This, though, is easily forgiven and cynicism is banished when you discover that former librarian Mary Ann Shaffer struggled for 30 years to turn her fascination for Guernsey into fiction and died before the final edit, leaving her niece to complete the book.
If you spot a good edit, leave the a user a talk page note explaining what was good about the edit.
In the end, errors of inattention in editing left some readers unhappy and gave new breath to old stereotypes.
Forbes.com staff and alumni remember moments with a man whose editorship and editing left an indelible stamp on their magazine and them.
Though the rabbi advocates reporting sexual abuse to the police, NBC's selective editing left the opposite impression.
Though Zimmerman only mentioned race after being asked by the dispatcher if Trayvon Martin was, "black, white or Hispanic," NBC's edits left the impression that Zimmerman brought up Martin's race unprompted.
Activists insist that this editing left out images of police misbehavior; one protester at a small rally on Tuesday told me that "she was manhandled, searched, and suffered a blunt-force contusion to her head after she had been shot.
The series is then "heavily edited", leaving only those that she thinks are sufficiently interesting.
As she shifts from one vet to another, there are moving bits of testimony, but the abrupt editing leaves anecdotes hanging.
Critics point to the risk of diluting the visions of creative geniuses with nitpicking edits, leaving us with sanitized, dull tales of well-behaved people. .
The story has been translated directly from the original Russian into English with very little editing, leaving the voice of the young author clear and distinct.
