On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:44:40 -0500, you wrote:
Citing a personal communication is much better than
citing nothing at
all. I have used an email from a representative of Babson College,
for example, on the Babson College Talk page, as a reference for
whether or not their giant world globe rotates. (It was built to
rotated and once rotated but it doesn't now).
Same in academic papers, I believe: you can cite a personal
communication, but it is deprecated and should only really be used as
corroboration of facts otherwise known or inferred.
Guy (JzG)
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