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I am starting a project of gradually improving physical chemistry articles. If you would like to provide feedback or suggestions, please place them under the appropriate heading in the "Work in Progress" section. A summary of what I have done and am planning is on my user page.
Note that Wikipedia convention is that new text is added at the end of the section, below existing text.
These are things I am working on. I provide these headings if people want to comment on them.
If you would like to call my attention to a particular physical chemistry article that needs work, please post that here, together with a brief reason why you think the article needs improving.
After having read this new editor's post at the Teahouse, I'm replacing most of the welcome message with one that I think is better suited for this editor. w.carter -Talk 23:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
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your userpage.You seem to be off to a very good start now. You have mastered the basics of editing, communication, creating new pages and so on. You are now ready to start with your work and I don't think I need to keep an eye on your doings. Just a note about the archives: When the first page in an archive have become sufficiently long, you just create a new one with a consecutive number. The archive on that page will detect it as soon as it has run through the system, which can take a couple of minutes. Copy the name of the first page and upgrade the number. It is important that the names of the pages are exactly the same or the archive will not detect it. For this page's archive the page following User talk:Retired Pchem Prof/Archive 1 will be User talk:Retired Pchem Prof/Archive 2. You are of course always welcome to ask things on my talk page, or 'ping' me from another page if need be. Happy editing! w.carter -Talk 08:50, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Prof. In this edit you wrote "I will revert it myself, if I can figure out how." We all come across edits that should be reverted - mischief, technical errors, our own errors etc. It is very easy to revert an edit:
If the edit you want to revert isn't the latest edit, it can be a little more tricky to revert it, but that can wait until another occasion. Dolphin ( t) 04:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi - I am a physics professor, tenured at the associate level, but close enough to not fuss about making full professor.
Speaking only for Physics, I have noticed that Wikipedia articles have mismatched styles that render them useless as reading material for students. I believe the solution to this problem is to introduce online Journals where editors can chop up these articles and "publish" them as uneditable documents. See:
I could really use an editor or writer for Chemistry articles. More than anything I need an honest critic to serve as the second referee on physics and astronomy articles. Since we focus on undergraduate science, I believe we can streamline the refereeing policy. Somewhere in the materials describing the journal is a statement to the effect that we will not be "fact-checking" Wikipedia articles until this journal matures a bit.-- Guy vandegrift ( talk) 19:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your meticulous review.
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I am starting a project of gradually improving physical chemistry articles. If you would like to provide feedback or suggestions, please place them under the appropriate heading in the "Work in Progress" section. A summary of what I have done and am planning is on my user page.
Note that Wikipedia convention is that new text is added at the end of the section, below existing text.
These are things I am working on. I provide these headings if people want to comment on them.
If you would like to call my attention to a particular physical chemistry article that needs work, please post that here, together with a brief reason why you think the article needs improving.
After having read this new editor's post at the Teahouse, I'm replacing most of the welcome message with one that I think is better suited for this editor. w.carter -Talk 23:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Some pages of helpful information to get you started: | Some
common sense Dos and Don'ts:
|
If you need further help, you can: | or you can: | or even: |
Alternatively, leave me a message at my
talk page or type {{helpme}}
here on your talk page, and someone will try to help.
There are many ways you can
contribute to Wikipedia. Here are a few ideas:
|
|
Remember to always
sign your posts on talk pages. You can do this either by clicking on the button on the
edit toolbar or by typing four
tildes (~~~~)
at the end of your post. This will automatically insert your
signature, a link to this (your talk) page, and a
timestamp.
{{My sandbox}}
on
your userpage.You seem to be off to a very good start now. You have mastered the basics of editing, communication, creating new pages and so on. You are now ready to start with your work and I don't think I need to keep an eye on your doings. Just a note about the archives: When the first page in an archive have become sufficiently long, you just create a new one with a consecutive number. The archive on that page will detect it as soon as it has run through the system, which can take a couple of minutes. Copy the name of the first page and upgrade the number. It is important that the names of the pages are exactly the same or the archive will not detect it. For this page's archive the page following User talk:Retired Pchem Prof/Archive 1 will be User talk:Retired Pchem Prof/Archive 2. You are of course always welcome to ask things on my talk page, or 'ping' me from another page if need be. Happy editing! w.carter -Talk 08:50, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Prof. In this edit you wrote "I will revert it myself, if I can figure out how." We all come across edits that should be reverted - mischief, technical errors, our own errors etc. It is very easy to revert an edit:
If the edit you want to revert isn't the latest edit, it can be a little more tricky to revert it, but that can wait until another occasion. Dolphin ( t) 04:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi - I am a physics professor, tenured at the associate level, but close enough to not fuss about making full professor.
Speaking only for Physics, I have noticed that Wikipedia articles have mismatched styles that render them useless as reading material for students. I believe the solution to this problem is to introduce online Journals where editors can chop up these articles and "publish" them as uneditable documents. See:
I could really use an editor or writer for Chemistry articles. More than anything I need an honest critic to serve as the second referee on physics and astronomy articles. Since we focus on undergraduate science, I believe we can streamline the refereeing policy. Somewhere in the materials describing the journal is a statement to the effect that we will not be "fact-checking" Wikipedia articles until this journal matures a bit.-- Guy vandegrift ( talk) 19:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your meticulous review.