Talk:Nature Portfolio

Interview with Timo Hannay, director of web publishing for Nature Publishing Group

I've just added an external link to an interview with Timo Hannay, director of web publishing for Nature Publishing Group. It's very interesting, and contains a lot of information about Nature's on-line services, which someone might want to summarise in the article. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 23:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Category?

The category for their journals currently is: "Nature journals" this seems unclear and ambiguous, it should be either "Nature Publishing Group journals" or "NPG journals" any comments about which is preferred?DGG (talk) 23:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

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Article needs improvement

As it stands this article is a thinly-veiled rant about open access publishing. There are a lot more details that could be added, along the lines of what we see on other publishing articles. Yes, OA is important but it should not be front and center in an article on NPG, IMHO. No I don't work there, there is no cabal, etc. --PaulWicks (talk) 14:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree this a typical Wikipedia article about a company, i.e. either a rant (in this case) or a piece of spam (in many other). It looks like there has been virtually no improvement to this article in 5 years. Speaks something of Wikipedia's business model. Someone not using his real name (talk) 15:39, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

If you want to see ranting, this is one is nothing compared to Elsevier and the different connected pages that all re-hash multiple time the same outdated stuff... --Randykitty (talk) 16:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

The list came from List of medical journals and did not purport to be complete but was better than nothing, and anyone can add to it. The Journals section had borne a "please expand" template for 2 years so it seems a bit hasty to delete the list after just a few minutes, leaving an arbitrary mention of one set that was rebranded (this, for sure, is WP:UNDUE). But by all means, let's discuss here. All the journals in the list are notable and publishing them is the primary purpose of the organisation. What's more the table occupied less space than the section on pricing policy. That is hardly undue. Implying that no publishing group article may include a list of any size of its notable publications is clearly exclusionism run amok. I'm happy to make the question one of degree: what n is the cutoff for unwieldy? And can we usefully inform readers of their (most) notable works without diverting them to a list or category? How about, we list up to 20 notable journals, prioritising by impact factor or some other criterion if necessary? Then we signpost the category for a complete list? Dubbin^{u | t | c} 16:59, 12 September 2016 (UTC)== List of journals ==

Dubbin has added an eclectic list of journals to the article. There are several problems with that. As said, the list is eclectic, containing only 20 journals. (What selection criteria were used? It doesn't even include the eponymous Nature itself...) Our corresponding category has 73 entries (and, in fact, NPG publishes many more journals). Including a list of more than 73 journals in this article seems unnecessary (that's what we have categories for - linked under "see also"). It also seems unwieldy and undue. --Randykitty (talk) 16:36, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Agreed, I already edited the article to reflect this. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:45, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

The list came from List of medical journals and did not purport to be complete but was better than nothing, and anyone can add to it. The Journals section had borne a "please expand" template for 2 years so it seems a bit hasty to delete the list after just a few minutes, leaving an arbitrary mention of one set that was rebranded (this, for sure, is WP:UNDUE). But by all means, let's discuss here and hurrah to all the editors suddenly taking an interest in this apparently neglected page. All the journals in the list are notable and publishing them is the primary purpose of the organisation. What's more the table occupied about as much space as the section on pricing policy. That is hardly undue. Implying that no publishing group article may include a list of any size of its notable publications is clearly exclusionism run amok. I'm happy to make the question one of degree: what n is the cutoff for unwieldy? And can we usefully inform readers of their (most) notable works without diverting them to a list or category? How about, we list up to 20 notable journals, prioritising by impact factor or some other criterion if necessary? Then we signpost the category for a complete list? Dubbin^{u | t | c} 16:59, 12 September 2016 (UTC)