Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009


 * WikiProject Chemistry also operates a peer review service to editors, which can be found here.

This page serves to coordinate the 2009 assessment drive of A-class and featured articles covered by WikiProject Chemistry and WikiProject Chemicals.

Some of these articles have not been formally reassessed since the first assessment drive in 2005–2006, back in the days when the 32kB page length warning actually meant something to editors! Our ideas as to what constitutes a "complete" article in the field of chemistry have come a long way since then. All WikiProjects are being encouraged to conduct A-class reviews periodically, both by Version 1.0 Editorial Team and by the WikiProject Council: this page is WP:CHEMISTRY's contribution to that effort.
 * Why the A-class review?

Many of our featured articles were also promoted a long time ago, and it seems appropriate to ask ourselves if they still constitute our "very best work". Even for recently promoted articles, we should remember that WP:FAC is not a very convenient place for discussing problems with the chemistry of an article. If we have featured articles which don't even meet our current A-class criteria, then we have a problem that needs to be addressed!
 * Why include featured articles and featured lists?

The WP1.0 criteria for an A-class article are given opposite, and reviewers are expected to bear these in mind. However we need to concentrate on the "completeness" of the article, as this is something which can only really be judged here, by editors who have some knowledge of chemistry!
 * What are our review criteria?

"Essentially complete" doesn't mean "exhaustive". There are several issues which need to be considered, such as article length, the likely audience of the article and the appropriate weight to be given to different aspects of the article topic.

"Well organized" should mean essentially free from serious style faults, although not necessarily to the degree that is required for a featured article candidate, either in the article itself or the effort put into reviewing for style matters.

More specific guidelines for various types of chemistry article can be found at Manual of Style (chemistry).

Each article will have a review page as a subpage of this one, listed below. Editors are invited to leave their comments there. There is no formal "nominator" of the review: all A-class and featured articles and lists are being reviewed and the task of article improvement will fall to the projects. The objective is to reach a consensus among contributing editors as to the article's current quality and as to suggestions for improvement. No reviews will be closed before 15 March 2009 to give interested editors a chance to make their comments.
 * How will the review work?


 * To create a review page:
 * 1) Click on a redlink below. Add   to the page (please do not use  ), replacing the   parameter with the title of the article, and save.
 * 2) (optional, doesn't work yet) Go to the article talk page and copy the parameters from the ArticleHistory template at the top (assuming there is one). Then paste these parameters (not the whole template) into the WP:CHM ACR template on the review page.
 * 3) Add   to the project banner on the article talk page (either Chemistry or Chemicals).
 * 4) READ THE ARTICLE slowly and calmly, but carefully. Then add your comments to the review page.

Featured articles

 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Acetic acid
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Aldol reaction
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Atom
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Bupropion
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Caffeine
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Diamond
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Francium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Germanium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Helium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Hydrochloric acid
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Hydrogen
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Iridium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Lead(II) nitrate
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Niobium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Noble gas
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Oxygen
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Plutonium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Raney nickel
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Technetium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Titanium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Ununoctium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Uranium
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Xenon
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Yttrium

Featured lists

 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/List of elements by stability of isotopes
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/List of molecules in interstellar space
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Periodic table (large version)
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Timeline of chemistry

Chemistry A-class

 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Acid dissociation constant
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Entropy (reassessed as B by non-project-member)
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/History of the molecule
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Zinc

Chemicals A-class

 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Aluminium chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Ammonia
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Caesium fluoride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Chlorine
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Copper(I) chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Diborane
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Iron(III) chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Phosphoryl chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Rhodium(III) chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Sodium hydroxide (demoted by non-member to B)
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Sodium sulfate
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Tin(II) chloride
 * WikiProject Chemistry/Assessment/A-class review 2009/Titanium tetrachloride