Talk:Dihomo-γ-linolenic acid

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:22, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid → Dihomo-γ-linolenic acid – In accordance to the IUPAC nomenclature the title need to be Dihomo-γ-linolenic acid, but this name is in the title blacklist. Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 22:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

comment we're supposed to avoid Greek letters in titles on Wikipedia. (though if a Rock Band uses it, someone might think it was more acceptable?) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I agree that "dihomo-γ-linolenic acid" is more appropriate chemical nomenclature and that is what is used throughout the article. I don't know of any policy that forbids the use of Greek letters in titles - there are plenty of chemistry articles that use them. -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:15, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
comment MOS does advice against the use of special characters as it can made the page difficult to search for.Project Osprey (talk) 13:25, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can tell, the MOS doesn't advise against it in situations like this, but rather just notes the need for appropriate redirects. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thats my only concern in this instance; it's not like it's actually a different name. Providing there's no issues with searchability I have no problems with the change. Project Osprey (talk) 12:53, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Assessment comment[edit]

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ToDo:

Initial discovery, characterization, synthesis (who , when, where)
There's actually very little to say about this chemical apart from gamma-Linolenic acid. This will always be a short article.
Discussion of the elongation/saturation from GLA and on to Arachidonic acid
Space filling model would look nice.

Last edited at 03:22, 14 August 2013 (UTC). Substituted at 13:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)