On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:35 AM Gregory Lee Bartholomew < gregory.lee.bartholomew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Ben. I'm just looking for editing guidelines. I'll be sure to avoid > using > sic in articles that I edit for the magazine. > If you think it's appropriate, then by all means use it. It might be good for us to develop some consistent editorial practice for it. I'm not going to object if we decide that liberal usage is best. My take, and I welcome disagreement, is that we should use it when quotes are significantly difficult to understand (counterpoint: we should just not use those quotes instead) or when they contain factual inaccuracies (and again, we should probably avoid those quotes or provide better context for them). I understand the desire to accurately represent quotes while also indicating to the reader that we are competent editors. If we were a news publication, then I'd be more inclined to use direct quotes with sic. But we're a volunteer magazine, and although we strive for (and IMO achieve) a respectable level of professionalism, our standards are naturally going to be different. All of this is to say that I have reasons why I think we shouldn't use it, but I don't want to discourage discussion of the topic. This is a collaborative effort, and everyone is welcome to tell me (and anyone else) when they disagree. -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
