how to reference list discussions
Madhav Deshpande
mmdesh at umich.edu
Wed Jul 31 19:13:50 UTC 1996
Communications on Indology or a similar network are scholarly,
but casual, and not to be treated as anyone's "considered final opinions"
on a given topic. Therefore, there is a great danger of citations from
e-mail messages leading to misrepresentation. Minimally, I would suggest
that the author of a message needs to be explicitly asked for his/her
permission for a specific quote, and be given an opporunity to review
that quote.
Madhav Deshpande
On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Peter J. Claus wrote:
> Good Question! There have been times I have wondered this too. But there
> are several sides to this... Is it like "personal communication" or like
> a published quote if it is on the LIST itself (rather than just email
> correspondence between member)?
>
> Other questions: should we ask the person for his/her permission to quote
> off the LIST? If not, how will it affect the LIST's correspondence to
> think that one might be quoted in an article?
>
> If the LIST-quoted portion of an author's a reply to a specific request
> for information, and there is a lot of this in a given article, would the
> article then be like joint authorship?
>
> I'm sure there are lots of such questions. I like the idea of using the
> list to get information and thought, but I think it does create the
> possibility of some new forms of scholarship/writting/authorship that
> need to be discussed.
>
> Peter Claus
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, George Thompson wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 01:45:46 BST
> > From: George Thompson <thompson at jlc.net>
> > To: Members of the list <indology at liverpool.ac.uk>
> > Subject: how to reference list discussions
> >
> > Dear Indologists,
> >
> > Perhaps rather like a hunter finishing off a wounded deer, I am presently
> > trying to put a paper that I am writing out of its misery, with finishing
> > touches such as completed endnotes and full bibliographic references. My
> > question to you is this: how does one reference an Indology List discussion
> > [for example]? I have never referenced such a thing before, nor have I
> > ever encountered anyone else's attempt at doing so. Is there an
> > established convention for this sort of thing?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > George Thompson
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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