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[edit] title

I subscribe to the Journal of Psychohistory and must point out that the full name is The Journal of Psychohistory. Should we move the page?

—Cesar Tort 21:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

In my experience, wikipedia pages drop leading articles (The, An, etc). See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name) and Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Avoid the definite article ("the") and the indefinite article ("a"/"an") at the beginning of the page name. John Vandenberg (talk) 06:13, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the info (it's what I suspected). —Cesar Tort 06:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Impact factor of The Journal of Psychohistory

I am retrieving a part of what User:Aetheling posted today in this talk page:

Some facts about psychohistory as a legitimate domain of inquiry:
  • The International Psychohistorical Association, founded in 1977 by Lloyd de Mause, has annual meetings every year for 30 years. I have never attended, but friends tell me that they are well-attended by psychoanalysts, therapists, and authors from around the world.
  • The Journal of Psychohistory (founded and edited by deMause) is listed in the 2005 catalog of journals held by 500 or more libraries around the world. Source: [1]
  • The Journal of Psychohistory had an impact factor of 0.47 in 2001. In the list of all social science journals, ranked by impact factor, J.Psychohistory appears on page 17 out of 27 pages. In other words, it ranked higher than 37% of all journals in psychology in impact factor. It was very close to the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, and the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. (Impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two previous years by the total number of articles published in the two previous years, among all journals indexed by the Social Science Citation Index.) Source: [2]
  • At Journal-Ranking.com, which uses a more broadly-based index of journal quality, the Journal of Psychohistory ranks #4662 out of all 8000 journals ranked. Within the category of "Psychology - Multidisciplinary", the Journal of Psychohistory ranked #52 out of 106. Source: [3]
For all these reasons it would seem that psychohistory — a discipline founded by deMause — has a legitimate claim to space within Wikipedia. [...]

—Cesar Tort 21:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Can this be anything but a stub? Would it be better as a sub-section of psychohistory? WLU (talk) 18:50, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Technically I agree with you. Maybe in the future the subject of psychohistory will be notable enough as to merit several articles (but that's just my wishful thinking). Right now there's even a proposal to merge Psychohistorical views on infanticide with the main article (something that, IMHO, would be a rather difficult and awkward task). I didn't start this article or the other one who has been tagged. Had I been in Wikipeidia back in 2002 I would have started only the Psychohistory article. I defer to your discretion and expertise of WP policies. —Cesar Tort 19:05, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Meh, if we're the only two and we agree, there's not much to discuss. Just take the text, paste it into psychohistory in its own section, and turn this page into a redirec to that section. And correct the links to link directly. I agree, that would be an awkward merge. Perhaps worth doing, both pages could be trimmed maybe so it's not over-long. WLU (talk) 20:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
There have been a few other editors of the page, the last one made a copyedit a couple of months ago. I'll wait to check and see if we have a little more consensus on this subject. —Cesar Tort 20:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
If it was months ago, I'd say you can be bold. It can be undone if they strenuously object. WLU (talk) 20:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)