July 2016, updated August 2022
Ibid must have been an incredible intellect. Maybe the most extraordinary mind ever produced by this or any society of any era. How could they not be the most-immense intellect ever produced by the Homosapien species? Ibid is cited in numerous books and research papers too massive to count, let alone correctly capture into a multi-volume bibliographic of everything that Ibid has ever written or got written about him.
Ibid's very old, too, arguably ancient. He's even mentioned in books many centuries old and is likely to be directly referenced or alluded to as an authority in hitherto unwritten works to come. Talk about longevity and also connectivity to the past and future as well. Ibid has become so authoritative a source that a researcher using most citation formats, such as APA, Chicago/Turabian, and MLA, need only cite Ibid and all its derivations. This 'Ibid[.,]' alone without referencing a specific book or page number, and the citation is supported. Ibid said this or that, with the where and when of it all not necessary. Since, when it comes to the great Ibid, all that is required for a citation to be valid is that Ibn said it. Therefore it is.
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