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.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/17 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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