Talk:Inorganic compounds by element

message: One problem with purely alphabetical listings is the difficulty in locating related compounds that may begin with different letters.  This list aims to solve that problem so that (for example) compounds such as aluminium chloride, lithium aluminium hydride, methylaluminoxane and trimethylaluminium can all be found near to each other.  The format is designed to be concise and to avoid excessive scrolling.
These are compounds that in my humble opinion warrant their own individual pages, based on research in chemistry books, catalogues and also Google/Altavista searches.  I realise that I may have unwittingly omitted important compounds- already I have seen a new page for methylaluminoxane appear, I was unaware of the importance of this.  Therefore feel free to add new compounds if these are significant enough- ideally with a page already written!.  However don't just add random compounds from catalogues without serious evaluation.  A red link could be regarded as a page request, so this list serves a secondary purpose- it gives people involved with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals some idea of what has been achieved so far, and what still needs to be done to achieve a decent coverage of inorganics.
Once the page is established, I plan to add a link from each element page, for example from calcium to calcium compounds.
I add the next element to this page periodically, when the fancy takes me.  There is still a lot to do, but a significant amount has already been done, and I estimate that I will complete the element listing by the end of 2005 or so.  If you decide you want to add content, please add one complete element at a time (unless just editing existing elements!).
Here is a summary of the main purposes for the page:
# Easy way to locate compounds
# Checklist- what we've done, what we need to do
# Convenient way to link to all compounds of a given element such as calcium compounds
Walkerma 17:44, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: I created a redirect, ICBE, which is the abbriviation of the title of this article, so it is easier to go to this article. Polonium 20:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Walkerma 07:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: I think that a reasonable goal will be to list some compounds of all of the first 100 elements done by the end of March 2006. Polonium 21:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds possible, thanks to your efforts, thanks a lot.  I will try to help out, nothing like a goal to motivate me... Cheers, Walkerma 22:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goals 

message: as i suggest in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dictionary_of_chemical_formulas#sort_by_element , it should be possible to combine the many compound lists on wikipedia into one sortable wikitable. this way every listed compound is always in every list. it may require a new table code (hidden java script, etc), having the ability to search for a letter in item names  eg, finding hydrogen compounds.
perhaps an additional hidden column containing the elements of compounds which are first sorted (text is reordered), and then the whole table is sorted according to this. example, Bismuth vanadate can have a hidden column with "Bi V O4" (spaced, but the capital letters may be good enough), if i want oxygen compounds, then the O is brought to the front and i get "O4 Bi V" (and then sorted). instructions can be placed in the talk page on how to add new items into the complex page. to unify efforts, i will add this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index_of_compounds however even without sophistocated code, some wiki lists can be removed using the easy table code we can do.
Charlieb000 (talk) 00:17, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  a universal compound page