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Armando Assis theory

To various anon users: Please stop adding text about the Armando Assis "Progress in Physics" paper. This work does NOT meet Wikipedia guidelines for reliable sources; Prog.Phys. is not a real peer-reviewed journal, it's a fringe site that uploads pretty much anything you send to it, with minimal review; therefore it falls under the guidelines for original research. (They won't tell you this on their web page---they want to give the impression of being a real journal---but almost everything they "publish" is crackpot nonsense that's been rejected everywhere else.) If the theory turns out to have merit, it will eventually be cited and discussed in secondary sources (say, review articles in mainstream cosmology journals) and then and only then it will make sense to include on Wikipedia. It is very common for "non-mainstream" scientists to try to promote their work on Wikipedia before the scientific community has weighed in, so there is a general guideline at WP:FRINGE discussing this case. If I can help or clarify in any way, please visit my talk page.

Also: please create an account and log in when you're editing. It's not strictly required but it makes the discussion easier to keep track of. Bm gub2 (formerly User:Bm_gub) 18:35, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

The source is valid. The paper is published and supressing this information sounds censorship. Why may not the reader judge by himself the validity of the arguments? Fring today, maybe mainstream tomorrow. The history has shown this feature over the history of the Physics. Carolingfield (User:Carolingfield) 19:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Before you start calling censorship on other users you may want to ask yourself why they would want to censor this information. Consider the possibility that, rather than a neferious plot to suppress this information, perhaps these other users are acting out of a genuine interest in having a properly sourced encyclopedia article on this subject. Throwing around a hot-button word like "censorship" is unlikely to help resolve the situation. Remember that it is a guiding principle of Wikipedia to assume good faith when dealing with other users. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:20, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
If Assis' theory becomes mainstream tomorrow, then you can come back tomorrow and show us the evidence that the theory has gone mainstream---i.e., show us the secondary source, where a reliable third-party comments on Assis so readers have some context (other than Assis's personal opinion) about the meaning/importance of his article. Wikipedia is not in the business of publishing things that might be right/interesting/popular---that's what journals are for.
And: the paper is not "published", it's "uploaded"; saying that Assis passed PTEP's peer review is not much better than saying that Assis wrote something on his blog. Do you think *everything* that anyone has written about cosmology should get a paragraph on Wikipedia? Even using "Progress in Physics" alone, that would leave us with literally hundreds of mutually-contradictory paragraphs ... each one cited to a paper no one has heard of, and each one defending itself by saying it "might" be proven important "tomorrow". This isn't what Wikipedia editors want, and it is not censorship to say so. Bm gub2 (formerly User:Bm_gub) 19:28, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
"If Assis' theory becomes mainstream tomorrow, then you can come back tomorrow..." I, for one, would say: wikipedia shouldn't be just a place for "mainstream" theories... that would be boring and a hindrance to the free development of thought. kopernikus, kepler, galilei - they all - and many more great 'movers and shakers' - started against the mainstream, you know it... and nothing keeps you from mentioning clearly when citing a non-mainstream- and not-yet-peer-reviewed paper that this is so, so the reader may be warned! you do not need to protect children from thinking the wrong things - not even them! the finding of truth will not be promoted by censoring thought! --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 04:14, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Also supressing the Bibliographic source name?

Spamming of the Armando Assiss thing

Christof Wetterich not mentioned...

Confusing

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