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ATG (autophagy acronym)[edit]

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I'm unsure of the need for a separate article on an acronym which offers nothing more than a few lines of basic non-encyclopedic synthesis. Could be covered in Autophagy instead. X (talk) 14:25, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete First off, it's not even an acronym. Second, a search for ATG leads to a disambig page that has listings for autophagy and autophagy-related genes and proteins, which seems much more specific than anything this page offers. Third, as the nom said, the article is essentially about the use of the "ATG" shorthand in biology, which isn't anything that can't be mentioned in a half-sentence in the gene or autophagy articles. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 14:38, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Biology-related deletion discussions. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 14:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Rename It is certainly not an acronym, but that was the first thing that popped into my head when I was struggling to create this page. "ATG (abbreviation)" would be better, but I am open to other suggestions. I frequently have found the abbreviation ATG commonly used in autophagy literature meaning "autophagy-related" referring to genes Regulation of autophagy gene expression or to proteins Autophagy and innate immunity or both. I modified the ATG disambiguation page to reflect that fact. The ATG (autophagy acronym) gave the disambiguation page a Wikipedia page to go to for verification and peer-reviewed literature examples, whereas formerly there was none. My modification of the ATG disambiguation page improves the situation, but I think Wikipedia should have a page justifying and giving examples of the abbreviation "ATG-related" which can be confusing in the autophagy scientific literature, especially when it is not explained in an encyclopedic source. --Ben Best:Talk 23:17, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I have linked this article to a Wikipedia page using ATG to mean autophagy-related and was planning to look for other Wikipedia pages using ATG with this meaning.--Ben Best:Talk 06:58, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - I have created the page ATG (abbreviation) and marked the page ATG (autophagy acronym) for speedy deletion. --Ben Best:Talk 16:46, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Autophagy. Anything that's autophagy-related is probably already mentioned in its article, so the content in this article should be moved to a new section of the autophagy article to clarify how the names of genes and proteins are related to it. Afterwards, this page should be kept as a redirect. That Tired Tarantula^Burrow 16:58, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed how the Molecular biology section of the article mentions it in its first paragraph; the content can be merged there. That Tired Tarantula^Burrow 17:13, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'd like to let everyone know that I've blanked and redirected ATG (autophagy acronym) after the author requested for the page to be deleted and I moved the AfD discussion as well; the link at the top of this AfD now links to ATG (abbreviation), which has the same content as the original page. That Tired Tarantula^Burrow 17:58, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anatolia Genetics[edit]

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Very poorly written, and too much overlap in the article with Genetic studies on Turkish people (which parts of were apparently copy-pasted here) to warrant a separate article. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Biology and Turkey. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom. I should also add that about half of the cited sources in the article are self-published, and it also includes improper editorial synthesis. Demetrios1993 (talk) 13:14, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Biology proposed deletions[edit]

Biopôle (via WP:PROD on 12 September 2023)