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Speedy deletion nomination of Thilini Sudeshika

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A tag has been placed on Thilini Sudeshika requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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PubMed vs. MEDLINE

Your involvement in this discussion indicates you may need an explanation of the difference between PubMed - which is a search retrieval service for biomedical literature (see About) - and MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) - which is the database of biomedical literature. Both are operated as a free service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health in the United States.

This NLM report describes how journals are selected to be listed in MEDLINE, a committee process assessing numerous qualities a journal must have to be included.

This is the NLM catalog page showing that the journal, Pharmaceutics, is not indexed on MEDLINE, indicating that it failed to meet qualifications. Journals that are not MEDLINE-indexed are not suitable for Wikipedia medical content per WP:MEDRS.

Further, the journal for the article you are trying to use is published by the company, MDPI, which has a poor track record for publishing quality, and is suspected of predatory publishing - another reason to not cite the article.

I hope you are able to follow these links and adhere to the guidelines. It is not constructive to continue to argue your point - which seems to be your misunderstanding - on the Medical cannabis talk page. Zefr (talk) 02:20, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification @Zefr.

Today I meet the university librarian regarding this and she clearly mentioned the followings.

1. Pharmaceutics is not a predatory journal as per Bella's list of predatory journals (https://beallslist.net/)
2. Pharmaceutics is a Q1 journal as per SJR (https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1710)
3. MEDLINE is only one medical data base and there are plenty such as LILACS (https://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en/)

So her advice is not to argue with people who don't recognize the scientific merit of the publications and only stick to what they believe. PriyadharshaniK (talk) 04:15, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

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