[seqfan] Re: A032355 extension; and comment on b-files

[Neil Sloane]

Dear Sequence Fans,
I find Brendan's arguments convincing.
I have changed the links to the b-files I took from that paper accordingly.
They now say

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..640, based on the work of
Primož Potočnik, Pablo Spiga and Gabriel Verret

This refers to A032355, A059282, A241163, 4, 5

Neil


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au>wrote:

>
> Allan and Neil are not the publisher.  OEIS is the publisher.
> If there is an analogy from ordinary academic publishing, Allan
> and Neil acted as editors.  It is as if the editor of a journal
> published something in the journal, with my name on it as author,
> without asking me. I would be upset if that happened. I believe
> that I, and I alone, have the right to put my name onto a
> published work as author.  If an editor wants to republish my
> data, there is a standard method: they give themselves as
> author/compiler and credit me for the content.
>
> Note that usual OEIS practice agrees with this: the AUTHOR field
> gives the person who added the sequence to OEIS, not the person
> who computed the numbers (unless that is the same person).
> Why are b-files treated differently?
>
> I hope nobody thinks I'm criticising Allan and Neil here.
> I just want to argue for an improvement in presentation.
>
> Cheers,
> Brendan.
>
>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:02:28 -0400 (EDT)
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>
> On 2.2, I think you're wrong. Allan and Neil are acting as publisher
> here; you credit the author, not the publisher.
>
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brendan McKay<Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au>
> To: seqfan<seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> Sent: Sun, Apr 20, 2014 2:00 am
> Subject: [seqfan]  Re: A032355 extension; and comment on b-files
>
>
> Hi, I checked the b-file that is now present.  Two unrelated comments:
>
> 1.  It would be good to add the number*all*  vertex-transitive cubic
>
> graphs, not necessarily connected.  That follows using one of the
> standard transformations.
>
> 2. I know this comment is too late, but I'm a bit concerned about how
> b-files are presented.
>
>  1. Are they an official part of OEIS?  If so, why are they in the LINKS
>     section looking like external sources? This also makes them harder
>     to find on the page, which is what prompted this comment.
>  2. The way they are presented is misleading.  This example: "Primož
>     Potočnik, Pablo Spiga and Gabriel Verret, Table of n, a(n) for n =
>     2..640".  That is wrong; it is not a work of Potočnik et al..  It is
>     a work of Allan and Neil based on the work of Potočnik et al..  If
>     Allan and Neil made an error in creating the file, Potočnik et al.
>     will get the blame. (Think of an example which needs more processing
>     than mere copying to see why this is not mere nitpicking.) Were
>     Potočnik et al. even asked if they want their name on this new work?
>     What I'm saying is that this violates the usual practices of
>     authorship and attribution.
>
> The cheapest way to fix 2.2 would be to rephrase the link like "Table
> of
> n, a(n) for n = 2..640, based on Primož Potočnik, Pablo Spiga and
> Gabriel Verret".
>
> Cheers, Brendan.
>
>
>
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