[WikiEN-l] Rename admins to janitors

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Mar 12 17:26:47 UTC 2007


Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 3/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard at 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.

Ec




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