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GAN for Sand tiger follow up

Thank you so much for the review. I'm so sorry for not adding the references. I was planning on compiling additional references tomorrow. I misunderstood your hold notice. I thought I would have an additional 7 days to finish up the review after the 26th of December. I am so sorry about the misunderstanding, I'm relatively new to Wikipedia so I did not know there was a time limit on GA reviews. Thank you again for your review, and I will try to nominate it again tomorrow evening after additional references and finishing touches are made. Sorry for the inconvenience. --UND77 (talk) 04:14, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Nothing at all to be sorry about! We all misunderstand things sometimes; I have on wikipedia recently as well. I probably shouldn't be the next reviewer because I may have a bias now, but if you nominate it for peer review after getting it to GA I will try to review it. StringTheory11 04:35, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Nitrogen

I am curious about this revert. Can you explain?Materialscientist (talk) 05:17, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

The IP (with no edits before this) changed a fact here to its exact opposite without a source or even an edit summary. I looked at the nitroglycerin and TNT articles on Wikipedia and they had no mention of one being more powerful than the other, only more reactive. Due to these factors, I assumed the change was vandalism and reverted it. If I was mistaken, please revert my revert. StringTheory11 05:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Yes, lack of edit summaries is a common nuisance. My chain of thoughts was: more sensitive usually means more explosive, thus the IP might be right, let's check, yes it is right. I just didn't want to add a poor ref., but added now a book from Wiley. Materialscientist (talk) 06:25, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Am, Cm, Bk

I've reverted them back to synthetic; my rationale is in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements#Natural occurrence of the elements and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements#Natural occurrence. Double sharp (talk) 12:19, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I've changed Am, Cm, Bk and Cf now (on the articles I could find). Double sharp (talk) 02:11, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Bluespotted Stingray GA

Thank you so much for picking this up for GA! I really appreciate it. I was wondering if possibly that if you have started on anything to post it so I can jump on it ASAP. Thanks, Stanfordbound 14 (talk) 02:21, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, I'll start working now. I should have something on the review page in about 10 minutes.StringTheory11 02:23, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I have corrected what you wanted in the lead. Is there anything else? For anything? This is a class project and its closing soon, I would really love to get GA before then... So if you have anything else it would be greatly appreciated. Also, that picture should be okay soon, I am speedily trying to get that legal.I initially emailed the author and she gave me permission over an email. Due to my lack of knowledge for copyright it was put up for speedy deletion... I was unaware that she had to release all rights to Wikipedia, so she is writing a letter so that it may be used. Thank you for all your help. Regards, Stanfordbound 14 (talk) 18:46, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I've been busy lately with schoolwork, but I have looked at it again today. I hope to complete the review by Thursday, and put it on hold. Thanks for your patience; I ran into a deadline my teacher only told me about a couple of days ago. StringTheory11 19:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Oh, I understand totally about that haha! What do you mean by put it on hold? Because I'm completing all of your request within hours... Other than that thank and just let me know when you have something new! RegardsStanfordbound 14 (talk) 00:25, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you're off of your "wiki-break" and was wondering if you had any other requests. Today is the deadline for my project, but I would still like to pursue GA after that. Regards, Stanfordbound 14 (talk) 12:11, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

GA request re Higgs boson

See request here, thanks :) FT2 (Talk | email)15:07, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Edits removing elements with unknown chemical properties from the group articles

Group 9, group 10, group 11, the boron group, the carbon group, the pnictogens and the chalcogens (but not the halogens or noble gases) are not chemically defined categories of elements, so the elements Mt-Rg and Uut-Uuh can (and should) be kept in those articles even though their chemical properties are unknown. Double sharp (talk) 12:17, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Vote for a flagship article (WT:ELEM)

The rules have been changed to allow voting for more than one element. You can now vote for additional elements if you want to. Double sharp (talk) 11:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Grant Duff

 

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Found ALL the prose errors (Parcly Taxel)

All the prose errors for antimony have been identified. They are listed on the GAN page. In case you were wondering, Parcly Taxel is my ponysona - me as a pony.FreywaParcly Taxel
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All the prose errors have been fixed. You can continue reviewing now. Double sharp(talk) 07:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion

Hello StringTheory11, I have declined your speedy deletion nomination of Process Hacker because{{db-corp}} does not apply to products and software, only to companies itself, you are going to have to propose it for deletion using the WP:PROD or WP:AFD process.--kelapstick(bainuu) 04:40, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Alkaline earth metal

Hi. :-) The article is looking in much better shape than previously (don't get me started on its previous state). Just a tip: the next time you want to do major work on an article that involves major reorganisation, you could do it in your userspace (e.g. User:StringTheory11/Alkaline earth metal) so that the intermediate stages (which usually don't look polished) aren't seen to the visiting reader, who only gets the old and new versions.

BTW, since you're done with the first phase, I'll actually start the "joint effort" soon. :-) The only major parts of alkali metal left are (1) finishing up the periodic trends; (2) adding the chemistry section (this is a huge part); and (3) cleaning up all those pesky [citation needed] tags. Good luck. Double sharp (talk) 15:16, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment! I am not working on it right now, as periodic table is my focus and I have limited free time, but once periodic table passes or fails I'll start working on alkaline earth metalagain. In fact, I'm trying to model the article after alkali metal, as the groups are somewhat similar.StringTheory11 18:30, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Periodic table

Congratulations for the periodic table GA! Can we work on group 2 now? :-)Double sharp (talk) 12:57, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'm ready to start work any time, although my free time will be limited until about August.StringTheory11 02:59, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Since you're working on superactinide, you can also help me with period 8 element if you want, since there is a lot of overlap between the two. But currently I'm really working on alkali metal andpolonium, so feel free to start without me. (The polonium project has brought me on an excursion out ofWP:ELEM and more into WP:CHEMS, with polonium tetrachloride, polonium dioxide, etc....)Double sharp (talk) 06:19, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Insect wing GAN

I'm going to get some stuff done, as it all seems rather simple but right now I am on vacation and will be able to do all when I return after the 10 of July. However, feel free to review the article as much as you would like. And thank you for your time. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 05:37, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the wait, I am back in town and will get on this as of right now :) Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 14:52, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Chess

(removed tb notice)

BTW, I sided with you on WT:ELEM. Double sharp (talk) 06:03, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!, I'll try to repay the favor sometime. StringTheory11 06:06, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Not really a favour, but rather standing up for what seems right to me. :-) Double sharp (talk) 06:09, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
About alkaline earth metal: maybe mention He? It has an ns2 configuration like the alkaline earth metals, but never behaves remotely like any of them. For compounds and reactions, talk about the main compounds – nitrides, oxides, hydroxides, halides, etc. – like I did in alkali metal, and then expound and explain Be's strange behaviour (yes, I know it's there already, but you can use examples like BeCl2, BeF2 and BeO). As TCO said, "Be is just a funky bastard and kind of plays both sides of the street." ;-) After all, that is one of the reasons why Be (along with Al with its AlCl3) is sometimes considered a metalloid. Double sharp (talk) 06:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Periodic table PR

Why don't you ask mav, Nergaal or R8R for a full review? (Nergaal commented, but didn't give a full review.) They've had first-hand experience with the FA process, but I haven't yet. Double sharp(talk) 11:53, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Stubs

White has just won by making Black's stubs go extinct. ;-)Double sharp (talk) 14:21, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

WP needs a "like" button. StringTheory11 01:51, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I looked at the actinides again, and am sorry to say that nobelium has been rated as a stub by me for its messy state and its gross lack of citations. I intend to fix it up ASAP, as you can see in my to do page. In case I don't have enough time to fix it up, you can usethis pdf. :-) Double sharp (talk) 11:40, 6 July 2012 (UTC
Yeah, 3 references.... Anyways, if there is no new feedback on the periodic table PR when I next get some extended free time, I'll work on it. StringTheory11 14:44, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
No! That means that I might have to clean up that terrible mess... Double sharp (talk) 07:28, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
I dumped the nucleosynthesis content on isotopes of nobelium, which is what seems usually to be done with these articles. Now it is really a bad stub. Double sharp (talk) 12:52, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
At least with rutherfordium as a good model, it shouldn't be that hard.StringTheory11 17:06, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
...And now it's back to start already thanks to Nergaal! StringTheory11 00:50, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Higgs boson

I agree Bose shouldn't be mentioned but watch yourself on WP:3RR. Just a friendly heads up.--NeilN talk to me 18:28, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning! I already reported one of them to AIV for a 3RR, so you're probably right. I'll let someone else clean up the mess. StringTheory11 18:30, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar! It's nice to see experienced editors all in agreement. Especially on a article that had almost 3 million views in the last 30 days.--NeilN talk to me 04:48, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Most important start-class article?

IMHO Ce is more important than Pr. Double sharp (talk) 05:10, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Insect wing GAN

Well I seemed to have either fixed all that has been brought to my attention or have left it for further discussion. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 17:17, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Great! Sorry, I was out of town the last few days, so I'll resume the review later today. There isn't much left to check, though, so it shouldn't be long. StringTheory11 18:22, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you can explain the "fazes" of a GAN, because I do not remember that from previous reviews. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 14:52, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

About my mistake on 6 Equulei

Hello StringTheory11! I notified your message on my talk and I don't think I made a mistake on 6 Equulei(which in means , I added at a separation of 339.13 arcseconds). Bye. Crazy17wer (talk) 23:41, 5 August 2012

Periodic table colouring

It looks as though the likely outcomes are:

  1. R8R Gtrs' proposal, with my addition: the same, with the halogens category removed and "other nonmetals" becoming "typical nonmetals" (F, Cl, Br, and I becoming typical nonmetals, and At becoming a metalloid);
  2. Sandbh's proposal, at File:R20.png.

Either way it looks as though the halogens category is going to disappear. Double sharp(talk) 06:25, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Great! After reading them a bit, I think I'm in favor of R8R's proposal, but I wouldn't be outraged either way. I'll help with fixing infobox colors, etc. once we decide. StringTheory11 (tc) 15:43, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
I agree with you, preferring R8R's proposal, but I wouldn't mind Sandbh's either. Double sharp (talk) 04:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Origin and use of the term metalloid

I've responded to your helpful GA review comments. I don't know why but it used to be that I could only see my responses by logging on via the secure server; not the mundane server Sandbh (talk) 14:28, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

I can see them just fine on the normal server right now. Who knows what the problem was. Sorry it's been taking a while for more comments to appear, I've been really busy lately and yesterday was the first day in a while where I've had some free time. StringTheory11 (tc) 15:42, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Beaut, ta. I understand---no need for sorry. I have those days too, when there does not seem to be enough time to go round. Sandbh (talk) 01:56, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Dashes (again)

I notice that you've fixed the bug that produced a lot of "-;" instances last time; thank you for doing that. However, your present script swaps out some "-" characters that shouldn't be changed (ones in front of negative numbers). This happened at neutron star and black hole, and there's a good chance it happened in other articles you've modified.

Please manually go over the articles you've changed and repair any cases of this. Per WP:BOTPOLICY (which is usually also applied to semi-automated edits), it's usually best to err on the side of not making a change rather than make a change that may be inappropriate. In this case you could do that by leaving dashes in front of non-letter characters intact (this would miss page-span hyphens, but better to save those for later than to corrupt negative numbers). --Christopher Thomas (talk) 03:58, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks for telling me! I'll make sure those ones before negatives are replaced with the unicode minus sign− (U+2212), instead of en dashes – (U+2013). StringTheory11 (tc) 04:29, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

MoonLichen

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DYK for NML Cygni

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Arcturus.....

is rumbling along in First Gear....so even some tweaks will likely get it chugging along a bit...Casliber (talk ·contribs) 09:34, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Useful, and as intended. -DePiep (talk) 18:52, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

No problem. I'll add more later when I have time. StringTheory11 (tc) 19:28, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Unbitrium

Gcchemistry (talk) 13:31, 5 September 2012 (UTC)I have created Unbitrium in My Sandbox and it is waiting for acceptance by a reviewer. I have been improving it regularly. I have references to external sources and to other Wikipedia pages. It is on an island of stability and it had fictional reference. Thank you. RSVP

Not a good idea. This article does not meet the notability guidelines. It has not been attempted to be synthesized, and has no notable properties. StringTheory11 (tc) 04:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Well, what are the notability guidelines? Gcchemistry (talk) 20:18, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Should I wait until unbitrium has a more notable property or until it has a synthesis attempt? If yes, I'll wait. If no, I'll just stay in My Sandbox, or wait for a reviewer to accept it. If that happens, I will inform you. Thanks! Gcchemistry (talk) 20:30, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Replied on your talkpage. StringTheory11 (tc) 01:31, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Unbiseptium

Unbiseptium is created just the way you said. It has one reference, and it has the sections "History", "Synthesis of Unbiseptium", "Target-projectile combinations leading to Z=127 nuclei", "References", and "See Also". I also added a link from the periodic tables. Read it and check it out! Thank you! Gcchemistry (talk) 20:15, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

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Alkaline earth metals

It's really starting to look good now. :-) Double sharp (talk) 15:04, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Triangulum Australe/GA1

Ummm.....Talk:Triangulum Australe/GA1 ? Casliber (talk ·contribs) 10:05, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. I'll review for content today. StringTheory11 (tc) 17:10, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Undiscovered alkaline earth metals

I added an "Extensions" section to alkali metal about elements 119 and 165. The ref is also applicable to 120 and 166! The same things happen, with a few minor changes (e.g. +3 becomes +4; boron group becomes carbon group; valence electron becomes valence electrons; Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr, 119, 165 respectively become Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra, 120, 166; etc.). Double sharp (talk) 09:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

I'll get to this after the periodic table FA runs its course. Thanks for letting me know about this!StringTheory11 (tc) 04:53, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Good luck

See you started a FAC a few hours ago. Just want to wish you some good luck. All of your work there... You deserve the star and I hope you'll get it--R8R Gtrs (talk) 10:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! StringTheory11 (tc) 16:50, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

All the transactinides

Thanks for regularly editing the goals and other pages when I forget to add them. Double sharp (talk) 05:56, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem. StringTheory11 (tc) 23:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

just a question

I am really curious. What is up with your recent edits creating pages with an ANSI symbol for a title and redirecting them to, what appears to me, random pages? Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:47, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

According to pages like this, which is obviously a reliable source on the matter, the characters have these meanings, so I am redirecting to what they mean, or if it was impossible to figure out what it meant, I redirected it to the article of the unicode block that it is in. BTW, it's not ANSI, it's Unicode characters. StringTheory11 (tc) 04:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
OK...I wasn't questioning the validity of what you are doing, just what it was. You gotta admit it seems strange. May I politely suggest that you put the above citation in the edit summary as so to avoid annoying questions from curious folks like myself? Happy Editing! Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:54, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

its up!

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Note about Periodic Table's alternatives.

Please, see Periodic Table Talk page for the comment about alternative table that I added today. I think that replacement of ADOMAH with compact version of Left Step Table is not an improvement.Drova(talk) 00:11, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Mercury

Thanks for notifying. The deletion was a glitch, don't know why it happened. I only intended to fix a reference to fluorescent lamps. --Janke | Talk 17:19, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Figured something like that. Anyways, no harm done. StringTheory11 (tc) 17:20, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

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Periodic table FA

Congratulations! Double sharp (talk) 14:37, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! StringTheory11 (tc) 01:36, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
The request for TFA is now "parked" on WP:QAI/TFA, like others who fell off the formal requests, to be used later --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Cerium

You know already I actually want to FA it. I'll probably get to that during the second half of the next year. I hope it will still be of low quality (it's just an editor thing, it's getting more interesting, as the challenge's greater, not a strategist one or whatever). I hope you will be still be willing to do a lanthanide, so that you are available for that as well. What do you think of it now?--R8R Gtrs (talk) 12:09, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

In my opinion, cerium is probably one of our better start-class articles, and with more citations could easily be a C-class article right now. Of course, the lead needs expansion, and the occurrence, production, and chemical properties sections are a little sparse right now. Of course, we have good models in Samarium and Dysprosium to work off of. After I GA alkaline earth metal, I'll probably start work on Praseodymium.StringTheory11 (tc) 18:57, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
By the way, do you have any comments on what could give ytterbium the final push to GA?StringTheory11 (tc) 19:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Yb has more than one major oxidation state (+2 and +3), so we'll need to cover them with more depth (like how Stone did it for Eu last year). More citations would also be needed in some sections.Double sharp (talk) 03:05, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Also, split "Chemical compounds" out into its own section. There is more to write. Double sharp (talk) 03:13, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
BTW, de:Ytterbium is an FA. Double sharp (talk) 04:55, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
I'll write the comments on the article's talkpage during this weekend or the begging of the next week.--R8R Gtrs (talk) 11:05, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Please don't shelve it just because it's not a B+ anymore – if you could do Periodic table, which was in a very bad state before you came along, there's no reason why you can't do this (much easier, in fact!) After our (i.e. me and R8R's) 117 FAC, I'll come and help you for group 2. Double sharp (talk) 12:11, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, it's now back on my todo list. Good practice for praseodymium, holmium, and erbium. Anyways, before I can GA alkaline earth metal, the following things need to be done: expand and cite compounds and reactions, expand nuclear stability, write productions, cite biological role and precautions, and expandextensions. StringTheory11 (tc) 18:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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Congratulations

361 articles! I'll take some time to reach that at the rate I create them. (Normally I'd give it at a more significant number in base 10, but never mind; at least this is a rather significant number in base 19.)Double sharp (talk) 11:43, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Heh, thanks. Most of these are just single-sentence stubs on notable stars, so I can create a few a day :).StringTheory11 (tc) 17:42, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Some of them might be good 5x expansions. I've only got a couple of star DYKs. Casliber(talk · contribs) 18:55, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Collaborating?

I saw you were interested in working Eta Carinae up for GA/FA - it's another star (well, stars) I've always been interested in. Star articles can be damn tricky - care to work on it together? If not, it's fine by me/I'll understand. Cheers, Casliber (talk ·contribs) 02:57, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

That would be awesome! I plan to bring alkaline earth metal to GA first, but after that I'd be glad to start major work any time. Having never done a star article before, working with another editor on it would be great. StringTheory11 (tc) 00:43, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Looks like tehre are a few interested. All the stars I've worked on have taken months and several revisits so no worries - I suspect it will take some time to fine tune....Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:56, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Your table

Not bad. Can be a good visualization-stimulating thing.

I'm also happy that you're thinking like me. Could I use some help from you? Please go discuss what our goals should be. 'Cause, well, we at least need to start to discuss more or less closely (i.e., on exact items or at least conceptually)

Apart from that, I just checked your to do table. When (if not in next 4 months) you're going to start to work on N, please contact me if you're interested in my help! Gonna be an interesting task.--R8R Gtrs (talk) 17:56, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

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