RE: New Ampelosaurus skeleton

[Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia <fabdalla@tin.it>]

Dr. Silvio Renesto has already emphasized that the discovery of such "new"
dinosaurs has been largely mentioned in my divulgative article "The
International Symposium "Two Hundred Years of Pterosaurs" Tolouse, France,
September 5-8th 2001", DINOPRESS n. 7 (2002), published at the beginning of
this year. Finding place, fossils etc are all described. There are 5 (five)
photographs showing the new sauropod specimen and the site where it has
been found.
I did not realize that it was a scoop. I supposed that the discovery was
well-known in France. Jean Le Loeuff did not tell us to keep as a secret
the new of that discovery, thus I mentioned it in my report.

However, it is clear that no one here noted that new in my article.

Now, three possible causes of such an evident ignorance (with the exception
of Silvio, who is pictured in a cople of photos) come to my mind.

- FIRST: Despite the high quality of the journal, readers of DINOPRESS are
few in this list.

- SECOND: Alternatively, readers of such journals are not able to
understand or remember what they have read and are sensible only to the
Press Agencies releases,

- THIRD: The texts of my articles are so bad and the English grammar so
poor that the reader refuses to read them (and refuses to look at the
photos too).

It would be useful to me to know which one of those is the main cause, in
order to write articles that could be understood and, at least for a while,
remembered.
 (offlist, if the case)

I thank you so much.

Sincerely yours
Fabio Dalla Vecchia