bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: Wikipedia |
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I know that some of you do a lot of editing on Wikipedia (such as Mithridates). I've been editing there, off and on, for the past several years. Recently, when I went back to touch up a few things, there were a couple "editors" who seemed kind of militant about it.
One insisted on reverting an edit to include a term that was not in the associated reference, but made it look like it was. Another kept reverting an addition I made that came from a direct quote. In that case, it referred to the old spelling of Korea, which used a "C" (Corea). The person in question just seemed to not like the fact that Korea was ever spelled with anything other than a "K". He did a revert and put (Koreans) instead of the "C" spelling and added a comment to the revert saying, "made quote understandable within the rules of quotations" (He evidently knows nothing about quotation rules). I did one final revert and asked that discussion of it be taken over to the talk page for the subject. Here is what I put and the other guy's reply:
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| Before the 20th century, Korea was very often spelled Corea. That is how it was in 1871 in the official United States reports, without exception. When something is a direct quote, you must write it exactly, whether you agree with the spelling or not. In the case of Coreans, the spelling is not something that would confuse anyone as to its meaning, so there is no reason to change the quote. As a compromise, I added [sic] ("This is the way the original material was") to the original spelling. Fair enough? |
I also put a link to an online reference about quoting: [url] http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rdeloe/writing_guide/printable.pdf[/url]
His reply?
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| Absolute Gibberish. |
It's little wonder many places will not accept a Wikipedia reference... |
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