[WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 21:36:27 UTC 2009


2009/7/17 Michael Peel <email at 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.



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