[Taxacom] shortest paper?

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 10-Sep.-19 6:31 a.m., Neal Evenhuis via Taxacom wrote:

> The actual paper Mike is referring to was published in 1962 in the botanical journal Madroño.
> Here is a blog giving details on the article, whose text consists only of "I got it there then":
> http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2013/07/10/i-got-it-there-then-reid-moran-1962/

* thinking about this, I wonder if "having-everything-in-the-title" 
wasn't a reaction to papers whose title didn't really say what the paper 
was about. With the internet we're inundated with notices of documents 
like that where the title is just clickbait, in violation of both the 
traditional journalistic rules for composing headlines, and of the 
proper composition of the title of a scientific paper.  I have a saying 
that "anything that isn't preceded by an abstract isn't worth reading," 
and the title is supposed to be an abstract of the abstract.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/ which reprocesses research notices 
for universities has a lot of these infuriatingly clickbaitish titles, 
as if the readers are considered customers who are to be lured into a 
document, rather than colleagues who are being helped to know whether 
it's worth their time to read further.

fred.
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