalism in Wikipedia.
True. At the risk of losing a treasured friend, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Kell - I believe he meets the bio criteria (as an author of an article in Britannica if nothing else) but I would be amazed if more than a handful of other people will ever edit that article.
Guy (JzG)