Talk:Revolutionary Communist Party of India

A fact from Revolutionary Communist Party of India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India attacked the Dum Dum Airfield in 1949?

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Predatory reference?[edit]

Twice a number of passages have been removed from the article, with argument that the source (IOSR-JHSS) is unreliable. I don't want to make any overall evaluation of the publication in question, but it fullfils the criteria of being an independent third-party reference (no indication that the publication would be affiliated with the article subject).

At Wikipedia we do not limit use of references only to reputable academic scientific journals, we also allow to use newspapers etc.. I reviewed the article in its totality, it appears well structured and the information therein appears coherent with scholarly material on RCPI history. I see no reason to doubt the accuracy of the claims made in the article, regardless of whether editorial body of IOSR-JHSS might have dubious academic credentials. --Soman (talk) 10:25, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Predatory journals are not considered to be reliable sources. They charge publication fees to authors, without providing the editorial oversight and fact-checking associated with legitimate journals, and are often used to publish pseudo-science, opinions and propaganda which would be refused by legitimate journals.
iosrjournals.org is one of many such journals, and, historically, all references citing it have been removed from Wikipedia as being unreliable, as can be seen from this search.
If you wish to make a case for this particular article, please take this up with the WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 12:45, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]