Talk:Thymosin

message: This page is so unorganized. Looks like someone with a ton of knowledge of the subject just went off on a physiological stream of consciousness.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.254.174 (talk) 18:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The paragraph beginning with "The promise of repairing sun parched aging skin is alluring" didn't look right, so I checked online and found it was largely copied from here: http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2002/feb2002_report_tb4_01.html 24.7.127.106 07:27, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarized text 

message: please mention that it is produced by the thymus gland, along with thymolin and thymopoetin. also of course, it needs some spacings, paragraphs and pictures to be more presentable... Andrei A A (talk) 17:44, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thymus 

message: Beyond a concerted "Huh?" for the impenetrable biospeak, I'd want to know when thymosin was discovered, by whom, & at what institution... I also wonder, given refs to figs not present, if more than the already-deleted text wasn't plagiarized from somewhere...  TREKphiler hit me ♠  03:32, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The entire second part of this article, beginning with "Skin is the largest organ of the body, which makes up 16% of total body weight" and ending with " as seen in the following experiments" is illogical, irrelevant, and undocumented.  It reads as if it was copied from the intro of a research paper.  There are no references for any of the statements, no documentation at all.  And it makes no sense -- if thymosin prevents polymerization of actin, how can it promote epithelial motility?  You'd expect just the opposite!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeAndGracie (talk • contribs) 22:00, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  illogical, irrelevant, undocumented 

message: I have started dealing with the multiple issues raised by this page, beginning with brief leader and adding structure and citations.  It is work in progress. much of the text now in the sections "Actin Binding" and "Other biological activities"  is indeed plagiarised from the cited textbooks and requires to be rewritten from scratch. I hope  the questions raised under headings Thymus and History are satisfactorily answered. Jgedwards (talk) 19:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Response to criticisms 

message: On starting the major re-write of this page (See "Response to criticisms" above) I altered the title to the plural "Thymosins".
This was chiefly driven by the need to clarify that the article deals with both alpha and beta thymosins.  I would be interested to see the reasoning behind reversion to singular, but in the absence of reasoned justification will undo it. Jgedwards (talk) 08:23, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Heya, You're entirely right. I'd misread the focus of the article and as you say, it's about a group rather than a single protein. I've now changed the page back. Thanks for pointing it out, and sorry for rushing in like that >.< Abergabe (talk) 08:32, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Why then has it been changed back to the singular? Leonard1108 (talk) 03:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural versus singular 

message: Re the addition stating that growth in years 10-13 is controlled by "thymosin" (14:52, 17 January 2011 Anuprasadibt) I do not believe there is any evidence for this assertion.  Also "thymosin" unspecified as to which, is pretty meaningless. Any addition along these lines would require citation of a reliable source and specification of which thymosin.  I will therefore delete this - though of course am happy to discuss further. Jgedwards (talk) 15:45, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Growth