2009/7/17 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
On a en.wp note: I assume that arXiv counts as a (mostly) reliable site to reference? It will be interesting to see whether Vixra will also be, although I guess it'll be a case of each individual paper/ author set being taken on its own merits.
Not really. For the kind of things you get on arXiv "reliable" is usually taken to mean "peer-reviewed", so you would cite the journal the paper was published in. You might link to the arXiv version for convenience, but you would be citing the journal, not arXiv.