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I'm creating a draft for various mixbox sub-templates, which can substitute the equivalent chembox sub-templates. Since I'm adding new fields, how do we decide in what order they (fields) are to be listed in? I'm currently working on template:Mixbox Identifiers. Plasmic Physics ( talk) 01:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I agree with Beetstra that phase diagrams don't belong in the Chembox - they've often very complex (particularly for alloys) and need to be explained. However, I do see a case where you might like to provide some information on how something behaves as a mixture without having to write a whole section about it (which might not fit the tone of the rest of the article). In the simplest sense that might involve creating some new parameters for {{ Chembox Properties}} such as Eutectic point and Azeotrope -- Project Osprey ( talk) 09:37, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Look, there is nothing wrong with PP making the templates and see what comes out of this. I do however expect that PP regularly consults the community (like this question here) , including how this actually is going to be (maybe not as a replacement of the chembox (more boxes is less recognisability) but as a systematic box further down the page. I also suggest to apply the condition that before anything goes life in mainspace, it is first properly put into sandboxes in user or project space and discussed to death, and we get a clear 'go' by consensus (clear support to get it implemented in mainspace, not a situation where there is no one commenting and hence no opposition). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
In creating a new field for the Mixbox Properties, I need help to figure out why it is not displaying. The field is composed of a value, and a comment, only the comment is displaying, why? The template is being tested at User:Plasmic Physics/sandbox1. The field I'm concerned with is Eutectic Density. Plasmic Physics ( talk) 03:09, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 RSC award and prize winners have been announced. Lots of biographies and articles about the awards need to be updated, (as do the Wikidata items); and perhaps some new biographies written Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:57, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
You are warmly invited to an editathon in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, on 29 July 2015. Booking essential. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:26, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Please review this draft, it is one of the oldest at AFC still waiting for review. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 17:43, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I was wondering what people thought of incorporating international exposure limits and guidelines into the chembox somewhere. Currently it's pretty US-centric, but standards can vary around the world. An example of the data we have on hand at NIOSH is here. My concern is that it could become unwieldy, but I also think it's pretty valuable information. What do you all think? Best, Emily Temple-Wood (NIOSH) ( talk) 01:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Chemistry,
The Wiki Education Foundation wants to know what it can do to empower editors who work on science-related content on Wikipedia.
If you're familiar with Wiki Ed, it's likely by way of our classroom program, which grew out of the Wikipedia Education Program and through which we provide support for instructors and students who work on Wikipedia as part of a class assignment. This post is about something different, though. We'll be continuing to develop that program, of course, but we also want to start working on ways to help the existing Wikipedia community directly.
In 2016, Wiki Ed will be running a campaign tentatively titled, "Wikipedia Year of Science". The goal, generally stated, will be to improve the content and coverage of science-related content on Wikipedia ("science" interpreted loosely). Whereas our classroom program, as with many other extra-organizational initiatives, is premised on attracting and/or training new users, my aim is to figure out the sorts of things we can do to help the editors who are already engaged in the improvement of science content. The question is indeed wide open, but think about it this way: we have staff and a lot of institutional connections; how can we use our resources and relationships to support you? For example, is there a special collection of photos we should try to get on Commons? What about a document archive? Databases or specific journals? Organizationally, is there software that could be built that would help people working on these topics? What kinds of research could we conduct or help to organize that would help you to work more effectively? What are ways we can connect you with other human resources -- experts, for example (though, again, this is not intended to be an outreach program)? How could we motivate people to contribute, whether it be adding content, improving content, conducting reviews, adding images, improving sourcing, or any other part of the process? How can we get more chemistry-related articles to FA/GA? How could we help you to spend more of your time working on things you find fun and interesting and less time on process, organization, and functionary duties?
These questions are really just intended to get the ball rolling as this really is a nascent idea. So all ideas are welcome: big, small, obvious, obscure, ambitious, simple, technical, organizational.... I want to be clear that this is not just some survey -- the feedback I get will help to give shape to the "Year of Science" campaign.
I should also mention that this community engagement program we're starting isn't limited to the Year of Science campaign. Researching and planning it is high on my priority list right now, but we can also talk about shorter- or longer-term projects you may have in mind, too.
Apologies for the long message and thanks for your time. Looking forward to hearing what you think. -- Ryan (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 04:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC) (volunteer account: User:Rhododendrites)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (where I'm Wikimedian in Residence) has published a major study into " public attitudes to chemistry in the UK". Perhaps someone would like to make use of this in a relevant article(s)? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:45, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear chemistry experts: One more old AfC draft to consider before it is deleted. Is this a notable topic? Should it be improved, or let go? — Anne Delong ( talk) 05:22, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Further to the above, you are also invited to another Royal Society of Chemistry editathon, in Widnes, Cheshire, on Saturday 8 August. The event will be held at Catalyst, a museum of the chemistry industry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:59, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, folks. I was just recently reminded of the roughly 170 chemical data pages held within Category:Chemical data pages and Category:Chemical element data pages. There has been sporadic discussion in this project over the years, some that call into question their worth, but no conclusions on what, exactly, to do with them. They appear to be an old concept; the oldest I can find were first introduced in about 2005. I have some major concerns about these kinds of pages and I was hoping that you kind folks could either educate me as to their use, purpose, and utility for readers of this encyclopedia. As far as I can tell, at the moment these data pages are mostly a dumping ground for information deemed important but that doesn't fit into the main article space. I think this runs afoul of WP:RAWDATA and is a misuse of article mainspace -- the disambiguation term in parentheses identifies the purpose of the article, not its topic. The articles rarely have any prose, leaving an indiscriminate collection of data. We are no more allowed to create a "PAGENAME (data page)" when the amount of data overwhelms the main article's text that we are to create a "PAGENAME (gallery)" article if there are too many images. Even water (data page) is just a collection of data tables with little prose.
So, I was hoping that either you can help me understand these pages and help me see how they fit with Wikipedia guidelines or perhaps we can reach some sort of consensus on what to do with them. I would propose shifting all the info currently in them into a talk page subpage with a note left on the talk page of each article so that future editors can extract info in order to develop future articles. The link generated by {{ chembox}} would be eliminated, as there should be no cross-namespace links. I'm not sure any of these are maintained much or at all, so any input you may have would be helpful. If there isn't much discussion here, I will likely take all of them to AfD for a wider discussion. Cheers, Rkitko ( talk) 23:03, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
there should be no cross-namespace links– These are not cross namespace links. These are wikilinks. Furthermore, interwiki links such as wiktionary:Wiktionary are frequently included in Wikipedia articles. Boghog ( talk) 05:22, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not really up to date with WP:WIKIDATA, but that is probably where these pages should be moved, now it exists. This would also felicitate their use on other language wikipedias. -- Bduke (Discussion) 06:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
How are the existing data pages harming our readers?-- that's the wrong question. A data page has no other purpose than to be a dumping ground of various other bits of data on that chemical; information deemed not important enough to fit in the main article. No explanatory prose is given with the tables, so a reader finding themselves on such a page would not know what to make of it. Does the topic covered by a (data page) article even meet WP:GNG? If you had to define what the topic of a data page is, could you? In contrast, articles like properties of water and vapor pressure of water have a reasonable title, scope, and clear explanatory prose complemented by tables and figures. It appears to me that the (data page) articles are holding grounds for extra information that editors didn't want to lose but it still doesn't have a home in a main article yet. If we didn't have vapor pressure of water, I suspect the data tables and figures found there would have ended up at water (data page). If the data pages are just meant to be dumping grounds for future article development, they should be subpages of the main article's talk namespace instead. That's where we develop articles. Rkitko ( talk) 14:39, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
This is just a language question: is there any difference in tone or meaning between "behave as a metal, with a cationic chemistry ..." and "behave as a cationic metal ..."? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:51, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
We could use some real chemical judgement at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Dqeswn reported by User:Andy Dingley .28Result: Indef block.29, List of unusual deaths#20th century and Karen Wetterhahn on the mechanisms of mercury poisoning when absorbed as dimethylmercury, and how to communicate this to a lay audience. Thanks. Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:10, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Would any of you guys be willing to add your insight to the article of William Lofland Dudley? A very interesting fellow in my opinion but the article is crippled if one is asking me to do a proper treatment of chemistry. Cake ( talk) 16:12, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a complete list containing all the possible benzene halides structures. I want to compile a Navbox for the italian wikipedia, here's my sandbox on it.wiki, to give you an idea of what I mean to do (mono, di,tri, penta and esa-sostituiti means mono, di,tri, penta and hexa-substituted). Thanks for the help-- Samuele Madini ( talk) 13:14, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Would anyone be keen to create a stub for C10-18 Triglycerides Polyglyceryl-3 Esters Phosphates? Jared Preston ( talk) 22:24, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
As far as I tell Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers is dead and has been dead for sometime. The project is quite small, with only 872 listed pages but with no active participants issues may being to pile up. What is the procedure in these situations? Is the project left in the hopes that new editors may revive it, or do we fold the project into this one? -- Project Osprey ( talk) 22:16, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping to nominate Catalytic triad to be reviewed for GA status soon. It would be good if a few chemists could cast their eye over it to check if the chemistry aspects are sound. Thanks in advance for any help. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 12:21, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Suggestions:
Please merge mepirodipine with Barnidipine. Snipre ( talk) 14:12, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to inform our colleagues from the enwp about a lecture at the ACS Annual Meeting in august 2015 in Boston about a successful collabaration between the Georg-Thieme Verlag as holder of the Römpp Lexikon Chemie (a german online encyclopedia with focus on chemistry) and the german wikipedia chemistry project. Maybe here are some vistors of the meeting and are interested in this collabaration: Wikipedia and Chemistry: Collaborations in Science and Education. -- Codc ( talk) 13:15, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Would someone please check this edit at Phosphorus pentoxide. I'm guessing it's reasonable, and the error in the infobox for "Melting point" would be fixed by moving the new "sublimes" from MeltingPtC to MeltingPt. However, someone with more of a clue should do that. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:06, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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11:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)A Merging process was initiated since 18 months for Chemotactic peptide and N-Formylmethionine-leucyl-phenylalanine. How can I finish the merge process ? Thanks Snipre ( talk) 10:43, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Do you think these two articles Norlevorphanol and 3-Hydroxymorphinan are about the same topic and can be merged ? Snipre ( talk) 19:30, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Forces between polymer-coated surfaces. Thank you for your input beforehand. Best, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 02:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi please let me know cast iron blackening process,and how efficient this process — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.121.44.50 ( talk) 07:15, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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Dear chemists: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale. Is this a notable topic? If so, I am willing to remove the promotional language. However, not being a chemist I can't fix any other problems it may have (for example, being original research).— Anne Delong ( talk) 13:02, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
The redirects Other nonmetal and Other nonmetals, which currently point to Nonmetal are being discussed at RfD. Your input to the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 August 20#Other nonmetal is invited. Thryduulf ( talk) 12:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Please help evaluate Draft:Multi oxidant solution. If you do not wish to, or know how to do a full AFC review, simply post your comment on the draft's talk page. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 10:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
A new article has appeared, at Mixed Oxidant (which has the wrong capitalization) It was moved from DRAFTspace by its creator, but needs cleanup -- 70.51.202.113 ( talk) 04:42, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
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Can any editors following this page help out with a possible issue I spotted with acetol? This is a redirect that was created by a bot ( User:PotatoBot) back on 6 April 2011. The redirect history can be seen here. It was created as a 'redirect from trade name' to aspirin because at one point 'Acetol' was a trade name for this drug (in Canada, I think). At least twice (in December 2013 on the talk page, and in September 2014 on the redirect page), IP editors have tried to point out that acetol is also the name for a chemical that has the molecular formula C3H6O2. The linear formula is CH3COCH2OH and it has various other names as well, including 1-Hydroxy-2-propanone and 1-hydroxyacetone (it is listed under the latter name at C3H6O2). I tried and failed to find it with its own article under any name on Wikipedia, but may have missed something somewhere. The Sigma Aldrich page for it is here. I also found an entry in a 1990s book that gives three meanings for 'acetol' (see here). It might also have been the name for an airline fuel as well (though the references there are confusing). Some people also confuse it with acetal and acetyl. So my question is whether the primary 'acetol' page should be about the CH3COCH2OH chemical (instead of the current redirect) and what to do about the other meanings for this name? Am pinging User:Magioladitis in case they want to comment (they reverted the 2014 attempt to point out the problem with the redirect). Carcharoth ( talk) 04:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
The specificity constant stub page (, kinetic efficiency) really needs someone to have a look through it to check the maths and add references. It could definitely benefit from a chemist's eye. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 02:21, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
I have a problem to distinguish 2 articles:
As I understand the case, one is an isomer mixture and the other one is a pure isomer. But I can' define who's who. According to PubChem, Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine is the pure isomer (see here) and Colfosceril palmitate is the mixture (see here). But according to ChemIDPlus this is the inverse: see here and there. Can someone provide some other sources to define who is right ? Thanks Snipre ( talk) 10:26, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
This at Caryophyllene changed BoilingPtF from "262 to 264" to "514?" with an edit summary that makes me think the "262 to 264" should have been BoilingPtC. Can someone please check this and fix it because the question mark breaks the template. Johnuniq ( talk) 10:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
As Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'm working with our Wikiquote colleagues to raise awareness of that project, though a competition to source quotes about chemistry. Your participation would be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if someone could cast an eye over at oxazolone as I've become a bit confused by it. The ring has several structural isomers, so it can be either a lactam or a lactone (apparently). There's also an overlap with the azlactone functional group. I don't have much to work with here and I'm worried about unintentionally straying into WP:Synth. -- Project Osprey ( talk) 15:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
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I'm creating a draft for various mixbox sub-templates, which can substitute the equivalent chembox sub-templates. Since I'm adding new fields, how do we decide in what order they (fields) are to be listed in? I'm currently working on template:Mixbox Identifiers. Plasmic Physics ( talk) 01:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I agree with Beetstra that phase diagrams don't belong in the Chembox - they've often very complex (particularly for alloys) and need to be explained. However, I do see a case where you might like to provide some information on how something behaves as a mixture without having to write a whole section about it (which might not fit the tone of the rest of the article). In the simplest sense that might involve creating some new parameters for {{ Chembox Properties}} such as Eutectic point and Azeotrope -- Project Osprey ( talk) 09:37, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Look, there is nothing wrong with PP making the templates and see what comes out of this. I do however expect that PP regularly consults the community (like this question here) , including how this actually is going to be (maybe not as a replacement of the chembox (more boxes is less recognisability) but as a systematic box further down the page. I also suggest to apply the condition that before anything goes life in mainspace, it is first properly put into sandboxes in user or project space and discussed to death, and we get a clear 'go' by consensus (clear support to get it implemented in mainspace, not a situation where there is no one commenting and hence no opposition). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
In creating a new field for the Mixbox Properties, I need help to figure out why it is not displaying. The field is composed of a value, and a comment, only the comment is displaying, why? The template is being tested at User:Plasmic Physics/sandbox1. The field I'm concerned with is Eutectic Density. Plasmic Physics ( talk) 03:09, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
The 2015 RSC award and prize winners have been announced. Lots of biographies and articles about the awards need to be updated, (as do the Wikidata items); and perhaps some new biographies written Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:57, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
You are warmly invited to an editathon in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, on 29 July 2015. Booking essential. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:26, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Please review this draft, it is one of the oldest at AFC still waiting for review. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 17:43, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone! I was wondering what people thought of incorporating international exposure limits and guidelines into the chembox somewhere. Currently it's pretty US-centric, but standards can vary around the world. An example of the data we have on hand at NIOSH is here. My concern is that it could become unwieldy, but I also think it's pretty valuable information. What do you all think? Best, Emily Temple-Wood (NIOSH) ( talk) 01:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Chemistry,
The Wiki Education Foundation wants to know what it can do to empower editors who work on science-related content on Wikipedia.
If you're familiar with Wiki Ed, it's likely by way of our classroom program, which grew out of the Wikipedia Education Program and through which we provide support for instructors and students who work on Wikipedia as part of a class assignment. This post is about something different, though. We'll be continuing to develop that program, of course, but we also want to start working on ways to help the existing Wikipedia community directly.
In 2016, Wiki Ed will be running a campaign tentatively titled, "Wikipedia Year of Science". The goal, generally stated, will be to improve the content and coverage of science-related content on Wikipedia ("science" interpreted loosely). Whereas our classroom program, as with many other extra-organizational initiatives, is premised on attracting and/or training new users, my aim is to figure out the sorts of things we can do to help the editors who are already engaged in the improvement of science content. The question is indeed wide open, but think about it this way: we have staff and a lot of institutional connections; how can we use our resources and relationships to support you? For example, is there a special collection of photos we should try to get on Commons? What about a document archive? Databases or specific journals? Organizationally, is there software that could be built that would help people working on these topics? What kinds of research could we conduct or help to organize that would help you to work more effectively? What are ways we can connect you with other human resources -- experts, for example (though, again, this is not intended to be an outreach program)? How could we motivate people to contribute, whether it be adding content, improving content, conducting reviews, adding images, improving sourcing, or any other part of the process? How can we get more chemistry-related articles to FA/GA? How could we help you to spend more of your time working on things you find fun and interesting and less time on process, organization, and functionary duties?
These questions are really just intended to get the ball rolling as this really is a nascent idea. So all ideas are welcome: big, small, obvious, obscure, ambitious, simple, technical, organizational.... I want to be clear that this is not just some survey -- the feedback I get will help to give shape to the "Year of Science" campaign.
I should also mention that this community engagement program we're starting isn't limited to the Year of Science campaign. Researching and planning it is high on my priority list right now, but we can also talk about shorter- or longer-term projects you may have in mind, too.
Apologies for the long message and thanks for your time. Looking forward to hearing what you think. -- Ryan (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 04:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC) (volunteer account: User:Rhododendrites)
The Royal Society of Chemistry (where I'm Wikimedian in Residence) has published a major study into " public attitudes to chemistry in the UK". Perhaps someone would like to make use of this in a relevant article(s)? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:45, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear chemistry experts: One more old AfC draft to consider before it is deleted. Is this a notable topic? Should it be improved, or let go? — Anne Delong ( talk) 05:22, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Further to the above, you are also invited to another Royal Society of Chemistry editathon, in Widnes, Cheshire, on Saturday 8 August. The event will be held at Catalyst, a museum of the chemistry industry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:59, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, folks. I was just recently reminded of the roughly 170 chemical data pages held within Category:Chemical data pages and Category:Chemical element data pages. There has been sporadic discussion in this project over the years, some that call into question their worth, but no conclusions on what, exactly, to do with them. They appear to be an old concept; the oldest I can find were first introduced in about 2005. I have some major concerns about these kinds of pages and I was hoping that you kind folks could either educate me as to their use, purpose, and utility for readers of this encyclopedia. As far as I can tell, at the moment these data pages are mostly a dumping ground for information deemed important but that doesn't fit into the main article space. I think this runs afoul of WP:RAWDATA and is a misuse of article mainspace -- the disambiguation term in parentheses identifies the purpose of the article, not its topic. The articles rarely have any prose, leaving an indiscriminate collection of data. We are no more allowed to create a "PAGENAME (data page)" when the amount of data overwhelms the main article's text that we are to create a "PAGENAME (gallery)" article if there are too many images. Even water (data page) is just a collection of data tables with little prose.
So, I was hoping that either you can help me understand these pages and help me see how they fit with Wikipedia guidelines or perhaps we can reach some sort of consensus on what to do with them. I would propose shifting all the info currently in them into a talk page subpage with a note left on the talk page of each article so that future editors can extract info in order to develop future articles. The link generated by {{ chembox}} would be eliminated, as there should be no cross-namespace links. I'm not sure any of these are maintained much or at all, so any input you may have would be helpful. If there isn't much discussion here, I will likely take all of them to AfD for a wider discussion. Cheers, Rkitko ( talk) 23:03, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
there should be no cross-namespace links– These are not cross namespace links. These are wikilinks. Furthermore, interwiki links such as wiktionary:Wiktionary are frequently included in Wikipedia articles. Boghog ( talk) 05:22, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
I am not really up to date with WP:WIKIDATA, but that is probably where these pages should be moved, now it exists. This would also felicitate their use on other language wikipedias. -- Bduke (Discussion) 06:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
How are the existing data pages harming our readers?-- that's the wrong question. A data page has no other purpose than to be a dumping ground of various other bits of data on that chemical; information deemed not important enough to fit in the main article. No explanatory prose is given with the tables, so a reader finding themselves on such a page would not know what to make of it. Does the topic covered by a (data page) article even meet WP:GNG? If you had to define what the topic of a data page is, could you? In contrast, articles like properties of water and vapor pressure of water have a reasonable title, scope, and clear explanatory prose complemented by tables and figures. It appears to me that the (data page) articles are holding grounds for extra information that editors didn't want to lose but it still doesn't have a home in a main article yet. If we didn't have vapor pressure of water, I suspect the data tables and figures found there would have ended up at water (data page). If the data pages are just meant to be dumping grounds for future article development, they should be subpages of the main article's talk namespace instead. That's where we develop articles. Rkitko ( talk) 14:39, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
This is just a language question: is there any difference in tone or meaning between "behave as a metal, with a cationic chemistry ..." and "behave as a cationic metal ..."? - Dank ( push to talk) 01:51, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
We could use some real chemical judgement at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Dqeswn reported by User:Andy Dingley .28Result: Indef block.29, List of unusual deaths#20th century and Karen Wetterhahn on the mechanisms of mercury poisoning when absorbed as dimethylmercury, and how to communicate this to a lay audience. Thanks. Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:10, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Would any of you guys be willing to add your insight to the article of William Lofland Dudley? A very interesting fellow in my opinion but the article is crippled if one is asking me to do a proper treatment of chemistry. Cake ( talk) 16:12, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a complete list containing all the possible benzene halides structures. I want to compile a Navbox for the italian wikipedia, here's my sandbox on it.wiki, to give you an idea of what I mean to do (mono, di,tri, penta and esa-sostituiti means mono, di,tri, penta and hexa-substituted). Thanks for the help-- Samuele Madini ( talk) 13:14, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Would anyone be keen to create a stub for C10-18 Triglycerides Polyglyceryl-3 Esters Phosphates? Jared Preston ( talk) 22:24, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
As far as I tell Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers is dead and has been dead for sometime. The project is quite small, with only 872 listed pages but with no active participants issues may being to pile up. What is the procedure in these situations? Is the project left in the hopes that new editors may revive it, or do we fold the project into this one? -- Project Osprey ( talk) 22:16, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping to nominate Catalytic triad to be reviewed for GA status soon. It would be good if a few chemists could cast their eye over it to check if the chemistry aspects are sound. Thanks in advance for any help. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 12:21, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Suggestions:
Please merge mepirodipine with Barnidipine. Snipre ( talk) 14:12, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to inform our colleagues from the enwp about a lecture at the ACS Annual Meeting in august 2015 in Boston about a successful collabaration between the Georg-Thieme Verlag as holder of the Römpp Lexikon Chemie (a german online encyclopedia with focus on chemistry) and the german wikipedia chemistry project. Maybe here are some vistors of the meeting and are interested in this collabaration: Wikipedia and Chemistry: Collaborations in Science and Education. -- Codc ( talk) 13:15, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Would someone please check this edit at Phosphorus pentoxide. I'm guessing it's reasonable, and the error in the infobox for "Melting point" would be fixed by moving the new "sublimes" from MeltingPtC to MeltingPt. However, someone with more of a clue should do that. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:06, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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11:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)A Merging process was initiated since 18 months for Chemotactic peptide and N-Formylmethionine-leucyl-phenylalanine. How can I finish the merge process ? Thanks Snipre ( talk) 10:43, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Do you think these two articles Norlevorphanol and 3-Hydroxymorphinan are about the same topic and can be merged ? Snipre ( talk) 19:30, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Forces between polymer-coated surfaces. Thank you for your input beforehand. Best, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 02:26, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi please let me know cast iron blackening process,and how efficient this process — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.121.44.50 ( talk) 07:15, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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Dear chemists: This old draft will soon be deleted as stale. Is this a notable topic? If so, I am willing to remove the promotional language. However, not being a chemist I can't fix any other problems it may have (for example, being original research).— Anne Delong ( talk) 13:02, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
The redirects Other nonmetal and Other nonmetals, which currently point to Nonmetal are being discussed at RfD. Your input to the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 August 20#Other nonmetal is invited. Thryduulf ( talk) 12:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Please help evaluate Draft:Multi oxidant solution. If you do not wish to, or know how to do a full AFC review, simply post your comment on the draft's talk page. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 10:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
A new article has appeared, at Mixed Oxidant (which has the wrong capitalization) It was moved from DRAFTspace by its creator, but needs cleanup -- 70.51.202.113 ( talk) 04:42, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
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Can any editors following this page help out with a possible issue I spotted with acetol? This is a redirect that was created by a bot ( User:PotatoBot) back on 6 April 2011. The redirect history can be seen here. It was created as a 'redirect from trade name' to aspirin because at one point 'Acetol' was a trade name for this drug (in Canada, I think). At least twice (in December 2013 on the talk page, and in September 2014 on the redirect page), IP editors have tried to point out that acetol is also the name for a chemical that has the molecular formula C3H6O2. The linear formula is CH3COCH2OH and it has various other names as well, including 1-Hydroxy-2-propanone and 1-hydroxyacetone (it is listed under the latter name at C3H6O2). I tried and failed to find it with its own article under any name on Wikipedia, but may have missed something somewhere. The Sigma Aldrich page for it is here. I also found an entry in a 1990s book that gives three meanings for 'acetol' (see here). It might also have been the name for an airline fuel as well (though the references there are confusing). Some people also confuse it with acetal and acetyl. So my question is whether the primary 'acetol' page should be about the CH3COCH2OH chemical (instead of the current redirect) and what to do about the other meanings for this name? Am pinging User:Magioladitis in case they want to comment (they reverted the 2014 attempt to point out the problem with the redirect). Carcharoth ( talk) 04:39, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
The specificity constant stub page (, kinetic efficiency) really needs someone to have a look through it to check the maths and add references. It could definitely benefit from a chemist's eye. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 02:21, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
I have a problem to distinguish 2 articles:
As I understand the case, one is an isomer mixture and the other one is a pure isomer. But I can' define who's who. According to PubChem, Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine is the pure isomer (see here) and Colfosceril palmitate is the mixture (see here). But according to ChemIDPlus this is the inverse: see here and there. Can someone provide some other sources to define who is right ? Thanks Snipre ( talk) 10:26, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
This at Caryophyllene changed BoilingPtF from "262 to 264" to "514?" with an edit summary that makes me think the "262 to 264" should have been BoilingPtC. Can someone please check this and fix it because the question mark breaks the template. Johnuniq ( talk) 10:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
As Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'm working with our Wikiquote colleagues to raise awareness of that project, though a competition to source quotes about chemistry. Your participation would be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:13, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I'd be grateful if someone could cast an eye over at oxazolone as I've become a bit confused by it. The ring has several structural isomers, so it can be either a lactam or a lactone (apparently). There's also an overlap with the azlactone functional group. I don't have much to work with here and I'm worried about unintentionally straying into WP:Synth. -- Project Osprey ( talk) 15:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)