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Solely reputable textbooks ought be cited.

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There's one user who keeps posting from some Indo or Indian textbook on calculus that doesn't have any English. But he speaks English just fine.

He doesn't even bother to cite page numbers or the textbook's details....a clear violation of academic bibliography. Why doesn't that user use an illustrious textbook on calculus when there are so many?!? I don't like these questions from nameless, shifty books.

I actually like questions based on renowned textbooks, because this shows that students are working off and standing on giant shoulders!

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Orthogonal issues (1 comment)
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Orthogonal issues
Peter Taylor‭ wrote about 3 years ago

You seem to be amalgamating two orthogonal issues: citing the source of the material which the question is about, and establishing some kind of whitelist of acceptable sources. IMO the first is a reasonable issue to raise and the second is an unreasonable suggestion, but the discussion would be clearer if it were narrowed to just one issue.