User talk:Plasmic Physics

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[edit] Welcome

Hi Plasmic Physics, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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- Pyrotec (talk) 11:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Hi Plasmic Physics, Are you vandalising the element info boxes? You have very recently changed Template:Infobox_oxygen, Template:Infobox_sulfur and Template:Infobox_phosphorus without any explanation in the edit summaries. In all three cases you have removed an oxidation state and an associated reference and inserted a different oxidation state and a different reference. The oxidation state and reference that you have removed were valid so I have reinstated them. It would help in future if you would summarise what you are doing.Pyrotec (talk) 10:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Your changes to those four templates appeared to be incorrect and they were done without an edit summary. If you click on the links and go to the history tab you can compare versions. I think that the edits that you made were not correct, so I will leave them as they are. You are welcome to change them, but please add an edit summary.Pyrotec (talk) 11:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Silicon. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Warut (talk) 11:39, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Sulfur, you will be blocked from editing. Warut (talk) 11:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This is the same problem I mentioned above. It was an edit without an edit summary, and there was a typo: you used Si26+ is a ployatomic ion instead of polyatomic ion; and the insertion did not really match the rest of the paragraph. I would suggest that you use the Show preview button before you press Save page. It might help if you made yourself a User page. With no user page and vandalism warnings in your talk page you may considered to be a threat if another editor disagrees with the changes you made.Pyrotec (talk) 12:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button Image:Wikisigbutton.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 12:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oxidation states

Reposting here since you seem to be the same user as User:222.153.150.12.

Nitrogen does form compounds in the +1 oxidation state (FN=NF) and in the -1 oxidation state (HN=NH). I've reverted your edit accordingly. Please look at a decent book such as Greenwood, N. N.; Earnshaw, A. (1997). Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd Edition, Oxford:Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-3365-4.  before deleting more oxidation states. --Itub (talk) 12:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I've replied to your message in my talk page, to try to keep the conversation in one place. --Itub (talk) 07:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Refs inside templates

There appears to be a bug associated with references declared inside of templates. I have cut and pasted the template expansion into the beryllium article, which is the work-around. If you do the same on other cases where this is a problem, please use the edit-comment to explain why you did this. Also, when cutting and pasting from the template to the main article, make sure you exclude cutting and pasting any <noinclude> ... </noinclude> sections in the template. Karl Hahn (T) (C) 12:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

One more detail. As a matter of style, it is preferable to put the ref after the punctuation (e.g. text to be referenced,<ref> ... </ref>). Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Citing sources has lots more useful how-to info. Check it out. Karl Hahn (T) (C) 12:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)