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I'd like to add that 'typo' is often intentionally mispelled, but with it a part of another article how could I do that without derailing the main thing? Kizor 18:00, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You mean "misspelled"? ;-) Not quite sure what you're saying, so I'm not quite sure how to answer-- that the word "typo" itself is misspelled? or r u saying that some words r intentionally misspelled thru rapid typing, as in this sentence? Also not sure what part of what other article you have in mind. I'm thinkin' you probably just need to be bold and add what you think needs to be added, and people like me will take a look & do what we think needs doing, too. Thanks for checking. Elf | Talk 22:40, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Was the New York Post error really and Proofreading error? The editor didn't overlook this while proofreading, they just jumped the gun. I think this is better classified as an editorial and factual error.

Agreed, I just took it out. Andre 13:08, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This article is extremely spare and lacking in important historical information and sources regarding proofreading, editing, and typesetting. Not at all helpful or professional.

Contents 1 UK Schools 1.1 Spam links 1.2 "DP Proofreading Guidelines" 1.3 Vandalism? 1.4 What is the name of the action that concludes proofreading? 2 Missing Aspect of Proofreading

[edit] UK Schools

I've removed the section on UK schools, because: (1) I've been through the UK education system and have never heard of these marks; (2) The section has no references and I haven't been able to locate any; (3) There is no Ministry of Education in the UK (there is the Department for Education and Skills). 64.103.37.69 11:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam links

Chapterhouse is, I'm sure, a perfectly respectable commercial organisation, and no doubt the courses it runs on proofreading and copy-editing are very good value for money. But it is a commercial organisation and it is not appropriate to provide a link to it in the External links section - still less to sneak a reference into the body of the text! I will continue to keep an eye open, and delete such references whenever they occur. The SfEP, however, is a professional body, and I have reinstated the link to that. Gnusmas 18:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree, although I don't think it's inappropriate to link all commercial organizations. The bar should be relatively high, though: They ought to give the reader some particularly useful information about the subject. For example, it's appropriate to link the commercial website of Prozac in the article on Fluoxetine, due to the fact that it's by far the most well-known form of Fluoxetine... but it wouldn't be appropriate to link a random e-commerce site that happened to sell Fluoxetine. --Delirium 18:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] "DP Proofreading Guidelines"

What is this italiziced phrase at the end of the first paragraph of the first section? --Steve Bob 19:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism?

Someone with IP 68.106.117.246 went through this article and deleted all the hyperlinks. This may be vandalism, though I'm not sure what to do about it, apart from undoing these changes which I did. Pete Harris 11:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What is the name of the action that concludes proofreading?

It think that the action that concludes proofreading should be mentioned. In French we call it "bon à tirer". I do not know the name in English. Is it "ready to print" or "print ready" or "right to print"? Pierre de Lyon (talk) 10:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing Aspect of Proofreading

There is an aspect of proofreading that is missing here, I think. I've worked for more than 20 years in book publishing here in New York City and I have the impression that proofreading is a comparison job -- you must have both the original manuscript and the new typeset version in order to proofread. Therefore, proofreading is basically comparing the new to the old to make sure that the new came out as it should.

Reading a document to correct errors of grammar, punctuation and the like is copy editing or line editing, not proofreading.

I do have some documentation (principally the proofreading manual Mark My Words) to support this view, but I thought I would make the comment first here before making changes in the article itself. I'll try to get to making the changes in a few days. Kslarsen (talk) 01:56, 23 March 2008 (UTC)