# Ever been acknowledged? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723 "2010-06-03T02:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/21 "2010-06-03T06:40:39Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > As in, named in the Acknowledgments of a published work? > > Because I just have and it’s awesome!😃 It’s a scholarly work of little interest outside of a very specific area, but that matters not at all to me. I had no warning whatsoever, it was a complete surprise, and a delightful one at that! I was acknowledged in the liner notes of Toni Childs’ “Union” album, on which I also sang background vocals, along with a bunch of other women. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/22 "2010-06-03T07:19:01Z")
Acknowledged in Dave Zirin’s “Welcome to the Terrordome” for some work I did transcribing interviews and such. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/23 "2010-06-03T08:09:02Z")
I was acknowledged in the Str Barbarian build guide at [diabloii.net](http://diabloii.net). I think it’s still online. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/24 "2010-06-03T11:48:23Z")
Many times. But then again, I’m a freelance copyeditor. Usually the thanks go down only to the level of my client, the production editor, but sometimes authors like my work enough to give me a shout-out (and to ask for me on successive books). It’s a great feeling! When I’m in a bookstore, I often check “my” recently released books to see if I scored another acknowledgment. I’m in the credits of at least one textbook (again, as copyeditor). A friend thanked Mr. S and me in the liner notes of one of her CDs. We helped her get through a divorce at the time; also, Mr. S lent her his Fender for one of the tracks, and in the artwork she’s dancing with a scarf I gave her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/25 "2010-06-03T11:53:13Z")
I’m acknowledged in one of the [most important books published on the English Reformation in the past ten years](http://www.amazon.com/Reformation-Britain-Ireland-History-Christian/dp/0199280150/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275565850&sr=1-5). And, not only that, but I’m also in two footnotes in the book because the author (also my supervisor) used my research to illustrate a handful of points in the narrative. So, yeah, I’m not in history any more, but it’s still pretty neat. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/26 "2010-06-03T11:55:22Z")
Yes, in books by Richard Dawkins, Malcolm Gladwell and James Randi, among others. I am also credited as a consultant in an ‘adult erotic fiction’ novel called ‘Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak’ by the very successful author Julie Cohen. The book has a plot (yes it really does) that involves fake psychics and cold reading, and I was a consultant with regard to that aspect of the book, and _only_ that aspect. I am never sure whether to be proud of this, or slightly dismayed that Julie didn’t see me as a worthwhile consultant with regard to any other aspect of the book. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/27 "2010-06-03T12:20:36Z")
I’m acknowledged in a few Ph.D. theses and a few SAE papers, all related to internal combustion engine research. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/28 "2010-06-03T12:43:19Z")
I’ve been thanked some CD liner notes, nothing major at all. I have some film credits in some MINOR films: Key grip, locations manager, model builder, etc. A few things I’ve written have been published, again in minor pubs. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/29 "2010-06-03T13:32:54Z")
Lots of acknowledgements over the years in academics papers, theses, etc. The one I am most fond of is in a paper that’s the biggest breakthrough in the field in the last 20 years. The author in the draft thought the method also worked on a variation of the problem and I showed how that didn’t really work. So I got a credit including a description of my explanation in a very famous paper. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/30 "2010-06-03T13:42:44Z")
Yes, several times. One guy thanked me for my “stimulation”; he was Dutch and he meant “encouragement” or something. Damn translator engines. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/31 "2010-06-03T13:46:32Z")
Yes, in a book called Sexual Intelligence. (Not the one by that Sex and the City chick.) But I’m in there as tdn, not my real name. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/32 "2010-06-03T15:26:02Z")
Never by name, but in a popular work by a rather famous scientist he thanked the students of a seminar he’d taught, and I was one of them. One of the assignments we’d had in the seminar was the critique a pre-publication edition of the book, and he changed the thing I said he should change, although I can’t imagine I was the only one who made that suggestion. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/33 "2010-06-03T15:37:05Z")
The authors of “USB Explained” wanted to publish a bunch of articles I had written about computer buses as a comparison between other computer buses and USB. I gave them permission and they included the articles as appendices in their book. They credited me both in an acknowledgments section at the front of the book and also at the beginning of the appendices. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/34 "2010-06-03T15:47:43Z")
Acknowledged in a couple of publications by the British Museum (including an exhibition and related conference that I helped to work on); also high up in the acknowledgments of Thomas Kitts’ biography of Ray Davies. Number of acknowledgments on albums and CDs of a few rock bands in Europe as I work on and off as an editor on the liner notes for a record label. Cited all over the place in history and music academic stuff, but the neatest one to me is in a popular work, as a reference for further reading on one of the objects listed in the current A-Z Guide to the British Museum (in both the English and Japanese versions.) ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/35 "2010-06-03T15:50:45Z")
Yes, in a published journal article during my first year of grad school. Looking back, they should have given me a coauthor credit, not just an acknowledgement, but I didn’t know enough at the time to realize that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/36 "2010-06-03T16:14:12Z")
Yes, in lots of academic publications. Probably most prominently in the recent 5th volume of the Birds of the Republic of Panama, for which I provided a lot of information and in which I am cited in dozens of places. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/37 "2010-06-03T16:56:03Z")
Yes, in a few non-mainstream cds and one book about something something computers something something that a friend co-wrote. ---
**Author:** ![PsyXe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@PsyXe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsyXe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/38 "2010-06-03T17:12:25Z")
Only for illustrations, in a couple of academic articles. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/39 "2010-06-03T17:13:29Z")
Yes, in a number of research journal articles I read over and provided critiques of. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/40 "2010-06-03T17:47:19Z")
Damn you people are literate! I should have suspected as much, I suppose. Knowing that you’ve all been acknowledged, so much, is kind of taking the shine off the thing for me. Yesterday I was over the moon, today I’m not quite feeling the unique snowflake thing so much. It’s still a wonderful thing and it was a complete surprise, so I’m still loving it. Oh yeah, and it wasn’t just me that was mentioned so was hubby, and, [top this I dare you:D], my dog too!😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723.md?page=3)