On 3/13/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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