[Imc-web] PT trial edits, etc.

[Mike Lehman]

Phil,
First, it is longstanding policy that authors may edit or ask to have 
edited their own articles. This is common practice in journalism more 
generally, for any number of reasons.

Second and third, I think there actually has been some confusion about 
editing. I now suspect that since Brian is using his user account 
finally, he now has new editing privileges for his own work and may have 
confused this with having full editor privileges. Or it may be a wrong 
setting in how drupal is configured. We'll get to  the bottom of it. 
Don't sweat it, I'm not other than the steps we've taken so far. Editing 
policy has worked well for a long time and this has included editors 
featuring their own articles, provided they follow our policy on this. 
The fact that -- whoever did it for whatever reason -- they didn't 
follow procedure was what irritated me the other day. Generally, because 
we do operate by consensus, we figure it our as we go along. There are 
longstanding policies and editorial positions that may not always be 
clear to new editors and your point on the briefing needed for this is 
well-taken.

Fourth, we do have some logs, but much of them are dumped regularly, 
because we live under a government system that doesn't always respect 
the press. In any case, it's never been a big issue and it won't be as 
long as we get back to following our long-established practices, 
policies, and precedents. They are tested and they work when followed.

And we can just turn it off for a day or so and revise permissions if 
things get to be a problem. That hasn't happened yet and I assume it won't.
Mike Lehman

Phil Stinard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Forgive my lurking.  I really shouldn't care since I'm not a ucimc 
> editor and I haven't posted/commented on ucimc in a very long time, 
> but this is getting ridiculous.  First of all, Brian, it's a hallmark 
> of good journalism for writers to edit their articles and consider the 
> consequences of what they write before publishing.  If on the 
> (hopefully) rare occasion something really needs editing, then have 
> someone who knows what they're doing do the correction.  Secondly, it 
> seems like a bad policy that editors have the authority to feature 
> their own articles.  It would be a good idea to run it past another 
> editor (and the list) first.  Third, editors should be trained before 
> being turned loose.  Fourth, isn't there any way to document who 
> creates and edits articles?  Where I work, everytime someone creates 
> or edits a record, it gets stamped with who created it, who edited it 
> last, and when.  That's all I have for now.
>
> --Phil
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:58:29 -0600
>> From: "Brian Dolinar" <briandolinar at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Imc-web] PT trial edits
>> To: imc-web at ucimc.org
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>> Hey folk,
>>
>> Is it possible for me to edit a comment about the
>> legal history of P.Thompson's accuser?
>> I've changed the local interest article
>> but can't edit the comments under the Hampton article comments.
>>
>> What I need cut is three paragraphs
>> under the section on the accuser
>> that include case numbers of charges against her.
>>
>> This is really a problem of me posting twice - which I'll avoid in 
>> future.
>>
>> Lemme know what can be done.
>>
>> Thanks, BD
>> -- 
>> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
>> 303 W. Locust St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
>> briandolinar at gmail.com
>
>
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