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Jana, this article is done but I've decided to add the Advocacy chapter. Please, take a look. Admin 15:53, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Comments from Language Editor

hi Alenka – a few questions crossed my mind while looking again at this text.

  1. why is there an internal link in the text for Borut Savski?
  2. I was following your lead of italicising on-line resources, i.e. Artservis.org, but then I went checking some other style guides and found that usually they are not italicised. Even on the Wikipedia article about Wikipedia, none of the sites are italicised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
  3. apparently British English uses "web site" more commonly than "website", although it seems the Mozilla BritEng dictionary doesn't complain about website. Seems the jury is still out on whether it should be with big W or small. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#Spelling. My Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age uses "Web site", but it was written in 1996. The usage note for the entry website, Web site on TheFreeDictionary.com says: "Usage Note: The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website as a single uncapitalised word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to take unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email is gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there is an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout." But I should note that this is an American-based publication. The Brits usually like their hyphens.
  4. There is a great discussion here at The Slot about the differences between the name of a company (store) and its URL. Perhaps the same holds true for on-line media? That is, the name is without dot org, dot com, etc.? Wikipedia redirects "Slate.com" to "Slate (magazine)" but italicises Slate in the text. Facebook, however, is not italicised. Nor is Eurozine.

My proposals:

  1. delete Borut Savski link.
  2. Do not italicise names of on-line resources or on-line magazines in the text, only printed magazines and publications remain italicised (along with other works of art, exhibitions, books, etc.).
  3. use website but Internet, World Wide Web, the Web, as per Oxford: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/usage/website?view=uk
  4. keep .com, .org in the article title, but use in the text only when talking about the actual URL or address of the site?

Jana Wilcoxen 12:04, 7 January 2010 (UTC)