David Gerard wrote:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23600451-12332,00.html
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.