[Foundation-l] Black market science

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 20:42:53 UTC 2011


On 6 July 2011 21:29, Arlen Beiler <arlenbee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Once it is published, can't it just go to Wikisource? Or would it have to be
> CC-By or something like that. If so, Wikisource would still be the best
> suited for that, we would just have to put it in a journal namespace or
> something along that line.


Remember that en:wp's "no original research" rule was invented for
physics cranks. And even with fairly light moderation, arXiv features
some spectacularly gibbering [[green ink]]. This will need some
thought to create something that's actually useful to anyone,
anywhere, ever.


- d.



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