23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
6:19 p.m.
John Cowan:
Well, of course there are conferences and there are conferences. The
only conference I've ever had a paper published at, Balisage, is as
peer-reviewed as any journal. (And it is gold open access and doesn't
charge for pages -- the storage costs are absorbed as conference overhead.)
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Have you actually looked up the cited reference?
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.
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.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(Four limbs and eight eyes, thank you very much)