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Q1: Why doesn't this article include the full name of titin?

A1: The consensus that has been reached on this talk page is that titin's verbal formula is unencyclopedic and should not be included in this article. Summarizing the previous discussions:

This "longest word" is neither a word nor is anywhere close to the longest such non-word. (For more details, see longest words in English).
Inserting the "full word" into this article perpetuates the myth that it is the world's longest word and the misconception that proteins are called by their amino acid names.
The amino acid sequence of titin differs between species. Furthermore within humans there are several splice variants. Hence there is a large family of related but distinct protein sequences that can be called titin and hence are a large number of names that can be assigned to titin. Which is the correct name? All of them. What makes one arbitrarily chosen name so special?
Adding the full name has increased the size of this article by more than ten fold (24,341 → 344,379 bytes) and hence has unnecessarily increased the load times. This is especially annoying to editors that are trying to improve the article. Selecting the edit button at the top of the page results in an incredibly long editing box that takes forever to scroll through.
For those interested, an external link is provided to the "longest word".

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"Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Largest protein

I was thinking of editing this section to reflect the publication on PKZILLA genes which encode for even larger proteins than titan. Should I do this (if I can - I never edited before) or wait until/if the protein molecule is characterized, rather than just the gene? MaryDixonDock (talk) 16:13, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox broken?

I recently opened the page and found that the infobox is extremely bulky with "titin1100001C23Rik2310036G12Rik2310057K23Rik2310074I15RikAF006999AV006427D330041I19RikD830007G01RikL56mdmshru" as an alias (I have no actual knowledge of proteins so I may be wrong but I don't think this is an actual name). I checked the history, no vandalism. I checked the infobox gene template and module, no vandalism either. So what caused this? Lazesusdasiru (talk) 20:00, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The infobox is pulling data from wikidata. It should be pulling data from d:Q14865286, but instead was pulling it from d:Q14865287. I fixed this on the wikidata end by specifying Q14865286 corresponds to this article. Now the infobox displays in it normal width, but the PDB ortholog link seems to be messed up. Boghog (talk) 16:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]