23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
8:04 p.m.
Norman Wilson scripsit:
The trouble is not that it's a conference paper.
The trouble is
that that the `authority' being cited is just a random assertion,
not backed up.
Okay then. There are fields in which conference papers have zero authority,
and those in which they have a great deal, that's all, so mentioning that
the source for the bad information was a conference paper was, as the
lawyers say, more prejudicial than probative.
It's as if I mentioned your name in a paper about
something else,
remarked in passing and without any citation of my own that you have
a wooden leg, and Wikipedia accepted that as proof of your prosthesis.
Got it.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(Four limbs and eight eyes, thank you very much)
Hexapodia is the key insight.
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