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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (center, color, defense, realize, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Discovery in article vs template

@WikiCorrector5241 In the article we learn that Boyle discovered a reaction:

In 1671, Irish scientist Robert Boyle discovered and described the reaction...

and but that

In 1766, Henry Cavendish was the first to recognize hydrogen gas as a discrete substance... and

He is usually given credit for the discovery of hydrogen as an element. and

In 1783, Antoine Lavoisier identified the element that came to be known as hydrogen...

This is inconsistent with the infobar content.

During this era of history the nature of elements and especially of gases was unclear. You can see that in the sources. The concept of "discovery" of the element makes little sense. I think if the infobar must have a "discoverer", then all three should be listed. Johnjbarton (talk) 22:31, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the references cited in the template:infobox hydrogen and they all agree that Cavendish discovered hydrogen. I changed the infobox accordingly. Johnjbarton (talk) 18:31, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Change all the American spellings to British spellings because this article is written in British English (see top of talk page). 2600:1700:14BE:E00:B56A:1711:D3E7:DCB6 (talk) 00:52, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlwoodwa there is already a consensus to use British English. @ 2600:1700:14BE:E00:B56A:1711:D3E7:DCB6 , could you please specify what American spellings you see? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:09, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“Heat of vaporization” to “Heat of vaporisation”, “Vapor pressure” to “Vapour pressure”, “Ionization energies” to “Ionisation energies” 2600:6C5A:557F:D058:FC51:A35B:329D:9634 (talk) 23:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image placement

The Infobar pushes the images for the first sections way down the page, making them incoherent with the text.

We could

Place those images on the left, or
break the infobar into logical sections associated with corresponding content, or
?

Johnjbarton (talk) 22:43, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I learned elsewhere that the issue is that the infobar and images are both floats that compete for space on the right side. Left placement seems to be the best fix for smallish thumbnail like images. I applied that fix.

Done Johnjbarton (talk) 17:51, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lab synthesis

I deleted a section calle "Lab synthesis". Modern labs don't synthesize hydrogen. The section had one primary source about an aluminium reaction studied for hydrogen power research. I don't think this is notable for an article about the element. Johnjbarton (talk) 19:25, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]