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Speedy deletion nomination of Research Paradigms - Howard E. Zimmerman
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 * Hello, Hezimmerman, I saw you comment that you are unable to move an article in to the mainspace and I took a look at the text in question. Unfortunately general CV's are not considered good article material.  I suggest you take a look at the Welcome message above, specifically links related to Your first article and How to write a great article for help in creating the article.  If you have any questions, please let me know.  Thanks...  ttonyb  (talk) 00:05, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hezimmerman


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Speedy deletion nomination of Hezimmerman
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Hezimmerman moved to User:Hezimmerman
From your comments on the article talk page, it sounded like you meant this to be your userpage. I have moved it accordingly. It, as written - a straight CV, was not appropriate as an article. If I can explain further, or help you at all, please let me know. Lady of Shalott 16:56, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It sounds like you are Howard E. Zimmerman, and you intend to write a Wikipedia article about yourself. This is not explicitly forbidden, and at first glance, Mr. Zimmerman appears to meet the criteria for inclusion outlined at WP:ACADEMIC (others may disagree). However, if my first statement is true, please at least skim Autobiography before creating the article. Let me know if you need help or have any questions. Further help may be found at the help desk. KuyaBriBri Talk 17:07, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Howard Zimmerman
A tag has been placed on Howard Zimmerman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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Howard Zimmerman
Hello, please take a look at the article as it is now. You can add more information, but you can not just post a CV. Please do not do that again. Information given should be in text/paragraph format and include references. Lady of Shalott 17:27, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Stop! You can not post your CV as the contents of an article. Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé. Lady of Shalott 20:14, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. 76.66.194.220 (talk) 10:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Howard Zimmerman. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. ''You have been told 3 times that you cannot just post a CV as a Wikipedia article; it must be written in prose. I don't want to request a block, as it seems you are a notable subject, but you continue edit warring I will have no choice but to request one. '' KuyaBriBri Talk 20:10, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I have just fixed your latest edit. You wanted a category for the Academy of Sciences, not a reference. You really need to learn the way wikpedia works. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  23:43, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Hezimmerman
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Talkback
ukexpat (talk) 18:22, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Some of us want to help you
Howard, I can see that all this must seem very difficult to you. I will try to help. Please go to my user page and click on the email link to the left, and then email me. I am a retired quantum chemist who knows about your book, but I am also an experienced wikipedia editor and administrator on wikipedia. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  11:35, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Suggestions
Here are some unofficial comments on working with Wikipedia-Chemistry:
 * 1) If you are having trouble with entering references and related content, you can just paste your comments into the Talk pages. e.g. Talk:Birch reduction.  Others will deal with the formatting.
 * 2) Referencing one's own work is probably something to be minimized within Wikipedia for many reasons. It looks tacky too.
 * 3) Wikipedia does not aspire to compete with Chem. Reviews. The kinds of references sought are to books ("tertiary sources") or to reviews, not the primary literature. Check out WP:SECONDARY. I realize that a lot of primary literature is already cited in Wikipedia, but many such journal references will eventually be replaced by broader sources.  Broader sources are admittedly more demanding.
 * Cheers, --Smokefoot (talk) 01:10, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

A list of impartial links and references is available but I may be the only one who knows how to find them.

I can supply them but will do that only if requested in view of the concern that they might be biased. They could be used by Editors if wanted. They consist of articles and writings by persons other than me. But I am reluctant to send them without a request. If they are wanted, please give me an E-mail address of where to send the links and references.

Howard E. Zimmerman 00:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Rules on Wikipedia
The Wikiproject chemistry will help you! Several important things you should know befor. I think you would never send a article to JACS without looking into the rules how to write an article and submit it (wiki has a lot of rules how to write). You would also not dare to get into an edit fight with the reviwers (here it is the same). This rules are also good for wikipedia. --Stone (talk) 09:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does not care who you are. If you are professor, the president or a pupil in a gramar school the credibility comes with work on the articles. Everybody has to give references to credible sources.
 * Conflict of interest and self promotion are a problem here on wikipedia and therefore the rules are hard and most of the time it is thought apropriate that you never start a article on yourself, because if you are notable somebody else will start one soon.
 * Add references too your own work is considered problematic and therefore put it onto the talk page of the article and wait for a discussion to start there.
 * Do not push your point of view, most of the time a group of people gethers to oppose. Even if you are partly right and you are a professor does not ensure that after discussion your point of view will survive.
 * If you want to get a good editor on wikipedia, learn by looking what others do!!


 * That's at WP:CHEMISTRY, there's also WP:CHEMICALS, WP:ELEMENTS, WP:PHARMACOLOGY, WP:MCB (biochemistry), WP:PHYSICS. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 00:05, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

WWII tank corps
Hello,

I noticed in your biographical article, that you were a tanker in WWII. I was wondering if you knew much about Lafayette G. Pool? Or if you could help sketch out any information about allied tankers with especially distinguished combat records (ie. those Wikipedia would consider notable)? I've been trying to build allied tanker bio articles for a while now, with a rather sketchy Sydney Radley-Walters to show for it.

I do understand that on Wikipedia, personal recollections are not considered a reliable source and should not be used in articles, but recollections can serve as pointers to things that are considered as reliable sources.

70.29.210.242 (talk) 00:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

There are also many missing tank-position articles, such as tank gunner, that you might be interested in creating. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 00:14, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Birch Reduction
I've finally put in an Article on the "Birch Reduction". It is on my Talk Page (which should be temporary until I get the two drawings put in). I have drawings in .gif and .cdx format but can get most formats. However, I don't seem to be able to paste the drawings in.

The article has the Correct Mechanism, Descripition, and Correct References for the Birch Reduction. The present article in Wikipedia is terribly incomplete and doesn't deal with the correct mechanism and doesn't give up-to-date references. Arthur Birch over the years wandered back and forth between the wrong mechanism and an admixture with the correct one. He ignored the early evidence that he was in error. In any case the current article is misleading.

Howard E. Zimmerman 19:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I have moved your draft article into your userspace. You can find it at User:Hezimmerman/Birch reduction. Lady  of  Shalott  20:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You need to upload a file and insert it into the article.  fetch  comms  ☛ 20:33, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Howard, I will work on getting your material into place in the Birch Reduction article but I am a bit busy right now. Email me the diagrams and I'll check them before you upload them. The subpage is the best place for your draft. Regards, -- Bduke   (Discussion)  21:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

March 2010
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Birch reduction. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Mysdaao talk 12:18, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Test Table Icon
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Question for administrator
I put in a much improved version of my article on the Birch Reduction and uploaded six drawing which go into it. But I seem able to only access the earlier version of the article which is in my user space and I don't have access to the six drawings to put into the new version.

In the article I have noted in italics where each of the six drawings go.

I would really like to replace the old article with the new one once I have been able to transfer one table which took some time to format properly in the old version. The new version of the article is expanded now to include all aspects of interest to the Birch Reduction.

There is a Birch article which is laden with errors and limitations. I have a file documenting this. Beyond that, the current article doesn't deal with regioselectivity, the reasons for the reaction going as it does and the problem of central protonation.

Thus eventually, my article would replace the current Birch one.

In any case, I need help in locating the article I submitted today and also locating the six drawings. If some kindly editor were willing to put the drawings in place, of course that would be helpful. Otherwise I can do that.

--Howard E. Zimmerman 21:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps WP:MFA and Help:Files would help. -- Mike moral  ♪♫  21:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

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(An alternative response)


 * Hi there.


 * You can see pages that you created by looking at Special:Contributions/.


 * This shows that you created User:Hezimmerman/new article name here, and User:Hezimmerman/Birch reduction. The live article is, of course, just Birch reduction.


 * Similarly, you can find files that you added to commons by looking at your contributions to Commons, which shows that you uploaded these files;


 * File:Fig 3 Cyclohexadienyl-Anion.gif
 * File:Fig 2 Birch-Benzoic Mech.gif
 * File:Fig 1 Birch-Mechs O&M.gif
 * File:(3) Birch Basic-Mech.gif
 * File:(2) Birch-Benzoic.gif
 * File:(1) Birch-Anisole.gif
 * File:Cyclohexadienyl Anion.gif


 * You can add those to an article by adding.


 * For more help, you can either;


 * Leave a message on my own talk page;
 * Use a - please create a new section at the end of your own talk page, put , and ask your question - remember to 'sign' your name by putting ~ at the end;
 * Talk to us live, with this or this.


 * The last of those is particularly useful - please try it; pop in now and say hello.  Chzz  ►  21:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Fixes
Hi there.

Further to our conversation, you left the chat; anyway - I noticed that the picture would not work, because you also had the filename wrong - so I fixed it. The exact code I inserted was;



The file name must be exactly what you uploaded it as - see the list I wrote before.

Also, I have fixed the formatting of the first two references. I will add help on this below. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  01:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! How references work

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Reference stuff revisited
replies in user talk:Chzz. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  18:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I have replied again - this time, in the part, "Trying to reach Chzz". All replies are directly below the questions.  Chzz  ►  20:00, 30 March 2010 (UTC)


 * NOTE: I have replied to all of your previous messages. Look underneath them, on my talk page.  Chzz  ►  21:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad to hear that you have got it mostly sorted out. I did reply to all of your messages, below each one. I did explain about the figures issue too. If you are still having troubles, please ask again. Note, in particular, I wrote this;


 * Two more things, to make our lives easier;


 * Please fix your signature, so it stops doing this 'unsigned comments' thing. To do that, click on 'my preferences', clear anything in the "Signature:" box, and make sure that the checkbox " Sign my name exactly as shown" is not checked.


 * When you make sections here (to leave messages), could you keep the title short? The long titles make it a bit unwieldy in the table of contents etc.


 * Neither are a huge problem; just trying to make things easier. Hope to hear more soon.  Chzz  ►  21:49, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Note: Due to the volume of posts on my own talk page, the previous discussions and my replies can now be found in an archive - User_talk:Chzz/Archive_19. Please do not edit that page though - for any new correspondence, please start a new section on my talk page. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  10:01, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced message
You created a page, "User talk:Chzz/help/refs" (now deleted) - messages need to go on my talk page, otherwise I am unlikely to find them. The message follows, and I will reply here.  Chzz  ►  13:55, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

To: Chzz From: Howard Z

Chzz,

I have the article looking quite nice. I can have someone here go over it to look for typo's.

Also sometime back Brian Salter-Duke was helping a bit and had an interest in the Birch stuff becaue of Birch being in Australia where BDuke is. I can ask him for an opinion.

I noted one suggestion of moving the article to the Main space but am concerned about it not being understood or appreciated and then deleted. What I need is having some organic and/or physical-organic chemists evaluating it.

Do give me your opinions.

Howard

Howard E. Zimmerman 16:30, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I will check over it for typos and respond further soon.


 * Re. asking for help - of course; ask for help from anyone.


 * Re. concern over moving it - I will let you know when I have checked it over.


 * I will write more here, soon.  Chzz  ►  13:55, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Re. User:Hezimmerman/Birch reduction


 * Some comments;


 * You do not need a 'title', ie "The Birch Reduction, Mechanistic and Historical Aspects". When the page is live, the actual name of the page will be the title - presumably it will be "Birch Reduction (something)" with the 'something' being to distinguish it from the existing article. Whatever the title is, the name should be in  bold  in the very first sentence.


 * At the beginning, it needs a lede section - see that links. The lede should be an overview of what the entire article is about, preferably in clear, plain English.


 * After that, the remainder of the article should be separated into sensible == Section headings == (with that code). A section should normally be about 2-4 paragraphs. It is also possible to add === Subsections === if you wish.


 * It really needs lots more in-line references. I am concerned that much of the information contained is original research, which is not permitted. Only facts that have been presented in other reliable sources can be used in articles. Beware of synthesis.


 * Some of the language does not conform to a neutral point-of-view, and is not 'encyclopaedic' - for example, It has been a matter of intense interest to understand reaction... (this sounds like opinion, not fact - according to whom? a decade of controversy - strong assertions such as this require a reference. We turn now to the final step... - non-encyclopaedic tone; the article should just state facts - no commentary. Interestingly, central anion protonation... - the word 'interestingly' is not appropriate; it is an opinion, not a fact.


 * Currently, it is written in rather technical language; it needs to be clarified, for non-experts. Adding wikilinks might help with that, for example to Organic chemistry itself, Regioselectivity, Carboxylic acid, certainly to Arthur Birch (organic chemist). You add wikilinks by putting the article title within and  ; for example sausage displays as sausage. When the title differs from the word that you want to link, you use a pipe symbol in the centre - for example Arthur Birch displays as Arthur Birch (note the link).

My main advice is, look over some good articles in the same approximate topic area, to see how a Wikipedia article should be presented. Examples are;


 * Oligonucleotide synthesis
 * Material properties of diamond
 * Optical properties of carbon nanotubes
 * Silicon carbide

Note, I am not saying that every article needs to live up to such standards - just that, by looking at them, you will gain an insight for layout and requirements. You can always click 'edit' and see how they do things. featured articles should be even better;


 * Aldol reaction
 * Enzyme inhibitor
 * Enzyme kinetics

I hope this helps. Best,  Chzz  ►  14:38, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Received your message (starting with "Displaced Message" and will work on your suggestions
I've replied, in user talk:Chzz.  Chzz  ►  20:53, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Archiving
Per discussions, I have archived everything prior to 2010, and I have set up the page to 'auto-archive' threads that are over 100 days old. You can change that number if you wish - if you edit this page, you will see it, near the top, where it says "|algo = old(100d)". If something has been put in the archive that you would prefer not to be, I can move it back; just let me know.

I found your message about it, and 2 other messages, on my user page - please note, you should only leave messages on a user talk page, otherwise people are unlikely to see them. Apart from archiving, one message predates our recent discussions (we have now covered those points), and the other was about the use of more references - which I think will be an issue for resolution as the article develops.  Chzz  ►  04:32, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Re. article Howard Zimmerman
Re. Howard Zimmerman

I have started working on this, and will continue to do so, as time permits - it may take a while, but I'll keep at it, between other things.

Do you have an appropriate photo that we could add? ideally a 'headshot', and reasonably recent - and/or any other particularly relevant pictures, such as e.g. you working on something in a lab, or delivering a talk, or whatever.

You could also assist in two other ways;


 * Do you know if there are specific references for the 'awards' - ie websites that list them? It may be that we can only 'prove' some of the awards, and we may have to remove others


 * Could you provide me with a list of the most important papers and books that you have published or contributed to? Not too many; perhaps 10 or so, and please give full details (ISSN/ISBN, publisher, date, etc)

Note: Please do not edit the article yourself, directly - because we will then have the same 'autobiography' issues. Feel free to make suggestions though.

Otherwise, I'll continue to try and improve it, so that eventually those tags can go from the top.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  09:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

''To: Chzz From: Howard Zimmerman''

I had sent a group of links for a number of the awards and will check further.

But then I realized I had neglected to mention that I had uploaded a Picture (as requested). It should be labeled HEZ Picture and is in .gif format and in Commons. I just mentioned this in what I thought was your Talk page (User:Chzz Talk) but am guessing that it was a new page. Thus this message.

I'll work further to see I need and have more links.

Best wishes,

Howard

Howard E. Zimmerman 22:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

To: Chzz From: Howard Z

I now have links which should cover all of the awards. Some different ones cover the same award. But the best one is last and I just discovered it. It is the Chemistry Department official listing of all awards in the Department. It has awards going back to 1950 and earlier. It must have been started a very long time ago. In any case the list of Links is:

AWARD LINKS Note: The best link is the Chemistry Department Pages which list all of the Chemistry Faculty Awards. One needs to search through them by years.

The IAPS Newsletter reporting the Porter Medal Award; also some ‘bio” (Tank stuff) http://www.i-aps.org/nl-nov06/iaps-newsletter_2006.pdf

The Spectrum Newsletter describing the Halpern Awardees: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/photochem/assets/pdf/spectrum/winter2006spectrum.pdf

The ACS link listing the James Flack Norris awardees http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004536&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=7362f686-c52e-4c2e-b38d-8e8cd5053b38

The link to the AIC list of Pioneer awardees: http://www.theaic.org/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=57

The link to Yale’s description of prizes including the Chittenden one: http://www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/scholarship.html

An ACS link to all its awards including the Cope Scholar one and the James Flack Norris: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004536&

NEW A link to the EPA newsletter giving the Porter Award and other stuff: http://www.photochemistry.eu/newsletter/EPA_NEWSLETTER_dec_2006.pdf

Official University of Wisconsin listing of Awards – All should be accessible there: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/awards

Awards listed in Chemistry Cope Scholar, Humboldt, AIC Chem Pioneer, Porter Medal, NAS, Northeast First Award for Photochemistry, Halpern Award of New York Acad. Sci. http://www.chem.wisc.edu/users/zimmerma#awards

Chemistry Department Listing of Awards (Search manually by Year) 12 Awards: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/awards IUPAC Porter Medal for Photochemical Research Photochemistry, 2006 ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1990 U.W. Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences 1989 Senior Humboldt Fellowship Award, 1988 Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists, 1986 One of the 1000 Most Cited Authors in all fields of science, in which 49 organic chemists were included, 1981 Election to National Academy of Sciences, 1980 Halpern Award for Photochemistry awarded by the New York Academy of Sciences, 1980 One of the 250 Most Cited Primary Authors in all fields of science, in which 31 organic chemists were included, 1977 James Flack Norris Award for Physical-Organic Chemistry of the ACS, 1976 First Award for Photochemistry of the Northeast ACS Section, 1971 Chittenden Award, Yale, 1950 Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma XI, 1948

Best wishes, Howard

Howard E. Zimmerman 02:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Survey
A new user asked for help in getting some Wikipedians to complete this survey] - anonymous, and only for research. If you have a few spare minutes, perhaps you could complete it. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  06:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Survey
Survey - thanks for that.

Also, I've seen your notes about the article on you, and the pic - I am working on it. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  20:44, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Birch
Hello again.

I think that it would be good to make the article live as soon as possible, but with a couple of considerations;


 * I understand your comments about the existing article Birch reduction, but is there any possible way that the two could be merged together? If they cannot, then we would have to use a different name for the new article


 * Could you possibly expand and change the first part, the WP:LEDE - it should summarize the whole article, in as plain English as possible - have a look at the link, WP:LEDE. For an article of this size, it should be at least a couple of paragraphs - no new information, but just a summary of the whole thing.

Apart from those two points, I think that it should be made live. Don't worry about others modifying it - for a start, the older versions will still be stored in the page history. And who knows, they may be able to help make it better. I can understand your concern over it being changed, but that is indeed how Wikipedia works - no ownership. Of course, watch what happens, and discuss any concerns with other editors.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  04:10, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The reason that I suggested possible merge is, if that isn't done, it's quite likely that someone else will do so in the future - if it covers the same topic area. If the existing article is indeed only 10% correct, then that is the only part we would want to preserve from it; a 'merge' does not have to be inclusive.


 * Anyway - good luck with the lede; let me know how you get on with it.


 * Making it live is very easy - you just click move at the top, and remove any prefix; it is currently called "User:Hezimmerman/Birch reduction", and moving it to e.g. "Birch reduction method" would make it live.


 * Re. "History of the 774th Tank Battalion in WWII", I have no idea if it is free from copyright - the chances are, if it does not clearly say that it is, then it isn't. If you want to check, ask on Media copyright questions. If it is indeed possible, then see Donating copyrighted materials. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  15:50, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Birch continued
OK, so, I added the lede in to User:Hezimmerman/Birch reduction, and I've also wikilinked to some other articles that I think may help readers understanding. There isn't a problem just adding the lede section, because it doesn't need references - everything in the lede should be covered in more details in the body text, so references are unnecessary.

Please check the wikilinks, and add more, if you think they will help.

It would also be good if you could consider rephrasing the very first part; the opening sentence is important, and it does need to be neutral - the problems highlighted are, The Birch Reduction, a organic reaction, has mechanistic features. - hope you see what I mean.

Incidentally, a kind colleague has created a short, starting-off article on American Institute of Chemists, and I believe he is also going to make one about Lilly National Research Council - if, by the time you read this, that is not a red link, then he has done so. soon,  Chzz  ►  21:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Re. Lilly - actually, we're struggling a bit to find information about it - is it this?  Chzz  ►  22:07, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info on Lilly!  Chzz  ►  01:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

user:chzz/tb|Chzz, I typed something and lost the long message I had left before I could Save it; this is shorter}}  Chzz  ►  03:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I have replied, in User talk:Chzz  Chzz  ►  13:25, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

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merger
Hi there.

I read your messages yesterday, and wish that I had had the time to respond before the merger was proposed - but still, here we are now. I have therefore added my comments on Talk:Birch reduction, which I think is the most appropriate case - let's discuss it there with other editors, and see what we can agree. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  18:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

talkback|LadyofShalott

Userspace deletions
Hi Howard, if you put (including the braces) at the top of the pages that you want deleted from your userspace, an administrator will delete them for you. (That does not go for your talk page, just so you know.) Lady  of  Shalott  20:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Signing with four tildes
Hi again Howard, you seem to have it backwards with signing using tildes. You should sign coments on talk pages, such as this one or Talk:Birch reduction. You should not sign edits to articles, such as in Birch reduction. Hope this helps, Lady  of  Shalott  21:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Birch/merger etc
Hi there.

I'm sorry that it took me a couple of days to respond to your messages; I've been very busy with some complicated stuff on wikipedia (mostly, AN).

I can't help much with the detailed technical side of the content; that is a matter for discussion - on Talk:Birch reduction.

You asked about histmerge; as you know, Wikipedia keeps a record of all edits to all pages. When their histories of two pages are merged together, it means that all the edits to both are combined. We need to keep the history to preserve the information on who added what.

From what I can tell, it seems that all of the work that you did has been merged in. I see that you are editing it, so that's great. There is discussion on the talk page, and that is the place to comment on ideas, etc.

You can publish things that you have written on Wikipedia - there is no problem with that.

Often, making a really good article is a difficult process - I have had similar experiences myself. It is hard, after working on an article, to 'let go' - when you spend many hours on the work, it does feel like you own the article, and this is a frequent problem on Wikipedia. I've spent many hours working on something, only to have others chop it to pieces - and my initial reaction was similar to your own. However, after some time, the article did become much better than anything I could have achieved single-handedly.

I really do hope that you will stick with it. Please ask for any assistance, any time. Best,  Chzz  ►  01:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Figure 3
Fixed here; the previous version was called "File:Fig 3 Cyclohexadienyl-Anion.gif" and the newer one "File:Fig 3 Cyclohexadienyl Anion.gif" - notice the dash.

I will get the old one removed, and sort out Commons, etc. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  01:40, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, looks like your reply overlapped the above. Should all be OK now. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  01:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * By the way, I had already fixed it when you did this. Underscores and spaces are treated as being the same; however. a dash (-) is different.  Chzz  ►  02:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

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Privacy and discussion
Hi.

No, my talk page is not private - there are no private pages on Wikipedia. I moved your last message into my archive, User talk:Chzz/Archive 21 - which is at least a little more off-the-beaten-track, but of course is still open for anyone to see.

I think I understand your concerns, and yes - talking to others is always a good idea; an apology never does any harm. Just keep things like that on user talk pages, but discuss content issues on the article discussion page instead.

As I said, using some or even all of the material from a Wikipedia article within a publication is absolutely fine; the only condition being that, if you copy a large chunk from Wikipedia verbatim, you should say that it is copied from Wikipedia - this may sound odd, as you wrote most of it, but that is just why we ask for the credit - if you do publish, and mention the Wikipedia article, anyone wishing to check would see that "user:Hezummerman" had written it. See Reusing Wikipedia content if needed. Best,  Chzz  ►  02:10, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi. no, my userspace is not private; no pages on Wikipedia are private.


 * If users have enabled it in their preferences, you can email them - I have, and it is Special:EmailUser/Chzz


 * Please don't leave messages on user pages. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  05:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * See reply.  Chzz  ►  23:54, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I've replied to your comment at my talk page
Hi there Prof. Zimmerman,

I've replied to your comment about my edit to the Birch reduction article on my talk page: User talk:Benjah-bmm27.

Best wishes,

Ben (talk) 22:35, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Reuse
 Chzz  ►  20:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Advice
Generally, it is a very bad idea to write articles that are near your research. All sorts of problems occur. There are many, many articles on basic organic chemistry that are heavily consulted that would benefit from a pro like you. So if your incentive here is to do good, (vs self-promotion), then those articles would welcome your expertise.--76.199.0.99 (talk) 15:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw your response. Regarding your statement "With respect to fixing up articles already written, ... At present there are not that many organic and physical-organic articles in Wikipedia." There are thousands of articles on organic chemistry in Wikipedia.  Many need simple corrections about mechanism, structure, technique, and bonding.    Simple stuff requiring a modicum of breadth and an ability to refrain from citing oneself. --76.199.0.99 (talk) 16:49, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

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Umlaut
 Chzz  ►  21:03, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I have replied in User_talk:Chzz.  Chzz  ►  22:16, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I've replied again, see User talk:Chzz - apologies for the bold text; I didn't want to use the usual 'talback' thing, to avoid confusion!  Chzz  ►  23:28, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Archived

As you are probably already aware, my talk page gets busy, so my replies to the above have now been archived - they can be found in;


 * User talk:Chzz/Archive 22
 * User talk:Chzz/Archive 22

Please don't edit those pages though; for new questions, just ask on my talk in a new section. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  11:54, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Section headings
Hi, per the Manual of style, only the first letter of a section header should be capitalized. -- Lady  of  Shalott  03:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Image issues on Stereochemistry of Ketonization of Enols and Enolates; Kinetic Protonation
Great to have experts writing in their field! Couple of notes about the images: DMacks (talk) 18:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Chemical mistake in File:Equilib.gif: the right structure is missing the carbonyl (has methyl not acetyl).
 * Layout problem in File:Linder.gif: the "More hindered, blocked" and "less hindered, preferred" labels are floating pretty far from the structure (actually one renders closer to the image below it). Could they move closer to the p orbital about which they are talking? Or maybe just vectors for the approach, labeled "a" and "b", with descriptions of what they mean in the article? Having English text makes it harder to reuse these images in other languages. Also, having lots text annotation makes the image cluttered and harder to reuse in other contexts (and scales poorly for .gif). There is actually a lot of vertical whitespace that could be tightened, and the "down" reaction-arrows shortened, which would make the whole image smaller.
 * General format of images: .png is usually preferable to .gif for these types of diagrams if your ChemDraw supports it. Manual of Style (chemistry)/Structure drawing has some other guidelines.
 * Very minor: in your image descriptions, you list the date with the annotation "(i.e. today)". That's hard-coded, so now it's May 25 and it says "May 24 (today)".

A Report
 Chzz  ► 21:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I've just replied in User talk:Chzz  Chzz  ► 23:35, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

A TEST OLF MY SIGNATURE Hezimmerman (talk) 23:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC) A TEST WITH SIGNATURE SET Hez 00:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Assistance
I was wondering if I could be assistance for correcting some of the web pages. You seem to have a list of edits that require attention in some of the articles. I was asked by the editors of wiki to provide help--theslave (talk) 21:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

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Möbius-Hückel Concept
I think I'd already replied to your first message, before you wrote the others; see my reply here.  Chzz  ► 19:23, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I've replied again, here .  Chzz  ► 20:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Now archived, in User talk:Chzz/Archive_24.  Chzz  ► 19:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

New reply here. Apologies for the orangeness; I'm supporting Holland in the World Cup, being as England failed so miserably.  Chzz  ► 16:28, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Google
Hi there.

Re. the Google page - I think the problem is fixed, but it may be some time before Google re-indexes things.

The page itself is from the "Simple English Wikipedia - Simple:Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2009/Howard E. Zimmerman.

On the 'normal' English Wikipedia - here - we have a setting to stop Google from looking at the deletion discussions, but that setting was not present on Simple English Wikipedia; I inquired with admins from that wiki, and they have now changed that setting.

I do not know how often Google checks these things; it could be several days before it disappears, but I think that it will. Best,  Chzz  ► 00:06, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Article error
 Chzz  ► 16:07, 30 March 2011 (UTC)