User talk:ChemGardener
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Welcome to my talk page.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --HappyCamper 02:00, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] A nice and shiny barnstar!
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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Butter
Can you please review this article. It is up for Wikipedia:Peer review/Butter 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)
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
