Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference
* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> [081008 16:28]:
> [...], but when authors ask to be cited, it is not
> for vanity but for professional survival.
Sorry if that sounds harsh: But when people fake their results, they
sometimes do not do so for vanity but for survival, too.
> Luckily, whith the advent of
> electronic publication, there are less limits on the number of
> references per article.
So making citations less meaningfull by just adding everything or
even trying to pressure people into making unmeaningfull citations
is less bad?
> In the end, if people really prefer to work with this or that kernel, I
> would not be shocked if it were mentinned somewhere in the article,
> similarly to rock bands that indicate what gutar strings they use :)
Nothing bad about mentioning things that might make some reading less
boring, but additional thanks and mentioning of things not needed for
the verfication or scientific surroundings of an paper is really only
up to the author.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
Reply to: