Re: AIS: Checklist Errors

<Linda, when you say 'fix obvious errors,' does that include
misspellings in names
                       like FRONTIER MARSHALL, FIREY FURNACE,  and CROME
DOME?  Other
                       misspelled names, I cannot think of now, probably
some more ' fireys.'   Some of
                       the misspellings have been around for so long
now, it doesn't seem right to change
                       them.  Walter Moores Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8>

No, definitely not.  Sometimes, people spell things oddly by choice &
who's to know whether an extra or missing or different or rearranged
letter here & there in a registered name is intentional or not.

On very rare occasions, there were parentages with an obvious typo.  For
example, if something was listed as having parents (Whoel Cloth X May
Hall), I would first check to make sure there wasn't really an iris
called <Whoel Cloth>, then correct the spelling to <Whole Cloth>.  Seems
like I remember a few of those.  Plus an occasional <ot> instead of
<to>.  And now and then a simple 2 parent cross with a lower case x
instead of a capital X.  Trivial things.

But there were some other things that I changed that John may have
changed back after I confessed - the one I remember is the spelling of
<Wisteria> in describing color.  Some registrations were spelled
<Wistaria> or something odd.  I changed them all to be spelled the same
way (Wisteria), for consistency.

I did not change spellings of registered names, except, as in the
addition of intro information in later checklists, John Jones or Mike
Lowe sent corrected spellings from later checklists.  I don't know how
John is handling those in the 'virtual' checklist - probably will be
linked with both spellings in the database.

So, some creative editing, but not much.  No grammar police <g>

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8




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