Re: what do you do if you spot an error in an article?
- From: "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:11:32 -0400
In article
<30155775.1214657090435.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dan
<blataianu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
say also you are not very sure about it. Say, a significant error-not typos.
You can:
1) ask in a forum like this. The problem is that the context can be
uninteresting for third parties or too complicated to explain
2) find the author of the article's address( e-mail address) and write to
him, asking for clarification or point out the error.
what do you think? thanks
Occasionally I have done 2) in the past. Sometimes they have thanked
me for pointing out an error. Just last month I sent an email like
this to an author, but phrased more like: Is it an error, or have I
misunderstood something?
Another thing to do is investigate whether the error has been noted
already...either by the author or by someone else. This is helped
nowadays by the internet. I keep a list of errata for my papers on my
web page, for example.
--
G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
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