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Re: What is Expected for SMEs when Contributing Content to a KB

Subject: Re: What is Expected for SMEs when Contributing Content to a KB
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:04:41 -0400

This is the correct approach. It is a shared responsibility, and anything that begins to look like an "edit war" should immediately be escalated or brought into the organization's scheme for arbitration.

Stupid, one-sided changes may result in a product that's not fit for use. I remind myself of the bitter discovery, in the books freshly back from the printer, that an editor had changed the capitalization in the examples of a computer language that distinguished upper and lower case. This is the underlying fear: "If you change anything you'll make it wrong."

On 9/20/23 08:44, Slager Timothy J wrote:

"Do you change it to the standard term prior to the KA being available or do you add the KA to the KB and then go back and copyedit the KA?"

Let them add it. Make sure you, and/or other editors, get notifications and clean them up as you are able. Always notify the OP of any significant changes, and ask for their approval or help.
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