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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3553100, member: 19463"]I find two kinds of errors with regularity. First are things I did wrong and should not have. Those I fix as soon as I can. Second are changes caused by either a new book or a book new to me. It is hard to keep up with, for example, new attributions for some Parthian coins than have been shown to be other than shown in Sellwood or Shore. Those take longer. I also am slow to 'correct' spellings to be consistent when some references use one transliteration and others another. For example Sasanian Khusro, Khosrow, Chrosoes, Husro and Xusro are all the same name depending on where you look. </p><p><br /></p><p>The goal is the journey. We have fun along the way and ignore those who think they have all the answers in our hobby based on minutia. You have to play differently when dealing with school classes at least until you pass that course and move on to other teachers who will want you to spell things their way. Eventually you find the only consistency in science is change. Today's facts have a way of turning into tomorrow's outdated theories to be ridiculed by those who think they have the final answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3553100, member: 19463"]I find two kinds of errors with regularity. First are things I did wrong and should not have. Those I fix as soon as I can. Second are changes caused by either a new book or a book new to me. It is hard to keep up with, for example, new attributions for some Parthian coins than have been shown to be other than shown in Sellwood or Shore. Those take longer. I also am slow to 'correct' spellings to be consistent when some references use one transliteration and others another. For example Sasanian Khusro, Khosrow, Chrosoes, Husro and Xusro are all the same name depending on where you look. The goal is the journey. We have fun along the way and ignore those who think they have all the answers in our hobby based on minutia. You have to play differently when dealing with school classes at least until you pass that course and move on to other teachers who will want you to spell things their way. Eventually you find the only consistency in science is change. Today's facts have a way of turning into tomorrow's outdated theories to be ridiculed by those who think they have the final answer.[/QUOTE]
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