Actually I don't know either, was "Deja Vu at Baen"

On Apr 29, 7:34 am, Sea Wasp <seawaspObvi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>         Many people, admittedly, don't grasp how extensive editorial
changes
> CAN be; a lot of people seem to believe that an editor is basically a
> proofreader with a fancier title, and a good editor does a lot MORE
> than that; they fix story problems, not just grammar or spelling
> issues. On the other hand, even the most extreme stuff Eric has ever
> done is pretty damn tame compared to what some SF editors used to do.

That was in magazines, though. When I think of "edited by" on the
cover of a book, I usually think of a theme anthology (e.g. "Many
Bloody Returns") with about four Really Big Genre Names and about
eight Medium Genre Names contributing stories. One of the medium names
will be credited as the editor, but with less cover billing than the
big names. I may be wrong, but I have the impression that 'editing'
under those conditions is mostly the desk work of soliciting
contributors. I certainly don't imagine the medium name telling one of
the bigger names to fix X in her story.