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Purely from principles, one might consider it important to credit people for the ideas that they contributed. From a practical sense, it gives readers a way to
by gms7777 9y ago
Purely from principles, one might consider it important to credit people for the ideas that they contributed.
From a practical sense, it gives readers a way to find it for themselves -- contact the author that cited it.
- jacquesm 9y ago> Purely from principles, one might consider it important to credit people for the ideas that they contributed. That makes good sense. > From a practical sense, it gives readers a way to find it for themselves -- contact the author that cited it. Right, but in the case of a paper this old the author is most likely dead or extremely hard to reach. Maybe a standard part of any paper citing other papers should be a reference to an archived copy of the papers cited?