Template talk:Infobox gene

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Problem with chromosome information-related ENSEMBL links

I've checked a couple of cases, and ENSEMBL links are currently directing to a non-existent archive page. For instance, for BRCA1, citation 1 associated with the Chromosome 17 location in the Infobox Gene instance points at http://may2017.archive.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000012048, which redirects to https://useast.ensembl.org/Help/ArchiveRedirect?src=http://may2017.archive.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000012048 in my case, which contains the hatnote "The Ensembl Archive you tried to reach is not available." Likewise for Reelin. I looked around a bit to see if I could determine where the link pattern might have been implemented but could not find that.

Have you suggestions of where to look or take this inquiry to? It no doubt impacts thousands of articles.

Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Need an image "off" override to save float:right real estate

There is a point when there are just too many pics of the same protein floating to the right of a page. Like, feast your eyes on Special:PermanentLink/1135709726 and see how bad the right side sags compared to the text (on Vector 2022 at least; figures that 2010 would have a sag but might catch up faster due to more text width). And it's all the same DHFR with basically the same ribbon carton from some vertebrate animal, mostly with some representation of the ligands stuck in.

I mean, I could trim off the other pics, but there would still be too many since you still need a pic with a colored Met20 loop and a pic with the conformational change, maybe another pic for the Pfam box to say which is which. The most useless one is probably the pic that takes no caption, which is our genebox here.

(We could also allow |image and |image_caption overrides. Then I can just stick 1x1.png in there. That works too.) Artoria 2e5 🌉 17:39, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You know what works too? If there's something to force Orthologs to always collapse. Sigh. --Artoria 2e5 🌉 17:53, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This template appears to violate WP:TEMPLATECAT

The guideline at WP:TEMPLATECAT says that it is recommended that articles not be placed in ordinary content categories using templates. This template appears to violate that guideline. For example, Dihydrofolate reductase has the manually assigned categories Category:Protein domains, Category:EC 1.5.1, and Category:Enzymes of known structure, but the category Category:Genes on human chromosome 5 appears at the bottom of the article when rendered, even when editing only the lead. This category appears to come from the infobox. Can someone please address this problem? – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:55, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am skeptical that this is an issue that needs fixing. This template has been in use for nearly 10 years, and the categories it adds were created at the same time as the template. The fact that the 'genes on chromosome 1-23' category appears at the bottom of the article is intentional and functions as it should. It provides a default category for newly created Gene Wiki articles. In terms of importance, the category indicating which human chromosome a gene is located on is probably one of the least important. Categories like EC number and protein domains are much more significant. Boghog (talk) 18:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]