User:Preimage/Log
Every sufficiently long-running activity requires behind-the-scenes planning. This is the page I'll be using to keep track of ongoing tasks and document/review my prior work.
While I considered storing these notes externally (e.g. Obsidian), it's hard to beat the convenience of keeping everything on-wiki. Plus I far prefer MediaWiki markup to Markdown.
On occasion I may mention other WP editors using the {{noping}} template, as the purpose of this page is for planning/review, rather than collaboration. If anyone has concerns regarding their depiction here, please notify me via my main user talk page.
Tasks
[edit]| Topic | Domain | Started | Status | Review by | Next steps | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear physics errors in Emsley's Nature's Building Blocks | WP:When sources are wrong | 2024-11 | On hold | 2025-11 | Finish writeup, then post to WT:WikiProject Elements |
Pages affected (search): Radium, Heavy metal element. (Protactinium probably OK.) Emsley is a major source used by most of our elements pages. Some citogenesis (RSC element page, Nature magazine article). Could just fix but would prefer to first flag at WikiProject-level to reduce chance of errors being reintroduced. Full notes in Google Drive (Emsley-errors.txt). |
| Draft:Urea hydrochloride | AfC / drafts | 2024-07 | Ongoing | 2026-03 (last edit +5 mths) |
Add source review table on talk page (analogous to WP:Source assessment) | Ongoing dispute with Smokefoot (experienced chemistry editor). Looks like we're both now satisfied re: notability; remaining dispute seems to be about whether urea hydrochloride is a well-defined species, as well as sourcing (mostly tertiary encyclopedia articles and primary scientific papers, though IMO [summaries] of the literature in the introductionof these papers should be considered secondary (per secondary source). Next steps are to clean the article up then request a review by WT:WikiProject Chemistry, prior to it being looked at by the (less specialized) reviewers at AfC/NPP. At some point, will also need to split off material on quinine urea hydrochloride. Before finalizing, will also try and drop a courtesy ping to the original article creator, Reconrabbit. |
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