Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies


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The result was delete. sufficient consensus  DGG ( talk ) 08:03, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies

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Article PRODded with reason " Ephemeral journal, published for only a short time. Tagged for notability since 2013. No independent sources, not indexed in any selective database. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG." Article dePRODded by anonymous IP with reason "challenging prod". PROD reason still stands. Hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 20:24, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete no indication of notability per selective databases, NJournals and GNG. Also, Springer published the last issue of this journal in 2002 and no historical value is apparent (please see this link: ). ---Steve Quinn (talk) 01:50, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 20:24, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academic journals-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 20:40, 16 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete, but... considering this is an old journal, it existed before databases such as the Social Sciences Citation Index existed. Are such databases "retroactive"? If not, the blunt application of WP:NJOURNALS may be misguided (though, of course, this falls well short of WP:GNG). Tigraan Click here to contact me 10:53, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment The Social Sciences Citation Index has been around for decades and existed before this journal was even established. My access to the SSCI goes back quite a while and as far as I can see, this journal never was indexed. --Randykitty (talk) 11:14, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. (I could / should have searched for the SSCI dates, but my point was about index databases in general.) Tigraan Click here to contact me 12:03, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess it says something about our respective ages that you call this an "old journal" whereas I thought of it as a "recent failure"... :-) --Randykitty (talk) 17:17, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not tellin'. But still, 14 years must be a significant fraction of your life. Assuming you are not some kind of tree. Tigraan Click here to contact me 17:29, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


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