Wikipedia:Peer review/List of oxidation states of the elements/archive1

List of oxidation states of the elements
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this list for peer review because I feel that it has great potential and might be a potential FL candidate if improved. Also, WP:ELEM currently has a shortage of FLs (we currently have only one) due to delisting, so I think this could be useful in reversing this trend.

Thanks, Double sharp (talk) 08:33, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Some other references, besides Greenwood & Earnshaw, supporting the inclusion of a –1 oxidation state for the alkali metals could be helpful
 * Oxygen could do with a note commenting on its oxidation state in hypofluorous acid HOF. I suspect this is regarded as being 0. This prompts the question as to whether there are any other elements having an oxidation state of 0 in a compound—I don't know if there are any. Sandbh (talk) 12:20, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Carbon and argon are two examples. Double sharp (talk) 11:59, 22 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The list needs to contain one example for each oxidation state. Nergaal (talk) 20:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Check alkalide for a reference to barium in the –2 oxidation state and platinide for platinum in the –1 and –2 states Sandbh (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Comments The Rambling Man (talk) 18:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC) Incidentally, this checklist may be useful to you). Good luck. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Assuming you are heading to WP:FLC at some point, here are some more basic comments:
 * Don't start "This is a list..." we haven't done that for a couple of years.
 * You need a WP:LEAD which adequately describes what we're about to read.
 * I'm not sure what you'd do, but some kind of illustration or image would be welcome.
 * Try to imagine that you're appealing to readers who don't necessarily understand what "Elem." means, or worse, "Sn"?
 * Expand the table so we include English readable element names.
 * Make it a regular table with row and col scopes and cell boundaries rather than this rather nebulous table.
 * Why is this is notable? It may be interesting, but why should this even exist, why are oxidation states notable? (I know the answer, but you should explain it).
 * You have some entries bold, we don't use bold for emphasis, what's it for?
 * The FIG I illustration is.... well... what?
 * Some work to go, have a breeze around recently promoted featured lists to see what we're looking for, I know this is much more esoteric, but nevertheless, we have some standards that this list currently fails.