Editing Single-source publishing (section)

==Criticism==
Editors using single-source publishing have been criticized for below-standard work quality, leading some critics to describe single-source publishing as the "conveyor belt assembly" of content creation.<ref>Mick Hiatt, [http://mashstream.com/mashups/the-myth-of-single-source-authoring/ The Myth of Single-Source Authoring] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929043721/http://mashstream.com/mashups/the-myth-of-single-source-authoring/ |date=2013-09-29 }}, {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130427015014/http://mashstream.com/mashups/the-myth-of-single-source-authoring/|date=2013-04-27}}. Mashstream, November 18, 2009.</ref>

While heavily used in technical translation, there are risks of error in regard to [[Index (publishing)|indexing]]. While two words might be [[synonym]]s in English, they may not be synonyms in another language. In a document produced via single-sourcing, the index will be translated automatically and the two words will be rendered as synonyms. This is because they are synonyms in the [[Source language (translation)|source language]], while in the [[Target language (translation)|target language]] they are not.<ref>Nancy Mulvany, [https://books.google.com/books?id=G0Eqm8FbiTMC&dq=single+source+publishing&pg=PA312 Indexing Books], pg. 154. 2nd ed. [[Chicago]]: [[University of Chicago Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|9780226550176}}</ref>