Category talk:Hydrolases acting on nonpeptide C-N bonds

Please do not confuse enzymes with their substrates

This category seems to have been renamed in ignorance of basic biochemistry. As I read the archived discussion, the previous name EC 3.5.1 was judged inacceptable because it is a shorthand notation which is not very informative to most readers even with biochemical knowledge, but no good suggestion was made so the administrator finally chose Linear amide because it had many more Google hits (145 K) than another suggestion of Linear amidase which had only 41. However the articles in the category mostly end in -ase, which in biochemistry means that they are enzymes. These molecules are not linear amides, which are small molecules as in the existing category Amides (how do you link to that?). They are enzymes which act on linear amides, so they could be described as linear amidases, but usually biochemists just call them amidases without the word linear. A Google search for amidase alone gives 352 K hits. So I suggest that the correct category name is just Amidases (without Linear). Note also that we do have an article on Amidase which defines the term for the reader, and does mention the word linear once in the article.

Would it be possible to rename the category again and also program a bot to change the category designation for the 103 articles in this category? Dirac66 (talk) 17:13, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Feel free to open a new CFD, without any need for delay. The Feb 9 CFD discussion reached no consensus on whether to use amides or amidases. It sounds like you have new evidence to present. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:27, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

OK thanks, I have now started a new CFD discussion for renaming. I hope I did it right as this is the first time I have done this particular operation. Although amidases is much better than amides, I finally decided that a shortened version of the EC (Enzyme Commission) system name would be more descriptive. Dirac66 (talk) 01:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)