Talk:Entropy (journal)

question re deletion by skeptical raptor
hi SR - can you please elaborate on your fierce but terse edit note: "Deleting. Using a website by Seneff to support research in a marginal journal is about as POV as you can get without really trying."? I am unclear what you mean by "to support". I included the content from Seneff's webpage because it is scientifically ludicrous and shows her as being as WP:FRINGE as the vaccines-cause-autism person who edited that issue. Jytdog (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Beall's list
I have started a discussion about the inclusion of info about the controversy around this publisher and Beall's list in articles on individual journals. To keep things centralized, I have done that on the talk page of the MDPI article: Talk:MDPI. Please participate in the discussion there. --Randykitty (talk) 18:59, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

copyvio
Much of this article's text is copied verbatim from the site's 'about' page at — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.75.251.107 (talk) 16:37, 16 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was added by an IP address recently. I just deleted it. Jytdog (talk) 16:39, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Removing a quote
Hi! As of February 2018, I have accepted a low-ranking job at MDPI, working with the peer-review process of this journal, as well as some others. Before taking the job, I reviewed the information about MDPI on Wikipedia and found it useful with regard to my decision. I added a sentence (with source) describing Entropy's response to the glyphosate article controversy. I also removed suggest removing a quote from Jeffrey Beall: "Will MDPI publish anything for money?". WP:QUOTES states:

"Where a quotation presents rhetorical language in place of the more neutral, dispassionate tone preferred for encyclopedias, it can be a backdoor method of inserting a non-neutral treatment of a controversial subject into Wikipedia's narrative on the subject; be very careful. We encourage the inclusion and use of all reliable sources, including biased ones, but biased and POV content must be reliably sourced, and POV language must be quoted and attributed, rather than in Wikipedia's voice. NPOV requires that editors do not slant content in a different direction than the original source, neither by censorship, omission, neutralization/neutering, nor by overemphasis."

In this case, the quotation from Jeffrey Beall is not only highly rhetorical, it is not consistent with Beall's other more soberly stated opinions about MDPI, in which he refers to MDPI's publishing model as a "mixed bag". It is also not consistent with Beall's decision to remove MDPI from the predatory publisher list in 2015, two years before it was shut down. If Beall really believed that MDPI will or might publish anything for money, one would expect much harsher criticism. Therefore, I think the quote is clearly not encyclopedic or appropriate.

Scythe33 (talk) 22:14, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Parts of this comment were edited in response to a request by User:Jytdog Scythe33 (talk) 01:57, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for mostly self-reverting. Please see your talk page. Jytdog (talk) 02:11, 6 September 2018 (UTC)