On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Andries Krugers Dagneaux < andrieskd@chello.nl> wrote:
[..] What is also frequently a concern is that material is frequently added to articles based on scholarly resources or books that are not
online. >If the original addition is carefully worded to closely paraphrase a point >in the secondary source, a copyeditor concerned about >style might well - >and frequently does - come in and change that such that it is no longer >sufficiently faithful to the nuances in the source, since the copyeditor >does not have access to the source.
RR
True, what helps against this is giving quotes of the dead tree sources in the footnotes.
Andries
That of course helps, as you and others have pointed out; there are still, of course, occasional cases when the single quote does not really provide the required context, or when taken out of context can be completely misinterpreted. I think anyone working in contentious areas would have had some experience of that nature.
RR