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I edited some publicity material that a non-profit sent me. A somewhat short and informal email explained what I should do. The document included a quote in image format at the top of the page that I wasn't explicitly told to edit. The text below the quote was mentioned as what I was supposed to edit. I was basically told "here's the document to edit, [Person's] voice. Edit [section 1] and [section 2]." Only the quote was in the person's voice and the rest was biographical.
The quote was from someone speaking well of the organization, to attract more people to the organization. The misspelling I corrected was "kick-of" which I changed in a graphics editor to "kick-off." I mentioned this change in my email when I submitted the edits.
I figured, why not just edit it since they could always use the old version if they don't like it. It's extremely unlikely that the quoted person would refuse to approve or resubmit a correct quote. That misspelling/typo (I don't know whether the quote was dictated) should not appear in PR/recruiting material. And [sic] isn't appropriate for that document.
Anyway, it's been about a day and I haven't received a reply to my edited document yet. I'm itching to post the before and after versions to get comments on the fairly extensive rewording I did but I don't want to do it in a public forum.
What would you do? Just mention the spelling error without taking the opportunity to show your graphic editing skills?
Oh, and I cropped some whitespace around a person's photo that was sloppily placed next to the quote. I gave them several reasons to dislike me I guess.
The quote was from someone speaking well of the organization, to attract more people to the organization. The misspelling I corrected was "kick-of" which I changed in a graphics editor to "kick-off." I mentioned this change in my email when I submitted the edits.
I figured, why not just edit it since they could always use the old version if they don't like it. It's extremely unlikely that the quoted person would refuse to approve or resubmit a correct quote. That misspelling/typo (I don't know whether the quote was dictated) should not appear in PR/recruiting material. And [sic] isn't appropriate for that document.
Anyway, it's been about a day and I haven't received a reply to my edited document yet. I'm itching to post the before and after versions to get comments on the fairly extensive rewording I did but I don't want to do it in a public forum.
What would you do? Just mention the spelling error without taking the opportunity to show your graphic editing skills?
Oh, and I cropped some whitespace around a person's photo that was sloppily placed next to the quote. I gave them several reasons to dislike me I guess.