On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:46:02PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > I just want to make this clear, so replying to d-www and to Nicolas, > as it was his check-in that made me wonder... > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:25:32AM -0600, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > > Modified files: > > english/vote/2005: Log-debian-dpl-debate.wml > > > > Log message: > > typo > > Do we fix typos and the like in those "historical documents", i.e. in > transcripts and individual mails? > > I mean, there are plenty of mistakes in <News/weekly/*/*/mail.wml> and > in some logs / transcripts below <vote>, but I always considered > correcting them to be an act of correcting history, thus possibly > creating a false image of the past... I don't think the parties in question would mind if we corrected their mistakes. I also looked this question up in the Chicago Manual of Style some time ago and it said that fixing these kinds of mistakes was OK. -- Matt
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