User talk:Freestyle-69

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Contents 1 Stable carbene 2 Carbene Photo 3 sorry, i'm not an admin 4 crystal field splitting 5 Cylindrospermopsin 6 PNG -> SVG 7 Rollbacker 8 Copyedit

[edit] Stable carbene

Freestyle-69

Thanks for spotting the typo.

I did work making stable carbenes during my PhD, but am not doing so anymore ...

Do you isolate carbenes, or are you sticking them straight on metals?

I would like to add a photo of a stable carbene to this page if possible. I know they are boring white solids, but none the less it would help prove that they are "stable" and can be isolated.

If you happen to isolate any in the near future maybe you can take a photo?

If not, no probs.

I use to isolate my carbenes by sublimation:

Thanks - keep up the editing!

QG

FS-69 - thanks for getting back to me so soon.

I say first get the photo of the carbene in a Schhlenk tube, then worry about how to upload it!!!!!!

However, that said, the best place to upload it is http://commons.wikimedia.org, as wiki-commons shares images with all other language wikipedias. I tend to release all rights in to the public domain, but that is up to you ...

It is quite easy to upload an image, you just need to select prior to upload (from a drop down menu) some sort of licence option, else an overly efficient admin will delete the image as a suspect copyright infringement. All other details can be added later.

I've never made the IMes carbene, however, I suspect it will sublime as a white-ish solid. Can I ask are you making it by deprotonation, if so have you tried K-HMDS or Na-HMDS as a base, a nicer reaction than LDA, cleaner and you tend to get a nice precipitate salt by-product which can be filtered away. Are you using the chloride?

If you are having problems cleaning up the salt, have you ever tried an ion exchange with NH4.PF6 (add salt, water and NH4.PF6, more often than not the product will ppt as a solid white PF6 product from water - however PF6 precursor salts can cause other problems so might not suit your needs). If it is all a bit top secret, then do not feel the need to comment on any of the above ....

PS - is the above sublimation diagram clear ~ you don't often get feedback on these things from the "target audience".

QG

Great I look forward to seeing the photo. Please correct away. Everyone gets their words reworked in some form, at some point, that is what a wiki is all about in the end! Cheers Quantockgoblin (talk) 08:19, 26 March 2008 (UTC) <-- see I remembered to sign it this time!

Freestyle-69, great photos, thanks for taking and uploading them. You can see I've already used one on the stable carbene page.

I did the first major rewrite, but I think the article is soarly in need of a really good copy-edit and partial re-write. It probably needs a new pair of eyes to read over it and take it apart as necessary.

My view is that if you are about to do anything to improve the article then Be Bold! and go for it. The people who edit on this page will not care what style it is in as long as you are improving it (I think)!!! I say shoot first, ask questions later! Me, I'm a Brit so your edits will suit me !!!

However, if you want to play it with a straight bat, it seems that V8rik has the first edit on the page, so you could ask him what style he wants it in.

Finally this article is already at “good status” without really trying to steer it that way. A really good rewrite might get it close to "feature article" status, which would be wonderful !!

Thanks again for the photos - Quantockgoblin (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I've got onto V8rik so I'll see how it goes. Being bold is fine but I like to be diplo if I can. Freestyle-69 (talk) 06:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carbene Photo

FS - I noticed that your carbene photos do not have a liecense. If you do not add a liecense soon, they will be deleted!

For example if you wish to release all rights into the public domain you can add the tag:

== Licensing == {{PD-self}}

There are also other licensing options - see: Copyright_tags

-- Quantockgoblin (talk) 23:17, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Yup, done it a couple of days ago, I think anyway. I got some nastygrams from the Powers That Be Freestyle-69 (talk) 23:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Freestyle-69, I've repiled on my page to keep the flow together: see here -- Quantockgoblin (talk) 11:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] sorry, i'm not an admin

but i agree, trojancowboy isn't interested in writing an encyclopedia...Anastrophe (talk) 02:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] crystal field splitting

Yep you begin to see the same old "face" around here after a while ...

I didn't make the images, I found them on wikicommons. If you want one of these rotated I'd try User:Benjah-bmm27 as he drew them. There may even be a rotate function on the "image" tag (never tried!). Also see VSEPR theory for more images -- 'ears Quantockgoblin (talk) 09:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cylindrospermopsin

Nice job with the cylindrospermopsin edit, very clear and easy to read, nice balance of chemistry and background. I figured you for a carbene boy, but now a big edit on a natural product ... you got me a bit puzzeled, is there a link? I think readers like a little colour, maybe a picture of an algae bloom could be added? - Quantockgoblin (talk) 22:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Surprise... I had a bit of a chem-direction change a little while ago. And who said I was a boy? :) Don't worry, I did the same for you- must be the way we write? Usernames are often non-gender-specific but I still seem to assume one way or the other!

Yup, I'd like a pic of the algae itself (microscope shot)- I have one but it's not free... guess I can search on WP? A shot of a bloom would be good too, good idea. I'll have a look. I stuggled with the layout, I would have liked the text to wrap with the diagrams a bit better but I'm way too tech-numpty (or too lazy to find out) to sort that. Freestyle-69 (talk) 22:53, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

You could look under the Algal blooms category: i.e. [[1]] or Algae category i.e. [[2]] for a free pic on wiki commons. Formatting pages is not my strong point, I've just pick a few things up here and there. You can get a bit more control with "|left" and "|right" tags in your images. All the best in a completely non-gender specific way :P -- Quantockgoblin (talk) 23:24, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheers- I was browsing rather fuddledly for pics when I saw your note, but I had already found the bloom photo (on algal bloom, funnily enough) :) and it's the best one I think. The Anabaena one isn't ideal (that one's non-toxic) but ya get that... All ready for your viewing pleasure! Freestyle-69 (talk) 23:40, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PNG -> SVG

Hi Freestyle,

First the bad news: Unfortunately, you can't just convert png to svg. The problem is that svg is a set of instructions (shapes, curves, etc.) and that png is a representation of a block of pixels.

The good news is that there is software that can do a good job of tracing pngs, especially if they have a limited number of colours and shapes. Inkscape, for example, has a potrace plugin which can give pretty nice results.

I've started a description of how to do this at User:Slashme/To SVG, and I'll ask the Graphic Lab people to comment.

Hope this helps. --Slashme (talk) 08:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

By the way, what is "QG"? --Slashme (talk) 05:58, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, -that- goblin. By the way, I re-drew his diagrams from scratch, but re-used parts of one diagram to help with the next. Line-art like that should in theory be quite easy to trace, but the tools I've seen so far don't make a distinction between lines and areas of colour: they just render lines as long thin shapes. --Slashme (talk) 09:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

My pointy little ears are burnin! Quantockgoblin (talk) 18:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollbacker

Here you go: rollback rights [3]. Check out Wikipedia:New_admin_school/Rollback to learn how to use it. Do step carefully when you first begin, though. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 12:18, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

Thanks for the offer to help out. Suggestions:

• Solubility seems to have redundancies and be unclear.
• Atrazine is a controversial topic (for good reason), thus the article merits greater coherency.
• If you wish to avoid controversies but wish to help with important content, you can review items on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Organization, focusing on those that are < A-grade.

Recurring content problems (IMHO) with many chem articles, aside from the need to copy editing the English (i) some articles verge on being a how-to manual (a no-no), (ii) the safety sections are often bloated because any idiot (woops, I mean any editor) can get beaucoup info from Googling but most experienced editor prefer concise summaries while steering readers toward MSDSs, (iii) some editors use articles to promote people and institutions vs describing the topic at hand.

With best wishes,--Smokefoot (talk) 05:04, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I both hear you and feel your pain :) Due to time restrictions (and not apathy) I'll stay out of the fights, but I'll look at both those articles anyway. After that I'll hit the list starting with those that request copyediting or the like. Cheers Freestyle-69 (talk) 06:52, 15 June 2008 (UTC)