On 8/19/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
More than that - and this is an important point that
tends to sail
over the heads of those didactic about guidelines - it's a question of
*editorial judgement*. All these rules of thumb are only useful
exactly as far as they are applied with a clue.
I wish we had editorial judgment. Specifically, I wish we had a way of
determining which of our editors had good judgment, and empowered them
to do so.
There are lots of issues that come down to "editorial judgment", but
good judgment is really hard to apply by committee.
Steve