Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Porins and LPS


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The result was   merge to Porin (protein). Spartaz Humbug! 03:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Porins and LPS

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This article is a mess. We already have an article called Porin (protein). I have no idea what "LDS" refers to, but I imagine we already have an article on that that doesn't suck as well. This isn't even a legit search term as far as I can tell. D O N D E groovily  Talk to me  04:39, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * "LPS" is lipopolysaccharide, for what it's worth. The article as it's currently written is a complete mess - a collection of undergrad lecture notes rather than a story.  It's hard to even guess what the point of the article is although maybe the original author had something like this review in mind:


 * Outer membranes and efflux: the path to multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.


 * I suppose the question is, what did the original author intend, can we fix it and if we fixed it, would it be appropriate for Wikipedia? I'm going to drop a note at WikiProject Microbiology and WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology in the hope someone from there can help.  Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 12:31, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge I'm not sure if there is anything that can actually be merged into the porin article, but if there is it should be added there. Judging by a quick look at the literature, there are a lot of papers discussing Porins and LPS, (e.g.  but they all seem to be directly related to LPS being bound to porins, rather than a distinct subtopic. SmartSE (talk) 13:00, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge – seems to have come from the title of this publication.  There is no reason to have an article about porins AND lipopolysaccharides.  Boghog (talk) 13:07, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge or even delete. As per Boghog! As Smart SE implies, it doesnt seem to be rich on information, which would be easy to extract into the two articles. What information to pass into lipopolysaccharide and Porin (protein) then? If there is missing something from this stub, then the interaction of the two components maybe. (If anyone is proficient enough to make up for the character of the relation there)  R eo  ON   |   + + +  13:51, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
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