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 * Hi Randy, thank you for the warm welcome! Actually, I have no conflict of interest. I am researching the topic (predatory journals) for a longer period of time now. I saw that Mario Capecchi was incorrectly listed as being unjustly added as an editorial board member. I know that Beall got this information from eCampus News, which later posted a revision notice. But, my contribution has been consistently deleted, because of assumed conflict of interest (so Wikipedia regulation postulate guilty unless proven?). I am fine with the current version in which Mario Capecchi was removed (but I feel less fine that David Eppstein has threatened to block me for what I thought was solid scientific reporting!). I do not know how to show you that I am just your average researcher trying to make Wikipedia a little bit more trustworthy (I still do not allow my students to cite Wikipedia though!), and given that you have provided me tips above, I will study them, and might come back to you at a later stage. Having said that, I still think you do need to read the article written by Jeffrey Beall. He mentions that several editorial boards members were unjustly put on the editorial board, and he mentions that one investigation has revealed that. When asked about which investigation that was, he mentions eCampus News in the comments section. The same eCampus New that posted a revision notice! I do not dare to touch the MDPI article now, for the fear of being banned or blocked from the site, but I sincerely hope you could look into this. Thank you Randy!

Your recent editing history at MDPI‎ shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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 * We will discuss this further on the Talk section.

Help me!
Please help me with the article on MDPI. It is stated that several Nobel Laureates were added on the editorial boards of MDPI without their knowledge. After doing research, however, several Nobel Prize Laureates confirmed on their academic CV that they are an editorial board member of an MDPI journal. They include Mario Capecchi (http://capecchi.genetics.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Capecchi-CV-11.02.18.pdf), Eric S. Maskin (https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/maskin/files/curriculum_vitae_e._maskin_july_2019.pdf), and Steven Weinberg (https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/CVSW0416.pdf). As Jeffrey Beall claims that several Nobel Laureates have been unwillingly added as an editorial board member, shouldn't we actually mention the other side as well in order to maintain neutrality? I will await the reply of a Wikipedia editor before I make the edit, as I do not want to be blocked for edit-warring. I added this on the Talk page of MDPI, and it says it has been answered, but actually, no one addressed me. Does this allow me to make the change?

Kenji1987 (talk) 12:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * No, you cannot edit war, even if you believe you are right. You need to establish a consensus on the talk page before making the change and even then, you shouldn't go over 3 reverts in 24 hours. PhilKnight (talk) 12:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Land (MDPI journal) has been accepted
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 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Land_(MDPI_journal) help desk] .
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 * great thank you! Will be coming with more pages. Kenji1987 (talk) 04:56, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Most MDPI journals don't meet our notability threshold, so don't go overboard with that. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:08, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Duly noted. But I wasnt planning to include MDPI journals. Kenji1987 (talk) 00:09, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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Your views on OA and the WP environment
I think your views on OA and suggested changes are quite sensible, but don't expect to make any real change around here cause you see there is a posse of admins with opposite views who guard those pages very closely and at the end of the day the bigger/more experienced crowd will always win on WP. The funny thing is IRL my views on these issues are much more nuanced than my WP opinions would suggest, but I am really not a fan of the acrytical cult-like worship of Beall's list and blatant anti-OA stance that are seemingly so prevalent around here. Case in point: Beall's page has well-sourced section on criticism to his list, but "somehow" there is no mention on it in the lead, even though the lead is supposed to summarize the main points of the article. Go figure! Anyway, you wrote that you find the atmosphere here is toxic and unwelcoming, and unfortunately that is precisely the way WP often feels like. Nobody can help you so if it gets too nerve-wrecking I'd strongly suggest you take a break from editing, or leave WP altogether. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youllneverwalkalone2019 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Kenji1987_WP:NOTHERE We have reached the point that they try to get me banned now. Kenji1987 (talk) 00:03, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry to hear that. Seeing how much time and energy you spend on arguing I am pretty sure you do not have a COI, or maybe you are the least efficient paid editor ever. Youllneverwalkalone2019 (talk) 15:39, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I followed your advice and took a break, exactly, because of the time and energy spent arguing. cheers! Kenji1987 (talk) 16:06, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reaching out to me. Same here. I added Beall to the PLOSOne page to make a point, but then admins were more hesitant to add this, because PLOSOne is the very symbol of open access, sharing knowledge, etc. or WP in short. That Beall called PLOSone a scientific spammer ruins this image for them, but that is what you get if you uncritically accept everything that Beall wrote 3 years (if not longer) ago. The guy did some good work, but completely lacked transparency, was literally a one-man army. But I am sure you know all about this. Kenji1987 (talk) 04:31, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep, I do. Unfortunately (in this case, at least) WP is based on available sources, not on expertise or reasoned discussions. Beall made a lot of noise and received a lot of attention considering the technical nature of these issues, to the point that years later most of the sources still come from - or revolve around - his work. Youllneverwalkalone2019 (talk) 13:07, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , PLOSOne has published some absolute dreck. Nothing compared to MDPI and Frontiers, and it hasn't engaged in their thuggery against critics, but it's far from popular with those of us who care about source quality. Guy (help!) 08:26, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Beall called them a scientific spammer and nothing more than a digital repository. Either you Beall or you Bealln'tKenji1987 (talk) 08:32, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

WP:ANI
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --JBL (talk) 17:53, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I replied, good that you started the discussion, we can now see where I stand Kenji1987 (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

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Dan arndt (talk) 08:01, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That's a pity as there is a Germany wiki page for this actor. Kenji1987 (talk) 09:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * Go ahead delete, can't be bothered. Wikipedia is a messed up website, in which different standards prevail. I have absolutely no intention in adding anything to this, with the current culture here. So delete it, quickly. Kenji1987 (talk) 02:41, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--JBL (talk) 18:09, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you JBL for announcing this. Wishing you bests of luck in your endeavours, and please do not hesitate to contact me for further inquiries, if any. Kenji1987 (talk) 11:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

October 2021
Hello Kenji1987. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to MDPI, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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You are mistaken. I have nothing to disclose as I am not compensated, directly or indirectly, by MDPI or any other organization. I simply ask you to provide the relevant sources, that means no primary sources, such as with your recent MDPI and Donald Trump edits. Kenji1987 (talk) 04:11, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

MDPI edits
Hi Kenji. I'll start being perfectly clear that this is not an expression of concern regarding edits, even if a COI might be present. I think your edits have been fine throughout the time I've watched the various publisher pages. I was just curious if you do have any sort of tie to MDPI? It's striking that you're so regularly updating the page with minutia about total journal numbers, status of # of Level X journals etc... You clearly follow the company very closely. Could I respectfully ask you to disclose any information relevant to a potential COI?

Likewise, happy to disclose that I am MA Hanson here: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=lfL-37cAAAAJ&hl=en (my Wiki commons IMG uploads also make this no secret, credit to "MA Hanson"). I have never published with MDPI or reviewed for MDPI. I do have one article in a Frontiers journal, and have reviewed for Frontiers on a couple occasions (relevant to the controversial publisher Wiki pages). --Crawdaunt (talk) 10:24, 26 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Crawdaunt, thank you for your introducing yourself here. I have no connections to MDPI, so nothing to disclose. I have done research on the topic of predatory publishing, and I wasn't happy with the Wikipages of MDPI and Frontiers. On MDPI, there was this persistent idea that Mario Capecchi, a Nobel prize winner, was wrongly added as editorial board member, though the original source did not mention anything about this. When I tried to remove this, some people asked me the same question as you, people were persistent that this information needed to stay on the Wiki page. Eventually it was removed, but I realized there were some endemic problems related to same of the pages here. Believe it or not, I have also been questioned about working for Frontiers at some point. I have added some controversies as well on the MDPI page, and I am also editing some other pages related to the subject, Scientific reports in particular. But now I largely abstain from editing, as I found it too stressful, though I do make small edits here and there. My personal opinion about scientific publishing is that most major scientific publishers, including MDPI and Frontiers, are largely corrupted. However, the way how some publishers are analyzed is a bit problematic, even borderline racist. For instance this paper: "Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)", specifically mentioned the following characteristic belonging to a predatory publisher: "predominance of editorial board members from developing countries" and discusses that it is problematic that "there is no specific limit to the number of editorial board members from developing countries that is considered a proper way of distinguishing between legitimate and predatory journals". Which is completely absurd to me, and racist (see here: https://academic.oup.com/rev/article/30/3/405/6348133). Or Jeffrey Beall which deemed the entire city of Bangalore to be full of scammers, is another example, or this persistent idea that MDPI is a Chinese publishers, because the CEO has a Chinese ethnicity (and the fact that they have many offices in China doesn't mean a thing, all the big publishers outsourced the "lower-end" jobs to developing countries, Elsevier chose India, T&F mainly Philippines). I find this concerning. I am not a big fan of MDPI (believe it or not), but I am not a fan of Elsevier either (for example: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/24/elsevier-publishing-climate-science-fossil-fuels). So yes, initially I tried to make the Wikipages a bit more balanced, but I stopped doing that, except for modifying some facts and figures. I am not a fan of Frontiers either: they keep asking me to review articles I have absolutely no specialization in (I never reviewed for both publishers). Does that make them predatory? I'd rather blame the over-worked editorial assistants who have a certain quota that they need to fulfill. It is of course absurd that MDPI only asks you to review an article within 10 days, but I find it equally absurd that it takes 2-3 years for some other publishers/journals. So yes, sorry for writing more than you asked for (you just asked me a simple question), but this is my talk page, and I wanted to clarify how I look at these things, and also why I stopped editing (too stressful). I know you are not a great fan of MDPI, but in terms of editing, you do a fine job. I think the only solution is to bring scientific publishing back to universities and scholarly societies, and make everything green open access, no one pays, not the subscribers, not the authors, if any authors need to be paid for their work (and keep their own copyright, because you can better pay in money than pay with your intellectual property, which you give away without any hesitation to a greedy publisher, just to advance your career). Cheers. Kenji1987 (talk) 05:35, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

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