[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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