Talk:Aminolevulinic acid

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Random COVID thing at the beginning

It's sort of vague ("more than a certain amount," "inhibit growth" to what extent?)
It's only mentioned in the lead section and isn't mentioned anywhere else.
It doesn't cite any sources and might be original research (see 4).
There doesn't seem to be additional information anywhere else on the web.

I think it should be removed. BDONGLI (talk) 16:22, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Article Merge (of this Aminolevulinic acid with Levulan)

Is there any problem merging these two articles together? Chevinki 07:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Searches for levulan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.225.81.195 (talk) 10:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No merge

No merge is needed as the one article is about a (bio)chemical, the other about the use of the compounds with likewise properties as Aminolevulinic acid. T.vanschaik (talk) 09:43, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge would be bad (as T.vanschaik says) - Since there is no support in 3 or 9 years I'll remove the merge-proposal template(s). - Rod57 (talk) 21:05, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Despite having this discussion, in 2017 someone modified the Levulan to be a redirector to the Aminolevulinic acid page without integrating any of the Levulan page content into the Aminolevulinic acid page. I just undid that modification. Phedrence (talk) 11:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]