Paul EJ King

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I realised too late that there was already a main article called "The History of Chemistry" (this is my second Wikipedia contribution so please be patient). It could be stated that my section now seems a bit long and maybe it should be merged into the main article. However, there should be some brief treatment of how chemistry develops from alchemy to a respectable science. The article which existed before rushed through the details and contained some inaccuracies. And I feel that even a cursory treatment of how chemistry develops from witchcraft and superstition to a respected science should require an explanation of some length. The history of chemistry is not striaghtforward and linear. It is caught up with otherwise respected scientists, royalty, popes, and idle rich folk. It is linked to Europe's need to become healthy again after being rocked by plagues, blights, and so on (which I don't mention). It is also linked to the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and the development of a scientific method and a philosphy of science generally.

I thought that at the very least, we should state: 1) alchemy; 2) how alchemy revealed a need for a more systematic way of finding things out; and 3) the emergence of chemistry as the culmination of organised, meticulous and reproducible experiments.

Chemistry

Hi. Edgar181 and I (Dirk Beetstra) reverted a couple of times over your deletion. After that Ed pointed me to the talkpage, where there is a discussion about this subject. Could you have a second look, and try to minimise it, your previous deletion resulted in a garbage sentence in the beginning (I guess a new paragraph should be written there, together with a {{main}}). I now see the point of what you were trying, I am sorry about the reversion. The reason the deletion was reverted the first time was probably that you did not specify your action in the edit summary. Hope to see you around. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 19:49, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I will try and deal with this later this week. Thanks for the feedback. --Paul EJ King 15:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Help

I have another account, user:pking123. I want to make this account permanent. I want to move all user discussions from pking123 to this one; I want to move all "contributions" to this account from pking123; and so on. Of course, I am going to have to notify some other people that I am changing my username. I am creating this new account, since at first, I didn't know my username could contain spaces. Now that I have one that I can live with, I would like to keep it.--Paul EJ King 04:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I checked around, and according to Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit, you won't be able to get the edits moved over to your new account. However, you can simply move the talk pages to your new userspace using the usual move tool. --Sopoforic 04:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Using "move" isn't an option since there is now content on both the new user page and new user talk pages. You could, however, redirect those pages to point to your new account. If you want, you could copy/paste the talk page from the previous account, using an edit summary indicating what you're doing. That would allow for a smooth transition. SWAdair | Talk 04:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I meant, move the pages to something like User talk:Paul EJ King/Archive (pking123). The redirect, though, is a good idea. --Sopoforic 05:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Updated the Heldman article

FYI. I just updated the article on Dennis R. Heldman if you want to have a look at it. I have also let Heldman himself know so he can make any adjustments on the article if needed. Chris 23:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Review requested

Can you please review the Chinese American Food Society article. It is currently up for AfD and I want have comments issued on this one way or another. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Chris 23:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

-- It was looked at, and comments added to the discussion section. Paul EJ King 14:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)