Timeline for What is our policy on asking about correctness of preprints?
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 8:21 | comment | added | Tobias Kildetoft | @SamHopkins I too, like Masked, read that as being in the form "here is a preprint I wrote, are those results already known", since this thread is about preprints. For specific questions of the form "is this result new" or "has this [very specific thing] been studied before", my experience is that they are received quite well (and I have personally had some success with such). | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 3:36 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | I think what is meant is that any question where the answerer has to read the preprint to answer the question is too much to expect. I imagine asking for specific theorems or approaches, spelled out in the post, are reasonable MO questions. | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 0:40 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Why is "is my work present in the literature already" too broad? At least, questions of the form "is this theorem known" often get a lot of positive attention on MO. Such questions have specific, objective answers. | |
| S Oct 1, 2013 at 20:46 | history | answered | Gerhard Paseman | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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