[WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

[David Goodman]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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