On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:41 AM, 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.
Sorry, this is getting ridiculous. As several people have said "properly" is subjective - and as I say above (irrelevant!?) - we don't enjoin people to write "properly" in the manner you suggest in the first place...
My whole point is "re-writing" is quite capable of changing emphasis, wording, tone and context in such a manner that WP:V is relevant. These are familiar issues, for example, to anyone who's ever had to copy-edit translations.
And above all, we do not want to place the burden on writers to come back and check every contribution they've made...
RR