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Holiday

Physchim62 was away on vacation from 2010-08-01 to 2010-08-09 and may not have responded swiftly to queries.

Back now, normal "service" will resume shortly! Physchim62 (talk) 14:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

OrgSynAssistant (talk · contribs)

Hey PC

When you have a moment, could you take a look at his talk and respond? --Rifleman 82 (talk) 01:55, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Ouch, yes, that needs dealing with! I'll get onto it straight away. Physchim62 (talk) 02:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

AfD closed

I have closed the AfD as speedy keep. Please don't make any more WP:POINT-y nominations of well-referenced articles on topics of massive, worldwide interest. Thanks, The Hero of This Nation (talk) 23:09, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Reply on your talk page. Summary: please read WP:NPOV. Physchim62 (talk) 23:33, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

International Burn a Koran Day

Reopening an AFD that someone else closed as a snowball close, when you're the nominator = bad idea. Don't do it again pleasethankyou. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • 01:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

There you are taking process over common sense, but I shall take the issue to WP:DRV if that's what you wish. You will only have wasted time that could have been spent improving an encyclopedia, after all... Physchim62 (talk) 01:53, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The common sense is that every !vote so far has been a speedy keep. With that sheer number, do you really expect any other outcome? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • 01:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

(1) Not true; (2) after how much discussion? Physchim62 (talk) 01:56, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

It would have cost you nothing to keep the discussion open, yet you chose to close it after less than two hours, quoting process and then !votes. As a result, the "discussion" shall now have to move to WP:DRV, wasting everybodies' time. I hope you're proud. Physchim62 (talk) 02:04, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Wasting no more time than it would've wasted to keep it open and let it gather more "speedy keep"s. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • 02:12, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Physchim62, I am with you on this one. Also, it was closed before I saw it. This so-called international event is just a one-off event which may not even happen. It is well covered in the article on the church, and the article on the event should be changed to a redirect. --Bduke (Discussion) 02:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

You've persuaded me, along with this additional comment at WP:ITN/C. WP:SNOW is not meant to stifle real discussion about the relevance of articles in the encyclopedia, especially not in such a short time frame. WP:IAR it is then... Physchim62 (talk) 02:46, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Why have the maturity to admit you are wrong when you can invoke IAR instead? 220.210.177.79 (talk) 10:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Decomposition of manganese(IV) fluoride

It says in the article that it decomposes to manganese(III) fluoride at room temperature. Does it liberate fluorine gas? Sorry if I am asking too many questions lately. I just seem to be curious about "quirks" in wikipedia articles. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 00:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it liberates fluorine gas. Any oxide or halide will do this if you raise the temperature high enough, but MnF₄ happens to do it spontaneously (if quite slowly) at room temperature. Reading between the lines, it must be stable at or near room temperature under an atmosphere of fluorine gas, otherwise you wouldn't be able to make it in the first place: I'll see if I can dig out any details. Physchim62 (talk) 01:24, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't happen to have the latter chemical, but what happens when you react Manganese(IV) oxide with hydrofluoric acid? If fluorine gas could be obtained that easily, then I thought there would be more "mad scientists" making fluorine. :)--Chemicalinterest (talk) 10:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

You would get manganese(II) fluoride, oxygen and water, that's fairly clear, as manganese(III) fluoride is a strong enough oxidizing agent to oxidize water to O₂. You wouldn't get hydrogen peroxide because MnO₂ happens to be a very efficient catalyst for the disproportionation of H₂O₂. To get MnF₄ (and MnF₃), you need fluorine gas. In fact, the reaction is used industrially to purify fluorine gas: you take MnF₃ and convert it to MnF₄ with impure fluorine, sweep away the remaining gas (which contains the impurities) and then heat the MnF₄ to 70–100 °C to drive off fluorine gas which is more than 99.95% pure. Neat trick, IMHO, if you need fluorine gas that pure! Physchim62 (talk) 11:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Natural selection (or God, if you prefer) has a very efficient way of keeping the number of mad scientists who make significant quantities of fluorine gas extremely close to zero at any one time! Seriously, you wouldn’t be able to do it. Fluorine gas is used for uranium enrichment (i.e., making nuclear weapons) and also, perhaps more importantly, for making many of the nastiest kinds of chemical weapons. If you tried to buy the stuff you would need to produce fluorine gas safely and effectively, you would very quickly get a visit from your local secret service to find out why you wanted to do it.

I was doing my Ph.D. at the time of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995. For about a week after the attack, the authorities said that it was impossible that the gas used was sarin because, to make sarin, you need elemental fluorine and no terrorist organization would be able to make or use fluorine gas. The second part is probably true, and even truer now than in 1995 because the controls have been tightened. On the other hand, a bunch of three or four of us on the newsgroup sci.chem had figured out within 24 hours the actual synthesis the Japanese religious nutcases had probably used, that doesn’t need fluorine gas, based on news reports of the chemicals found at their “base” and some fairly basic phosphorus chemistry. Obviously the secret services weren’t reading sci.chem at that time! (you won’t find the details of the synthesis on sci.chem, for obvious reasons: we phrased our conversations in such a way that only someone with some knowledge of phosphorus chemistry would understand, and almost all of the necessary conditions are left out). Physchim62 (talk) 14:34, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Probably my last question. Why are the manganese(III) and manganese(IV) fluorides so reactive, yet the oxides are relatively inert? If I mix manganese(IV) oxide and sugar with a drop of water I will give my word that it does not ignite. Is the bond so weak in the fluoride? If the oxides were as strong oxidizing agents, then manganese(IV) oxide would decompose to manganese(II) oxide and oxygen spontaneously. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 11:55, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, that’s actually quite a complicated one! Firstly, MnO₂ is not really “unreactive” in the thermodynamic sense, only in the kinetic sense. German-speaking chemists normally call it Braunstein (literally “brown stone”), because (depending on how you prepare it) it can often seem to have the reactivity of your average stone. But it will give up its excess oxygen quite easily, simply by heating to 530 °C, for example (it goes to manganese(III) oxide). And it is very very difficult to get up to exactly two oxygens per manganese, not that this matters for most practical uses.

The Mn–F bonds are obviously weaker than the corresponding Mn–O bonds, or we wouldn’t see the differences in reactivity that you point out. This is quite a general rule for transition metals, M–F bonds are almost always relatively weak for M = transition metal. The usual, relatively simple explanation is called HSAB theory: fluoride is about the hardest base there is, whereas most transition metal cations are relatively soft acids.

The full explanation is a lot more complicated, because HSAB theory is only an approximation (albeit a very useful one) based on experimental observation. It turns out that fluoride is simply too hard for many high oxidation state centres. Imagine building a compound from the original ions: let’s take an Mn ion as our centre. Now the manganese ion “wants” to scrape electrons from just about anywhere, because you’ve needed 38,000 kJ/mol (9000 kcal/mol) to make it! But fluoride ions are so hard that they really don’t “want” to give up their electrons to anything: the Mn centre isn’t “happy” with the electrons it can scrape even from seven fluoride ions, so it spits out elemental fluorine (keeping the electrons as it goes, i.e. reducing itself) until it reaches a state where it’s “happy” (round about MnF₄). The oxide ion, on the other hand, is a little bit softer than the fluoride ion, so it shares its electrons a little more easily. The Mn centre can scrape just about enough electrons from four oxide ions to make it “happy” – until, that is, something comes along which is more likely to give up its electrons and hup, you have an oxidation reaction (with the manganese(VII) taking the electrons and being reduced). This is why many elements will form an oxide in a higher oxidation state than the highest fluoride. Physchim62 (talk) 13:52, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining that. So there is more to the bonding strength than the ease of oxidation of fluoride vs. oxide. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 15:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Fasciculation

Thanks for that link, it pointed me in the right direction. Now I can sleep at night, I'd started wondering if there really was such a thing as 'nerve failure' lifting weights :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spoonfulsofsheep (talk • contribs) 20:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Fluorine color

I will ask you as you are knowledgeable in this area. What do you think of File:Fluorine.jpg? Is my explanation at simple:Fluorine fine? Thank you. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 21:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I dislike File:Fluorine.jpg but, as I don't have a free alternative to offer, I try not to make a big fuss about it ;) Fluorine gas is essentially colourless (see image on WebElements); it condenses to a pale yellow liquid (image, video), but then oxygen condenses to a pale blue liquid and we don't say oxygen is blue! In my mind, the "photomontage" is basically just a lie. I don't want to be too harsh on images-of-elements.com because they've been very kind in making their images available to everyone, but this isn't one of their best. Physchim62 (talk) 23:49, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Your article at simple:Fluorine seems fine, as far as I know about Simple English Misplaced Pages. The only point I would dispute is when you mention nuclear weapons. There is very little or no uranium being enriched to weapons grade at the moment, even if you count rogue states such as North Korea, Iran or Israel. In the U.S., weapons grade uranium (some bought from Russia, some local) is being "de-enriched" to serve as fuel for nuclear power stations, and civilian nuclear power has long been the major enrichment need. So I think it would be better to concentrate on the known civilian use rather than the hypothetical military use. Physchim62 (talk) 01:37, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

I didn't put that into the article because I think everyone's making secret nuclear weapons. It says in our fluorine article that the two main uses of fluorine were to make UF6 and SF6. So I added the nuclear explanation, which is easier for simple wiki users to understand. Thanks. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 10:35, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Titrations

I do not have any accurate equipment. I have a scale that sometimes provides bogus results. I also have bottles of tainted impure chemicals; my hydrochloric acid is green-yellow. Last of all, I have a spatula that is covered with all sorts of chemicals and a stirring rod that is a piece of plastic pipe, with chemicals inside the pipe. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 19:34, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I found out what was wrong. Household bleach very well may react with non-chloride acids since bleach contains sodium chloride. Pure sodium hypochlorite, on the other hand, probably won't react with acids unless it decomposed to NaCl, releasing oxygen gas. Then the Cl is there and chlorine can be produced. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 19:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

OK, you can't do titrations! Never mind, it would have been nice to proove it to you practically, but without numerical measurements that's virtually impossible.

You still haven't quite "got it": you still don't seem to accept that hypochlorite can oxidize itself. The product of the disproportionation depends on the pH and a whole load of other conditions but, to simplify: below pH 4.56 the reduced product will be mostly chlorine; above pH 4.56 the reduced product will be mostly chloride. The rate of the dispropotionation is dependant on the hydrogen ion concentration, that is a drop in one "pH unit" increases the rate by a factor of ten. Physchim62 (talk) 19:45, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a lab? If you do, please react concentrated phosphoric acid with concentrated sodium hypochlorite. Can Misplaced Pages support AVI files? I can take a video of reacting bleach with acetic acid. I just ruined my parent's bleach bottle by sticking dirty eyedroppers in it, though. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 20:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I want to do this. Mix acetic acid and bleach. The reaction should occur slowly. Throw some salt on it. The reaction should speed up rapidly. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 20:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

OK, but let me do the calculations first, to make sure you see the bubbles of chlorine but that you're not going to make enough chlorine to do yourself any harm. Physchim62 (talk) 20:19, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I threw bleach and hydrochloric acid together just for the fun of it. Nice fizzle. As I stated in another post, I only work with millimeter quantities of chemicals (minichemistry?), so 1 millimeter of Cl2-making stuff that is much weaker than hydrochloric acid will probably not harm. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 20:38, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough then. Bleach and acetic acid, you say it doesn't fizzle. Best if you dissolve the NaCl in water first before you add it, that way it will mix better. Physchim62 (talk) 20:57, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I could not do the chemistry experiment last night, because I was busy... I'll try again today. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 11:13, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Results:

1. No visible chlorine gas was produced when household acetic acid was reacted with household bleach.
2. A pool chlorine indicator showed that the chlorine gas produced when acetic acid was added to household bleach was hardly higher than the chlorine gas produced by sodium hypochlorite alone.
3. The pool chlorine indicator would show light yellow for slight chlorine, bright yellow for more concentrated chlorine, and a red precipitate for any chlorine dissolved in water (provided that the chlorine indicator was placed in water)

   

• Please provide comments below. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 13:12, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Don't assume that I am being hostile to you. I am just trying to prove a hypothesis. This process is important to all scientific studies. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 15:07, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Non-U.S. copyrights

A nice piece of work, and very useful. May I suggest a few things though?

• The Non-restored copyrights and especially Subsisting copyrights sections are confusing to the point that they're ridiculously difficult to understand.
• Maybe the page could use an update? Don't worry so much on this last point. Magog the Ogre (talk) 04:13, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

ITN for Philippe Croizon

On 19 September 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Philippe Croizon, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

--Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:31, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

CatalunyaCaixa

Bones! He vist que has creat l'article de CatalunyaCaixa. Tinc un dubte sobre una informació, has posat que és parcialment propietat de la Generalitat de Catalunya. No n'estic segur d'això... pot ser un error per que Caixa Catalunya és/era propietat de la Diputació de Barcelona i la Caixa Tarragona de la Diputació de Tarragona? (la de Manresa és/era privada). Bé no se si és cert, però en cas que ho sigui, igualment s'hauria d'afegir lo de les diputacions.

un salut!--Vilar 18:58, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Jo tampoc n’estic segur! Vaig crear l’article al moment de les proves d’estrès aquest estiu, perquè ningú angloparlant no reconeixia els nous nombres de les noves caixes fusionades. No he trobat massa informació sobre la nova caixa, tampoc en català, llavors he utilitzat el nostre article Caixa Catalunya com guió, d’on ve el punt sobre la “propietat parcial” de la Generalitat.

No em sembla clar de parlar d’una “propietat” sobre les caixes i no sé lo que passaria amb un excedent de liquidació, si una caixa seria dissoluta en estat de solvència. La Diputació de Barcelona era l’entitat fundadora de Caixa Catalunya, però no sé a quin punt la Generalitat de Macià va assumir responsabilitats abans la guerra incivil, ni si hi va haver trasllats de poder en democràcia. Al contrari, sé que la Generalitat era molt implicada en Caixa Catalunya fa uns anys, i que els funcionaris de la Generalitat era “fortament aconsellats” de rebre el sou en un compte allà. En l’incertitud, he tret la frase de l’article. Physchim62 (talk) 21:07, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Butter

nice:) DMacks (talk) 15:27, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Physchim62 (talk) 15:41, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

User talk:SandyGeorgia

I won't template you, but you know better. Telling another user to "shut the fuck up", even by using the acronym (we all know what it means) is completely unacceptable. It's a personal attack; plain as day. Do it again and I'll have to block you. Courcelles 20:55, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you but I too will block you if I see any repetition of this. I see you have a clean block log; let's try to keep it that way. I don't know what your dispute is but whatever it is, "STFU" is not an appropriate way to deal with it. Walk away for a few hours and I'm sure it will seem less urgent and serious. Let me know if you need any other help or support. --John (talk) 00:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

ITN for David Lloyd Johnston

On 1 October 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article David Lloyd Johnston, which you substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

--Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:43, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Wow, that must be one of the easiest ITN thingies ever; but I'm glad we could agree on how much update was needed. Physchim62 (talk) 19:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

ITN for Ajka alumina plant accident

On 5 October 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Ajka alumina plant accident, which you created. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 14:49, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Reference desk

Hi Physchim. I'm sorry you found my response to the OP somewhat 'bitey', but it wasn't intended that way and I believe it is not as clear cut as you made it to be. Frankly I'd like it if you could review your statements before submitting them and try to AGF. Hope you're well. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  17:30, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I found your remark offensive and in no way justified by anything said by Cyclonenim whom you chose to attack. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 19:26, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

OK, let's look first at the two edits from Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) that I thought were a bit "off":

• "This was discussed just above. The placenta blocks the HIV virus from passing in most cases." The OP, unlike RD regulars, does not necessarily know that the topic has just been discussed; there was no attempt to give a pointer to the previous discussion, which in any case would not have answered the "how" question the OP seems to be asking.
• "Okay, so what would you like us to do? Find books on anapsid and diapsid animals in the Permian for you?" The reply was not meant to be dismissive, but sounds that way on first reading. The OP is looking for information, and the question was clearly formulated, even if the OP seems to have confused synapsids with anapsids. It is the sort of question that the RD can often offer a great deal of information, so there is no real need to close down the topic.

To have two edits in the space of a minute that I considered "off", on different topics and from an editor whose edits I usually find to be constructive made me think that he or she was just having a bad day for whatever reason, and that everything would be fine when they came back after a night's sleep or whatever. That was the sense of my intervention.
As for Cuddlyable3 (talk · contribs) finding my intervention "offensive", and choosing to come here to inform me of this essential fact, claiming that I have some how 'chosen to attack' Cyclonenim, well, everyone is free to have their own opinion, that is the inalieable right of being human. On the other hand, for an editor who was in no way involved in the exchanges to waste their time coming here to express their feeling of offense, in particular an editor who stars their own talk page with an invocation of WP:RPA (for which read "if I don't like it, I'll ignore it"), then such an editor will inevitably go down several notches in my respect and esteem (whether or not my respect or esteem matters in the slightest to the editor concerned, which I doubt). Physchim62 (talk) 20:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

I saw only your second response to Cyclonenim because I review Ref. desks starting from the bottom (latest question). I suggest you try waiting a little before a making a snap response if a post seems inadequate to you at first reading. That would have given you time to realize, as you do now, that Cyclonenim was not trying to be dismissive. Please inspect the question again because it was not, as you say, clearly formulated. It contained no question mark, just a statement by the OP of his background and study ambitions.

• Cyclonenim acknowledged the post with his "Okay" and sought to clarify how the desk volunteers could be helpful. I think you must have injected a sarcastic intonation that was never there. The only useful treatment that I can think of is to ask you to speak a number of times into a mirror the words Cyclonenim used until you find a way to express them that is inoffensive.
• Your post is offensive because its intention is to disparage another editor and make his presence on the ref. desk uncomfortable.
• Your post is disruptive because you broke into the dialog that started between the OP and Cyclonenim with observations that have nothing to do with the perceived question.
• You now introduce matters that are irrelevant to your offensive post, such as
  • the speculation by Looie496 not you that the OP needed information on synapsids, and
  • that you had accumulated irritation from a previous post by Cyclonenim. It is unjustifiable to expose a new questioner to umbrage from an exchange of which they had no part.

I support your right to have your opinion. You are correct that my involvement is not with the particular question, it is as a occasional volunteer on the Ref. Desks. You are correct that I apply WP:RPA at my talk page. You were certainly wrong to express your displeasure with Cyclonenim the way you did instead of by a note to Cyclonenim's talk page. If Cyclonenim wanted to raise your behaviour as a complaint at WP:WQA instead of the tolerant approach actually made here, I am sure there would be repercussion. Please note that I am not an administrator. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 09:31, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Cuddlyable3 is just coming back from two consecutive blocks for harassment, so take his advice on etiquette with a grain of salt.

For what it's worth, I too read Cyclonenim's remark as irritated and sarcastic, ("So what'd'ya want us to do about it?!?") although I understand now that it wasn't. APL (talk) 15:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, hey. Let's not get too worked up over this, I wasn't expecting anyone else to reply to this other than Physchim. I completely understand that the internet lacks clarity for sarcasm, and so I was initially going to let this slide and just leave an apology on the RD. The reason I came here to make a comment is because of Physchim's recent actions at SandyGeorgia's talk page where he told her to "STFU". I didn't appreciate being told to bite my tongue for something not altogether offensive, when his/her actions somewhere else were openly aggressive. The way I see it is that if I was being sarcastic/aggressive with my remark, it would have been noted as such with something not too dissimilar from APL's example above -- but I didn't. Let's just let this pass, there's no big deal and no damage done. No need to bring personal attacks into this, I didn't see it that way, I just ask that we apply WP:AGF in future :) Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  17:28, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Cyclonenim, I think you refer to a content dispute about this article about which last month an admin contacted Physchim. That is an issue that does not need any new input here. APL is correct about my blocks and also shows well how an ill-disposed hasty reader can deduce hostile meaning in innocent speech. Joke: A church censor demanded that a new book be banned. The author asked why. The censor pointed at a line where a character said "Look here!". What is wrong with that? asked the author. The censor shouted back It's obvious to any decent person that those words mean "Come innocent child and look here through this keyhole at naked people..." Cuddlyable3 (talk) 19:17, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

That is indeed to what I am referring, and I'm not suggesting we discuss it further. I am just explaining why I decided to leave a message here. Let's just leave it be now, okay? Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  20:18, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Magyar Alumínium Termelő és Kereskedelmi Zrt.

It's not bad Hungarian, only bad spelling of the name. It does not follow the uniform spelling rules (as known as akadémiai helyesírás, that is "ortography rules of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences"). We (in the huwiki) always fix these spelling mistakes (see the Hungarian interwikilink for the company's article) without checking the company's spelling customs, since the company is not a source for spelling rules, neither an authority for correct ortography. That is the general custom of handling common spelling mistakes. There is an additonal factor: to spell such compound words as "alumíniumtermelő" & "alumíniumkereskedelmi" properly according to the rules is not a simple task even for native speakers. The enwiki community certainly can do what is wants, I only wanted to inform you about such cases of misspelling & the general custom of their handling. Bennó (talk) 08:40, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

That's what I meant by "Bad Hungarian", that it doesn't follow accepted orthography. However, on English Misplaced Pages, we always follow the orthography used by the subject of the article, even if it is "incorrect" – hence eBay and k. d. lang, for example. Physchim62 (talk) 09:08, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

(ec) Maybe you are having exactly the same problem that we have in German? There seems to be a general tendency to separate words that should be written together according to normal orthography rules, especially in titles. No doubt the influence of English plays a role in this. While these are clear misspellings, I think the general practice in the German-speaking part of the world is to simply accept it if a company has decided to misspell its own name. These companies are normally registered under the misspelled name, so it's in fact the only correct way to refer to them. Hans Adler 09:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I guess what's happening here is that the company wants the word "Alumínium" in its name to stand out. Physchim62 (talk) 10:06, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Possibly. There are many reasons, actually. Long words misspelled in this way are easier to read even for native speakers. English does it like that. It probably has advantages in connection with search engines. And since companies in general are doing it more and more, managers tend to do it because they think it's cool. German orthography is slowly moving that way. Maybe it's the same in Hungarian, but with more resistance due to a stronger sense that the language should stay "pure" and uniform? Hans Adler 10:24, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

Um, thanks, but it was actually User:Nimur who explained antenna theory. –Henning Makholm (talk) 22:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Ooops! No harm done, your black hole explanation was pretty good as well! Physchim62 (talk) 22:49, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

ITN for Benoît Mandelbrot

On 16 October 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Benoît Mandelbrot, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

--Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:14, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Atomic weight/Table

The article Atomic weight/Table has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Even though this has been around since 2006 it never developed into a proper article. If somebody wants to know the weight of a specific element he can either click the link in the Periodic table (standard) or use the featured list Periodic table (large version). I therefore see no purpose in keeping this version around.

While all contributions to Misplaced Pages are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Yoenit (talk) 12:54, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

2010 Copiapó mining accident

Hi, and thank you for researching the Spanish language media for sources. I am purposely not replying to your hard work about the t-shirts on the talk page yet in an attempt to not dominate the discussion so other people can weigh in.

On a separate but related concern. Have you had confidence that all the Spanish sources cited in fact cover the statements that they are attached to? My Spanish is not good enough to even attempt to review them so I haven't been flagging them as unverified out of good faith.

Cheers Veriss (talk) 19:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I speak Spanish ;) ¡Yo hablo español! I wouldn't deliberately post something I didn't have faith in, although I can make mistakes like everyone. The three sources for the T-shirts appear to be independent of one another, not simply copies of agency reports. Physchim62 (talk) 20:20, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Oh...no no no!!! I was referring to the dozens of other citations in the article from other editors, many anon IPs. I'm very sorry that I worded that so poorly. I did not have a single thought to doubt your sources. You've worked very hard on the article as have many other Spanish speaking editors. Again, my sincere apologies. Veriss (talk) 20:35, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, my misunderstanding! I've not really looked at the other Spanish sources in the article. Well, to tell you the truth, I've not looked at them at all ;) I tend to AGF on such things, unless the statement being sourced is obviously suspect. Especially when the article is rapidly changing! I'll take a quick look through now. Physchim62 (talk) 20:45, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

The creator of the graphic has replied to our posts on Wikicommons and it seems that he is willing to help. I'm not sure how to link from there to here.

You type ] ;) Your message crossed with my reply at commons, but thanks for letting me know anyway: I don't spend much time on commons so I could easily have missed it. Physchim62 (talk) 20:14, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

2010 Copiapó mining accident

You deleted an edit I made on the corporate section of this article. Your reason for deletion is given as vandalism. I added the following line to the list of companies that provided equipement to the rescue.

Mincon International Ltd of Ireland manufactured the Mincon MX5053 reverse circulation hammer and drill bits that drilled the breakthrough hole.

I added three news sources. One to the company itself, one to a national newspaper and one to a popular newssite. Unfortunately, the Mincon site is down at the moment, but information about their involvement is available through the Google cache of their site. There is a plethora of news sources on Mincon on the web, including: The Irish Times ( http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/1014/1224281064133.html ) BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11544067 )

If you had good reason(s) for deleting my contribution, then please enlighten me.

I may have been wrong in my edit but tellimg me to "Die. Fall down and die, stupid drool." is not good form.

(talk) 15.33, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Errm, I think you've made a mistake there somewhere... I haven't deleted anything from 2010 Copiapó mining accident that corresponds to the description of your contribution, and ecrtainly not with edit summary that you quote. Physchim62 (talk) 15:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Leonard Singer

The attack was a recent addition by an IP: I have reverted to the pre-vandalism version. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

2010 Copiapó mining accident

Sweet, I knew if I put that on the To-Do list someone would know how to fix it. I couldn't figure it out at all. Thanks and cheers! Veriss (talk) 20:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Enough: Civil, AGF, and edit summaries

Please refresh your memory on WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL and proper use of edit summaries.

I understand you may still be troubled over the wayward "s" in a Featured article that you saw eons ago that no reviewer picked up, but I had to read that paragraph (back then) half a dozen times before I spotted it even after you pointed it out; I wish we could resolve whatever led to your campaign against FAC and now appears increasingly directed at me.

You were already warned about personal attacks when you told me to Shut The Fuck Up. Today you labeled an edit you clearly knew in advance was a good faith edit as vandalism. Is there something we need to talk about to get your AGFometer back on track? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:08, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

If you stopped traipsing around Misplaced Pages like a little diva, assuming that you opinion is always the absolute and only truth, then I might be more polite to you. You've done it at ITN, you did it at Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2010 and now you've done it twice at DYK in two days. Your "contributions" in all cases were inappropriate to say the least, and certainly unfitting of an editor of your experience. What on earth made you think that templating a project talk page was the correct method to get people to listen to your "arguments" instead of immediately putting their backs up? For as long as your style is maximum noise and minimum effort, you cannot expect to be treated any better by your fellow editors. Physchim62 (talk) 23:28, 29 October 2010 (UTC)