On Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:32 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
On Jun 19, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Rick wrote:
SouthernComfort was NOT one of the editors involved until after he got into "change every article about Iran to BCE" mode. jguk was RIGHTLY changing SC's edits back to what the original authors had left them at.
Under the existing style guide that was ok. Either style is acceptable.
Indeed. However, this misses out one very important part (paraphased, obviously):
| Under the existing style guide, either style is acceptable. Changing an | article with both forms to use just one is, also, acceptable, a useful | bit of copyediting. However, changing an article from style to the other, | in whichever direction, is not, and should be reverted.
The lack of everything after the first full stop is what is worrying in your answers; I hope that it was missed off purely for brevity.
Yours,