Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
1) I regard someone as an expert if they can show me
that they can
accurately convey detailed information on a topic directly from
memory, and when needed can remember or quickly rediscover the source
from which they that got that information. Think of a lawyer who
cites a legal decision, or a minister who can literally "cite chapter
and verse."
2) Someone who has done so much valuable work on a topic that he is
cited as a source by many others, either formally (in a print
citation) or informally (someone telling you "go see so-and-so about
that.")
This is a really great answer.
Completely pointless post, but there you go.
-Jeff
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Name: Jeff Raymond
E-mail: jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com
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Quote: "As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the
Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else."
- Sen. Rick Santorum on the war in Iraq.