Talk:Sust

Sust or Sost

The title of the article uses "Sust", but the text uses "Sost". Which is correct? ChemNerd (talk) 17:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@ChemNerd: I don't think either is definitively "the" correct spelling. This is a case of needing an {{R from alternative spelling}}.

Here is a discussion I had on the matter in February 2015, transcluded from my talk archives:

I saw you reverted the disambiguation for Sost change that I made. I looked up page view stats to see which page is the primary topic. Page view stats say that Sclerostin (SOST) got about triple the traffic as Sust (Sost, Pakistan) in the last 90 days. Here are the 30- and 90-day page views of all pages noted on the Sost disambiguation page:

Sclerostin (SOST), 1629 views in the last 30 days, 4725 in the last 90 days

SOST (RMS Titanic Inc), 642, 1810

Sust (Sost, Pakistan), 450, 1565

SOST (bullet), 111, 304

Sost (disambiguation), 71, 250

Sost, Hautes Pyrenees, 47, 227

Sost, Afghanistan, 24, 87

It looks like the primary topic for Sost is Sclerostin. What you do you think? Strafpeloton2 (talk) 23:15, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for raising the issue. I've been enjoying looking at the pictures and watching youtube videos of the highest border crossing in the world (between Pakistan and China). Just spectacular. It is really hard for me to tell whether that town is more commonly called Sost or Sust as you can find road sign pictures with both an "o" and a "u". Content forks were started independently at both titles. The pages that link to Sost will need to be fixed if its primary topic status changes. SOST gene seems like a natural disambiguator for Sclerostin, and since it's all-caps it may not be easily confused. I wouldn't put much weight in page views for this case. Wbm1058 (talk) 04:11, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Sost or Sust?

Sost
Sust

Why is it SOST gene and not sost gene? Is SOST an acronym; if so, what does it stand for? I can't find anyone who bothers to explain that. It seems to be consistently spelled in all-caps. So why do you think people will link or search for SOST (gene) in lower case? – wbm1058 (talk) 18:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The capitalization convention for genes is based on standards, e.g. see species-specific guidelines. For humans, that's generally all caps. For other species, it could be all lowercase (e.g., zebrafish and frog). If those species are well-studied, someone could be searching for sost the gene. I hope that's helpful. Strafpeloton2 (talk) 20:40, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]