Talk:Rota's conjecture

James Oxley sent an email out to his entire math department stating that Bert Gerards. Jim Geelen, and Geoff Whittle have proved Rota's conjecture. A paper confirming this will be out later this year, with the full write-up expected to take several years. Is personal correspondence from a very trusted source (Oxley practically invented matroid theory and is the highest ranked professor at LSU) of this nature worthy of posting on this page?
 * Something like that but available to the public (e.g. as a blog post) would fall under the "established expert" clause of our policy on self-published sources and be allowed. But it needs to be publicly available — I don't think a third-hand report "I heard that someone sent an email to someone else" is good enough, because it is not verifiable. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:33, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * There is an article about this now published in phys.org. I've added a new section "reported proof" with link to the physorg article. Robert Walker (talk) 13:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)