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WikiProject Chemicals is a daughter WikiProject of the WikiProject on Chemistry. It concerns writing and improving articles about chemical compounds in Wikipedia. So far, more than fifty members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

A worklist of representative chemical compounds has been finalized. Progress on the articles in this list is monitored by participants. Also, templates for Lists of Properties for the compounds have been standardized, as has formatting and naming articles on chemical compounds. Presentation of chemical structures should also be standardized (to some extent). This WikiProject also serves as a forum on how best to present chemicals information and proceed with work on chemicals in Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding your name (and table format) to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please be referred to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide high-quality, standardized articles in Wikipedia for all important chemicals, similar to the Merck Index. This comprises all organic and inorganic compounds, elements, reagents, commodities, pharmaceuticals, pollutants, and other large-scale and small-scale chemicals of interest. Additional focus is given to the selected articles about approx 400 representative chemicals, on the target worklist.

Other chemistry subjects, including chemical groups, ions, methodology of analysis, production, reactions, etc, are included in the Chemistry WikiProject, or in its other daughter wikiproject.

[edit] Assessment

First aim of the Chemicals wikiproject is quality improvement of the worklist. These articles are only quality classified, not importance classified. Note that for historical reasons this Wikiproject does not have a GA-Class.

WPChem worklist
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 7 7
A 16 16
B 180 180
Start 153 153
Stub 26 26
Assessed 382 382
Total 382 382

All other chemicals compounds together, both assessed for quality and importance.

Chemicals
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2 4 8
A 4 4 8 16
B 23 109 175 43 350
Start 6 91 474 245 816
Stub 1 37 405 713 511 1667
Assessed 36 243 1066 1001 511 2857
Unassessed 1 1999 2000
Total 36 243 1067 1001 2510 4857

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Chemistry.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

A descendant of this WikiProject is WikiProject Polymers.

[edit] Participants

Userbox WPChem
This user contributes to the Chemicals Wikiproject


Name Talk Special interests
~K Talk
Agent 8909 Talk Infoboxes
Aeron Valderrama Talk Biochemistry
Alkane-man Talk 3D representations of alkanes
Axiosaurus Talk Main group chemistry
Anner van Hardenbroek Talk Biochemistry, Organic chemistry, Quantum chemistry
Ashe613 Talk
Ben Mills Talk Diagrams, structural formulae, 3D molecular models, chemical education, organic and inorganic chemistry
bfesser Talk pH Indicators, Aspirin Derivatives, Dyes, Organic Synthesis
BorisTM Talk Article layout, Categories, Infoboxes, Structure images, Templates
Jeff Brideau Talk Chemical species used in ion implantation of semiconductor materials
Cacycle Talk Chemical structures, Neuropharmacology, Psychoactive compounds, Odorants and aroma compounds, Basic topics and compounds
Cadmium Talk Inorganic chemistry,Organometallic chemistry,Radiochemistry,Nuclear chemistry
Causesobad Talk Inorganic chemistry
CCRoberts Talk Medicinal chemistry, Organic chemistry, Neurochemistry
Cephyr Talk Inorganic chemistry
Chem_tom Talk Inorganic chemistry
ChemSpiderMan Talk Organic chemistry, InChI, ChemSpider, NMR, Nomenclature, Cheminformatics, Structure Drawing and Representation
Colonel Buckshot Talk Inorganic chemistry, Electrochemistry, Metallurgy
CrazyChemGuy Talk
Crl620 Talk Organic synthesis, NMR, structures
Daniel Quinlan Talk
Deryck C. (admin) Talk
Dirk Beetstra (admin) Talk Organometallic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry
EdChem Talk Most chemistry, particularly general, organic, and organometallic chemistry
Edgar181 (admin) Talk Medicinal chemistry, natural organic compounds
Eequor Talk
Frederick Chiu Talk Inorganic Chemistry. Adding basic properties of chemicals
Freestyle-69 Talk Organometallic chemistry, basic chemistry. Improving articles wrt grammar and spelling, and ensuring that they present well to the layperson
Gerard Meijssen Talk Interested because much of the chemical vocabulary may end up in WiktionaryZ
Gino Graziano Talk Inorganic chemistry, Nuclear chemistry, Organic chemistry
Harald Stone Talk Computational Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Henry Padleckas Talk Various including Organic chemistry,
Chemical engineering, and Polymers;
Non-chemistry contributions also.
IdiotsOpposite Talk Organic Chemistry, particularly in the area of organic chemical synthesis.
JaeSharp Talk Various general interests, format and type checking
Jeremiah Talk Organic synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry, Environmental chemistry
J Hill Talk Inorganic chemistry
Joanne Slatter Talk
Jason McIntosh Talk
Kurykh (admin) Talk
Leyo Talk Environmental chemistry
Manderson198 Talk Organic Chemistry, reaction mechanisms, synthesis
Martin Walker Talk Also known as Walkerma. Organic synthesis, article assessment
Marshmellis Talk Only completed first year uni chemistry, limited knowledge but keen interest
masterleggie talk Like physical chemistry but have limited knowledge on organic and inorganic.
Microswitch Talk Computer molecule models
Mike Bennison Talk Also known as Mothball. Organic chemistry, reaction mechanisms, structures.
Mets501 (admin) Talk Everything related to chemistry!
Nate1481 Talk
NatePhysics Talk
Nevermore78 Talk Biochemistry, structures and formulae
Nick C Talk
Nihiltres Talk
Nitin Viswanathan Talk Inorganic chemistry, chemical formulae
(oac) Talk Psychoactive compounds
Peter Murray-Rust Talk InChI, chemoinformatics
Physchim62 (admin) Talk Inorganic chemistry, chemical safety, analytical chemistry
Polonium talk
Quantockgoblin Talk Organic, physical-organic, reactive intermediates (esp. carbenes/stable carbenes), asymmetric catalysis. Lab techniques (esp. Air-sensitive handling). I can draw chemical apparatus, I may even take requests my talk page.
Raymond Ko Talk
RedWasp Talk
Riana Talk My knowledge is probably not specific or advanced enough to contribute significantly (I'm only in first year), but I enjoy improving existing articles. I also participate in the Spoken WikiProject, currently recording Featured articleAcetic acid.
Richard Arthur Norton Talk
Rebelinabox talk
Rifleman_82 (admin) Talk Lab technique, organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry. Enjoy drawing structures. Can drop me a note if you need one done at my talk page.
Silverweed Talk Organic chemistry, food chemistry/molecular gastronomy, Combretastatin.
Robert Shimmin Talk
Rune Welsh (admin) Talk You can request structures and SMILES notations in my talk page
Ryan Jones Talk Inorganic Chemistry, structure and reactions of metals.
Schuyler Thompson Talk
Sbrools Talk 3d models, Organic, Inorganic, SMILES and chemical information.
schneelocke (admin) Talk
Scoreed Talk
Shane Di Dona Talk
Shoy Talk Organic and inorganic chemistry, polymers. Chemical engineer by trade.
sic00 Talk my interests are psychoactive chemical and aromas
Smolamj Talk Organic and Biochemistry, structures. I can generate 2D and 3D structures, just inquire at the talk page.
Socksysquirrel Talk Organic chemistry and mechanisms, natural products, inorganic and industrial chemistry.
Steviedpeele Talk Organic synthesis and mechanisms, plant Biochemistry
St3vo Talk Medicinal chemistry, Neurochemistry, Biochemistry/Biosynthesis, structure drawings
ThinkOutsideTheTesseract Talk
Thricecube Talk All the basics ie)group metals with a halogen.
Tim Starling Talk
Tim32 Talk Organic and organic mathematical chemistry (computer chemistry)
Tomaxer Talk Infoboxes
Wim van Dorst Talk Chemically I'm into chlor-alkali, such as hydrochloric acid, and worklist
Whatcanuexpect Talk
Xeno Neon Talk
Yilloslime Talk Organometallics, Pesticides, Toxicology

[edit] Goals

The following SMART items are defined as the project goals. Progress is monitored through the project worklist.

  1. Write a full page for one significant compound of each non-radioactive element in the periodic table. For metals this will usually be an oxide or chloride.
  2. Compile a list of 50 common reagents (inorganic and organic) used in chemistry, such as lithium aluminium hydride.
  3. Write a full page for a selection of 30 small building block molecules used in simple organic reactions, such as iodomethane
  4. Write a full page for the 50 major commodity chemicals, such as styrene and hydrochloric acid.
  5. Write a full page for 30 common solvents, e.g., DMF, and water.
  6. Write a full page for 50 compounds of biological interest, including amino acids, vitamins and hormones
  7. Compile a list of 50 other important compounds of chemical interest, including commodities, pharmaceuticals, as well as environmental pollutants. Examples include NAD, fexofenadine, indole, prismane and dioxins.
  8. Write a full page for 30 common polymers, such as PVC

Other goals are project oriented:

  1. All articles resulting from this WikiProject should comply with the standard set for featured articles. As a minimum they should have an appropriate chemical infobox. The naming convention for chemicals should be updated, and subsequently complied within those articles.
  2. Develop appropriate navigational aids to help users locate chemicals pages relevant to their needs, and which help identify those compounds that have complete pages written. These would help supplement the traditional searches, categories, and list of compounds by being tailored for the specific class of compound. All lists considered part of the wikiproject should be indexed, e.g., by chemical element, Hill system or otherwise.
  3. Set up a means of keeping track of progress towards the above goals. An assessment is to be developed and deployed. This is on-going on the /Organization page.

These are not permanent goals, rather they set targets for us that are achievable in a reasonable timescale. One or two may already have been reached, and when we have all of them checked off we can set new goals.

[edit] Discussion forums

Several streams of discussion are on-going, among others:

[edit] Activities in progress

[edit] Worklist to ChemStart level as a minimum

The worklist of the Chemicals WikiProject is undergoing continuous updates, to be brought in line with the goals as presented above. Please assist in adding, completing, and otherwise improving it. Work is now in progress to actually update the listed compounds, all to a minimum of {{chem Start}} level

[edit] Worklist to A-Class level

Additionally, not necessarily sequentially, to the above target, all articles on the worklist be enhanced to {{chem A-Class}} level.

[edit] Style guide

Participants are working on developing a style guide for naming, writing and formatting articles on chemical compounds.

[edit] Activities finalized

[edit] Templates

The templates of the overall Chemistry Wikiproject will be used. Additionally:

  • An {{AminoAcids}} navigational box for amino acid articles has also been defined.
  • Two stub templates, viz., {{Organic-compound-stub}} and {{Inorganic-compound-stub}} have been defined and implemented on all chemical compound pages which are still stubs.
  • a Userbox {{User WPChem}} has been defined to show your support of the Chemicals wikiproject
  • A wikiproject template {{chemicals}} with options: core, class, and importance

[edit] Chemical Infoboxes

Additionally chemical infoboxes have been agreed on as guideline, and are available as templates. For this a {{chembox header}} specific table template has been defined. Three infobox formats have been defined, viz., the {{chembox}} template as a generic table, the {{chembox simple organic}} for organic coumpounds, and {{chembox simple inorganic}} for inorganic compounds.

[edit] List of lists

The huge list of compounds was recently split into three smaller related lists: list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds, and list of biomolecules. The editing work associated with this is now complete.

[edit] References

For filling out the chembox templates, the project has made available a useful data book of gas densities, viscosities and solubility products. Other tables may be added in the future.

There are many other general reference lists available in Wikipedia for chemicals. These include:

For elements, similar lists are available for the Elements WikiProject (to be moved there in future):

and several others, ordered differently

For minerals, similar lists are available for the Rocks and minerals WikiProject (to be moved in the future):

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