Re: Sumo World , info on promoting our passion...

["Japan Calling" <snabuz1@gol.com>]

Hi all,

May I remind the list that in past discussions of Sumo World errors, there
WAS an excellent, knowledgable proofreader (a member of this list) on the
staff (at least until Andy Adams left).   This problem was always
frustrating for her, because rarely did the corrections in spelling and
stats ever made it into the issues.  She spent a lot of time on it for every
issue, but to no avail...

Back to lurking... M. Zubans

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Gelow" <f95-sge@nada.kth.se>
To: <sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Sumo World , info on promoting our passion...

<snip>
>
> But I'm sure many of us have done this without getting any response at
all.
> What irritates myself mostly about Sumo World is that it seems Clyde (and
> earlier Andy Adams) seems to lack the will to at least publish the best
> version they can of what articles they have. If they are not ready to
> proof-read their own magazine, they should at least let someone else do it
> in their place. I (and I'm sure I'm not alone) tried in a very civil way
> take up the problem with lack of proof-reading a couple of years ago, and
> got the answer that this was a temporary problem. Sometime later (this
being
> in the summer, and me getting more than normally irritated on Sumo World),
I
> decided to check exactly HOW many errors I could find. In the Nagoya 2001
> issue, this amounted to 102 (in a 34-page full-of-pictures magazine),
which
> is simply too much. While the spelling errors are mostly irritating, the
> factual errors make the magazine less worth as reference. Andy Adams
article
> on Tamanoumi for example had so many factual errors that one must assume
> Andy Adams thought he could remember the facts without checking (which
> apparently he could not). Needless to say, I never got an answer to the
> e-mail in which I told Clyde about all these errors.
>
<snip>

> /Stefan Gelow
>
>