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Should this article be changed to List class? It seems that ring expansions and contractions have no unifying properties apart from the migration of an alkyl group - and so there may never be enough for a full article. Then again, they do all involve the migration of an alkyl group. All the Featured lists have nice long leads, so that isn't an issue. Tomásdearg92 ( talk) 02:19, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
…until good secondary sources and representative illustrations can be found to cover the whole of the article. This is for two reasons,
Moreover, the only reaction that is illustrated is not one of the more important reactions listed, either in terms of modern chemistry theory or applications.
Bottom line, WP does not exist to feature reactions that one finds accidentally, or one's favorite reaction, or or reactions that one has happened to publish on. (My first-rank new reaction discoveries do not appear in WP, at all; they are too specialized.) It is to provide encyclopedic content. Hence, one Molecules citation doth not an encyclopedic article make. Discover a new broadly applicable 5+3 cycloaddition reaction, see it in 4-5 publications so it is written up in an Angewandte review; then, even if yours, objectively, it might just belong in WP. Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 06:18, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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Should this article be changed to List class? It seems that ring expansions and contractions have no unifying properties apart from the migration of an alkyl group - and so there may never be enough for a full article. Then again, they do all involve the migration of an alkyl group. All the Featured lists have nice long leads, so that isn't an issue. Tomásdearg92 ( talk) 02:19, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
…until good secondary sources and representative illustrations can be found to cover the whole of the article. This is for two reasons,
Moreover, the only reaction that is illustrated is not one of the more important reactions listed, either in terms of modern chemistry theory or applications.
Bottom line, WP does not exist to feature reactions that one finds accidentally, or one's favorite reaction, or or reactions that one has happened to publish on. (My first-rank new reaction discoveries do not appear in WP, at all; they are too specialized.) It is to provide encyclopedic content. Hence, one Molecules citation doth not an encyclopedic article make. Discover a new broadly applicable 5+3 cycloaddition reaction, see it in 4-5 publications so it is written up in an Angewandte review; then, even if yours, objectively, it might just belong in WP. Le Prof Leprof 7272 ( talk) 06:18, 23 May 2014 (UTC)