User talk:The Chemistry Sorceress

Hg(CN)2
Thanks for your really nice contribution on this compound. The pressure-dependent structural dynamics are very interesting and impressively described. About the safety bit. Here is the guidelines that we mainly follow in WE-Chem: Manual of Style (chemistry). Obviously your concern about "not eating Hg(CN)2" is well-intentioned but the editing pool in this part of wikipedia recognized sometime ago that we should not burden articles with obvious and extended descriptions of ways one might get hurt with dangerous chemicals. We basically decided that Wikipedia should not try to duplicate the MSDS's, which are excruciatingly detailed. In cases that are particular topical or toxicologically interesting, articles have been established focused on the toxic effects. Thus, I encourage you to shift your large section on dangers of Hg(CN)2 into cyanide poisoning and mercury poisoning and then leave links to such page on the mercury dicyanide that you have so skillfully expanded. Those articles are more appropriate forums and would invite to better editing in the future (where other editors could see the toxicological context). Let me know if you want to discuss this matter further as we have dealt with this issue often. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)