Talk:Discovery and development of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors

A fact from Discovery and development of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2008 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas, making them effective anti-diabetic drugs?

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Merge?

A merge with the Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors article may be a good idea. We don't need two separate articles. --PFHLai (talk) 15:49, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is quite an extensive article, merging would cause WP:UNDUE weight in the main article for now. I don't think a merger would be appropriate. See also: WT:PHARM. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at WT:PHARM#University project?. --PFHLai (talk) 13:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with Steven's comment about not merging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_dipeptidyl_peptidase-4_inhibitors

with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipeptidyl_peptidase-4_inhibitor

I had nothing to do with writing or editing either article, but I am a physician who teaches pharmacology in a major US medical school and have discussed them with my students. The first article is outstanding in quality and scope - very useful to both me and my students. The second is skeletal, almost useless, and little more than a redirection page. I also looked at the WP:UNDUE criteria that Steven cites as a reason for not merging them, and I disagree that it would apply to a merged article. Verytas (talk) 17:26, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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