2008/5/24 Andries Krugers Dagneaux andrieskd@chello.nl:
[..] What is also frequently a concern is that material is frequently added to articles based on scholarly resources or books that are not
online. >If the original addition is carefully worded to closely paraphrase a point >in the secondary source, a copyeditor concerned about >style might well - >and frequently does - come in and change that such that it is no longer >sufficiently faithful to the nuances in the source, since the copyeditor >does not have access to the source.
RR
True, what helps against this is giving quotes of the dead tree sources in the footnotes.
It's a non-issue, in any case. If a copy edit obscures or changes the meaning, a subsequent editor can fix it just as one would fix any other incorrect edit. We only cite public sources so all the editor has to do is check the "dead tree" version as a good library.