I note the comment in that article "unfairly reject certain manuscripts or transfer them to the server’s less reputable "general-physics" category. "
This will be a useful quote in explaining that articles in that category are not necessarily as reliable as those in the other sections. We have inadvertently been given a useful tool against the physics cranks. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/17 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: >> Physics cranks drive so much. They were responsible for our "No >> Original Research" rule, and now they've forked arXiv.org: >> >> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39845 >> >> viXra.org is for the stuff even arXiv.org doesn't want. It appears to >> be driven by cranks getting butthurt at being put into the "General >> Physics" category, i.e. where the nutters get put. Note their stuff >> still got onto arXiv, they just didn't like the category. >> >> I can hardly wait to see what level of crankery viXra produces ... > > arXiv's equivalent of Conservapedia... > > Last time I checked, arXiv was for pre-prints - the word suggests to > me that it has to actually be going to get printed. It's not supposed > to be a place to publish papers, just distribute them faster when they > are being published elsewhere. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l