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Randykitty has been active on Wikipedia for 13 years, 3 months and 9 days.

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My username

For those who wonder, especially those more used to British-English usage, Randy does not reflect on my physiological state but is short for Miranda. Of course, I'm not a kitten and Miranda is not my real name :-) The original (adorable) Randykitty lived a full (cat-)life of 20 years during which she spread a lot of joy around her. According to some, I'm not a kitten but "a Jeffrey Beall". In principle, I never confirm or deny any attempt at outing, whether on- or off-wiki. In this case I am making an exception. Beall edits under his own name (Jeffrey Beall) and I am not him.

Editing interests

My editing interests are rather broad, but I currently spend most of my time editing articles on academic journals. A secondary interest are biographies of scientists, especially neuroscientists. I also regularly spend some time on new page patrol (and there, of course, encounter a wider variety of articles). If your interests are similar, you may find some potentially useful links below.

Editing philosophy

Notability: Not everything that is worthy is also notable, and the other way around. If there exist no good sources on a subject, then it should not have an article on Wikipedia. Even if sources exist, an article is still not justified if there is no encyclopedic information. For instance, if all we can say about a certain person is that she likes coffee and cookies, sings hymns, and lived a long time, then any useful information is better contained in a list.
Be brief. Don't use 300 words if you can say the same thing in 30. This is not about removing information, this is about presenting information.
Not everything that can be sourced merits inclusion. Don't include trivial stuff, this is an encyclopedia, not Facebook. Even if, for example, we would have sourced information that Einstein preferred his coffee with two lumps of sugar, that is not encyclopedic information that in any way increases our understanding of him. This means that existing text often needs pruning and rewriting.
Wikipedia is not a vehicle for promoting your company/journal/band/etc. Articles should be encyclopedic, meaning that articles should be presented in a neutral way. Words such as "famous", "renowned", "foremost", etc. rarely have a place in an encyclopedic article. Hence, our Einstein article starts with "Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist", not "Albert Einstein was the most famous scientist ever", even though one certainly will be able to find reliable sources saying so.
Deletion/Inclusion. I don't see myself as an inclusionist or a deletionist. Everything depends on the sources. If there are good sources, then an article should be written, even if our personal feeling would be that the subject is utterly trivial. If there are no good sources, then an article should be deleted (or, even better, should never even be created), even if our personal feeling would be that this is a subject of the utmost importance. We report what sources find notable, not what we find notable.
Academic journals. Some thoughts on the notability of academic journals can be found here.

Notability^[sarcasm]

If enough people say that a recent event is important, then WP obviously has to act like it is a newspaper, not an encyclopedia.
Systematic bias: if some subject comes from an area that is supposed to be the victim of systematic bias, then all considerations of notability can safely be thrown out of the window and proof that the subject exists (such as it having a website and/or some in-passing mentions that would never be sufficient for any other subject) is enough to have the article kept at AfD.
"Eating foods such as rice, small fish and soup, as well as drinking lots of water" is encyclopedic content worthy of inclusion. Similarly, "eating eel, drinking red wine, and never smoking" is important information, justifying keeping an article, instead of simple inclusion into a list.

Observations

My Ph.D. supervisor often remarked that only very few people are capable of "clean thinking", meaning applying logic uncontaminated by emotions and preconceived notions. I think he was right and, as in Real Life, this is often demonstrated during discussions on WP.
If I am in disagreement with an editor about including some trivial stuff in an article, the sooner they accuse me of being biased or pushing a certain POV, the more likely they are to be pushing a POV themselves. My POV is sourcing, sourcing, sourcing (and I hope that it is not necessary to specify that this sourcing should be independent of the subject).
A useful definition of discretionary sanctions is holy 'thou shall nots' issued on high by ARBCOM to deal with the worst shit shows of Wikipedia, giving licenses to admins to rain down holy fire on offenders without remorse. (Thanks, Headbomb).
My RFA standards.
My thoughts on WP:NJournals.

Useful links

Admin stuff

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Wikipedia key policies and guidelines

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiographies Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Do not create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links Writing articles with large language models LLMs

Conduct

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles

Biographies

Journal resources

Links/references

Recent changes in WP:Academic Journals
In the most popular pages (source) In articles (+talkpages) In non-articles (+talkpages) WikiProject Academic Journals (source)
List overview · Updated: 2016-12-02 (articles) · This box: v t

AGRICOLA list of journals covered; <ref name=AGRICOLA>{{cite web |url=https://agricola.nal.usda.gov/jia/ |title=Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA |publisher=[[United States National Agricultural Library]] |work=[[AGRICOLA]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Atla journal listings; <ref name=Atla>{{cite web |url=https://www.atla.com/products/titles/Pages/default.aspx |title=Title and Product Update Lists |publisher=[[American Theological Library Association]] |work=[[ATLA Religion Database]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers (references: <ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ |title=LIST OF PUBLISHERS |work=Scholarly Open Access |last1=Beall |first1=Jeffrey |authorlink=Jeffrey Beall |access-date=2016-09-21 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172306/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ |archivedate=2017-01-11}}</ref>) and standalone journals (archive 2017-01-11)
CAB Abstracts coverage list; <ref name=CABAB>{{cite web |url=http://www.cabi.org/publishing-products/online-information-resources/cab-abstracts/ |title=Serials cited |work=[[CAB Abstracts]] |publisher=[[CABI (organisation)|CABI]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Cabells' Predatory Reports, access via WP library.
CASSI (CODEN, ISSN, journal abbreviations); <ref name=CASSI>{{cite web |url=http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp |title=CAS Source Index |publisher=[[American Chemical Society]] |work=[[Chemical Abstracts Service]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
CINAHL coverage list; <ref name=CINAHL>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/nursing/products/cinahl-databases/cinahl-complete |title=CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List |publisher=[[EBSCO Information Services]] |work=[[CINAHL]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ has significantly cleaned up and can be used as an RS that a particular journal is not predatory; <ref name=DOAJ>{{cite web |url=https://doaj.org/toc/eISSN-HERE |title=JOURNALNAME |publisher=[[Directory of Open Access Journals]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
EBSCO Information Services coverage lists
EconLit list of journals covered; <ref name=EconLit>{{cite web |title=Journals Indexed |url=https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/journal_list.php |website=EconLit |publisher=American Economic Association |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Ei Compendex source list; <ref name=Compendex>{{cite web |url=https://www.elsevier.com/products/engineering-village/databases/compendex |title=Content/Database Overview - Compendex Source List |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Engineering Village |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Embase coverage lists; <ref name=Embase>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/embase/coverage |title=Embase Coverage |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Embase |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
European Reference Index for the Humanities: Non-selective inclusion criteria (ESF page)
GEOBASE source list; <ref name=GEOBASE>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/engineering-village/contentdatabase-overview |title=Content/Database Overview - GEOBASE Source List |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Engineering Village |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Index Medicus: see MEDLINE
Infobox journal
Infobox magazine
Inspec content and coverage; <ref name=Inspec>{{cite web |url=https://www.theiet.org/publishing/inspec/inspec-content-and-coverage |title=Inspec content and coverage |publisher=[[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] |work=Inspec |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
ISI (Clarivate) Master journal list; <ref name=ISI>{{cite web |url=https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results?issn=ISSN-HERE |title=JOURNALNAME |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |work=Web of Science Master Journal List |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
ISI (Clarivate) Journal Coverage Changes (last 12 months)
ISO List of Title Word Abbreviations
JCR: According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the journal has a 2024 [[impact factor]] of x.x.<ref name=WoS>{{cite book |year=2025 |chapter=JOURNALNAME |title=2024 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |edition=Science OR Social Sciences OR Emerging Sources OR Arts and Humanities |via=[[Web of Science]] |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}</ref>
JCR with ranking: According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the journal has a 2024 [[impact factor]] of x.x, ranking it xxth out of xxx journals in the category "CATEGORY". ref same as above
JournalGuide: maintains white- and blacklists of journals and lists reliable databases in which journals are listed
Library of Congress, reference to catalog record (LC Catalog): <ref name=LC>{{cite web |url=http://lccn.loc.gov/LCCN HERE |title=JOURNALNAME |work=Library of Congress Catalog |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Lists: [[WP:WTAF]]/[[WP:LSC]]/[[WP:CSC]]
MathSciNet, lookup journal here; <ref name=MathSciNet>{{cite web |url=https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf |title=Abbreviations of Names of Serials |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] |work=[[MathSciNet]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
MEDLINE, reference for inclusion (NLM Catalog): <ref name=MEDLINE>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/NLM ID here |title=JOURNALNAME |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=[[National Center for Biotechnology Information]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref> Note: if indexed in MEDLINE, also check for inclusion in the Index Medicus
MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals: lists indexing services for most journals (link to search for indexing info); <ref name=MIAR>{{cite MIAR |title=JOURNALNAME |issn=ISSN-HERE |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
NJournals; Thoughts on NJournals
Philosopher's Index, inclusion criteria (not selective) and journal lists
ProQuest databases are not selective according to Jeffrey Beall
PsycINFO journal coverage, <ref name=PsycINFO>{{cite web |url=http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/coverage.aspx |publisher=[[American Psychological Association]] |title=PsycINFO Journal Coverage |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
PubMed is a platform providing access to NLM's databases: the selective MEDLINE, the very selective Index Medicus, and the non-selective PubMed Central
Scopus coverage lists; Scopus discontinued sources list; Search Scopus sourceID <ref name=Scopus>{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/Scopus sourceID here |title=Source details: JOURNALNAME |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Scopus Preview |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>
Sources for journal title abbreviations
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory aims to be all inclusive
Web of Science is NOT a database/indexing service, but a platform providing access to Clarivate's databases (Science citation Index, etc)
WikiProject Journals template
zbMATH Open title search; <ref name=MATH>{{cite web |url=https://zbmath.org/serials/zbMATH journal number here |title=JOURNALNAME |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |work=[[zbMATH Open]] |access-date=2026-02-16}}</ref>

Journal article writing guide

Writing guide: [[WP:JWG]]
Handy shortcuts:

Editing journal articles with a COI: [[WP:JWG/COI]]
What to include: [[WP:JWG/YES]]
What not to include: [[WP:JWG/NO]]

PROD

General PROD message for journals: Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any ''selective'' databases, no independent sources. Does not meet [[WP:NJournals]] or [[WP:GNG]].

Examples of particular journals

Examples (by far non-exhaustive) of journals started by major publishers that failed after a few years: Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (Johns Hopkins University Press), PhysChemComm (Royal Society of Chemistry), Human Genomics and Proteomics, Journal of Asthma & Allergy Educators (Sage), International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Research on Language and Computation (Springer Science+Business Media), Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics (Informa), Complexus (Karger), New Negatives in Plant Science (Elsevier), GeoResJ (Elsevier), Contemporary Organic Synthesis (Royal Society of Chemistry), International Journal of Dharma Studies (Springer Open).
Example of a journal rapidly becoming notable: ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, established in 2012: already in 2014 indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Chemical Abstracts Service, and Scopus. Also a 2013 impact factor was released in summer 2014.
Example of an OA journal launched by a dept. at Texas A&M University that failed rapidly: see Obituary for an Open Access Journal by Jeffrey Beall.

Contributions

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