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To begin with, cut out that "search" which misleadingly lists every journal known to man. The best part is the list of redlinked sources - but as there are an infinite number of possible redlinks to add, that does not help. I suspect that the separated "actual real Knowledge (XXG) problem sources"
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listed as "hijacked"? Item number 30 on the very first page of your list? Did you read Beall's comments which made clear that "Tec Review" was his problem and not "MIT Technology Review"? That would be reassuring as it would then be clear that evil forces are corrupting my downloads. Meanwhile, it
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is a good starting point to find unreliable sources, at least those which make use of citation templates. Once they are found, the community can then critically evaluate whether or not they should be cited, leading to a better, more reliable, Knowledge (XXG). Whether a source should be cited can be
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The list is a tool, and like any other tool it can be abused if you really want to. But you'd have to ignore the bigass disclaimer the top of the list, saying that the SourceWatch is only a starting point, that it's not perfect, that it doesn't know the full context in which a source is used, and
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is a neutral noticeboard, and I stated the issue clearly. It is not "CANVASSING" buy a mile or two. The article has exceedingly few viewers, and you "pinged" friends to go there, while I "pinged" no one at all. Period. I rather think that when a reliable source uses a word, we should not assign it
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It is on the list in the very first column one arrives at through the only "search" box provided! - and even casual users would notice it, as most of the "bad sites" are also in that second column. This from the "search" function on the "Sourcewatch" redirected page. As are all the other NY
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is something that should be usable by the community at large. While there likely is still room for improvements and debates on what should or should not be listed, one no longer needs to be familiar with the intricate workings of the bot to make sense of
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The Knowledge (XXG) SourceWatch is a new project designed to find unreliable sources cited by Knowledge (XXG). The SourceWatch's creator presents a brief history of the project, along with its motivations, and what exactly it means to be listed on The
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is necessarily inappropriate – the newspaper did not exclusively publish Nazi propaganda over the 84 years of its existence – but it is good to verify that we are not citing Nazi propaganda inappropriately. This can be found either by browsing
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list will be much more manageable. Oh, and blacklisting every "wrong science source" may be nice to some, but deleterious to many articles. Meanwhile, is there a reason to keep publishers on the whist which Beall had deleted from that list?
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during development, but it was only known to a handful of people due to its unpolished state. The compilation was at times plagued with a staggering number of false positives and poor presentation structure. Now, after several iterations,
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My gut feeling is that this is as 'gameable' as any of the original sources themselves. Debate about whether something on Beall's list is reliable has occurred countless of times. The answer with Beall is usually
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Hijacked journals are legitimate academic journals with imposters pretending to be the legitimate publication. These citations are likely not problematic, but it is good to check that the real journal is being
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Given the above assumption, is there any way that this list of questionable sources be gamed in such a way that it can be weaponized in the ongoing bare-knuckle, no-rules brawl between Team Blue and Team Red?
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If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Knowledge (XXG) will cover it appropriately.
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potentially unreliable citation is cited. This is useful when you edit an article and want to make sure you are not citing bad sources. However, this method only works if 5 or fewer articles cite a specific
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could draw from, like lists of journals lying about being indexed by reputable databases. Other efforts to identify and prevent unreliable sourcing can be found in the "other efforts" section of the
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You hatted and rehatted my post which I believed and still believe set forth the issue. That you assert it was not "neutral" and not placed in a "neutral" place is not of import as
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that a journal is indexed in DOAJ even if its web site carries the DOAJ logo or says that it is indexed ". This is good advice, which applies equally to the other indexing services.
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may be my ideas, but JLaTondre is the one responsible for the heavy lifting and making them a reality since 2011. I must also acknowledge the contributions of several people:
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Again, I did not ping three friends. I pinged the original author of the words, and the two people that posted on the talk page before. Neutrally. You on the other hand,
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be a citation to one of the fraudulent websites, even though in all likelihood those citations will be to the real website. This behaviour may change in the future.
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Assume for a moment that for ideological reasons a fairly large number of Knowledge (XXG) editors dislike some reliable sources and like other, unreliable sources.
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is heavily based on third party lists and will to an extent reflect the opinion of those lists' compilers, which could be inaccurate or outdated in certain cases.
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is the hijacker. The Beall website gets the terminology wrong. Also I've tweaked the search box to only search in the SourceWatch when on a /Questionable page.
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I want to emphasize here just how much work JLaTondre has done on this and JCW over the nearly 10 years of the compilation. The original JCW compilation and
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I second this, and I'd like to thank everyone involved for stepping up to make Knowledge (XXG) a more reliable and trustworthy resource for our readers. —
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directly. If 5 or fewer articles cite a specific publication, the links to these articles will be given. If more than 5 articles cite it, you will have to
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One column (the left one in his list) is the fakes, the second column (the right one is clearly labeled "authentic journal") is the "authentic journal"
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to find where it is cited. This is useful to find articles which need to be updated with reliable sources, or where unreliable sources need to be removed.
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Maddox, J.; Randi, J.; Stewart, W. W. (1988). "'High-dilution' experiments a delusion". ''Nature''. '''334''' (6180): 287–290. {{doi|10.1038/334287a0}}.
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is to discuss whether or not sources are reliable. It is not the place to debate their interpretation, or decide on what terminology is clearest.
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them. Yet another cause of false positives is that the algorithm used to find those unreliable sources is not perfect. It is designed to find
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The idea of using the JCW compilation to fight unreliable sourcing stewed in my mind for a while, until I finally decided to take action in
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Thank you for fighting the good fight. Efforts like this are why the credibility of Knowledge (XXG) is increasing. Keep up the good work.
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which admits Butler (a main source" was "misused - but doubled down on the misuse? Sorry, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt --
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in its talons. Bot-generated lists are not something I recommend for use as the number of "false positives" is beyond belief. Argh.
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check, but would be often be considered perfectly valid sources for basic claims that aren't at the cutting edge of research (e.g.
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As noted, Beall only lists the fake one as the "hijacked journal" and the "real one" is listed as "authentic."
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templates found in articles, and compiles them into various lists. For example, in the following citation
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abbreviations of such journals. It also puts appropriate disambiguation notes in articles, when relevant.
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Knowledge (XXG) predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Knowledge (XXG)
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which seems not to relate to the problems at hand - specifically making "interpretations of sources"
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to researchers, but which nonetheless remain committed to scientific and academic standards. For the
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See the note on the talk page. And no one cares about a talk page message posted by a bot ages ago.
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rigorous data on why Mazières and Kohler should be taken off from the aforementioned mailing list.
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is not perfect by any means, especially if you want a list that only identifies journals that are
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Of course, due to the inherently subjective nature of what constitutes an unreliable source,
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tells you that you shouldn't go on a mass purge without discussing things at the RSN first.
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A previous discussion about a technical error related to the publishing script was moved to
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is adhered to in all projects. And the reason for "redlinked journals" in profusion is?
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is not on the SourceWatch anywhere (if I'm wrong, please point where). It is listed on
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it is still hatted and anyone can read it for themselves to see how non-neutral it was
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about being included in DOAJ to appear more legitimate. Predatory journals will also
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The person who writes the first list is the one who gets to choose his terminology.
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are generated. Those who want a bit of history and technical details can check the
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Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
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potentially unreliable publication is cited, but it will let you know that
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but misusing sources and doubling down on that misuse is not my cup of tea
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does not allow predatory journals to be listed on its directory. As such,
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Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication
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Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Knowledge (XXG) articles
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we have, for example, journals and publishers which may merely engage in
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journals, these discussions often result in 'Yeah this is published by
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A new project to find unreliable sources cited by Knowledge (XXG)
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parameters of citation templates and cross-check them against
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is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse". It isn't.
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which are cited by Knowledge (XXG). I've dubbed the project
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And I am getting a teensy bit upset about your hatting and
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But "The Beall website got the terminology wrong" does not
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in particular. Hundreds of citations were cleaned up using
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unreliable, it does not definitively answer whether it is
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could not be included as of writing due to the exorbitant
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or about being included in high-reputation databases like
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s web presence has been hijacked (with the fake websites
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As of writing. If you are reading this at a later date,
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papers, if you pay them. For false positives, we have
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to identify unreliable sources in general, I expanded
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Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
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I also don't know what you mean by the 797:hoaxes and nonsensical claims, rather than 657:For example, as of writing, the article on 2325:Beall was right, this is a garbage journal 2452:Knowledge (XXG) Signpost archives 2019-03 632:on an article and looking for links from 606:, they might get included in the future. 240:New guideline for technical collaboration 859:, as well as the help of many people at 18:Knowledge (XXG):Knowledge (XXG) Signpost 1861:? Nope. It quite appears the reverse. 1859:And Beall got his own terminology wrong 1393: 1369: 1182: 995: 598:and a few others). While journals from 530:, rather than journals that range from 483:. The DOAJ advises "to ALWAYS check at 71: 2121:is a neutral noticeboard, yes. It was 1883:Jeffrey Beall did not invent the term 1799:It helps to read the column headers!!! 1646:on the page, you are not dealing with 1629: 1128:(Task #10), which sorts and organizes 505: 428: 403: 2035:directly contradicted by the sources. 1086:. As of writing, the bot will report 863:over the years with various matters, 700:Special:WhatLinksHere/Heinrich Albert 644:, ...). This won't directly tell you 504:. The bot would look for the various 29: 7: 1747:I don't think you understand what a 958:for sources claiming to have proven 720:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List 387:, which aims to identify and combat 2125:that was not neutral, and violated 1825:TECH REV: Technology Review journal 832:). However, false positives can be 359:A few years back, while working on 1667:Category:Anti-communist propaganda 1524:, but that's not the SourceWatch. 1048:are completely ignored by the bot. 954:for medically dubious sources, or 342: 329: 316: 303: 290: 258: 245: 232: 217: 204: 57: 28: 2399:is written by editors like you – 2023:WP:RS/N#Hijacked_journal_problems 1753:"redlinked journals" in profusion 1632:used across Knowledge (XXG), not 1622:Journals Cited by Knowledge (XXG) 1521:Journals Cited by Knowledge (XXG) 1375:These comments are automatically 1076:www.multidisciplinarywulfenia.org 749:includes sources that range from 679:. 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