Hello all, To add my 2c worth, I don't particularily mind it's (sic) use when it is quoting verbatim, and especially if Editors need to apply a correction to the article. I do agree with Ben on the concern of overuse. Stephen On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 11:06 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
