User:Boris Tsirelson: Difference between revisions

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Professor of mathematics; details. Also a Wikipedian; details. Quite a newbie here.

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 Quite a newbie here.
-==A doubt==
-'''Do you ''actually'' intend to do significant work on the article sometime in the next hour?'''  If not, don't upload it, or not until you actually want to start working on it.  We are ''not'' creating a mirror of Wikipedia here.  If you merely want your brilliant work on Wikipedia to be reprinted in another, more credible source, then you must make up your mind: are you really going to maintain and develop the article here on the ''Citizendium'' or not?  If not, stick with Wikipedia. (A quote from [[CZ:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles]])
-I am astonished. Even commercial scientific journals do not insist that a journal article must differ from its preprint in the arXiv. In order to differ from the archive it is sufficient for a journal to be more selective. Likewise, in order to differ from Wikipedia it is sufficient for Citizendium to be more selective.
-Is it a decent goal, never mirror Wikipedia? Or rather jealousy? Maybe I shall indeed stick with Wikipedia.
 ==Notes for myself==