Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Journal of Huntington's Disease


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete.  Sandstein  20:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Journal of Huntington's Disease

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Non-notable new journal. Indexed in PubMed, but not in MEDLINE (OA-or hybrid OA- journals get into PubMed through PubMed Central, which is not very selective in its inclusion criteria). Not indexed in any selective database. No independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG. Hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 16:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. WP:NJournals's objection to Pubmed as evidence for notability is that "it includes medical news sources of various degrees of quality, including such items in peer-reviewed journals it does cover". However, since JHD's content is peer-reviewed, this objection does not apply here. Therefore I propose keeping the article on the basis of (1) Coverage in pubmed and (2) fully peer-reviewed content. Dubbin u &#124; t &#124; c 16:49, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Edit - As further evidence of the journal's notability, I submit these two citations of JHD as a reputable source from Reuters and Yahoo Finance. Dubbin u &#124; t &#124; c 16:56, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Both of those links are press releases. They add nothing to the journal's notability or reputation. --MelanieN (talk) 01:05, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment This interpretation is wrong. The remark indicates that PubMed is not enough to establish notability because PubMed (in contrast to MEDLINE) is not selective enough, because, for example, it includes non-peer-reviewed publications. Nowadays, PubMed also includes anything that goes into PubMed Central, which is even less selective. If PubMed coverage and being peer-reviewed would be enough for notability, then most new OA (or, as in this case, hybrid OA) journals would be notable almost automatically within a few months of publishing their first articles. As for the sources mentioned above, both are the same press release, not something written by those sources and never accepted on WP to establish notability for any subject. --Randykitty (talk) 16:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete Sorry, not notable, or at least not yet. The promoters of this journal really need to slow down. An article was created, and deleted, in 2011, before it had even started publication. The journal is still less than a year old. After some time has passed it may develop enough notability for inclusion, but it's not there yet. --MelanieN (talk) 01:10, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 00:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge/redirect to Huntington's disease. Neutralitytalk 11:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's feasible. Even though the journal is about the disease, that doesn't mean there's a sensible way of merging it into the article on the disease. --Randykitty (talk) 22:34, 22 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:03, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete, MelanieN's reading of the sources offered by Dubbin seems correct to me, and I don't see a reasonable case, editorially, for merging into the article on the disease. I wouldn't lose any sleep if it were listed at List of medical journals with a redirect, but I suspect that list is intended to be listed to notable journals, and this one doesn't seem to reach WP:GNG yet.   --j⚛e deckertalk 16:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
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