David Gerard wrote:
Hmmm!
Professor O'Connor yesterday tried to distance
himself from the
university's standards. "It was not as a piece of academic
scholarship, therefore did not follow normal citation methods used in
academic publications," he said.
and
He said there needed to be "a distinction
drawn" between a response to
criticisms in a newspaper and academic work.
There's a familiar ring to that from those who say that only what goes
into article space needs to be verifiable, and that the rule doesn't
apply to talk pages or the mailing lists. :-)
Ec.