On 8/19/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
More than that - and this is an important point that tends to sail over the heads of those didactic about guidelines - it's a question of *editorial judgement*. All these rules of thumb are only useful exactly as far as they are applied with a clue.
I wish we had editorial judgment. Specifically, I wish we had a way of determining which of our editors had good judgment, and empowered them to do so.
There are lots of issues that come down to "editorial judgment", but good judgment is really hard to apply by committee.
Steve