- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:00:19 -0500
- To: Feng Pan <pan@isi.edu>
- Cc: Chris Welty <welty@us.ibm.com>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Feng, During today's SWBPD meeting I reminded editors to please write accurate statements in your Status of this Document sections that reflect the actual status of the document in hand. Specifically, Editor's Drafts should not claim to be W3C Working Drafts. I realize that it is tempting to include the common boilerplate in anticipation of some future publication on the W3C Technical Reports page but it is not appropriate to include a boilerplate claim that a document has a particular maturity level. Among the problems this causes is that search engines return pointers to documents that are not what they claim to be. I took an action in today's meeting to ask you to update the two documents in isi.edu/~pan to at a minimum change "W3C Working Draft" to "Editor's Draft" in the SOTD and strike the entire paragraph "This document is the First Public Working Draft ..". The document Style for Group-internal Drafts [1] gives further advice to document editors. Thanks for agreeing to edit these documents. That is a valuable contribution to the community. It's important to respect these matters of style as well so readers are not misled about the state of the work. [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/03/28-editor-style.html -Ralph
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