On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:42:53 +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 at 14:19, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>but it wouldn't be the
>> first time that a web version of the article ends up having
>> corrections that were overlooked in the PDF.

>hmmm, don't tell me that or bibliographically I'll start to whimper...

Those corrections are generally spelling or punctuation, very occasionally
egregious grammar errors. When I insert an "--ed." note into a story, it's
either for clarification (like the note about how Ascent _to_ Anekthor
wasn't US usage vs. UK usage), or because there wasn't a _copy_ error
(i.e., grammar or spelling), but a (likely) "thinko" (cf. "typo") on the
part of the author.

They really only matter if you're _quoting_ from the article; that's when
you need to note that it was the PDF (which I don't regenerate) or an
online retrieval (which might see corrections, and therefore citations must
include the retrieval date). But you, being a librarian, know that and
understand the distinction.

>(Actually, it would be relatively unlikely that any such correction would
>change a bib entry).

Exactly.

>I've been trying to think of an ex post facto explanation.  But can't come
>up with anything.  Unless there was some vague idea of the windstalker
>colony being metaphorically called 'Anekthor' or something.

That's actually distinctly possible; an analogous usage is when someone who
lives outside of Manhattan, but within the legal boundaries of the City of
New York says "I'm going into the city".

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