[seqfan] Re: author field

[Tanya Khovanova]

In a way you are saying that the author is not the author of a particular sequence but the author of the whole submission page about this sequence. Right?

--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: author field
> To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 1:36 PM
> Dear Tanya,
> 
> I used to think the same way, e.g., "Neil Sloane and Mira
> Bernstein didn't
> invent Pascal's triangle." Neither did Pascal, for that
> matter. Can we ever
> be sure that the sequence we just submitted was never
> thought of by the
> ancients?
> 
> The submitters still deserve authorial credit. Even if the
> numbers have been
> known since ancient times, and even though the OEIS format
> could be
> considered restrictive, the submitters are still making
> decisions as to how
> to present the sequence: what words to describe it with,
> which formulas to
> give and how to label the variables, what examples to use,
> what references
> to cite, etc. It's in a way not that different from writing
> a paper: You
> write a paper on Pascal's triangle, you're the author of
> that paper even
> though the topic is ancient.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Tanya Khovanova <
> mathoflove-seqfan at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear SeqFans,
> >
> > Looking at the wiki page of a sequence, I realized
> that the author field
> > became bold and bothers me more than before. Very
> often people who submit a
> > sequence are not the authors of the sequence.
> >
> > For example, I submitted the sequence
> > http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A122726 of
> sociable numbers.
> > This is a very old sequence, it was just missing in
> the OEIS. And, of
> > course, Fibonacci is the author of the Fibonacci
> sequence.
> >
> > On the other hand, most of my sequences I invented
> myself.
> >
> > So I suggest to change the author field to
> "author/submitter".
> >
> > Tanya
> >
> >
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