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Hello everyone. Protein O-GlcNAc transferase has an infobox with a diagram that seems, from the infobox, to illustrate the stucture of O-GlcNAc transferase. In fact, if you look at the file description (which does not appear in the infobox) the image is of only one of a repeating unit that is only part of O-GlcNAc transferase and not even its active site. I'm a newbie, but I think that including the image in the infobox, which implies to the reader that it is the structure of the protein, is disinformation. The best figure for the struture of the entire molecule comes from this figure (from this review, but those images are not OK for The Commons, if I understand correctly. Is anybody else bothered by this "disinformation"? If so, what should be done? Thank you. JeanOhm (talk) 19:56, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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field to the infobox (which ((infobox enzyme)) supports), and state exactly what the image depicts. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 11:23, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I want to inform everyone who may not know about the tool at http://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi?ddb=&type=pubmed_id&id=&add_param_space=1&add_ref_tag=1&full_journal_title=1
It makes adding references incredibly easy. Maybe everybody knows about this, but as a newbie,I was stunned. From the page "Enter a DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, PubChem ID, or URL and press submit to fill out an appropriate template that can be pasted into a Wikipedia article". Thanks to Boghog for pointing this out to me! JeanOhm (talk) 19:40, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
I was thinking of writing WP entries for Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller, two married biochemists who conducted research on carcinogens at UW-Madison. I don't think I have ever written a single article about a couple before, so I thought I might get some more advice before I charged ahead with this. I'm not a biochemist and I would be creating this entry just based on the info I can find in reliable sources.
Several things make me think that a joint article might be the right approach. They conducted research as a team, were elected to the NAS in the same year, and share a joint NAS Biographical Memoir; the memoir states it was their desire to share one. I do notice that the German WP has separate pages for them (here and here) and that both look like Start-class articles. Does anyone have an opinion? EricEnfermero (Talk) 21:39, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
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What importance rating should this article be assigned with respect to our project's talk page banner (i.e., on Talk:Transactivation domain)? Transcription factor is rated high importance, so I'm guessing this should either be low or medium, but I'm not sure which. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 03:22, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone. Please don't sit this one out. I/we are fortunate to have many great images available to help explain/illustrate aspects of cell biology that are in "open" publications, either initially or after a 6 or 12 month wait. However, many of these are licensed NC, and so are not appropriate for uploading to the commons. It is possible to construct prose in a wp article that allow readers, with one simple click, to view those images. Here's an example:
I can cite wp policy guidelines that allow that sort of external link in the prose of an article. Other editors cite wp policy against it. Since wp policy is decided by the community, not individual editors, and since the wp policy (whatever it really is) was agreed upon before the proliferation of open publications, I hope that all of you will write an opinion about the use of external links as I described above. Perhaps it is important to note that this sort of external link in prose would not be used to replace citations, nor would it be used to link to uncited work. It is simply a way to give readers who want to the option of viewing an external supplement without needing to search for it. So, I am going to start this survey of opinions.
Strong support. BTW, the relevant policy I read is at the restrictions on linking guideline which states, in bold, in the lead section, that "These external-link guidelines do not apply to citations to reliable sources within the body of the article." JeanOhm (talk) 02:21, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
These external-link guidelines do not apply to citations to reliable sources within the body of the articlein turn refers to WP:CITE which states that inline citations should appear as footnotes using <ref>...</ref> markup so that the citations appear in a "References" section at the end of the article. As a consequence, any external link contained in a citation is displayed in the "References" section and not in the prose. WP:CITE further states
Embedded links should never be used to place external links in the content of an article. Also per WP:LINKDD:
Don't put external links in article prose.
Overall, I'm not a fan of external links in the main text. External images/text can't be edited, improved or integrated with other Wikipedia content, and external links often contains extraneous detail that's not what's trying to be shown in the Wikipedia article. There are a few alternatives that are better:
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template (sparingly).I definitely see how you've tried to use dois to free-read papers to mitigate risks of external links e.g. links breaking when websites reorganise their urls (e.g. journals), links to content that can change over time (e.g. faculty websites). However, overall, I think the benefits of alternative methods outweigh the costs. That said, all solutions have a time requirement, so I absolutely don't want to discourage you from editing. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:22, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
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is that enthusiastic Wikipedians could search for WP:MCB-tagged articles that transclude that template, then find or create replacement images as they are able. Come to think of it, that template should support a |date= parameter that gets automatically populated by a bot, similar to ((citation needed))
, so that when the template has been in use for five years or whatever people would know to make a fresh search for free alternatives. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 05:53, 26 May 2017 (UTC)Hey all! Can anyone help de-orphan BLCAP? It appears there has been much more published on it since the article was generated (see for example here and here), but I can't figure out how to de-orphan it. Double-bonus points if someone can improve the article as well. It's a bit dated and could use some more readable prose. Thanks a bunch and happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 04:04, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Hey all! Just wanted to notify the project that I WP:PRODed Cellome. It's an OMICS term I hadn't encountered before and after poking around I don't think an article can be built on the topic. Happy to be proven wrong. As always, feel free to object to the PROD by removing the tag. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 14:56, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello. @Robert McClenon: asked me to request a review of my terrific (I may be biased) new article Draft:Golgi matrix. BTW, I know that once it is moved to mainspace I should make a note at the top of Matrix (biology)#Golgi matrix. Thank you, JeanOhm (talk) 17:23, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Sorry, me again. This time its an AfD of Chronic cellular dehydration, here. Thoughts and comments from interested parties would be appreciated. Thanks! Ajpolino (talk) 16:56, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017
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Hi. I recently started assessing unassessed articles tagged with WP:MCB. So far I have reduced the backlog from about 1.800 to 1.250. However, since I normally do most of my work on anatomy and medicine related articles I find it very hard to asses importance for MCB articles, so at the moment I am only assessing class and NOT importance. If anybody is interested in helping (so class and importance can be rated simultaneously) I can recommend the Rater gadget and unassessed articles for our project can be found here and if you only would like to rate by importance have a look here. Kind regards JakobSteenberg (talk) 14:53, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I started a discussion at Talk:Light-independent reactions about transferring the whole article "Light-independent reactions" to a sister project, like either Wikiversity or Wikibooks. I realized that whoever would request an importation on the whole article should work on the article. Because I can't be the one working on it or requesting a transfer, I hope that someone else interested can go to v:Wikiversity:Import and/or b:Wikibooks:Requests for import and work on an imported copy at either Wikiversity or Wikibooks. Anyone interested? Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Do folks feel like brcaexchange.org is a valuable addition to the 3 BRCA articles? An IP keeps trying to force it into WP. I have been removing it, and also cleaned the ELs on those articles today as they had become all crufted over. Jytdog (talk) 19:36, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Could someone fix this part of the Tris page?
I can't tell what it's trying to say!
Thanks DemandAmbition (talk) 09:53, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, please help! I came across Vitamin B3 which redirects to Vitamin B3 complex a barely started stub of a thing that doesn't reflect the depth of knowledge here on Wikipedia on such topics. Looking at the history of Vitamin B3 redirect it's unclear what the approach has been to creating articles about the human interest in essential micronutrients vs articles about chemical compounds which don't care about humans or metabolic pathways. Can someone help or advise where to start to sort this out? I'm not in this project or even a layperson in biochem so will message some of you individually too. Thanks so much. Donama (talk) 00:55, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
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Hello all, an AfD that may interest some group members is here. Comments would be appreciated. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 00:01, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
From what I can see, the articles Porphobilinogen_synthase and Delta-aminolevulinic_acid_dehydratase should be merged. Since they use different infoboxes, does anyone know if there is any preference for which to include in the merged version? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 02:56, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Somewhat ridiculously for such a core piece of biochemistry, an IP editor has just noted on Talk:Photosynthesis that the light and dark reaction equations may be incorrect as written. Currently, the Calvin Cycle net reaction is written as follows:
However hydrolysis/condensation of ATP consumes/produces H2O. I had a quick look in MBOC and Biochemistry. MBOC uses a vaguer version of the equation. Biochemistry uses an explicit version that looks very different to ours[1][2]
If you use the 3-carbon and include the water molecules consumed by hydrolysis, the eqn ends up looking unbalanced because of the water disappearing to become 'hidden' in ATP:
Note that this is a net production of water, not consumption as in the original. Am I missing something obvious? Second opinions? If it does need to be changed, what do people reckon is the ideal solution? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:38, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
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I've manually edited ((FluoropyrimidineActivity WP1601)) to disambiguate FPGS to Folylpolyglutamate synthase. Please can someone with a Pathway account make any necessary changes there, in case the template is regenerated? Thanks, Certes (talk) 11:41, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
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Wikipedia cell and molecular biology articles contains some awesome big-picture showing templates comparing prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Such as Template:DNA replication, Template:Transcription and Template:Genetic translation.
However now we know, this prokaryote vs. eukaryote classification is quite an artificial classification, and 3 distinct group, eubacteria (bacteria in new sense), archaebacteria (archaea) and eukaryote works better.
So shouldn't we create 3 fields (total) (1 for bacteria, archaea and eukaryote, each)? Also, in some cases if we have lack of information about archea, we should keep empty place for archaea.
One of the template, Template:Genetic translation (Permalink) shows some rows for archaea; but they used "prokaryote" to mean eubacteria (bacteria of new meaning). But prokaryote does not mean eubacteria. Prokaryote includes both eubacteria (bacteria of new use) and archaea.
So I think it is time to update the templates.
RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 16:01, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Thank very much to everyone who responded. @Adrian J. Hunter:. As well, thanks for appreciating the nomenclatural problem, after all it is a problem. However I always write "Bacteria (sensu-stricto)" or "Bacteria (of new use)" to avoid the confusion, because most of the not-too-technical persons treat "prokaryote" and "bacteria" as same thing, yet.
As @Adrian J. Hunter: said, archaeal (former "archaebacteria") genetics and molecular biology is not yet studied elaborately; but in such cases, some "gaps" should be displayed, just like Mendeleev did in his periodic table; not only in wikipedia, but also in textbook charts. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 16:01, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I have 2 other related topics to add. But since they are related to the same topic, "template", I've added them here for better categorization.
* 1. For all biological structures and processes; a try to give how it is on Eubacteria, Archaebacteria and Eukaryotes. * 2. Smartphones (that shows en.m.wikipedia) DOES NOT SHOW the template, a big-picture. So either make templates visible in mobile view or display a table as an alternative.
RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 17:28, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
I often found scattered Wikipedia articles which are not properly categorized and not enroled to an Wikiproject. When I find such article; I add proper categories and wikiprojects if I'm not very busy. But that is a time taking and distracting task. And also often I can't do these small edits when I have scarcity of time
How would it be, if we had a bot that can categorize the articles and assign them in proper wikiprojects accordingly?
With special reference to Project MCB, I often find articles which is enrolled in either Chemistry or Genetics or Pharmacology or Medicine; which also belong very well into the domain of project MCB. One such example was Plasmid copy number . Especially since MCB is an interdisciplinary area, such problems will continue. So we should have a bot, that can trace which articles may fall under scope of MCB, on the basis of hyperlinks with MCB articles and MCB- terms/vocabulary it used. The final step of labelling may be kept on human judgement.
I think this would help in tracing, cataloging, arranging, grouping/mapping and gap-finding in existing MCB articles.
RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 16:39, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
Pinging @Doc James:@Ozzie10aaaa:@Jytdog:@Boghog:@Rod57:@Miguelferig:
A few weeks ago, an "in popular culture" section that had been gone for over 2 years was re-added to the laminin article. Such section seems to be only activity User:Kjcarrier has on Wikipedia since he added it in 2013, and re-added several times over the years. This is the section:
Some Christian apologists, most notably Louie Giglio, have written about the fact that laminin is shaped like a Christian cross, comparing the role of the cross in theology and laminin's role in the human body. For example, David D. Swanson states: "Our knowledge of truth is most clearly revealed on the cross of Christ. And what holds the human body together? Laminin. And what does it look like? A cross. Coincidence? Some would say yes, but I think it is yet another way God reveals his glory to us. I think God is the one who holds all things together-our bodies-our world-our lives."[1] Fazale Rana, a biochemist and apologist, disagrees with Giglio and instead argues that "Instead of pointing to superficial features of biomolecules such as the “cross-shaped” architecture of laminin, there are many more substantive ways to use biochemistry to argue for the necessity of a Creator."[2]
- ^ Swanson, David D. (2012). Learning to Be You. Baker Books. ISBN 1441238492.
- ^ Rana, Fazale. "Crossed off the List: Is the Cross Shape of Laminin Evidence for the Creator?". RTB. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
Obviously, quoting the ideas of Christian pastors and creationist advocates from primary sources is not accepted in an article about a protein family. It is simply not encyclopedic. I would appreciate some feedback on this matter. (Since the section has been gone for years the status quo should be to remove until consensus is reached, but I keep being reverted).
Thanks, Neodop (talk) 19:50, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
The Kiwix people are working on an offline version of several Wikipedia subsets (based on this Foundation report). It basically would be like the Wikimed App (see here for the Android light version; iOS is in beta, DM me if interested), and the readership would likely be in the Global South (if Wikimed is any indication): people with little to no access to a decent internet connexion but who still would greatly benefit from our content.
What we do is take a snapshot at day D of all articles tagged by the project (minus Biographies) and package it into a compressed zim file that people can access anytime locally (ie once downloaded, no refresh needed). We also do a specific landing page that is more mobile-friendly, and that's when I need your quick input:
Thanks for your feedback! Stephane (Kiwix) (talk) 09:38, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
I stumbled across this doing WP:NPP and I would appreciate it if an expert (or anyone with subject knowledge) could look at this article and determine how appropriate for Wikipedia it is. It is too technical for me to review and I could use guidance. Winner 42 Talk to me! 01:59, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Issue 5 – 17 October 2017
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Following this discussion on the Science RefDesk I've been wondering wether the Hepatomegaly article is accurately narrowing to Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency amongst the several Fatty-acid metabolism disorders, for one of the main possible causes of Hepatomegaly. Reversely, the Fatty-acid metabolism disorder article would be imprecisely describing the class of disorders it seems. Thank you in advance for your advice. --Askedonty (talk) 10:31, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi, a few days ago a new editor came along and blanked the cell-cell fusogens page for being inaccurate. I sent them a note on their talk page to see if I could discuss these changes with the editor, but it came to no avail. TheDragonFire on IRC advised me that I should bring it to some sort of noticeboard, so here I am now after no reply from the blanking editor. I should think the article is alright, but just to check. My name isnotdave (talk/contribs) 08:22, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
The article Woolly mammoth has a section dealing with current attempts to either clone a mammoth or create a mammoth/elephant hybrid. I have been trying to update both the information and the terminology, but another editor reverts it. He does not understand biology and exhibits an ownership attittude. For example, he writes that "a Japanese team found usable DNA in the brains of mice that had been frozen for 16 years. They hope to use similar methods to find usable mammoth DNA." Unless the mammoth died <16 years ago, it makes no sense. Another jewel is his assertion that building a full set of artificial mammoth chromosomes (all 58) is the easiest way to go forward. His reverts delete the names of the Harvard team and their updated progress, etc. He includes unrelated fluff on goats and mice that have nothing to do with mammoths. I'd appreciate someone taking a look over there. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 21:37, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
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This article was nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transporter reversal. I'm mentioning this here in the event anyone wishes to comment on this topic's WP:notability. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 21:59, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Tryptophan metabolism by human gastrointestinal microbiota ( )
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This diagram used to just be a jpg image that was published in an open access journal under a copyleft license; recently though, it was reuploaded as an svg image and annotated with wikitext; there's a few differences in this image relative to the original.
Anyway, the reason I've created this thread is to ask if anyone has any constructive feedback or suggestions for changes to the text or diagram itself. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 22:05, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
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template is pretty editable, maintainable, and futureproof. I can't think of any scientific points above what Adrian has already mentioned. I've a few (optional) stylistic points though.
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parameter in the template to allow it be used with a different default if necessary.((Eukaryote gene structure))
as an example). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:13, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
@Adrian J. Hunter: My bad. I made the changes you've requested, as the colon in all of those places is appropriate given the relevance of the entries beneath where you've asked me to add them. Also, I do think the MOS and that article should be updated to include when and when not to italicize genera. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 05:36, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm planning on turning this redlink blue, but I was wondering what others think the new article on this compound should be titled. Based upon PubChem's entry for Indoxyl sulfate, the 2 most appropriate options for the article title IMO would be either Indoxyl sulfate or 3-Indoxylsulfuric acid. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 22:13, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
I've created the indoxyl sulfate article. If anyone wants to expand it with the existing references or other citations, feel free to do so. It's really not complete at the moment since I barely covered its clinical significance. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢) 05:57, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
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Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
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Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
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There is a list of cell lines under Cell culture#List of cell lines. Other lists of cell lines can be found under List of contaminated cell lines, List of breast cancer cell lines and List of NCI-60 Cell Lines. New material can be found in several online databases and lists.
Some time in the future I will get around to a) create a lot new pages per cell line b) update the first three above-mentioned lists, possibly adding some lists.
One obvious thing is that List of cell lines won't stay in Cell_culture.
Now two questions:
Tomdo08 (talk) 20:22, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
We would be interested in changing the name of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIA3 to TANGO1 / MIA3 for the following reasons; I hope you find it interesting to study that possibility. - TANGO1 is identified as a protein required for trafficking of collagens from the ER. Most of the work on this protein is related to its role in collagen export from the ER. MIA3 stands for melanoma inhibitory activity3. There is no evidence that this protein has any function per se in inhibiting melanomas. The term MIA3 is very confusing because the literature also contains MIA and MIA2. So, no one in the scientific community searches for MIA’s, but TANGO1 is a widely searched name and the first paper reporting this protein and its function in 2009 has been cited well over 100 times. The wikipedia by listing TANGO1 as MIA3 in fact lessens the impact of this particular protein. It would be better to list this as TANGO1, but if the editors prefers not to follow this route then please use TANGO1/MIA3. This was everyone will be able to access the information related to the TANGO1 gene. - Also, TANGO1 in google opens only the original publications and not the Wikipedia article. Whereas MIA3 opens the Wikipedia article. So Wikipedia is getting less hits for this error. It would be best to list it as TANGO1/MIA3. Mariaortb (talk) 09:15, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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