Talk:Naming of chemical elements

This information is already present at Wikipedia, in particular these three pages: I am not an expert in this field, but a brief read makes me wonder if this warrants a new page about the subject. Instead, I rather see someone expand the article on IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party, as that one seems a stub. MacFreek (talk) 12:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * List of chemical element name etymologies
 * Symbol (chemistry)
 * List of chemical elements naming controversies
 * Systematic element name
 * IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working Party
 * The purpose of this page is to highlight patterns in element naming, not just list the etymologies. --Jakob (talk) 12:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I see this particular articles has an overview articles that serves to put all the above Wikipedia articles into a larger context and see how they all fit together in the way elements are named. Yes, there have been many controversies. Yes, there is a systematic formula to how they are named. Yes, there are specific bodies in charge of the naming. Yes, we know what the elements are named after. But as I said, there is no article that ties together all these rather random bits of trivia into a coherent article that examines how and why elements are named the way the are. It could even broaden its scope tot he naming of compounds, going into both the suffixes/prefixes added to some, and the unique names given to others due to whatever reason.--Coin945 (talk) 14:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Naming of elements
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Naming of elements's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Haire": From Group 4 element:  From Group 12 element:  From Chalcogen:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:58, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

naming of compounds
I replaced the Naming of Compounds section by a section noting names for allotropes, names indicating structure, and a link to the chemical nomenclature article, where the naming compounds is treated at length.CharlesHBennett (talk) 03:47, 10 July 2015 (UTC)