Unless it is against the rules of the place where its being published.The context is whether it's correct to imply that in "expert" terms, providing links is inferior to repackaging an answer in your own words. I don't agree with that suggestion. However, I think I've also said three times that owners have the right to make rules in forums and if you choose to frequent the place, you have to expect to abide by the rules.
All you have to say is here's a post from a friend/colleague of mine that pertains to your question. Then post the answer. You don't have to list the person's CV in order to do so.I wasn't aware that posting a CV was ever in question. I'm actually over this whole issue, in which personal antagonism has polluted best intentions.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
