- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:54:58 -0400
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- cc: W3C OWL Working Group <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
> I believe that the following sentence in the acknowledgments sections
> of our document is inappropriate:
>
> """This document is the product of the OWL Working Group (see below)
> whose members deserve recognition for their time and commitment."""
>
> I don't recall ever seeing such a statement in an acknowledgments.
> Isn't the actually acknowledgement sufficient?
+1 re that sentence being reworded to not thank ourselves.
Note that we have several templates here. The standard form of
acknowledgements, I think, is:
================
{{:Shared_Acknowledgments}}
The editors extend special thanks to ...
for ....
{{:Regular_attendees}}
{{:Past_Members}}
================
and the text you're referring to is in the first,
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Shared_Acknowledgments
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Past_Members
-- Sandro
> See:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#ack
>
> ""'This document reflects the joint effort of the members of the RDF
> Core Working Group. Particular contributions were made by Jeremy
> Carroll, Dan Connolly, Jan Grant, R. V. Guha, Graham Klyne, Ora
> Lassilla, Brian McBride, Sergey Melnick, Jos deRoo and Patrick
> Stickler."""
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
> """This document is the result of extensive discussions within the
> Web Ontology Working Group as a whole. The participants in this
> Working Group included:"""
>
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Acknowledgements
>
> """This specification was developed and approved for publication by
> the W3C XSL Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification
> does not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its
> approval. The current members of the XSL WG are:"""
>
> Why do we need to *say* that we deserve recognition just before
> giving that recognition? Seems a bit self-praising.
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
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