Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Polymers

message: Can anyone find a suitable image to use as a logo on templates for this project? The best I can see so far (and that's not saying much) is the straight-chain/branched chain image in Spanish and Catalan wikipedias. Physchim62 11:42, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done some searching and I haven't found much that would be suitable. Ideally, it would be great if we can find something that would really excite someone into learning more about polymers. Still searching... --HappyCamper 12:30, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: The typical Wikipedia stub logo is small.  For example, the chemistry one is 30 x 30 pixels and larger than some others.  It's really hard to find something easily recognizable as a polymer symbol and still fit into such a small square.  A picture of a box or a part made out of a polymer is not readily recognizable as a symbol for a polymer.  However, I have made a 30 x 30 pixel symbol which we can use for polymer stubs.  Here it is:  
The R group is larger than the H atoms because 1) a small R in those kind of pixel sizes is hard to make legible while a small H is easily legible, 2) the R groups in the molecules are physically larger than the H atoms.  I've given it a light yellow background instead of white so that its logo border will be distinguishable, yet not take up an extra layer of pixels all around the border.  I can make a different light-colored background such as light blue, red, green, purple, or orange.  What do you think?  H Padleckas 14:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Even fairly small images can look good as long as one doesn't try to cram too much detail in them.  For example, here's a quick stick model of polyethene I made:  I think it would make a nice logo, at least until something better comes along. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I prefer the yellow logo over the stick figure, although the larger R sort of looks a bit weird. Perhaps a little circle around it would be better? I don't really mind which one we adopt - after all, this WikiProject is very small, and the important part is that we all have fun contributing on the topics we really like. --HappyCamper 03:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

text: I like them both! I had thought of doing a repeating monomer type logo back in the summer, but never got round to it (graphics aren't my strong point). A syntactic polypropylene would look good on a talkpage logo, but not for stubs (too much detail). Physchim62 (talk·RfA) 05:16, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can make the R smaller, but putting a legible R in a circle would be tough given the small scale and limited number of pixels.  I could probably turn the R into a solid-filled circle.  Does anybody have a preference on the background color before I change the R and upload?  If the stick figure is chosen, I would prefer to give it a light background color, such as a cream color, so that the logo can be distinguished as a small rectangular illustration.  I can make that modification and upload the modified stick figure.  Any thoughts?  H Padleckas 05:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine with me, if you feel it'd look better that way. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As mentioned above, I modified the Polymers stub logo to make the R smaller to be consistent with the H atoms,  and I uploaded the modified logo into WikiCommons.  Both the older and the newer versions are available in WikiCommons now.  H Padleckas 14:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New stub logo proposal 

message: Hi guys,
I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team, and we are looking to publish a paper/CD/DVD version of Wikipedia.  We're looking for articles rated as A-Class or B-Class using these criteria which should be familiar to folks as the criteria used at WP:Chem.  You already have this extensive list of polymer articles, do you have any idea of the status/assessment of these articles?  Would any of them be classed by you as A-Class or B-Class or even just as good articles? I also know of this list, are the assessments here still valid?  Please leave your comments below.
Speaking now as a WP:Chem member do you still plan to take control of that table of polymers?  Henry's proposal last year to do this did receive support.  If you do this, will you be leaving it where it is or moving it?  Thanks a lot. Walkerma 05:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm...the only one I can think of right now is Polythiophene - written almost entirely by Dflanagan :-) If anything, I think this article is probably the best we have so far that is related to polymers. The other ones are still more or less stub like. --HappyCamper 01:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I think it needs some work...lots of basic articles and definitions are really scattered and not very well organized. I was thinking of working on a set of templates to do this, but I haven't got around that yet. Activity outside of Wikipedia is picking up again... --HappyCamper 04:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project 

message: I know very little about polymers (or chemistry in general), but I would like to ask project participants to ensure that the major uses of different polymers gets mentioned at the top of articles and that the polymer also get categorized under its different uses. My interest in polymers comes from the woodworking side. For example, Phenol formaldehyde resin is linked from Plywood, but there is no mention of its use as an Adhesive or Glue in the article, or anything about its properties. Thank you for considering my request. Luigizanasi 22:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Acknowledged. When I get the chance I will try and update the articles to reflect this. It might be a while because at the moment it seems that we are stretched quite thinly. But I will keep it in the back of my mind at least. --HappyCamper 04:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request/suggestion 

message: Hi all.
I am pleased to announce that the article Polybutadenyo (polybutadeene) has been voted featured article in the Spanish Wikipedia. I was the main contributor to the article and tried to give it a structure that can later be applied as well to other industrial polymers. My next target is Polishtreeno. If some other Spanish-speaking pollymarryest is around there, you may want to translate these articles into English. I would gladly help but can't do the work myself by now.
We have a couple other featured articles in the Spanish Polymers Wikiproject: Moldeo por inyección (injection molding) and Efecto térmico de memoria (memory thermal effect).
--Hispalois 12:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the note! I will see if I can get organized to translate the material into English. --HappyCamper 05:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polybutaden, featured article in es: 

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thread_title:  Project directory 

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thread_title:  Stablepedia 

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message: Hi all. I joined this project last July. Since then, no new member has joined, the discussion page does has not discussed polymers for months and the only modification to the main project page has been the addition of a single link. So I have to wonder: is this project still alive?? --Hispalois 22:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently not.  After adding a comment below, I observed that the main project page has been tagged as "inactive", and that tag has not been removed.  I'm looking around for other WikiProjects that cover polymers.  Perhaps Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals, which I just now confirmed is an active project.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 16:24, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this project still alive? 

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thread_title:  IRC 

message: Hi.  I work a bit in WikiProject Spaceflight and, in the process of adding and linking information about a new rocket engine today, I ran into a relatively new polymer material called nonburnite.  I found one Wikipedia article that briefly mentioned it, so I added a redir page for Nonburnite that would take the reader to the page I found.  I also did a bit of googling and found an abstract summarizing it thusly:  "a nonflammable, high-strength, lightweight thermoplastic fluoropolymer composite material, trademarked NonburniteTM, which is suitable for making reusable, reliable, low cost cryogenic tanks and structures for space flight service."  I have added that quote, plus the rest of the abstract, to the nonburnite redir Talk page.  It appears that NASA is funding some of this research, so have added the redir page to the spaceflight wikiproject.  Perhaps it is of interest to your wikiproject as well.
So why did I write this?  I have no idea what makes a new material become of interest to the materials science folks, or when it would be sufficiently notable for its own article, but did think I should draw this to someone's attention.  I could not find a WikiProject Materials Science project, so thought I would just mention it here.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 16:12, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this WikiProject on Polymers appears to be inactive, I have moved this discussion to Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals.  N2e (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new "nonflammable, high-strength, lightweight thermoplastic fluoropolymer composite material" 

message: Polymer banknote does not belong to any category related to polymers. Where should it be included? We have a category named :category:plastics applications. Should a category named  :category:polymers applications be created (just for 1 article and 1 sub-category in it, though)? ···Vanischenu「m/Talk」 21:08, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Updating: It has been added[1] to :category:polymers by Rifleman 82 ···Vanischenu「m/Talk」 01:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where to place [[polymer banknote]]? 

message: In the article, there is a sentence in which something seems to be missing: "This is similar to the test procedure defined in the ISO Limitations that are associated with the determination of the HDT is that the sample is not thermally isotropic and, thick samples in particular, will contain a temperature gradient."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.188.8.27 (talk) 15:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much. I hope it is fixed now by inserting a period and a line between the words "ISO" and "Limitations".(here). Thank you.···Vanischenu「m/Talk」 16:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heat deflection temperature: nonsense sentence 

message: Is Carbon (fiber) really a polymer? The repeating unit is C after all. Hcobb (talk) 23:30, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carbon (fiber) 

message: I've nominated Injection molding for Good Article review. I'd love it if somebody would do what they could to get it reviewed. Thanks! --Kierkkadon talk/contribs 17:31, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Injection molding]] good article review 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith
Discovery
In 1897, the Hangover, Germany mass printing press owner Wilhelm Krische was commissioned to develop an alternative to blackboards.[1] The resultant horn-like plastic made from the milk protein casein was developed in cooperation with the former Nazi leader Adolph, Hitler (1846–1940).
?????  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:A:AA4:0:0:0:2 (talk) 03:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed now. As you suspected, it was vandalism. Somehow it had gone unnoticed for almost a week. (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 20:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galaith Vandalized? 

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thread_title: [[Talk:Organic_semiconductor#Organic_semiconductor.23Merger_proposal]]

message: Could someone help clean up this article? It's quite sad that something as essential as molecular weight has such a poor quality article to describe it. My immediate concerns are summarized on the article talk page.
Thanks. (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 10:49, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[Molecular mass|Molecular mass]]" (''crosspost from WikiProject Chemistry'')

message: Copper hydride has been classed as being part of the polymer project- are you happy with this? Axiosaurus (talk) 11:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Copper hydride]] 

message: is listed as a desirable page to start.  However, I've done a very wide range of technological things with liquids and I've never come across anyone using it.  I googled it and and found a dictionary definition of it as the ratio of the viscosity of a liquid to a standard liquid (e.g. water).  One could therefore conceive of uses for it, but if it'sonly ever going to be a dictionary definition, I suggest its dropped from the to-do list.
Gravuritas (talk) 15:04, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific viscosity 

message: I am writing an article on the origins of common decorating terms, and it's a mystery as to where this word came from. Dupont invented Nylon and Microfiber, but I am not sure they invented the word. As its quite plain and descriptive, perhaps there is no answer, but if someone knows, please add it to the Microfiber page for us.
Ningishzidda (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of the word Microfiber 

message: An article that you have been involved in editing, Bioadhesive, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Leprof 7272 (talk) 23:38, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge discussion for [[Bioadhesive]]

message: I do not actually know anything about smart rubber, but the page on it is harder to read than any other wikipedia page that I have read.  Is this the right place to report that?  129.6.178.236 (talk) 17:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Katie, It's a good a place as any to bring it up. I've appended the section heading to include a link to the article in question, so people know exactly which article you're referring to. I tend to agree with your assessment. It seems to leap pretty much directly into jargon without providing any context for the reader; the last section seems to actually be a step-by-step synthesis route; and the references are formatted oddly, specifically no inline citations are used.  I'm not overly familiar with smart rubber myself, but perhaps someone else will be able to help improve it. This particular wiki-project is somewhat underpopulated at the moment, so I'm not sure how many people will actually see this. (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 21:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, the very first sentence in that article ( "Smart rubber is a polymer that is able to "heal" when torn.") is problematic. You can't mechanically tear a single polymer chain on the molecular level, as implied by that statement. Most synthetic rubbers are polymeric materials, but the mechanical properties are in the bulk. They're certainly not due to a single chain. (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 22:05, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Well. I took a stab at it. I've also cross-posted this to WikiProject Chemistry where it will hopefully get a bit more attention. (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 22:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Smart rubber page is hard to read: {{article|Smart rubber}}

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message: The usage of  is under discussion, see talk:carbon (fiber) -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 04:20, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "{{noredirect|carbon fiber}}"

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message: The usage of  is under discussion, see talk:carbon (fiber) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:57, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "{{noredirect|carbon fiber}}"

message: Does this project actually have any active members anymore? (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 14:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take the dead silence as a "no". (+)H3N-Protein\Chemist-CO2(-) 14:40, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polymers WikiProject 

message: I'm sure Nylon is a Brand Name of DoPond and not a chemical technical term. It is Polyamide. So I would change the name of the article regarding Polyamide 11, Polyamide 46 and redirected it vise versa. --Paul HT (talk) 06:56, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nylon (brand) vs Polyamide (chemical technical term) 

message: Will some previously uninvolved editor please review and comment on Draft:Geopolymer concrete.  Should it be accepted into article space?  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:14, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Draft:Geopolymer concrete]] 

message: Hi,
I saw that Polyquaternium is within the scope of WikiProject Polymers. I started to gather information on Polyquaternium-7 and created a draft. Is this of use for the WikiProject Polymers? Can you help me improving it?
--Magistra Sylvia (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft:Polyquaternium-7 

message: Hi all
I just created 3D printing filament, I'm a keen 3D printing hobbyist but don't know much about the plastics being used, if people could take a look it would be very much appreciated :)
Thanks
--John Cummings (talk) 16:48, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  3D printing filament article 

message: Hello polymers experts (is there anyone there?)  Would someone please take a look at Gel point.  It's horrible (not a WP policy phrase), and has been horrible for some time. I think it started to go wrong here. To my eyes the article doesn't actually explain what "gel point" is. Would it be reasonable to roll back the article to the Revision as of 21:31, 17 March 2013 ?  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:51, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert help at [[Gel point]] 

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thread_title:  Project status discussion 

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thread_title:  Background 

message: Appreciate any help/input from chemists at /Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thinsulate and Thinsulate.  Thanks.  Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:29, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thinsulate 

message: Polyisobutene currently redirects to Butyl rubber but I have nominated it for retargetting to Polybutene. Your comments are invited to the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 January 6#Polyisobutene. Thryduulf (talk) 14:40, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polyisobutene 

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message: I want to call attention to the Wikipedia article "Seasoning (cookware)" which is in the Polymer project but perhaps should not be. There are claims made that heating vegetable oil in a cast-iron skillet produces a hard coating of an organic polymer. However, there is no scientific evidence given that this is the case, rather than something like formation of an iron carbide coating instead. Perhaps there is someone here who can shed more light on the problem?
Michaeld42 (talk) 17:55, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasoning (cookware) 

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thread_title:  Definitions 

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thread_title: Request for input regarding Merge Request

message: I ran into this article, and noticed that many of the techniques there were not wikilinked.  Upon wikilinking, most turn into redlinks.  (article itself could use a bit of upgrade as well).  --Dirk Beetstra T C 09:18, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Polymer_Char#Analytical_instrumentation]] 

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message: Hopefully this is still being monitored, it shows as inactive. The page Crazing needs some serious work. I do not know enough beyond knowing that there is far more to this. I would think this should be a relatively high priority page for this project. Ldm1954 (talk) 08:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
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