User talk:Lemurshea2

Isoelectric point calculator
Hi. Thanks for your contributions. I am concerned however by your addition of the following reference:

to multiple Gene Wiki articles. Adding this reference to a large number of articles without community consensus could be viewed as WP:REFSPAM. Before adding more of these, I would encourage you to seek consensus at a relevant talk page (e.g., WT:MCB). Thanks. Boghog (talk) 11:12, 28 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I modified PSMA3 and PSMA4 by adding link to pI calculation using mentioned web service for PSMA3, PSMA4 proteins. This improved the content of the articles as now the pI value is verifiable (you can click on the link provided in ref). If this is spamming I do not know what to say. Is it better to leave it as it was without any reference and possibility to verify?


 * Thanks for your reply. Adding this link to a small number of articles is not a problem. But there are over 10,000 Gene Wiki articles and adding the same reference to a large number of articles will raise concern, especially since there are a large number of isoelectric point calculators available.  Also there may be better ways of adding this informations (e.g., as a template or perhaps including it in an infobox). If you are intending to continue adding this citation to more articles, I would again encourage you for first seek consensus at WT:MCB.  Thanks.  Boghog (talk) 11:38, 28 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree, there are many isoelectric point calculators available, but I have chosen this one as it is a recent one, and it gives additionally access to most of other methods in one shoot, so the user can decide which one she likes. But in general, I agree that there is little sense to add such contributions to wikipedia. I did not know that there is 10k gene wiki articles (I am interested only in proteasome proteins personally, because of the research I am conducting), thus for sure it would be valuable to add such edits automatically, but I do not know how, as I only modify wikipedia from time to time doing only minor fixes. I have never used the templates or the infoboxes, it took me long to figure out how to add this ref without braking the page format, so I am no expert in that either. In some sense, a mass, number of aminoacids, pI and most likely few other are trivial parameters for any protein and they could be added to the right panel (I guess this is what you called the infobox). Then we could skip sentences such as "The human protein proteasome subunit alpha type-4 is 29.5 kDa in size and composed of 261 amino acids. The calculated theoretical pI of this protein is 6.97"