Portal talk:Chemistry/Archive

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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Scientific peer review]] 

message: I noticed that the chemistry news format is different from that of biology and physics. They have it in combination with Wikinews. Would it be a good idea to align chemistry with physics? Your thoughts are welcome V8rik 22:57, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I like that, thanks for pointing it out!  It's a really nice way of doing things, though oddly Biology doesn't include their new stories on their portal (did I miss something?).  One thing, would you be able to help write stories for it, V8rik?  I find it does take a while to find stories that are either interesting or major or (prefarably) both. Walkerma 00:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I vaguely remember putting "In the news" on here at the time of the Nobel prize: I certainly took a look at WikiNews, and they didn't have any chemistry stories, which explains why the format was/is different. To be frank, it was an experiment which I didn't expect to last, although I'm happy that it seems to have a longer half-life than expected! Physchim62 (talk) 12:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemistry news format 

message: I want to create Pages of the compounds listed in :category:Uranium compounds in the german WP. Therefore it would be nice, if someone moves all the nice structure-pictures from here to the Wikimedia Commons to enable shared use. Thank you. Augiasstallputzer 15:33, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest putting these on Commons yourself, they are all public domain. Good luck, Walkerma 01:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uranium compounds 

message: I was wondering where I can find some good chemistry references, particularily for properties and descriptions of chemical compounds. Google-ing chemical compounds was no use for me as there was little information on most pages (such as the name, CAS number and occasionally the melting/boiling points but no descriptions) and I can't find any books on the compounds I want (except on Amazon, but they're extremely pricey, upwards of around $100 (€78, £54).) I noticed a red link that should go to a list of chemical resources. Could you help me out?
Thanks!
Evan Robidoux 03:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Data is where the chemical resources list appears to be hiding at the moment :) Physchim62 (talk) 09:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Another source with such a list is Wikipedia:Chemical sources.  The list is still quite a mess, but getting there, I hope.  All pages about chemicals will get a link to that page, for now in the 'External links' section.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemistry refrences? 

message: I've seen some other portals with DYK sections of their own - does anyone else think that's a good idea for this one? riana_dzasta 11:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYK