Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Science publishing platforms


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 02:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Science publishing platforms

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OR/SYNTH. Weird collection of different online journals, preprint archives, and other websites. None of them are what I would call "platforms", unless any online journal is a platform. No independent sources about this concept, nor any sources that justify inclusion of any of these entries. Randykitty (talk) 14:00, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Comment I originally opposed the PROD because I didn't think the rational held up, or at least that it deserved a bit more debate than a PROD. I agree with RK that this is a weird collection of... something, and that as of now, it's sort of so ill-defined that I don't even known what to think of it. However, I also think that if we could define more clearly what that something is, or at least what the something should be, we could shape this article/list into what it's trying to be. I have no objection to deletion if the community fails to determine what this article is trying to be, but I think the effort at least has to be made before we give up on this one. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:28, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * I have some sympathy with the opinion of Headbomb that we should try to determine what this is really about. However, I am not seeing anything that can not be included in other articles. I suggest deletion. If there is anything here, a new article can be started under a different title ("Platform" should not be part of the title). -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:05, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - I know we're not supposed to say "as per nom", and leave it at that, but Randykitty's assessment is spot on, and there's really nothing to add to it.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:41, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


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