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Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Journals cited by Wikipedia/Questionable6

Hello, Headbomb,

This page has gotten deleted and then recreated 12 times, five of those times just since September 2021. There is not point in continually tagging this page for deletion if a bot will immediately recreate it and we go through this cycle again in 2 weeks. Maybe you need to talk to the bot operator and get the bot not to recreate this page and then it can be deleted for good. If not, then we just have to live with its existence. Liz Read! Talk! 00:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

We're near an equilibrium point. The page is needed, for a day or two, then cleanup happens, then it's not needed anymore. If enough cleanup is done, and we are getting close to that point, then it won't be needed anymore. Unless more sources are covered, and it becomes needed again. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: concerning [1]. Talk to the bot op and ask what? The bot is functioning exactly as intended. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 08:36, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Predatory sources query

Hey, so clearly there's a big problem with Turkish sources, because this is the second time I've noticed this, but can I ask how you are identifying sources such as the one on Iplikçi Mosque, and, similarly, do you have a tool that is showing you where the original research came from? If there's a predator then I assume there is something predated that contains the same information. That source supported rather key facts! Iskandar323 (talk) 06:36, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

@Iskandar323: You can check WP:UPSD, WP:CITEWATCH, and User:JzG/Predatory. You can also cross-check against https://beallslist.net [both the publisher and the journal list]. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:37, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Ok, thanks - those are useful references. But can you just show, this once, where this particular journal pops up, because I've tried using those resources and just can't find it, under Tojned, Tojsat, The Online Journal of Science and Technology, etc. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:36, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Both Tojned and Tojsat (or their full name equivalents) pop up on Beall's list (standalone journals). They also advertise fake impact factors on their websites and are lying about being indexed in DOAJ. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:25, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, ok, thanks again for the clarification. I've done a little digging around the paper in question to try to understand its origins. For context, I'm bothering with this, because this paper is hands down the most detailed material on this specific subject that I've found, appears well sourced and contains images and plans of the building in question not found anywhere else. Anyway, what I've found is that while I agree that Tojsat is less than confidence inspiring as a platform, and I have no doubt may aggregate research from other sources, in this instance, the paper in question appears to be research original to a Paris conference involving both Tojsat and Sakarya University, a significant research university in Turkey. I've separately found the paper listed under the profiles of one of the authors on a separate university website, attributing the paper to the aforementioned conference, and noting the author's other urban architecture-related work. My question is this: even if Tojsat is generally disregarded as a predatory resource, is there a Wikipedia methodology whereby individual sources that may have been published on this platform might be deemed to be reliable if there origins are reliably attributed, unpredated, to that journal? Iskandar323 (talk) 07:13, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
@Iskandar323: See WP:VANPRED#Use in the real world vs use on Wikipedia. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 12:22, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
My final question would be: how are predatory publishers qualified by Wikipedia? I've noticed that Beall's list only identifies what it calls "potential predatory publishers" and that Beall's methodology has itself received criticism. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:42, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
I'll flip the question around, how could you consider Tojsat to be a reliable source when it's lying about basic things like being indexed in DOAJ. It's promoting fake impact factors. These are the biggest possible red flags you could have about a journal being predatory. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:08, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Is there any definitive Wikipedia policy on this, or is it all just discretionary? Iskandar323 (talk) 13:44, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
You can take it to WP:RSN if you want. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
I'm not interested in validating Tojsat as a journal: I'm just wondering if there are any clear guidelines on any of this, because writing off every article ever published by certain publishers seems a bit like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer. It's fine, I'll probably just look for the sources behind the source and get around it that way. Iskandar323 (talk) 14:36, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Some nuts need to be cracked. Predatory publishing is a blight. Our guidelines are WP:RS, and predatory publishers decidedly aren't RS. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:39, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a survey about medical topics on Wikipedia

Dear fellow editor,

I am Piotr Konieczny, a sociologist of new media at Hanyang University (and User:Piotrus on Wikipedia). I would like to better understand Wikipedia's volunteers who edit medical topics, many associated with the WikiProject Medicine, and known to create some of the highest quality content on Wikipedia. I hope that the lessons I can learn from you that I will present to the academic audience will benefit both the WikiProject Medicine (improving your understanding of yourself and helping to promote it and attract new volunteers) and the wider world of medical volunteering and academia. Open access copy of the resulting research will be made available at WikiProject's Medicine upon the completion of the project.

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I appreciate your support of this research and thank you in advance for taking the time to participate and share your experiences! If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me at my Wikipedia user page or through my email listed on the survey page (or by Wikipedia email this user function).

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Planck's law edits

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is not recommended for indentation use, as seen in MOS:INDENT and MOS:INDENTGAP. 163.118.116.18 (talk) 04:19, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

See also Help:Displaying a formula. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:10, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

EasyWikiDev

Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing Wikipedia:RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.

If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 12:44, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

@Ed6767: afraid I can't give much feedback since I don't really do vandal fighting. As for 'my' scripts, they were coded by others, namely User:SD0001 and User:GeneralNotability mostly. I'd suggest WP:VPT and WP:SCRIPTREQ instead. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Ed6767, this sounds cool - I'll give it a try! GeneralNotability (talk) 17:16, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Listing of Template:WikiProject Atlantic Coast Conference/class at templates for discussion

Template:WikiProject Atlantic Coast Conference/class has been listed at templates for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 (talk) 07:30, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Template:Newsletters

Hi, I am Itcouldbepossible. In the above template, there is a section called "Wikimedia" and in it there is a subsection "Active". In it there is a specific newsletter titled as "Wikidata". Why did not you link it to wikidata? If you give me permission, then can I add the link? Thanks. ― ItcouldbepossibleTalk 11:54, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Itcouldbepossible: You don't need my permission to edit anything. See WP:BOLD. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:12, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Ok thanks, but in the past may editors have asked me not to do anything which is too bold, as it sometimes results in foolish things, and risk being blocked. Thanks for your permission. ― ItcouldbepossibleTalk 15:04, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
Sorry it is already there. I saw it just now. It is already there as status updates, and I was also talking about the same. ― ItcouldbepossibleTalk 15:07, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Citations

Hi there. The issue with the one citation, which is the citation which puts it over the notability barrier, is that there is no information on the citation so that someone looking at the WP article knows where that information is. Onel5969 TT me 22:53, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Onel5969: A paywall is not a reason to put cleanup tags, and that you personally can't view it doesn't mean the source is inadequate. The source of impact factors is Journal Citation Reports. Go to your local university library if you need access to this. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:16, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
It has nothing to do with paywall. The fact is that if I went to library, with nothing more than the information in the citation, the citation is worthless. Onel5969 TT me 11:11, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Then you really need to learn to use a library because there is zero university library in the world that doesn't know what Journal Citation Reports is. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:30, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
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