Talk:Sense (molecular biology)

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[edit] Proposal to merge

I propose to merge Negative-sense RNA and Positive-sense RNA into this article. As they now stand, they cannot move beyond being stubs, and both senses could be adequately covered in this single article. I intended to merge them now, but its late and I have prior commitments. If anyone can merge them before I eventually get to it, go ahead! --Iamunknown 05:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

i agree with the proposal for merging and the rationale for doing so...is there a way to make sure that those search terms (pos sense RNA; neg sense RNA) point to the new entry? --Lesotho 18:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I did not really know how to merge until this weekend, when I merged a couple of pages. I found and read Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages, and the process is:

1. Open the source and destination pages in two separate windows/tabs.
2. Cut and paste the non-redundant content from the source page into the destination page.
3. Add #REDIRECT [[PAGENAME]] {{R from merge}} to the source page.
4. ...
5. Preview and edit the destination page until it looks good and consistent.
6. Save both, and note the merger (including the page names) in the edit summaries.
7. Check "What links here" on the source page for double-redirects.
   • Double-redirects will fail to link, and must be renamed to redirect to the current page name.

Step #3 is critical. When we cut the info out of Positive-sense RNA and Negative-sense RNA to paste into this page (if there is any non-redundant content; I haven't thoroughly checked), we leave

#REDIRECT [[Sense (molecular biology)]] {{R from merge}}

on the page and save (with an appropriate edit summary). I'll try it later tonight, unless you wanna get it done before me :D in which case, go on right ahead! (If you do, make sure to redirect the talk pages to this talk page as well.) --Iamunknown 19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support for the merge. I created this article to prevent small stubby ones like the proposed mergee's having to exist. -- Serephine ♠ talk - 17:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support for the merge. It just makes sense for this to merge. -- mal ♠ talk - 17:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge has been done. WAS 4.250 14:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)