Editorial Policies

This is a personal site, which means I have absolute control over the content. You will doubtless have noticed my disclaimer on every page:

My opinions are my own and don’t represent those of anyone else.

Not that anyone would want them :)

In other words, the opinions I express on this site don’t reflect the opinions of my employer or of anyone else; they’re all mine. And I reserve ther right to change them.

I also reserve the right to change the contents of my site. I tend to make such changes clear in the text of FAQs in particular, and in blog entries. But I do edit blog entries, and my other pages, in an effort to make the text more readable and my argument easier to follow. I frequently update the site as I learn more, or new information is available. I change the “last updated” date on static pages that I’ve changed in a substantive fashion. If I edit a blog page for anything other than grammar, html errors, readability or spelling, I indicate that I’ve edited or updated the entry.
I do care, very much, about writing, and about accuracy. That said, I should  warn you that I can’t spell. Really. I’m profoundly dyslexic, as well as dysphonetic, and while I manage to compensate for it most of the time, I sometimes fail. So while I very much appreciate it when people let me know I’ve invented a new orthographic variant, and I do spell check and proofread, (and have friends whose site I proof in exchange for a similar service) I really don’t appreciate spelling flames. I particularly don’t appreciate spelling flames that are themselves grammatically or orthographically incorrect. That said, none of us can really proofread our own work. We all tend to see what we meant to write, not what we actually wrote. I’m just particularly gifted in that way. ;)

In an effort to protect my site from auto-generated comment spam, I close  the comments on blog entries after about fourteen days. If you’d like to post a comment to an older (and now comments-disabled) entry, please email me at medievalist at digitalmedievalist dot com, and I’ll make commenting possible. Naturally, I reserve the right to remove comments at will, especially spam.