 | The current Chemistry Article Improvement Drive (ChemAID) is: Bring Sodium hydroxide (Assessment comments | talk) to A-class or above. Every month a different chemistry-related topic, stub or non-existent article may be picked.Please improve the article any way you can. |
Every month a new Chemistry Article Improvement Drive (ChemAID) may be picked using this page. The goal of each collaboration is to take an undeveloped or underdeveloped chemistry-related topic and improve it over the course of the month, ideally to the level of a featured article but not necessarily put through that process. At the end of each month, the topic with the most support votes will be selected for the next collaboration. If no new topics are chosen, then the previous ChemAID is carried over.
Any registered wikipedian can nominate an article, and can vote for the nominated articles. Voting also indicates interest in contributing to the monthly collaboration. At beginning of each month, the votes will be tallied, and the winner will be promoted for the month to potential contributors.
If possible, select articles that interest a wider community of editors, rather than those that attract only a small number of people.
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[edit] Previous Article Improvement Drives
[edit] Selecting the next ChemAID
- Nominated 11:08, Saturday December 26, 2009 (UTC)
Support:
- mav (talk) 23:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- Petergans (talk) 08:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Comments:
- A very heavily viewed Vital and Supplementary Core article that is, very embarrassingly, Start to C-class. Periodic table was once considered "brilliant prose" and was grandfathered into being an FA. Sadly, the article never improved much to keep up with increasing FA standards so I nominated it for FA delisting in 2005 with the promise that I'd help to improve the article to FA status. This was a huge task with 2005 FA standards and it is now a monumental task with today's FA standards and expectations. I expect this to be the ChemAID for at least 1 month just to get to B-class and another two months to get to A-class. But I'm willing to wait for this to become ChemAID until tin is at least A-class. This article also falls under WikiProject Physics, so I think we should include them. -- mav (talk) 23:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
- As a supplementary, the PTs in all the element infoboxes need attention. See talk:Yttrium#periodic group for an extended discussion.
- The long-form should be abandoned in favour of the IUPAC recommended short-form
- The neutron number should be removed with multi-isotope elements. Since the atomic number appears top left the proton number is redundant.
- The crystal structure picture should be removed with elements that have allotropes
- The electronic configuration picture is useless without some explanation, so it should be removed.Petergans (talk) 08:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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- I'm personally neutral on the correct arrangement of the long/wide form of the table and see good points on each side. But due to the fact that experts are still disagreeing on the correct form (period 3 element explains this OK), I must concede that presenting one form in favor of another is problematic at best unless we can demonstrate that one form is clearly more correct or somehow indicate to readers that there is disagreement. Also, about half of the table images need updating due to incorrect neutron counts and for having Lu and Lr in the wrong element categories. So this presents a natural point where we could change things if we want b/c I'd sure hate to update all the tables if there are still serious issues with them. But this isn't really the correct forum to discuss this. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements is. --mav (talk) 01:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- The IUPAC recommended short-form is based on an international consensus and should be adopted. red book Petergans (talk) 14:41, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Nominating an article
To add a new nomination, please:
- Copy the template below
- Paste it at the bottom of the list of candidates
- Add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
- Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.
====[[article name with double-brackets surrounding it]]==== :''Nominated {{subst:CURRENTDATE}}'' '''Support:''' # ~~~~ '''Comments:''' *[a short description explaining why the article should be the focus of the next Chemistry Article Improvement Drive] - ~~~~ [edit] Voting on nominated articles
- Only registered users should vote.
- Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like.
- To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections and insert a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.
- Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see approval voting).
[edit] Templates
- {{Current-ChemAID}} — to be put onto the currently collaborating article.
- {{AID-chem}} — update with the new article name and goal.
