WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/24/2008 2:00:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, refero.relata@gmail.com writes:
Absolutely not. It is shared - and WP:CITE and WP:V are policy, not WP:MEWRITEPRETTY.>>
Not... relevant.
Copyeditors are not citing nor verifying. They are re-writing *previously cited and verified* details for consistency, flow, grammar and style.
IF the original writers couldn't be bothered to do it properly, that is not the burden of the copyeditors to fix. It's the burden of the writers to come back, and *properly* present the source material so it doesn't need to be fixed any more.
So then whose responsibility is it to check whether what the writer says is consistent with the source? I'm not even suggesting that the writer acted improperly, just that he misread his source. The writer can't check himself, because he's likely to make the same mistake. You have absolved the copyeditor from any responsibility in this. Who's left?
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