Citation question

[_kestrel_]

What do you do when quoting something that is generally correct and insightful but momentarily wrong?  Edit the quote?  (that will be really messy in this case, since it's only mostly wrong)  Note the mistake in the citation?  Something else?

Comments

[meestagoat]

If it's a grammatical error, or something like the wrong word in a title (e.g., "The PORTRAIT of Dorian Gray" rather than the correct "The PICTURE of Dorian Gray"), just use "[sic]". If it's factually incorrect, I would put a footnote or something. By no means should you edit the quote--quotes need to be verifiable as quotes, so if you change it, you've messed with that.

[_kestrel_]

Good point. Totally forgot that. And I'd already had to take out a couple rambling parentheticals, so there are already ellipses in there.

Thanks!