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Erich Clar page

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I want to include a synthetic reaction that is known as Clar's reaction. It is of a certain class of cyclic ketones that condense with themselves when heated to 400 C in a mixture of zinc dust and zinc chloride.

I will add references and a description of what it is used for in synthesizing new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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Assistance needed, please

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Sorry to badger you but maybe you missed my ping last week to Draft talk:List of modes of action of insecticides. Bosula and I drafted a table which is now ready to be inserted into Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (see the draft Talk Page for rationale) but we need advice about doing that correctly and then deleting the draft. Regards. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping about the ping! DMacks (talk) 17:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the advice. Move and merge now complete. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Help in editnotices

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Hi DMacks, there was another edit war happened at the article Iodine concerning WP:SULF. Perhaps {{Chemical editnotice}} should be added to this article and other chemistry-related articles, but I am not sure how far do this range needs to cover. Thanks. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 10:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem to do that. I think it would be useful to know the scope of the problem. For a long-term for a few specific articles, editnotice is the obvious step. But long-term for a large and random/varying set of articles, or sporatic for any specific article? I'd want to match the size of the manual workload to the size of the expected value. There does not appear to be a way to have edit notices placed by chembox or other article templates, or applied to whole categories (or category-trees) via a single action. DMacks (talk) 13:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-relatedly, should "national spelling varieties" in the edit-notice link to WP:ENGVAR? DMacks (talk) 13:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The editnotice is linked. There are 10 element articles that uses British English and mentions "sulfur", namely N, P, S, Cl, Ca, Br, Ag, I, Th, and Fl. All of them needs the editnotice to avoid sulfur → sulphur.
I also found these articles that have the same need: acetic acid, alkali metal, ammonia, borane, cellulose, chemical element, chromic acid, furan-2-ylmethanethiol, glucosamine, hydrolysable tannin, iron(III) chloride, mephedrone, octasulfur, periodic table, and sodium azide. I'm not sure do salt and blue billy should be here too. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 15:05, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: November 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 9 • November 2024

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Hello! I am the person w 68.173.170.185 (talk) 00:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, IP-user! What are you trying to do and what sort of help do you need with it? DMacks (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I accidentally posted without finishing.
Hello I am the the user that made that official website link edit which is this one.
+2 {{official website}} is fully viable and explicitly allowed (no pref for/against) in WP:EL. It appears to give the same result in this case...what problem are you trying to solve? Undid revision 1261837351
I made the edit because the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links way of linking is a more cleaner, easier to read when editing, and has less text than the previous edit.
I was wondering what are the benefits and downsides of using the other method way of linking, even though you get the same output is there any downsides to using that way?
If I am correct is the {{official website}} a template? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wiki source of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the {{Template name}} syntax. Another method is substitution, where the content of the template is copied into the wiki source of the target page, just once, when it is saved.
Is that slower or require more resources?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion
Transclusion events occur each time the target page is loaded and the template is rendered. A related event is Substitution, where a template call is replaced with its transcluded source content at the time it is invoked. Unlike transclusion, which continuously updates the target page with changes from the source, substitution results in a one-time inclusion of the content, meaning that subsequent updates to the source content will not be reflected in the target page. For example, a template call for {{Pagename}} with the subst: prefix results in the substitution template call {{#if:|{{PAGENAME:}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}[[Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word|H{{PAGENAME}}]]. When invoked, this template is replaced, also referred to as substituted, with the actual wikitext of the source page at the time of the call, thereby making it a permanent part of the target page.[c]
Thank you, I am still learning and trying to find the best ways of linking stuff on wikipedia. 68.173.170.185 (talk) 01:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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