Improper or incorrect credits

[Koen G]

There are two ways to look at this. If the question is 'who gets the prize for having stumbled on this first?' as is somewhat the case in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. parallel, then I agree that the question is not that important. Though I would still note, even in a blog, where I read the information. 

Now if it's about a developed idea, things are different. People used to academic writing will want to know where this idea came from. Who launched it and what were their arguments? What precisely did they say? How did they come to this conclusion? 

Normally these things are easy to trace through a well developed aparatus of references, citations, footnotes... but this is missing in Voynich studies. I don't blame people for this though. It is a consequence of the fact that we have the habit of writing on websites, forums and blogs. People just want to tell their story and they don't want to be slowed down by that kind of stuff. 

When I write a blog post I want to tell a story, I want it to be a pleasant read. That is why I'm looking for the middle way by adding all the reference stuff in footnotes. With only moderate success, apparently