User:H Padleckas

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The Technology Barnstar: In recognition of the excellent drawings that he has contributed to articles dealing with various aspects of Chemical Engineering. - mbeychok 06:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

This user contributes to the Chemicals Wikiproject

Currently working on:

• Sulfur
• Benzenediols - working on Table of Properties offline for ortho, meta, and para-Benzenediols
• Polybutadiene
• Valve - adding some final touches
• expanding Check valve
• Metering pump

Planning to soon work on:

• Synthetic rubber (plan to discuss Butyl and Nitrile rubber)
• Disinfectant
• Antiseptic
• Bisphenol A
• Cyanuric acid
• Triazines
• add to list of Phenols
• Ammonia - Physchim62 has largely taken over this task - and he is doing a pretty thorough job of it.

Taking a break from:

• Chloroprene - someone deleted my chem structure pic from WikiCommons  :-(
• Hydrogen chloride, but plan to return; would like to add section on Reactions
• Amine, but plan to return soon to mention morpholine, piperidine, imines
• new article on polyphosphoric acids and polyphosphates - done finally (practically - needs improved P_{4O10 pic)}
• _{Phosphorus chlorides -insert more on reaction of PCl5 with water and add pic of POCl3; then Walkerma might start working on this. Unfortunately, I misplaced a few written notes on this; so this work has been delayed. Walkerma has written a separate article on POCl3.}

Taking a longer break from:

• Hydrochloric acid-would like to add small subsection on Reactions under Chemistry; move old stuff to other places
• Ethylbenzene-needs Table of Properties==>table started by someone
• Morpholine-needs Table of Properties
• Monoethanolamine - article expanded; needs Table of Properties; started separate stubs for diethanolamine and triethanolamine
• Polystyrene-needs Table Properties on solid and expanded forms
• Polycarbonate-I'm practically finished, but could use Table of Properties?
• Rubber-practically finished, except polymerization pic and mention of gutta percha
• Propylene stub needs Table of Properties
• Acyl Chloride
• Acyl Halide- yet to do Gilman and Grignard reagent reactions
• Potassium permanganate -needs Table of Properties
• Chromate- somebody added a Table of Properties - good
• Triclosan -needs Table of Properties and some minor applications stuff
• Biocides - will work on Cyanuric acid instead
• start article on Toluidines - started, Table of Properties needs modernizing
• Motor oil - almost finished; just needs a finishing touch
• Round-bottom flask - working on a pic offline

Future plans will probably include:

• making Property Table for 1-butene, cis and trans-2-butene, methylpropene in Isomers of Butylene
• discuss removal of H₂S from sour gas in Natural gas - briefly mentioned this in Natural gas - finished
• improve Teflon

Longer-term plans:

• clean up Ester- others have made some progress
• clean up Amide
• fix up Phosphoric acid - fixed up

• start article on Toluic acids
• improve Hydrogen sulfide
• mention clinical chemistry of electrolyte Chloride

Long term plans:

• improve Urethane and Polyurethane
• start article on Thiophenols - started
• beef up Petroleum refinery- others have been working on this
• start article on Catalytic reforming- someone else started
• start other relevant articles

Pie in the sky ambition:

• Redirect link Chemical process to stub Chemical plant and expand to article
• expand stub on Petrochemicals- someone else has been expanding

Just a minor philosophical statement

I see Wikipedia as an all-around general reference that has become quite large and detailed.
I try to write articles on Chemistry and any other topics in Wikipedia so that the average intelligent reader, not necessarily technically-minded, is likely to understand as much of what I write as practical. I don't want to "water-down" the Wikipedia by omitting important chemistry and other technical fundamentals in order to cater to a less intelligent crowd. In an article about chemistry or other technical articles, I include enough technical facts to at least "define" the basic concept of the article and include its most important fundamentals, even if short extra explanations are needed. In many cases, I would rather explain what is fairly obvious to the expert than omit what may be an important fact or explanation for the "average reader" of Wikipedia. In many cases, the readers (often students at various points in their education) are here to learn fundamental facts from Wikipedia. Also as much as possible, I want to include the appropriate technical terms, even if I have to provide short explanations for the "average" (non-technical) reader. However, there will be points where many readers will have to use the Wikipedia links to understand something. That is what they are there for. I do think that there are limits at which the technical detail and complications should stop and be omitted for a general reference encyclopedia like this. It is a matter of opinion where those limits are, and of course, I have my own opinions. If the "average reader" doesn't like the fact that I include some chemistry (or other technical info) in articles that I edit, such as chemical structures, (s)he can ignore that information. Much of that information is not needed for the majority of people, but it can be there for those few who find it useful, much like a reference book. H Padleckas 18:39, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)