Talk:PEGylation

Terminus/Terminals/Termini

The old article had "both terminals". I don't think terminals is the proper form; the dictionary says terminus for singular, and either termini or terminuses for plural. I think termini is the correct form (latin?), but terminuses is also better than terminals. I was confused reading about like terminals used in computer technology. In the long run, though, perhaps that sentence has to be extended and made longer, explaining to the visitor that the termini of the target molecule is meant, I assume (I did not write the sentence so I don't know what the original author wanted to convey here, but I assume the author referred to the end of the target molecular that is being modified through PEGylation). 2A02:8388:1604:CA80:30D1:92B6:15A6:A5F0 (talk) 10:54, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Capitalization

This is a word, right? Words do not have capitals beyond the first letter, so the word is pegylation (styled PEGylation). If you're referring to a specific technical process, then perhaps it needs to be capitalized once or twice, but in general the concept is like any other scientific word, and therefore follows linguistic conventions. How do you explain capitalizing more than one conjugation of the word, PEGylation and PEGylated? I don't accept jargon or industry custom as an explanation for a non-industry encyclopedia article. The article should explain how the word came to exist, based on using polyethylene glycol (which can be abbreviated when referring to a specific substance) in a scientific process; now that the word exists, though, it does so separately from the substance that brought it into being.

And for the cherry on top, not even all of the sources for this page follow this strange pattern. 104.244.19.114 (talk) 17:27, 17 March 2020 (UTC)