The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 02:59, 11 September 2007.

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Exosome complex[edit]

This article was written recently with the intention of going to FAC. It has had (limited) peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Exosome (RNA degradation machinery)/archive1 and meets (in my opinion) the FAC criteria. It is a self nomination, but the article has been edited also by others during the last days, mainly fixing the last remaining spelling and stylistic errors.

Some remarks:

• All images are GFDL, specifically made for the article
• It is not as large as some FACs, but I think it has an appropriate length for the topic
• The article contains no redlinks, for all redlinks I made at least an informative stub article
• Article was embedded in Wikipedia by adding links to it in appropriate articles
• References are all to scientific journals (most of which are peer-reviewed), including both review articles and research articles

Comments are welcome and will be addressed. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 21:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment This is mainly cosmetic, but maybe the title could be reined in a bit? It's a mouthful of a parenthetical. While I'm not a subject expert, looking at the article and the dab page, maybe renaming the article Exosome (complex) or Exosome (protein complex) or something similar would help. Essentially, something appropriate which is also as basic, memorable, and user-friendly as can be done. Girolamo Savonarola 03:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I agree with you on that one, the current title (Exosome (RNA degradation machinery)) is too long. If no one objects, I'll move it to Exosome complex later. --08:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Done --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Comments, great images and excellent referencing. Some parts of the text could be clearer and more accessible. Tim Vickers 22:57, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1. "That allowed the identification of more human exosome proteins and eventually the characterization of all components in the complex." - not clear what "that" is.
2. "archaebacteria" and "archaeabacteria"- the correct term is archaea. Similarly "eubacteria" is wrong, now just called "bacteria". See link.
3. "it is assumed these complexes are evolutionary related and have a common ancestor." - assumptions aren't evidence-based, "thought" might be a better word.
4. "As the autobodies are mainly found in patients" - typo? autoantibodies?

Thank for your suggestions, they have been addressed [1] as follows:

1. Reworded to: "Purfication of this "PM/Scl complex" allowed the identification of more human exosome proteins ..."
2. All instances replaced with "archaea" and "bacteria", respectively
3. Reworded to: "these complexes are thought to be evolutionary related"
4. Technically nothing is wrong here, as autoantibodies are also antibodies, but I changed it to: "These autoantibodies are mainly found.." anyway for clarity

--Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 06:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - Tim Vickers 14:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - I wish there was a way to make references to proteins and genes more accessible, but this is the best we can expect, I suppose. ←Ben^B4 06:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I agree with you on proteins and genes, but unfortunately Wikipedia only contains articles about a minorty of all proteins. Links to external databases are one of the few ways to deal with it. I have just also added links to the yeast genome database, but if you have any other suggestion, let me know. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 08:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - A well written and informative article fully deserving of FA status Kare Kare 05:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.