2008/5/24 Andries Krugers Dagneaux <andrieskd(a)chello.nl>nl>:
[..] What is
also frequently a concern is that material is frequently
added to articles based on scholarly resources or books that are not
online. >If
the original addition is carefully worded to closely
paraphrase a point >in the secondary source, a copyeditor concerned
about >style might well - >and frequently does - come in and change that
such that it is no longer >sufficiently faithful to the nuances in the
source, since the copyeditor >does not have access to the source.
RR
True, what helps against this is giving quotes of the dead tree sources
in the footnotes.
It's a non-issue, in any case. If a copy edit obscures or changes the
meaning, a subsequent editor can fix it just as one would fix any
other incorrect edit. We only cite public sources so all the editor
has to do is check the "dead tree" version as a good library.