Talk:Open channel block

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): BioEd53, Neurosynn, Mknut3, Nathanneuro.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:54, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

note from students
As it says above, we're going to be editing this page as part of a Wiki Education Foundation project. We'll be working on this throughout Spring 2017. Proposed subheadings:

Identity (structure), Physiology, Therapeutical Uses, Pharmacology, Biomarkers

Thanks for any feedback — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nathanneuro (talk • contribs) 23:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... (While the topics are similar we began work on this article before it was merged into the channel blocker. Additionally this is not an article purely on various channel blockers but an overview of the concept of open channel blocking, its kinetics, and some examples. Both the previous open channel block and channel blocker pages were not well developed, this is now the most well developed page) --Nathanneuro (talk) 02:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This is not a valid reason to create a duplicate article. This is not the common name for channel blockers, either.   You are new here and you should not be aggressive.  Jytdog (talk) 03:13, 10 April 2017 (UTC)


 * It would be much more helpful if you interacted with the students on the talk page first, rather than immediately calling for deletion. In fact, the page on channel blockers is minimalist at best.  There is way more information on this page.  However, I have some suggestions.  I do think the pages could be merged to provide much more information to the reader.  The names of both pages are misleading.  There are ion channel blockers that only work on channels that have previously been opened, which is what I originally assumed this article would address.  In reading over the article, I think it deals with blockers of ion channels regardless if there were already open.  The other article channel blocker is just a page full of links to other pages and as such, is not exhaustive for ion channel antagonists, since it does not include every ion channel type.  This page should be renamed because channel blocker does not even indicate that it is an ion channel that is being blocked.  I think maybe "ion channel blocker" would be better.  Personally I would prefer "ion channel antagonist" but that is probably more scientific and less accessible to the lay public.  Any thoughts on merging the two?  MMBiology (talk) 03:43, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You saw me discussing with Ian on his talk page the appropriate method for adding content to WP out of sandboxes.  Adding duplicates of existing articles is not the right way for students or anybody to contribute, as the speedy deletion notice on the talk page describes.   This is the second article like this from your class I am dealing with, and there are more coming from another class.  Jytdog (talk) 05:43, 10 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Rather than speedy deleting, I just reverted back to the redirect, as an admin did here, at the other article with the similar problem. Less drama is better. Jytdog (talk) 09:10, 10 April 2017 (UTC)