User talk:Khamar/Archive 3

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2014)

 * Hi ! How have you been? Just dropping by to ask if you would have time to help us rephrase a few technical passages in the C-4 article. One contributor added a lot of great material, but it is taken verbatim from the sources, so we have a copyright problem. We're trying to reword, but our collective knowledge of chemistry is too weak to make sense of all of it. You're friendly, a chemist, and a TAFI member, so I thought I would turn to you! Of course, feel no pressure about this and do this only if you have time. Hope you're well. Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 05:40, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I will take another look at the article. Kyle(talk) 07:08, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Nikkimaria (talk) 02:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Joe Nickell
Gatoclass (talk) 15:12, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Flying Tiger Development
Hello Khamar, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Flying Tiger Development, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 12:12, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I rarely mark pages for Speedy Deletion. This is the first one I've had rejected. According to G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion if the article subject is not notable (note that it has zero references), only lists products or promotional material, and would need to be re-written to become encyclopedic then the article is a clear candidate for speedy deletion. I'm not arguing for or against, I'm simply restating the rule. I'll leave the decision stand without further comment. Kyle(talk) 22:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

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Merge Bill Bradfield AM into William A. Bradfield
Thanks for the pointers, Kyle. I think I have completed this merge now. If you have a moment, would you mind casting your eye over it to be sure I didn't bugger it up? --Gronk Oz (talk) 09:18, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The redirect looks good. The talk page note looks clean (both pages.) I see no concerns with what you have done. I see that you made four separate moves then merged the content. This is acceptable but I was informed recently that best practice is to move the entire page into one new section first, then copy edit and distribute the info. Your merge was clean and only took a few edits - good job. -Kyle(talk) 14:57, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Chemistry article creation
Hi Kyle,

You are welcome to create redlink articles on my to do list. You have prompted me to move my calcium monohydride article into live space. Anyway most of these are either gasses, or found somewhere in space. However I will ask you to put some significant content in the pages, not just make a short stub, as I am sure our readers do not want to be excited to find a page on trifluorosilane in Wikipedia, only then to find it just says: "trifluorosilane is a gas". When I was in high school, I did some experiments trying to make different gasses. This then prompted me to make a list of gasses. I have already started some drafts at User:Graeme Bartlett/Phosphorothioc chloride difluoride and User:Graeme Bartlett/silicon carbonate User:Graeme Bartlett/thiosulfinic acid and User:Graeme Bartlett/tetrabutyl orthotitanate. So you can add to these and move into articles if you wish. User:Graeme Bartlett/volatilesubstances also has a few redlinks I would like to see blue! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:52, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to help with those pages. I've never created a stub that remained one more more than about 10 seconds - so thats not a problem. I have personal experience with trifluorosilane so I may need to declare COI. ha! I will look at your other pages also. Recently I learned about Measles virus used to treat cancer and quickly found the most important references missing from WP. The result was a new page on MV-NIS. I'm also cleaning up some other notable scientist pages while I wait for additional notoriety on some BLP drafts. Thanks again for the handy list of possible new-article topics. -Kyle(talk) 00:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * COI for a chemical? Are you selling it?  Or do you want to cite your own papers? The substance I was thinking of is SiHF3. I suppose SiF3· would exist as a free radical, but I was not going to write about it! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:33, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I see! And my attempt at COI humor was very poor. I started a stub as a userspace draft, and will work on that page during breaks on Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier. -Kyle(talk) 18:57, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Trifluorosilane is present in literature and publication for both the ion, and the full molecule. This confusion results in overlapping sets of data - so I'm carefully cross checking all the citations. After an exhaustive search, the literature pool is very shallow. I may need to declare victory and retreat to another page soon. lol -Kyle(talk) 22:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)