User talk:BenJWoodcroft

Adding a "hatnote" to your Food vacuole page

You could try adding the following code, as displayed, to the top of your page:

{{about|the Plasmodium intracellular organelle|other organelles known as "food vacuole"|Vacuole}}

However, your article is still almost totally lacking in content. People have different expectations of an encyclopedia article than they do of a dictionary entry. Are you intending to expand your presentation of the subject, or are you going to leave it as a barely useful stub? If people link to this article from Plasmodium, do they learn anything worthwhile? Personally, I find it extremely annoying when I click on a link and find nothing more than what you've offered. Haven't you had similar experiences? Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 08:52, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

I added the suggested hatnote. There is something I find emotive and viscerally frustrating when someone decides to insult work I contribute voluntarily to wikipedia, regardless of who is correct. I'll refrain from ranting about overzealous editorial decisions. I disagree with your sentiment here entirely though. I find it annoying when there isn't much in an article either, but I'd much rather a small article than no article at all! I was planning on contributing more to this article, but that is beside the point. Many people, myself included, only ever contribute to wikipedia incrementally. I once for instance created the article Watershed_(image_processing) with even less content than currently appears on the FV article. I did not contribute anything more to the watershed article, but my creation was built upon and expanded by the rest of the community and is now a much better article. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that small articles aren't perfect, but they are better than nothing. BenJWoodcroft (talk) 22:56, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the insulting tone. I was annoyed, but that does not justify impoliteness. Instead of creating an article incrementally, please consider using your sandbox to develop your article, waiting until it has reached at least a reasonable stub level before publishing it. There are lots of people like me who are really turned off by articles that are no more than dictionary definitions. Creation of ultra-short articles like yours is also against Wikipedia policy. Please read the policy guideline WP:DICTIONARY (Wikipedia is not a dictionary). Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 00:25, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I understand WP is not a dictionary, but a quick look at that page didn't suggest to me that stub articles should be deleted. Where does it say that?

The deletion request wasn't for its stub nature. It was because "Food vacuole" is not a term specific to Plasmodium, so I considered the article badly named. The hatnote should take care of that particular objection of mine. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 00:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Stigmatella is correct. This vacuole is known as the digestive vacuole (DV) rather than the food vacuole. The term food vacuole may be in use in other organisms but it is not a term used in relation to Plasmodium. While I have nothing per se against stub articles - every article has to start somewhere there is already a small section on the biology page on the DV. IMHO this page should at best be renamed correctly as the digestive vacuole. DrMicro (talk) 10:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that the term food vacuole is used by at least some people in relation to Plasmodium - I'm currently finishing my PhD on Plasmodium cell biology, and the guy who sat next to me submitted his thesis with "food vacuole" on the front cover. Still, I've nothing against DV, and am happy if someone does the renaming. But more importantly, who is Dr. Micro? BenJWoodcroft (talk) 22:58, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

On PubMed and Google Scholar I see both terms used in both Plasmodium and non-Plasmodium contexts. Instead of moving (renaming) the page, it sounds like you need a redirect. But first things first, and that's to add content. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 23:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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