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paulmisttoday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm surprised the conference doesn't provide tooling to validate all references automatically.


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Sharlintoday at 4:43 PM

How would you do that? Even in cases where there's a standard format, a DOI on every reference, and some giant online library of publication metadata, including everything that only exists in dead tree format, that just lets you check whether the cited work exists, not whether it's actually a relevant thing to cite in the context.