Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'd still call it their problem rather than ours. Most Wikipedia edits are much more akin to "subediting" rather than "writing." This is a project that really does have thousands of *editors* - it's the right word for what they do.
Disagree. Publications have editors and writers (and possibly subeditors too). We have editors. Who are the writers? It would be much truer to say we have writers, but no editors.
Radical solution: Let then be called whatever they want to be called, and WSJ can use whatever term it wants.
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