Talk:Microbial Genomics (journal)

Copyright problem removed
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Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... I can rewrite the material that was on the Microbiology Society WWW site, although I do have their permission to reproduce it, it is probably less hassle for me to write it in my own words. I assume that the copyright is the only issue with the page? --GavinThomas (talk) 22:12, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Update 12th April. The Microbiology Society have written to Wikipedia to grant use of these words (that have been removed), which can now be readded. Also, the journal is cited and indexed in PubMed, which surely then makes it notable. I am not sure how I indicate that this is the case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GavinThomas (talk • contribs) 22:57, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The journal is included in PubMed Central, which is rather trivial (it takes all OA journals, except for the most egregious predatory ones). The journal is not otherwise indexed] and only included in PubMed because it is in PMC. PubMed is just an access platform to several databases, PMC being one of them. More selective databases accessed through PubMed are, for example, MEDLINE and Index Medicus. Adding text from the journal's own website, permission or not, is always a bad idea, because such text almost invariably is too promotional and not encyclopedic enough for WP. --Randykitty (talk) 07:51, 13 April 2017 (UTC)