Talk:List of cell biology topics

Cell biology disambig

I'm mostly working on Cell microprocessor, but I'm also a science junky and I don't wish to have this strangely named electrical beast interfere with more serious purposes. The main Cell disambig is becoming unweildy, so I thought a second level of disambig for Cell biology alone would be helpful.

Apparently, there was some stillborn work in this direction once upon a time:

In any case, my thrust here differs since I'm aiming to capture a set of articles pertaining to biology which contain Cell or Cellular as a keyword in the article title, to distinguish these from the raft of non-biology articles which also have Cell as a keyword in their titles.

MaxEnt 22:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

further subdivision

This is not really my area, but if is was I would separate (with a centrifuge) the topics that pertain to cell types (e.g. T cells, animal cells, plant cells) into their own subgroup within this page. MaxEnt 00:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

disambig...

I think you may be misunderstanding the use of disambiguation pages - they are not for listing all relavent subjects, but rather for placing where multiple articles would otherwise be listed under the same name. Perhaps this should be moved to something like "List of topics in cell biology"? Or I just don't see what you're trying to do. -Goldom (t) (Review) 07:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

It ended up becoming a study in dysfunction: my own, as well as the Wikipedia's. The only "cell biology" area where the cell types are adequately categorized is the blood cells. Everything else is completely scattershot. Now I have it massed together, I don't really care what we choose to call it. I've already used it for several drive-by shootings: putting all the articles which belong into category:Eponymous anatomical structures, flagging all the unfilled/unloved categories {{tl:popcat}}. I was considering, once I figured out the extent of the mess, proposing cleaning up the Wikipedia cell type taxonomy as a Medicine collab (as you can see from the note I left myself in the source comment above), or perhaps a biology cleanup. I got to spend a big chunk of time discovering the pros/cons of MediaWiki search functions. The lack of full text search can become aggravating at times. Plus the names aren't consistent (either on the science side, or the Wikipedia side) so there are a lot of roots to go after to find everything you might like to find to wrap your arms around cell biology as a whole. I have my own personal MediaWiki so figuring out how this content hangs together (or not) and how it interacts with the categories was worth a day wandering around in the damp histological weeds. The big surprise was the degree to which the stub-articles were mostly lost in space and even more so because stubs were left in three different major areas: cell biology, biology, and biochemistry, plus a few even more obscure stragglers. We could move this page into an editorial namespace, which is what it bests serves as it now stands, but it is in fact rather useful for someone wanting to dig articles out of dark corners. It's usefulness would vanish if the categories were clarified and fully populated. It's impossible to maintain in this format, I knew that all along. Hopefully it will serve to spawn its own obsolescence sooner rather than later. And one more thing, I fixed a fair number of spelling mistakes that were revealed pulling this together. Think of this page as a bookkeeping structure on a complex iterator. MaxEnt 10:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey! This is a useful page, but it isn't disambiguating between pages called 'Cell biology', so it's somewhat confusing to call it a disambiguation page. Perhaps it could be renamed List of topics in cell biology? Any objections? Skittle 15:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

• I concur with Skittle on all points. Propose move to List of topics in cell biology. Good article, but it's not what the title suggests. MaxEnt, can I suggest the use of a sandbox subpage to your user page for this sort of work, if you're not familiar with the concept already. Keeping such works-in-progress under inappropriate titles in the main encyclopedia namespace is not desirable for the consistency of the encyclopedia. Good work searching all those dark corners though! Cheers. — Estarriol ^talk 16:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Page moved and 'What links here' changed. Although it seems to be linked to from a very strange category with nothing in it. Skittle 16:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)