User talk:Alevina89

Aryne
Good luck with your project on aryne. It seems that you know about this area well. Here is some advice - try to do your graphics in a language neutral manner (i.e. avoid English). Use approx temp for heat, use formulas. This way, others language wiki's can use your work, amplifying your impact. It is usually a good idea to ask for advice for major renovations of articles by stating your intentions, gripes, or goals. The editorial group here is reasonably expert in most areas, so you would probably get useful feedback. A good place to post your thinking is Talk:Aryne. Up to you. Good luck, --Smokefoot (talk) 22:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If you prefer to start a self-standing article on metal benzyne (or aryne, a terms that is more precise but is obscure in organometallic world) complexes, that would be fine. Your aryne article is already long.  --Smokefoot (talk) 14:30, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * You do not own this article. I do not agree with some details of your editing.  You can either discuss and try to achieve consensus, or we call in arbitration.  Your choice.  --Smokefoot (talk) 01:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Dear Smokefoot, I apologize for undoing your changes. I am writing this article as a graded assignment for one of my classes and was trying to keep the article as I last edited it until it is graded (end of the week). Could you please keep the main benzyne image in the article. Thank you. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Please, let me know if you have any further comments about the article. --User:Alevina89
 * Sure, I will layoff until the end of the week. Aside from your "main benzyne image" (which will probably eventually be removed since we dont have logos in articles) you might accept my other edits that clarified or simplified your English. --Smokefoot (talk) 04:22, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I changed my mind. I am just tired of dealing with projects forced upon Wikipedia by unsupervised inexperienced students with no participation by the faculty member.  I am sure you are bright and well intentioned, but no one is granted special access to Wikipedia for their pet project.  If your teacher has a problem with this concept, then tell him that you can write your own essay on your own word processor, not this public encyclopedia.  For this article, you will just need to deal with me and any other editor here, just like the rest of the world.


 * I thought that the writing was ok. You need to include titles DOI's for references.  We prefer a greater emphasis on secondary sources, vs journals as I emphasized above.  Do we really need a Tet Lett from the 1970's, when that result would be mentioned in a review or a book?  We avoid the term "recently" and we rarely emphasize people and institutions, unless there is some pressing reason to do so.  Please be cautious in using the term "important" and hyping the topic.  And even though you are not granted temporary ownership of this article, you are welcome to ask for advice and help, something that your teacher is apparently too incompetent or too lazy to provide.  --Smokefoot (talk) 13:47, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Smokefoot, thanks for your input on the article and working to give helpful suggestions. I'm the instructor in question here, and I actually agree with you on many of your points. However, to keep this discussion productive, I would prefer that we avoid any ad hominem attacks. I actually do know a bit about chemistry and Wikipedia; I was the one principally responsible for the aldol reaction page. You're absolutely right--there's been no communication here, and that's a problem. Let's move this to the aryne talk page, and keep this professional, shall we? Eugene Kwan (talk) 19:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Lets. Unfortunately, the deed has been done.  Wikipedia is once again force-fed a student homework project only to have the instructor swoop in at the very end to give advice on good behavior, when in fact it was guidance during the project that would have benefited the student not to mention Wikipedia.  --Smokefoot (talk) 23:17, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Manual_of_Style/Chemistry/Structure_drawing
Thanks for your recent contributions.

Please see the above document, which sets out the standards for images drawn for chemistry/chemical articles. Your images are generally great, but two aspects need to be addressed: (1) Use language-free images, and rely on the text or the captions to discuss the images. The vast majority of the images created for the English Wikipedia are extensively used in other language Wikipedias. (2) Please ensure that you are using the correct file format. PNGs were chosen by consensus as the file format of choice for structure drawings because they are compact and lossless. Images that have shades of color, like MO diagrams, can be either JPGs or PNGs, the latter having no compression artifacts (JPGs use a lossy algorithm).

If you need any help, you can contact me or anybody else at WT:CHEM or WT:CHEMISTRY. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 20:41, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

presence requested on benzyne talk page
Hi Alevina89, Could you please have a look at issues raised on Talk:Aryne, thanks in advance V8rik (talk) 20:43, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

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