[WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/7/17 David Gerard <dgerard at 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.