Timeline for How to refer to a source with typos in the title?
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 22:27 | comment | added | Earthliŋ | @StephanKolassa I intentionally chose thee/three to be ambiguous. I still think that if this were a play on words, it would most likely have been written with round brackets, like "th(r)ee", and I perceive "th[r]ee" to be almost unambiguously an editorial correction. | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 22:24 | history | edited | Earthliŋ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @EthanBolker: I don't think we need spend too much energy pandering to people whose personal efforts cannot go beyond copy & paste. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | Earthliŋ | @EthanBolker That's why I suggested doi or at least volume, issue and page numbers. Anyway, Google is good at getting results by ignoring brackets, or replacing square brackets with round brackets. I found both instances of misspelled titles I know of on the first page with cut&paste with the square brackets. Of course, journal search engines aren't as smart. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 13:37 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | And a cut an paste search might fail because of the [r]. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | It's quite possible to write an article that has a bona fide "th[r]ee" in its title (both "thee" and "three" are correct English words). If I found your "solution to the th[r]ee-body problem", my first instinct would be to google it as-is. I don't think that "it should be clear enough" what is meant. Much better to use "sic", which serves exactly this purpose. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 11:23 | comment | added | Earthliŋ | @Davidmh I would say thr[e]ee or thre[e]e or three[e]. Now it should be clear enough that the [e] was inserted to not improve the error, but to be faithful to the original title, which contains a typo. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 11:14 | comment | added | Davidmh | And how would you improve the threee-body problem? | |
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| Oct 6, 2015 at 10:48 | comment | added | Earthliŋ | @vonbrand Well, the error is not completely corrected, otherwise it would be "three" not "th[r]ee" =) | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 22:10 | comment | added | vonbrand | "Improve an error", now that is a new concept ;-) | |
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| Oct 5, 2015 at 21:14 | history | answered | Earthliŋ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |