Hi Wound,
Haven't read beyond your post yet, maybe others have addressed this already, but I wanted to give my own response to this:
Wounded King writes:
Jerry had a number of other arguments which I was not so convinced by. He suggested in an exchange with Mammuthus-
JDB writes:
Nah...I think that we will observe Internet debate etiquette. Bring your argument in your own words, cut and paste the relevant sections of the papers that support your argument.
Now I am not familiar with this particular ettiquette and it certainly isn't something covered in the forum guidelines here, although I have no doubt it may operate on a number of forums. Is there any reason why we should accede to someone elses particular preference for a form of reference?
Jerry has actually expressed precisely what we'd like to do here. The
Forum Guidelines aren't sufficiently explicit about this, and an update to the
Forum Guidelines has been discussed among moderators, and it is only awaiting my time to carry it out.
I don't think inaccessible articles should be off limits for citation here, but in such circumstances I think more substantial excerpts than is normally the case should be provided.
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