Talk:Taurine
Taurine was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||
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Current status: Delisted good article |
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Useless table
The fact that taurine is a common ingredient in many energy drinks and energy foods is good; this does not warrant a table listing every energy drink known to man and its taurine content. This article is about taurine, not energy drinks; it is not an advertisement to inform a consumer which drinks contain the most of it. A see also section with an external link to the table's source can be created if wanted. Shicoco (talk) 05:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I have just checked the guidelines. The table is against item number three under WP:DIRECTORY. Shicoco (talk) 05:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Taurine in Bovine Semen
If someone wants to reference the fact that taurine was isolated early on from bovine semen, it might be appreciated to make the distinction between "sperm" - small motile cells - and "semen" - the fluid containing same. Also, it might be nice to understand that bovine semen is not 'mostly' taurine; in fact it is a minor component. The separation of taurine from such biological fluids depends on the insolubility of barium and lead salts of taurine, a chemistry that was known a century ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NReitzel (talk • contribs) 23:59, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
GA Reassessment
- This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Taurine/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.
I'm surprized that this article is considered good (GA status). It is very disorganized. More than half of this article (everything past biosynthesis section) is really hard to follow. The physiological roles section is juping from topic to topic with no clear plan. The very short sections that come after it are haph-hazard one paragraph info bites. Xasodfuih (talk) 09:39, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
- No progress in week, so I'm failing this. It needs substantial work based on review papers to give structure to the topics. Xasodfuih (talk) 23:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm using this for a school report, and have found it quite helpful. I couldn't find any better information anywhere else. Blink18 (talk) 16:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Energy drinks
I strongly believe the high presence of taurine in energy drinks should be noted, especially given it's high proportions (1892mg in one 473 mL can of Full Throttle), well above the average daily intake. I don't think this amount can lead to toxicity, but if someone could cite relevant studies regarding the effects of high doses of taurine, that would be helpful.