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Archive 1 |
There is a discussion regarding possible deletion of this article in progress at this location:
Interested editors are invited to comment. If you comment here instead, it may be a good idea to leave a note at the above link as well. -- Parzival418 Hello 01:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
NOTICE: after the above note was added, someone changed the PROD tag to AfD. The formal process has now started, so anyone with comments should view the article page and follow the link to the AfD comments page. The discuss at the WP:WQA link listed above is still available for reference, but comments there will not directly affect the AfD discussion page. -- Parzival418 Hello 17:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[reformatting for historical clarity - section heading added] -- Parzival418 Hello 01:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry,
WikiPedia is not the right place for linking commercial web sites from single entries such as
Question: why does Wikipedia not link
???
And so on...
PLEASE STOP THIS! 213.188.227.119 17:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
So why then are there Wikipedia pages devoted to big commercial organisations (Google, Yahoo etc.)? These anti-commercial rants are too common on Wikipedia. As if all non-commercial organisations are purer than pure? Willg1982 19:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
... in the WWW. Could please anyone else help linking the missing database abbreviations? Its unbelievable that 'real' compounds are not known because their abbreviations are less common than XML, RFID, WII, and all the other technological buzz-words out there.
It's good to see some recent changes by regular editors, though I don't yet perceive that this article is moving forward. For instance, take a look at this overview on the company's web site, about the type of searches you can do. Until mid-June there was a paragraph in the article under 'Database and searching' describing the types of searches, some fairly esoteric. I thought that was probably the point of the whole thing, that it was more than a pure text search, and more than a convenient grouping of commercial databases. If the functionality on the above-mentioned data sheet is not really there, then of course we can comment on that. Otherwise we should consider restoring that paragraph, which had been removed with the comment that it was 'speculative.' Also the literal recitation of all the databases seems boring, and perhaps we could link to a list of those elsewhere, or just give the most important ones. EdJohnston 20:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
EdJohnston, I know you wanted to have some details about size of company etc. Not sure where you want the details but here is the info. "ChemSpider is a free access system run by ChemZoo Inc. All contributions to the system (developers and curators) are voluntary in nature. The site is supported primarily by the hosts and secondarily by contributions from sponsors. All services are gratis. A team of 6 people presently supports the system and its accompanying weblogs."-- ChemSpiderMan ( talk) 15:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
It is a commercial website. It sells advertising space and newsletter ad space (see WP:WEB). Widefox ( talk) 01:19, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
There is a discussion regarding possible deletion of this article in progress at this location:
Interested editors are invited to comment. If you comment here instead, it may be a good idea to leave a note at the above link as well. -- Parzival418 Hello 01:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
NOTICE: after the above note was added, someone changed the PROD tag to AfD. The formal process has now started, so anyone with comments should view the article page and follow the link to the AfD comments page. The discuss at the WP:WQA link listed above is still available for reference, but comments there will not directly affect the AfD discussion page. -- Parzival418 Hello 17:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[reformatting for historical clarity - section heading added] -- Parzival418 Hello 01:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry,
WikiPedia is not the right place for linking commercial web sites from single entries such as
Question: why does Wikipedia not link
???
And so on...
PLEASE STOP THIS! 213.188.227.119 17:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
So why then are there Wikipedia pages devoted to big commercial organisations (Google, Yahoo etc.)? These anti-commercial rants are too common on Wikipedia. As if all non-commercial organisations are purer than pure? Willg1982 19:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
... in the WWW. Could please anyone else help linking the missing database abbreviations? Its unbelievable that 'real' compounds are not known because their abbreviations are less common than XML, RFID, WII, and all the other technological buzz-words out there.
It's good to see some recent changes by regular editors, though I don't yet perceive that this article is moving forward. For instance, take a look at this overview on the company's web site, about the type of searches you can do. Until mid-June there was a paragraph in the article under 'Database and searching' describing the types of searches, some fairly esoteric. I thought that was probably the point of the whole thing, that it was more than a pure text search, and more than a convenient grouping of commercial databases. If the functionality on the above-mentioned data sheet is not really there, then of course we can comment on that. Otherwise we should consider restoring that paragraph, which had been removed with the comment that it was 'speculative.' Also the literal recitation of all the databases seems boring, and perhaps we could link to a list of those elsewhere, or just give the most important ones. EdJohnston 20:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
EdJohnston, I know you wanted to have some details about size of company etc. Not sure where you want the details but here is the info. "ChemSpider is a free access system run by ChemZoo Inc. All contributions to the system (developers and curators) are voluntary in nature. The site is supported primarily by the hosts and secondarily by contributions from sponsors. All services are gratis. A team of 6 people presently supports the system and its accompanying weblogs."-- ChemSpiderMan ( talk) 15:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
It is a commercial website. It sells advertising space and newsletter ad space (see WP:WEB). Widefox ( talk) 01:19, 21 November 2011 (UTC)