Dear Forum,
On Sep 12, Igor Pak posted a blog entitled "How NOT to reference papers".
A link to the original post is https://archive.today/IXYfZ
The current updated version is
http://igorpak.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/how-not-to-reference-papers/
The blog states:
I am going to tell a story of one paper and its authors which
misrepresented my paper and refused to acknowledge the fact. It’s
also a story about the section editor of Journal of Algebra which
published that paper and then ignored my complaints.
As an observer (and unsolicited recipient) of all of the related
correspondence during the past 8 months, I prepared a detailed response
to the blog's claims. On September 17, I posted the following comment to
the blog:
A comprehensive record of the related interchange between Professor
Pak and (i) Professor Niemeyer [one of the authors discussed in the
blog] and (ii) Editors of the Journal of Algebra, together with a
brief commentary by me on claims made here, is available at
www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~obrien/response.pdf
Professor Pak responded later on the 17th as follows:
I saw your comment, but did not allow it. My blog post became
outrageously popular with thousands of people reading it, and dozens
commenting on it. Since some of the comments are rather ridiculous
(some giving thumbs up, welcoming me to some anti-establishment crowd,
while some claiming libel, chauvinism, etc.) I prohibited all of them
on the blog.
I regret this decision by Igor, since I believe that the matter under
discussion can best be understood and assessed by others by making the
entire content of the email exchange available publicly. The extracts
used in the blog are often selective and devoid of context. Hence I take
the unusual action of sending this email to advise those interested that
my planned post - with some material over which Professor Pak asserts
his copyright deleted at his formal request -- is available at
www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~obrien/response.pdf
I provide the link to the original blog because the public version has
been edited by Professor Pak to reflect information learned from his
reading my proposed response.
Best wishes.
Eamonn O'Brien
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