YBYA!! Yes, you want figure captions that convey the main idea of the paper, not just what the different line colors mean!
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Yes, although I did once have a collaborator send me an email saying collaborator #2 had rewritten a figure caption and that I better mount another disk to download the revised paper. (Collaborator #2 was well-known for writing half-page figure captions....)
aug 15, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I do believe I had to persuade my coauthors to keep a *nearly* half page figure caption of mine recently 😂
aug 16, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
Oops - you've never published a paper of any sort with the person I have in mind.
aug 15, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
So there must be more than one of them!
aug 15, 2025, 11:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Hmmm... I had one like that - wonder if it's the same person. For this and other similar deeds of daring (like exceeding his talk allotment by 100%) I've called him the Bruckner of astronomy.
aug 15, 2025, 11:35 pm • 1 0 • view