Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:34:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: getting it right

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ted White wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net>
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:20:40 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
>>> <kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>> ...
>>>> We're not supposed to contact any of the people involved.
>>>>
>>>> The person in question is dead, but for some reason does not show
>>>> up
>>>> under any of these names in the online Social Security Death Index.
>>>>
>>>> What would you do?
>>>>
>>> You could pick one of the spellings, or have your manager pick one, and
>>> put "(sp?)" after it to indicate the spelling is in doubt.  You could
> ask
>>> management to contact the customer and ask how they think it should be
>>> spelled.
>>
>> I suspect Keith was offering alternative problems: we're not supposed to
>> contact any of the people involved [because, e.g., we don't want to tip
>> them off we're working on a story], _or_ they're dead and can't be
>> contacted, etc.
>
> As a generality that might make sense.  Specifically, it does not.  Keith
> was not "working on a story."  He was proofing and editing either a trial
> transcript or a deposition transcript, concerning an individual who had
> murdered one or more members of his family and is now serving a long jail
> term.

Then Keith's problem doesn't make sense.  There would be no reason not to
contact one or more of the people involved to clear up the question.

-- Dick Eney

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