Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by maze-le on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:15AM (#18293128)

This might be a ghost discussion. I have worked in scientific publishing for quite some time and have seen citations in the form of:

* personal correspondence

* emails

* facebook profile pages

and my personal highlight

* google search queries (I kid you not)

All of these citations actually occured in scientific journals. I assume Nicolas Bourbaki was also cited several times, without anyone caring about "academically correct" citation rules.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by internet555 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:56PM (#18294177)

Wow I did this in high school but I got in trouble

Citations:

-Google

-Nicolas Bourbaki

-Rob’s Facebook wall

-My friend in gchat

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by saagarjha on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:29PM (#18297027)

Hopefully you got in trouble for your poor citation format, not your sources.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by internet555 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:27PM (#18297903)

I got in trouble for everything! And everyone hated me

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