IdiotsOpposite

Classes of chemicals

First, welcome to Wikipedia. You will have fun here and help society too. Now in a more sober comment about your idea of classifying chemicals and your comment that you "I'm somewhat new to chemistry" I recommend against trying to organizing anything much. We deal with a variety of well intentioned folk anxiously - even desperately - trying to organize this and that, but unless an editor knows chemistry well, the efforts are often wasted or worse. We just survived a group of high school kids "organizing" geometry pages, and the effort was an embarrassment to them and to Wikipedia. Alternatively and more positively, there are many chemicals or specific concepts that you might find intriguing. These articles need new eyes who can dedicate their editing energies, learn some chem, and help identify jargon - generally help clarify themes for the public. Along the way you'll pick up a lot of knowledge and strength. But trying to broadly organize topics that you dont understand seems premature. Good luck and best wishes, --Smokefoot (talk) 14:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I see. I wasn't quite sure about what your views were on that, and knowing me, I would've probably screwed it up somehow. However, are carbon suboxides of different lengths "different" enough to each have their own article? The carbon suboxide article we have now is a stub. Any article with a longer carbon suboxide will also likely be a stub. So, might it make more sense to create a "carbon suboxides" article, and then insert each carbon suboxide in sections in that article? Or perhaps a "carbon suboxides" article with links to each individual carbon suboxide... hmm...--IdiotsOpposite (talk) 23:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I dont have advice about pet-projects - we all have favorites. I was just warning you off of any kind of broad or organizational effort. From my limited knowledge of the carbon suboxides, they are kind of curiosities except in flames and the interstellar medium. There is this thing Dicarbon monoxide - which I think tickled the fancy of astrochem enthusiasts. About your tendency to screw things up, welcome to the club. But screwing up on an individual article is rectifiable because someone will tell you, usually nicely, sometimes in kind of surly language. I'd avoid chemicals and topics that are extremely obscure (we will never have an article on 1-propyl-2-ethyl-3-methylbenzene and x million others). You can always write your thing and then seek advice on the chemicals page as you have been doing. I recommend starting with small edits. --Smokefoot (talk) 02:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the inspiration regarding the mercenaries section for Rhye's and Fall. You are the only person so far to respond to something I have said. Once again, thanks. Willbat (talk) 00:11, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

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