Silent Editing Biographical Material
Jul 29, 2006 03:53 PM
by Mark Jaqua
Silent Editing Biographical Material
Silent editing of biographical material,
like DC does in Occult World, may not be as
Bad as editing Blavatsky's writings, but
it is still unethical and ill-advised
for a number of reasons.
- You can't quote from the book,
for one thing, or later writers can't,
because you don't know what has been deleted.
- Nobody, or almost nobody Even Has!
most the source materials one can go to
for the full quote. What about 50 or a
100 years from now, maybe almost none will
be available. Few writers would depend on
internet sources instead of source books.
People, can't, by an large, get the full quotes.
- In these editorial deletions, one
is asked "to trust the editor" that nothing
important is deleted or causing one to be
mislead. You can't "trust the editor" on
this type of thing.
- the ONLY reason for not including
a few dots (....) to indicate editing is
that it makes a tighter package, or a cleaner
copy. If a reader can't put up with a few
dots here and there, he isn't worth
appealing to regardless.
- jake j.
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