Timeline for Citing papers in questions/answers
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| Jun 4, 2022 at 13:20 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @EmilJeřábek See this MO answer for an example where linking to the Wayback Machine PDF file directly seems to be the natural thing to do. I admit that probably I should just edit the answer rather than add the link in the comment. Probably I'll do that after you see this comment. | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 13:14 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @EmilJeřábek What I have taken to doing in such cases (no DOI or arXiv link) is to link to the Wayback Machine rather than the author's web page. If it's not in the Wayback Machine then the Wayback Machine will usually offer the option of archiving on the spot. If it's a PDF file then I have only been archiving the PDF file. But it sounds like you're saying I should archive the webpage as well as the PDF and point to the archived webpage. I can see some value to that, although it would not have occurred to me to do this extra work until I saw your strong opinion about not linking to PDF files. | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 7:19 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | @TimothyChow That’s unlikely, really: how would a link to the slides spring into existence in the first place, if it didn’t appear, say, on the author’s web page? Even Google cannot just pull it out of thin air. But anyway, if the original page looks unsuitable, you can at least include as much meta-information as possible in the text: don’t just write “see example.edu/~jnd/shhhj.pdf”, but “John Doe, On regular shmips, slides for a talk at the Blomp workshop, 2013, 65 slides, 874 kB”. | |
| Jun 3, 2022 at 22:51 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @EmilJeřábek What about slides or course notes, for which there may not be a meta-page? | |
| May 29, 2022 at 9:22 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | At a minimum, I think it good scholarly behaviour to include at minimum the authors and title, so that a human reader familiar with the literature can instantly recognise the reference, and if a link breaks, an alternative can be (almost always) found by a simple cut and paste of the given information in a search engine. | |
| May 28, 2022 at 10:39 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | @EmilJeřábek Good point, will do in the future and I’ll do my best to edit past posts and correct direct-to-pdf links. | |
| May 28, 2022 at 7:10 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Whatever you do, please DO NOT link directly to a pdf. Link to an informative meta-page instead, such as an abstract with bibliographic information. Leave the decision to download the pdf to the reader. | |
| May 26, 2022 at 19:42 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| May 26, 2022 at 16:39 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| May 26, 2022 at 16:31 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 26, 2022 at 16:19 | answer | added | András Bátkai | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 26, 2022 at 16:04 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| May 26, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | @AndrásBátkai That is awesome, I agree with Asaf's comment -- if you wanted to post it as an answer I suspect the community would agree that it's a good standard. | |
| May 26, 2022 at 16:02 | history | edited | Alec Rhea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 26, 2022 at 15:58 | comment | added | András Bátkai | It is definitely good to use the citation helper: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/2583/… | |
| May 26, 2022 at 15:21 | history | asked | Alec Rhea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |