User talk:ChemGardener

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About links removal Part #2

Hello ChemGardener, you seem to be the protector of much of the chemistry information on wikipedia, so i figured you'd be a dependable source to approach. Any particular reason my two articles on Esters and PLA were edited as spam? I thought they brought useful applications to industrial aspects of these materials. Please let me know your thoughts and how i can better edit my articles to improve Wikiepdia's accuracy....thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dzlotni23 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Dzlotni23 (talk) 8:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

there was a great interest in the link on isocyanates although it was possibly a type of promotional site. but it needed sometext to say the isocyanates could be mixed for the polymer production. i have not changed anything but perhaps you would consider putting it back with text?86.9.94.225 (talk) 11:50, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

About links removal

Hello, do you really think that my two lists are so bad, that they need to be removed? I think (at least about t.A.T.u. discography list) that it is useful for collectors and doesn't seems to violate wikipedia links policy. If it is not so, just tell me on my talk page. I am currently new to wikipedia and just try to improve a bit articles, that I can participate into. But if that was bad, than sorry, I'll try to contribute in some other way.

BTW: Do you catch an idea of i-checklist? It is not ordinary thing, at least I haven't seen anything like that before. It is about sharing checklists to public. How to cook something for example, what to take to the seashore for the first-time travel, or as for your something like "check this list before working with dimethyl acetone". It is naturally wikipedia-like thing!

Thank you. CatIAm (talk) 15:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hi ChemGardener! Welcome to Wikipedia!! The link you saw is a way to link to the same article on another different language Wikipedia. That particular link goes to the Japanese Wikipedia article about the polymer. If you look at the little links to the left of your browser, you will sometimes see links to other language Wikipedias. It's useful at times to compare what has been written across different encyclopedias. I'll go and double check the pages for you later in the day. If I make any changes, you can go into the history to look at what has been changed.

You seem pretty interested in polymers! Earlier in the year I tried to start up a project on writing about polymers here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers. Maybe you would like to help out? I'm also an administrator here, and I can help and guide you around the encyclopedia. Please feel free to leave a message on my talk page anytime!

Anyway, once again, welcome to Wikipedia! I'll go search for another collection of useful links for you. Glad you liked the ones on my user page! Generally speaking it's nice to acknowledge where you got the links from, but it's not necessary to do so since the links can be found elsewhere. However, it does tend to make a Wikipedian's day when you tell them you liked their talk page! Thanks ;-) --HappyCamper 14:36, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Chemistry articles

Yes, feel free to contribute whatever you like about polymers! I personally prefer the chemistry aspects of polymers, rather than all the physical properties.

I'm not sure if there is a list of things which don't show up on the pages. I guess templates? But if you scroll to the bottom of every article, you'll see a listing of templates used on the page. By the way, check out Wikipedia:Ask a question - that might come in handy too. --HappyCamper 18:30, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Translation

Hey there! Don't worry about having to formally request a translation for a page - if you can do it, by all means jump right into it. We have a template for chemical compounds somewhere you might be able to use...perhaps check out acetic acid and see how it is used there for ideas. You can also ask questions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry too. I don't post there often, but the times that I did, the Wikipedians there were quite helpful. Some of them even designed the templates themselves, so they are very familiar with it.

Sometimes project pages are used for large collaborations. They are also a good resource to turn to if you need to find Wikipedians with a particular specialty. For example, Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life is quite good if you ever want to identify plants or animals based on a few pictures and such.

Oh yes, I finally found a nice template with a useful collection of links...a belated:

Welcome!

Hello, ChemGardener, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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New polymer chemistry stub

Hi ChemGardener - a good Wikipedian friend of mine Physchim62 has made a polymer stub. You can tag articles with {{Polymer-stub}} if you like. Also, check out Category:Polymer stubs. --HappyCamper 01:09, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

How to track down potential polymer stubs

I've asked your question on the help desk, and it seems that there is such a feature in the MediaWiki software, but it has not been implemented in Wikipedia itself. Perhaps as a workaround, you might find searching Wikipedia with Google a useful alternative. For example, if you type in site:en.wikipedia.org after your search query, you will search only content in en.wikipedia.org. This for example, searches for all occurences of the words "chemistry" and "polymer" in Wikipedia. Hope this helps! --HappyCamper 23:48, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

A nice and shiny barnstar!

For your excellent contributions to polymer related articles on Wikipedia! --HappyCamper

I really should get out of the Wikipedia namespace and go back to writing articles once in a while...Also, a big thanks for adding content to Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers lately, its really appreciated. --HappyCamper 20:23, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

cyclopentadiene

Hi ChemGardener, Thanks for pointing out the mistake, I removed the notice on cyclopentadiene as well and added a comment in discussion. On the matter of linkfarm my comment was too blunt. let me elaborate. by the way: I regard comment to edits as general to the public not to the previous editor in particular. I would like to see that references in the references section are commented upon or summarized in the text itself and I just hope that people agree. This reference was just mentioned but no content was processed. I find Wiki attractive for its speed and having to actually go to every reference just takes time. I personally read Wiki for politics and history and all the info I need should be contained in Wiki itself and should not rely on the references. To give an example a particular bad article in this sense I find the article on nanotubes V8rik 20:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Butter

Can you please review this article. It is up for Wikipedia:Peer review/Butter/archive1 and I noticed it could use some work on the chemical properties/analysis side (and fact check what I added). Thank you in advance for any contributions you make. --maclean25 08:43, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Brackets around R and S phrases

I'm curious about the reason for putting brackets around the R and S phrases in the chembox. I just saw that you did it in benzaldehyde. I'm rather new around here, and I thought maybe you could answer my question. I notice that it changes the appearance (makes them look link-like, but they're not links), but does it have any functionality? I'm just curious. Thanks.

wpspam invite

Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. -- Perfecto 19:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Removal of "Potential hazards from food contact..." from PETE page

Hello ChemGardener, I do not agree that the two sections on food contact hazards are original research. Far from it removing those to sections removed as far as I could see 3 of the 4 citations on that page. see more of my reasoning at Talk:Polyethylene_terephthalate Susten.biz

Hello!

Just trying to get back to you about this message. I don't think I would consider it as vandalism, I admit that something just does not feel quite right. I might put a message for someone to look at it on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard first. Personally, it does not seem to be quite so serious to warrant any action, but it wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion. I might also suggest nominating the article that all the redirects point to for deletion, but it seems that it would not be particularly productive. Probably those redirects constitute boarderline "vanity", but I have an inclination that those links are to stay, and probably not worth the effort to clean them up the way we think those pages should be like. --HappyCamper 23:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I've forwarded your query to the noticeboard - see this. I personally think there isn't much to worry about, but let's sit back, wait a few days, and see what happens. --HappyCamper 23:17, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Task list

I also noticed the new spam link on Task list and was editing it the same time you were. In fact, I got an edit conflict. Anyway, I actually decided that instead of just removing new spam links from the "To-do list managers" section, that the whole section could go away. While some of the links were mildly notable (Ta-da list, maybe) and even possibly very cool tools, I think the whole section is no better than spam. Objectively, there is no reason for a "To-do list managers" section on a encylopedic article about task lists, other than very good advertising placement for this kind of spam. What do you think about removing the whole section? Was that the right decision? -- Renesis13 15:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the response. It definitely is a magnet for spam links, as are List of project management software, Workflow, Project management software, Time management and a few others I watch. A few days ago another editor was (in good faith) adding other companies to the external links list on Workflow, and we had a conversation about what to do to keep it in control as well as provide the most appropriate links. I left some suggestions there on Talk:Workflow, that you could check out. I think the best guideline to follow is to really only list a company if they are of major importance to the topic, like WordPerfect and Microsoft might be to "Word processors", and of encyclopedic value, not merely related or trying to gain market share in the area. Anyway, thanks for your help and I'm glad to know someone else is watching these spam magnets too! -- Renesis13 02:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Photo sharing sites

Thanks for removing the plethora of links to other photo sharing services at Flickr. The list is always getting out of control and most of them are just people trying to promote their own non-notable sites. Cordless Larry 15:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I think you've got it covered for now. Another issue is whether articles such as ImageOcean should even exist. Cordless Larry 19:37, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Polyurethane User Signatures

Thanks for removing mine (user signature). Couldn't figure out how it got there or how to remove it. I assumed it had to do with adding the images. Cheers, P Cottontail 03:14, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Kudos

Thanks for helping keep the GTD page spam-free. Cyberscribe 23:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Vinyl Siding Advertising Flag

It appears on June 9, 2007 you flagged a re-write of the vinyl siding entry as being written as an advertisement. In reviewing Wikipedia's definition of advertising, the current entry complies. However, the flag still resides. Can you please review the entry and/or clarify/provide specifics as to why the entry is still flagged as being advertorial in nature. Thank you for your help and insight.

The EMC² Barnstar

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this barnstar for your particularly fine contributions regarding mathematics or science-related topics! Great work! Wikidudeman (talk) 13:30, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Edward Schunk

I know it! I looked for him in the German writing and did not find him so I created an article! Thanks for merging! --06:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Jeremiah Henry Murphy

One good reason that I removed Jeremiah Henry Murphy from Marengo: human error. I read his bio quickly and simply didn't see the Marengo reference. Sorry about that, and thanks for catching my mistake! Nyttend (talk) 01:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Contradictory information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Diethylene_glycol

"Like ethylene glycol, a solution of diethylene glycol and water is used as a coolant. It both lowers the freezing point of the solution and elevates its boiling point making it more suitable for hot climates."

????

Ref.:

Anti-freezing and anti-icing additive

http://chemicalland21.com/petrochemical/DEG.htm

is commonly used as an antifreeze agent in automobile cooling systems

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/organic/glycol.html

Since already, grateful

189.6.134.28 (talk) 12:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Quiumen

Link pointing to compound rather than reaction removed. Are you sure?

Hi,

You removed links "[Cuneane|Metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement]" from Rearrangement reaction and from List of organic reactions. Let’s discuss it in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals#Link pointing to compound rather than reaction removed. Are you sure?.With best wishes,--Tim32 (talk) 12:19, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Physical change

I have rewritten the physical change article. It still sux, but then, so does the pedagogy of chemical & physical change in the first place. Please have a look and edit as you see fit. Ronstew (talk) 20:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

I just wanted to let you know that I've added the Rollback feature to your account, which may help in reverting vandalism and other nonsense. I've been giving it to the regular wikichemists (but if you object I can remove it). -- Ed (Edgar181) 22:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Cobalt(II) acetate

I think they changed the template... so that parameter was not working anymore. Nevertheless, I should have been checking! Thanks for catching that! --Rifleman 82 (talk) 02:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

The work of deleting IP vandalism on chem element pages

Since you're involved, I wonder if you'd like to comment on this discussion on semi-protection for element articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements Thanks! SBHarris 00:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Outdated link

Hello,

The web page http://web.umr.edu/~wlf/ has moved to a new location. I have automatically updated a page in your user space accordingly here. You may want to update any links to this web page you have outside of Wikipedia (such as bookmarks in your web browser). If you have any questions or complaints, let me know.

--DeadLinkBOT (talk) 00:56, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Radioactive Waste Edit

Can you give reasons why have deleted this, I think is relevant to understand the sources interest on the matter.

I would like to khow under what criteria you believe this can done?

extraneous biographical material to reference)

Butadiene Resin Article

Hi ChemGardener. I used the source http://www.chemspider.com to get my information, I didn't realize it was a mix of a couple of articles so thanks for your help. If I see any other names I'll redirect them. Pikiwyn ^talk 09:20, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Note from Knowledge NoteBook

ChemGardener,

Got your note. Fair enough.

Thanks.

Don —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knowledgenotebook (talk • contribs) 22:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

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