Talk:Abundances of the elements (data page)

message: This page is intended as an authoritative data collection with citation of sources, that may be cited as a central reference by other articles (such as for the chemical elements). Femto 12:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: At this moment I find the data generally outdated.  Not a single source for the continental crustal composition is younger than 1995, and most are from the 1980's.  While this isn't inherently bad there are newer sources that are cited thousands of times.
See Wedepohl (1995 "The composition of the continental crust") or Rudnick and Gao (2003 "Composition of the Continental Crust" in Treatise on Geochemistry). 
 -Scootalmighty (talk) 15:07, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Data is somewhat outdated

message: As a data-page it is expected that the data would be copied and further processed by reader. Thus, it would be MUCH MORE USEFULL if the tables would be in some format which is possible to copy-and-paste into EXCEL or any other spreadsheet editor.
format like this 
1.08×10−1
or this
| 0.00141.40×10−3
makes it virtualy imposible without writing quite sophisticated conversion script. Thus virtually useless for most of people who are not programmers and would like to copy and process the data somehow.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prokophapala (talk • contribs) 18:55, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convenient way to extract data? 

message: Can you add universe column in abundances of the elements next to the solar system. Cosmium 00:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had no reliable sources available. I don't think there would be any definite data to cite beyond what is described at Abundance of the chemical elements, according to which "The ultimate composition of the visible universe is still a hotly debated topic.". Femto 10:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Universe

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: page moved. Materialscientist (talk) 22:40, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
um, what? Abundances of the elements obviously needs to redirect to Abundances of the chemical elements. This is just the data page to that article, providing details on the figures given there. Can people please use some minimal circumspection before moving things around? --dab (𒁳) 19:04, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

text: Thanks. Restored. Materialscientist (talk) 00:12, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: The solar system data is apparently based on (or the same as) Anders and Grevesse 1989 from Geocosmochemica Acta (see DOI 10.1016/0016-7037(89)90286-X).  This is more than 20 years old!  A more updated list, with some very significant changes, is Grevesse, Asplund, and Sauval 2007 (see DOI 10.1007/s11214-007-9173-7).  Can we get some solar system data on here that isn't older than Wikipedia? DAID (talk) 04:31, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solar data is out of date!