On 3/13/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Do we really have regular contributors writers who do no editing/subediting at all? A few maybe. Not many.
In any case, "editor" is IMO the right word for what most people do on Wikipedia most of the time.
In a book or newspaper, the editor has the final word. No Wikipedia *ever* has the final word. From a functional perspective, "real" editors and Wikipedia editors are similar. From an authority perspective, they're vastly different. And it's the authority side that is misreported all the time in newspapers.
Steve