Talk:5-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid

Requested move 19 May 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) Mdann52 (talk) 20:30, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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5-Hydroxyicosatetraenoic acid → 5-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid – There's a missing e in the acid name, indicating its eicosanoid nature. RoadTrain (talk) 20:22, 19 May 2016 (UTC) -- Relisting. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:54, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose – while this is an eicosanoid, reference #2 at the article spells it "5-Hydroxyicosatetraenoic acid". At the least, some WP:RS need to be produced to show that it should be spelled with the "e". --IJBall (contribs • talk) 18:02, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

In fact, references 3 and 4, as well as the PubChem entry use the "e". kennethaw88 • talk 00:39, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

OK, based on the Chemspider entry, both spellings have been used (and the one without "e" looks to be the IUPAC version). Based on the ambiguity, I'll sit this one out... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 02:13, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

As both names are used in references, it's OK to have both. I only care about consistency, as there are other eicosanoids named this way and that. Also, from purely linguistic PoV, the e-containing variant seems more correct.--RoadTrain (talk) 18:30, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

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