User talk:Stone/Archive1

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Emerson7 in topic Refs at Henri Moissan

Hallo edit

Hello Stone, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have a lot of fun here. There are lots of resources around to help guide you. be sure to check out:

If you want add any images check out:

If you need any help try:

Don't be afraid of making the odd mistake, there are any number of others eagerly waiting for a chance to correct it!

Theresa knott 11:57 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

re: 2-pyridone edit

Sub-pages edit

Did you know that you can create Wikipedia:Subpages off your userpage? This would enable you to construct complicated pages like 2-pyridone in isolation rather than as part of your own userpage. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Oh, and BTW, are you aware of WikiProject Chemistry and its sub-projects? You give the impression of someone who would be well-suited to help out there...HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks I will try to help with WikiProject Chemistry Stone 10:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Request for edit summary edit

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 47% for major edits and 33% for minor edits. (Based on the last 106 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 12:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

CS gas edit

Many thanks for the review - I've added some data from an american army webpage - so I'm assuming it's PD and therefore usable directly. It's been a while since I studied chemistry so I think I'd have to leave a more detailed picture so someone with more experience. I appreciate the time you took to have a look and make a suggestion. Kind regards SeanMack 17:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Heptanol edit

If you prefer your structure image for heptanol, feel free to replace mine with it. I won't mind. I like the images you are creating. Keep up the good work. Edgar181 15:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Potassium benzoate edit

Thanks for your help and your message. Glad someone knows more about anaerobic fermentation then I do. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 22:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Leibniz prize edit

Thank you for your work on the Leibniz prize winners! I will list some of them at the Germany portal's new article section, if you don't mind. (If you don't want to see your name there, please remove the articles). Also, I would like to invite you to the German-speaking noticeboard and its talk page, a place where lots of German-speaking Wikipedians hang out and you can get translation suggestions and other help. Hope to see you there, happy editing und viele Grüße, Kusma (討論) 04:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Oops, I forgot that we recently made the rule not to list stubs, so I can't list these articles until they are no longer stubs :-( Anyway, I still hope you check out the Portal page and the noticeboard. Kusma (討論) 04:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia :Scientific peer review edit

Thanks but I think I will pitch in only if there aren't enough Ph.D. folks with academic tenures out there (who can actually add weight to Wikipedia's reliability). Besides I don't think I have any science articles that stand out although I notice now that I started Amotz Zahavi, Chemical database, contributed to Prion, Ernst Mayr and a bit to species started W. D. Hamilton as an anonymous edit and have been working mostly on Fauna_and_flora_of_India and related links at the moment. I was pleasantly surprised that three articles that I touched were in the Nature review list Shyamal 07:57, 13 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Greetings from the imaginary chemist. I'll reply to your message on my talk page, when it is clearer how much the value of WP articles is for Board membership and how much the ability to get the science right is. As you have probably seen, I favour the latter and you favour the former. Depending how the debate goes, I may continue to nominate for the Board or I may just nominate to be a reviewer. Right now, I think it is more important to get consensus on rather a large number of matters. The nature of the Board is just one. There is scope of the project (just Natural Science or wider? what is natural science? etc). How big is the Board? Do we need a Charter? There will probably be others. --Bduke 22:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I think we need both on the board, an because of this reason I asked! The other matters which have to be sorted out, I will try to help were I can help! --Stone 22:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

For me it is OK when we stick to Natural Science but if there is enough people coming around asking for more I have no problem to incorporate them during the project. And for the beginning I always prefere not to make too nearrow boarders for the project, because wikipedia has room for nearly everything I hope! --Stone 00:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

I have responded to your question on my talk page in probably greater detail than necessary. --Bduke 22:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your message edit

Thanks for your message on my talk. I've replied on Scientific peer review talk, and I'm happy for my nomination to stay.

Best wishes,

Samsara (talkcontribs) 10:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Uranium Trioxide gas edit

Thanks for your support Stone, it's been a big help to bringing some sence and order to this topic. --DV8 2XL 20:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Heretic Question edit

The area where Kopernik was born, lived and died was a part of Poland at the time, so your analogy is kinda weak. Space Cadet 12:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Rechtschreibung edit

Du sollst User:Stone/Flouride nach User:Stone/Fluoride verschieben! Wir tun was wir koennen ueber Urangas... Physchim62 (talk) 12:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Uranium trioxide edit

Fancy pitching in there and reviewing the latest edits? 129.215.195.81 19:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

The article could to with a dose of sanity and a revert. 82.41.26.244 00:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

s/en-3/en-2/ edit

The English writing skill shown in your recent edits to Uranium trioxide are not at the en-3 level. --James S. 10:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Gas in the Uranium article???!!!!!!!???!!??!?!!!?!!?!!! edit

Look who filled in all the detail!!!!! --James S. 14:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC) !!!Reply

Thanks edit

Thanks for you comments on UO3. I will try more cleanup as time permits, although I may be busy this week. I had to laugh about your comments on the insignificance of UO3--what a compound to be in an edit war about! Olin 13:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Boron trichloride in WP:Chem worklist edit

Hi, Harald, what made you add the boron trichloride article to the worklist under the Out of Scope section? I was considering to completely do away with this whole section, to focus all attention to the chosen articles in the worklist proper. I do see some activity every now and then in this out-of-scope list, and your explicit addition triggered me to step up from merely wondering to actually asking. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 12:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC).Reply

UO3 (again!) edit

Hello, can you cross-check if the Selbu paper says there is UO3 formed during combustion of uranium or not and if necessary revert uranium trioxide? Dr Zak 21:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Diborane edit

Good stuff on the history. My D Phil at Oxford was on diborane, both theoretical and experimantal. The undergdauate who wrote the paper, H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, deserves his own article and I will write it soon. If you link, please use the name as in my link as that is the link in the list of members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. I'm working through the list of members there. Christopher did great things with Coulson and then dropped Chemistry and made a new name for himself in Artificial Intelligence. That makes his article less than straight forward. On preparation, by far the easiest is NaBH4 plus acid. Sulphuric was used first. I wrote a paper about using phosphoric acid, and that got in "Inorganic Synthesis" (I forget which issue, but it was the 1960s). --Bduke 22:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jabir ibn Hayyan edit

Hi Herald!

Im sorry to bother you. But since you have been involved in many chemistry related articles, your neutral stand is needed in the Jabir ibn Hayyan article, regarding his ethnicity. Nearly all reliable sources say that he was an Arab. I listed all sources here: [1].

Thank you! jidan 01:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Re: Geber and Copernicus edit

If you you like to read the two talk pages, you would take a step back and wait for the dispute to settle a bit. But you are right christian chemist Liebig sounds strange and gives a wrong impression, or even better the christian biologist Charles Darvin. So lets make him an Iran born Arab or an Persian, but with both suggestions you set fire to something nobody wants. My suggestion would be make him be born in one city and a link to the city and everybody who likes the nationality of the guy can figure out that at this time persia and the arabs changed teretory often and had several wares and Iran and Irak where not nations like we know it in our time, but edit wars never follow common sence, but POV pushing attackes and 3RR and all the other time consuming stuff.--Stone 09:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, I see that the edit war has blown up a bit... I don't really care either way, but I don't think there should just be his religion. I don't really mind if there is anything there or not, but if there is, then his nationality should prioritise. -postglock 11:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Was his religion a point of big influence on his research? Another point is that with this name and this region of the world something else than islam would be astonishing. Jews christans and hindus were always minorities in the region, I think.-Stone 12:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hi!

A wiki user User:Inahet, had actually took the time to go the library, borrow the book E.J. Holmyard's Makers of Chemistry, and type the part important about Jabir's ethnic background. I have commented this. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geber#A_test . jidan 17:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks edit

Thanks very much for your comment regarding uranium, etc. Badagnani 19:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

And you're quick edit

About C2O: Impressive that you have that info at your "fingertips". As to your English skills, the chemistry is more important and I have not noticed any problems. I was looking at the "bible" again this AM - apparently this TiI4 stuff is semi-important in making high purity Ti. I think htat you mentioned the van Arkel and de Boer processes where the transiently formed TiI4 is transported to a hot filament and reverts to Ti.--Smokefoot 20:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Packistani A-bomb edit

I have put this article up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Packistani A-bomb. Your opinion on this matter would be appreciated. --DV8 2XL 01:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

CN ref's edit

Stone: You do fast work. I returned the favor with a ref to a rare report on cyanide biosynthesis. Best wishes,--Smokefoot 14:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC) yes--134.76.234.75 07:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Uranium pictures edit

Please could you tell me how I can move the pictures to the commons. As the author of the pictures (who has given away all copyright to the rest of the world) I have no problem with other wikipedia projects using the pictures.Cadmium

Hyaline oxide edit

Hyaline oxide is an interesting case. It appears that there is no public record of this compound - there are no references to it in Chemical Abstracts. The cited reference in the journal Microgram is a publication of the US Drug Enforcement Agency whose website says that archives are permanently unavailable to the public. So I think hyaline oxide is not verifiable and therefore subject to deletion according to Wikipedia policy. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

It's now on AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyaline oxide. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Arbitration edit

You presence is requested at the Arbitration Re: Removal of humus sapiens admin privilages due to administrative abuse. Please click Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration Israel Article. As you are aware that my article on Human Rights on Israel was salaciously deleted without consulting the talk page on the article. Your comments on this would be appreciated.--Oiboy77 17:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Refs Caffene edit

Hi, Stone! This morning when I woke, I found that a kind editor has already given me a copies of two of the papers: Ramalakshmi, K, et al, Caffeine in Coffee: Its Removal. Why and How?; and Zajac, M, et al, A Novel Method of Caffeine Synthesis from Uracil. My German is very weak, however, so I dount that I would be able to benefit from the third anyway. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 13:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

UO3...again edit

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry. I don't have time to deal with this today. Olin 12:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

  • Funny! Here I thought I was a chemist who could read and reason! We should have a joint ARFUUW-ERFUUW conference... Olin 17:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! edit

 
I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

As you probably know, caffeine has at last been promoted to featured article status. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into raising my beloved article to its current level of quality. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Germany edit

Hi Stone,

User:Badbilltucker has recently proposed starting a WikiProject for articles related to Germany. Since you seem to speak German fluently and have contributed to Germany-related articles such as those about the various Max Planck Institutes, I was wondering if you would be interested in helping with this project. If you want to know more about it you can check the List of proposed projects or the temporary page of the project.

Grüße,

--CarabinieriTTaallkk 10:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Cinnabar edit

Thanks for the notes (and continued good work in general). I didnt know if HgS is bad, although I know soluble Hg salts are. --Smokefoot 19:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Me again edit

Thanks for your help with (tms)2S and many other projects. Please remind me about why you like the "cite journal" format vs the ref /ref style that I use - it seems so easy. With best wishes, --Smokefoot 18:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the tip on your formatting method, it is more precise in a way - I will use, eventually. --Smokefoot 14:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Areography edit

Hi Stone,

As of 05Dec2006, someone has renamed the "Martian geography" article to "areography". I left a polite message asking for it to be changed back pending further justification but I may eventually need your help on re-re-directing. I don't think it's worth a big fight, it's clear to me that by leaving "areography" as the default title that we, as the editors of wikipedia, will be giving legitimacy to word that is rarely used. In a sense wikipedia would be creating language rather than describing it.

In any case, thanks for your help. Jespley 05:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Kevlar edit

You addition has some clumsy wording - I think it should read something like: "The carcinogenic Hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA) was originally used as the solvent for the polymerisation, but the security level necessary made production highly expensive. A new solvent, a mixture of N-methyl-pyrolidon and calcium chloride, is now used". A reference would be nice too. Snori 14:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

I've reworded as per the above. Snori 17:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Good work! edit

 
Excellent work, saving the Copper(II) fluoride article from deletion! In recognition of how dramatically it's improved since you started work on it, I award you this :) riana_dzasta 03:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jellybeans edit

 
You have been awarded these Jelly Beans from -The Doctor- Please, enjoy them.

Here are some Jelly beans for you. I love jelly beans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar. But on the other hand just receiving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy. I hope to spread the jelly beans all over Wikipedia, so here, you can have this lot. Please enjoy them. (I like the lime ones.)

Editors need a bit of a sugar high too.

An apple a day keeps -The Doctor- away. Or does it! (talk)(contribs) 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar edit

Hi! Please join us! Chris 07:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Zeise's salt edit

Nice references. Cheers!--Chris 15:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Aldol organocatalysis edit

Hi Stone, I was wondering if you could take a look at Talk:Aldol_reaction#Organocatalysis and think about if/how we should incorporate this information? Thanks, Walkerma 06:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

New chemicals edit

Hi Stone, thanks for adding all the chemicals to the wikiproject. Can I ask you one favour, when creating (or finding) new articles, could you add the {{chemicals}} to the talkpages of these pages, then they get categorised so that the wikiproject can later find them. The template carries two parameters, 'importance' and 'class', you can fill them in if you want, class is probably mostly stub for these articles, we have not discussed the importance-rating for chemicals yet, most will probably be mid, but it can be changed later anyway. Another option is to add them to the huge list under te wikiproject (here). That is the list that user:BetacommandBot is going to tag with {{chemicals}} for us (soonish, I hope). Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you edit

I was a little worried about my first article, so thank you for adding to it. I was wondering how I might locate and post info on a triphenylmethanol compound I synthesized in undergrad organic chem lab. I think it would be OC(c2ccc5(OC)cc2)(c3ccccc3)c1ccccc1. I was looking for all the typical physical and thermodynamic properties, etc. Mrbell 17:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Reply


Benzoic acid edit

Hi Stone, in the artcile on benzoic acid you inserted a value of 500 mg/kg for the human LD50 with references. However, the references do not support this statement. Therefore I removed it. Icek 09:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Exomars edit

Am I missing something? How does further delay decrease the payload? Surely the two things are completely separate. Chrislintott 08:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

new userbox--what do you think? edit

 
A discus
This user is a member of WikiProject Elements.

Abridged 18:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:Benzoic acid-chemical-synthesis-1.png edit

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E.O. and ferrocene edit

You are right, obviously and I was not. Of course they got their Nobel for incredible productive decades of work including lots of things aside from ferrocene. Thanks for checking.--Smokefoot 18:43, 25 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Furan edit

I knew it had to be 1870! ;-) --Itub 12:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Use of picture edit

Hi ! I saw you took a photo of the MPS in april 2006. I saw it on the page of the MPS on the English wikipedia. I'd like to use it on the French one. But I don't understand, the link I copy doesn't work. Could you help me please ? -- DemolitionToys --90.17.80.6 20:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Don't know if you did it, but now it works. Thx for everything ! -- DemolitionToys -- --86.220.12.167 19:59, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Alfred Werner - References edit

Hello

The infobox and the references you inserted are good additions. However I noted one error when I tried to click on the second reference by Bowman-James. For the DOI you gave the year 2005 instead of the correct DOI, so that the system cannot find the article. Do you have the correct DOI for this article?

Thanks in advance "Dirac66"

I changed it! The reference was easy to find with google scolar!--Stone 20:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Testing? edit

Are you testing something on Chesterfield? ...use your talk page instead? Victuallers 16:17, 23 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

William Henry Perkin, Jr. edit

Hi there. I noticed the refs you added to William Henry Perkin, Jr.. Thanks for those. I hope to expand the article in a moment, using the text of the 1911 Britannica[2] as a starting point. I was wondering, though, how you came across the article? Was it through seeing the hatnote I placed at Sir William Henry Perkin? In case you are interested, I tidied up the links to the father (some were about the son), and turned William Henry Perkin into a disambiguation page because it is rather easy to confuse the two. The son does sound interesting though. The references you added look fascinating, though I am unable to access them. Would you be able to expand the article slightly with some snippets from those articles? Carcharoth 21:50, 10 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Replied on my page, but copying it here as well. Thanks for the reply. Sounds great. If you can source the "didn't get it but was considered good enough for Nobel", and expand it more than I have done, then it might be possible to put it forward for Wikipedia:Did you know?. Carcharoth 22:43, 11 August 2007 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for making a awfull lot of correction work, but my english is not as good as it should!--Stone 20:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Frank Lee Pyman, Carl Schorlemmer, Eduard Schunck need also a look!--Stone 20:20, 12 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Is it good enough for Wikipedia:Did you know???--19:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Element box edit

Hi Stone, please could you do me a favour. Could you alter the element box to include a box for the Pourbaix diagram. I have already up loaded a diagram for vanadium and I intend to create a diagram for most of the elements. Some such as the group one elements (Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) are rather dull so I will miss those ones out.Cadmium —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 19:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Lindau photos edit

Hello Stone, can you please stick a couple of village photos on Lindau (Katlenburg-Lindau); give my love to Lindau while you are at it Nankai 03:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC) (Giebelhaus, 1978)Reply

Sem[yo|e]nov edit

Fair enough. If you could list a few of his works where this spelling is used on the talk page, that'd be enough to justify inclusion of the "Semenov" spelling in the lead. The only reason why I reverted your addition was because we generally try to stick to WP:RUS unless there are good reasons not to. Publishing works in English under a different spelling is most certainly one of such reasons. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:18, 19 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Actually, it is a good place. Alternative spellings are usually listed together with the title as long, of course, as there is a reasonable number of them. One alternative spelling should be no problem at all.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:28, 19 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Karlsruhe congress edit

I don't know if you saw the article on the Karlsruhe Congress, which was created recently. Since you are interested in history and in biographies of chemists, I thought you might be interested. If you recognize among the list of participants any people that already have Wikipedia articles, please link to them. :) (I already added some that I recognized). --Itub 17:38, 24 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

What can I say? edit

Hello Stone. I am Masterpiece2000. Whenever I try to create a biography of a top chemist, I find that you already created that biography!! Today, I tried to create the biogarphy of Dieter Seebach. I found that you already created it. Then, I tried to create the biography of Barry Trost. Again, I found that you already created it!! Anyway, great job! Regards, Masterpiece2000 05:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the reply. Are you a German? I looked at your contributions and I think you are doing a fine job. Regards, Masterpiece2000 03:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
I have corrected some errors from the biogarphies you created. Stone, there are many biographies of chemists which should be improved. I would like to work with you. Regards, Masterpiece2000 05:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Kolbe reference edit

On my "talk" page, you inquired whether I had seen Ernst von Meyer's biography of Kolbe. Yes, I have. You might be interested in my biography of Kolbe. I spent ten years doing research on this subject, including much time in German archives, reading his private letters. The title is The Quiet Revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry (University of California Press, 1993). Ajrocke 14:29, 7 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Stunned edit

Hello Stone! Do we have categories like Category:Atheist American sceintists or Category:Muslim American scientists? No. I have a great respect for Jews. In fact, I have great respect for all religions and belief systems. I was just trying to maintain NPOV. I hope you will understand. Regards, Masterpiece2000 09:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think you were trying to give me good suggestions. I am still very new. I have seen some user pages where users have promoted some ideologies. Wikipedia is not a blog or a social network. Can you explain the paradox? Regards, Masterpiece2000 09:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
If you want to read stupid things like these a good place is the discussion if Copernicus is German or Polish. They make a fight about an nationality never existed in that time . For me it looks like making Aristoteles a Italian guy, although it did not exist and he had greek heritage. The same whit the jewisch heritage of certain people, which does not make sence sometime! Be carefull if you join those fights, because these issues atracke nerrow minded ignorant nationalists and they have no problem to go after you.--Stone 22:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Trimethylarsin edit

Hallo Stone. Hast du die Antwort von Simplicius schon gesehen? --Leyo 20:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Image:CS-chemical-synthesis.png edit

Hi, I have transfered to Commons this image originally uploaded by you, in order to use it also on it.wiki. --Gliu 13:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics edit

Hello Harald. Thank you for creating the article Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics. It is a wonderful article. Editors like you make Wikipedia such a great place. In fact, I am so happy that I met with a great editor like you. I have expanded the article and nominated it for DYK. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

  On 25 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 16:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Reply edit

Hello Stone. You are employed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. That's great. Many great scientists have worked at the Max Plank Institute. English is your second language. Even if you make errors, no problem! You have created some really important articles. Germany has produced some really great scientists like Einstein, Heisenberg, and many others. People all over the World know about them. I don't live in the west. If I face any problem in Chemistry or related fields, I will ask you. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 12:08, 22 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Happy New Year! edit

Hello Stone! Happy New Year! Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Venus edit

That's great to hear. The article is not in too bad shape, I feel: most of the concerns raised at the review have been addressed. The article would though benefit from some more references, particularly in the later sections. If you could add a (referenced) sentence or two about the recent atmospheric science findings, that would be great. Regards, — BillC talk 22:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I saw. The paper on volcanism looked very good! — BillC talk 00:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Edit summary edit

Hi Stone,

Please use edit summaries that give other editors a clue about what you changed. See Help:Edit summary for more details. Also note that using informative edit summaries is a policy, and is worth adhering to, since it saves time for other editors. --Slashme (talk) 10:42, 1 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ernst Otto Beckmann edit

Today I added a few things to the Beckmann article. Please read it when you have a chance. (My German spelling is not very good and needs checking.) Thanks! - Astrochemist (talk) 21:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of Image:Acetaldehyde-skeletal.png edit

 

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Franz-Ulrich Hartl edit

Hello Stone. Thank you for your contributions to the article Franz-Ulrich Hartl. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 04:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) chloride edit

Hi Stone

Can you give me a sanity check on the compound's name? The order should be right - "(ligand)cation(oxidation state) anion" - but do we need the parentheses around the bipyridine? Thanks for your comments. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 17:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

  • C. Michael Elliott,* François Pichot, Corey J. Bloom, and Lonn S. Rider (1998). "Highly Efficient Solid-State Electrochemically Generated Chemiluminescence from Ester-Substituted Trisbipyridineruthenium(II)-Based Polymers". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120 (27): 6781–6784. doi:10.1021/ja974347m S0002-7863(97)04347-3. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Paul G. Bradley, Nurit Kress, Boyce A. Homberger, Richard F. Dallinger,*' William H. Woodruff (1981). "Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Electronically Excited State. 5. Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Study of Tris( bipyridine)ruthenium( 11) and Related Complexes" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 103: 1441–1446.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Several with parentheses and several without. I would add them, because it is easier to read for a non chemist!--Stone (talk) 17:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hey Stone, thanks for your comments. I think I'll just leave it as-is then. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 17:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Et3SiH edit

We eventually will get the prep of this thing worked out. It clearly is not what is currently stated. Thanks for this and other help.--Smokefoot (talk) 18:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Henry Gilman edit

Hello Stone,

I have recently been working on the Henry Gilman article and notice you added some quick information at the top of the page. I also noticed you were a part of the WikiBio project and was wondering if you had any insight on the article as a whole, as far as maybe it moving up a class. Any information concerning the content, context, or other applicable info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, I will also be sending you an email. So I aplogize for the redundancy...

Matthew Gravert (talk) 17:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)danger:radioReply

Hi I was adding only the table because I wanted the Gilman cuprate the Lipshutz and Knochel cuprates the higher order and lower order cuprat to be in some of the articles.--Stone (talk) 18:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Harteck Reference Citation edit

Thanks for the citation to the article by Michael Schaaf on Paul Harteck, which you put on the discussion page for Paul Harteck. If you happen to notice that I have been an originator of a page, or very active in upkeep, please do feel free drop me a personal note. I value all the help I can get on my efforts to construct and maintian pages on the history of German physics. Or, go ahead and make a change to the page yourself, as you see fit. Regards, Bfiene (talk) 17:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wolffenstein edit

Well, if he had lived until he was 1061, he'd certainly be notable... :-) Scog (talk) 19:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Rollback edit

I have added the rollback feature to your user account, and to those other trusted Wikipedia chemists. I hope this helps with reverting any vandalism or other inappropriate edits you come across. (If you do not want rollback, just let me know, and I'll remove it.) -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

  • Thanks! I have to lern to do it, but I hope I can fulfill the high standart of other wikipedians.--Stone (talk) 15:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
First rollback!! Iodine pentafluoride --Stone (talk) 08:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Kronenberg was no Nazi. Thanks. edit

Thanks for removing the 'Nazi' reference. Klaus was no Nazi. He actually made friends with a Russian soldier (they were both stranded in a Farm House together (outside Stalingrad) during the campaign and the two refused to fight each other. Sad to loose a great scientist and kind person. Aimulti (talk) 23:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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WikiCookie edit

 
Just stopping by with cookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:32, 6 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

About Flags edit

Hi Stone, I just saw your message about removing the flags: no problem, I won't add this anymore. I used to add it just because it was easy ( I wrote a firefox extension which facilitate all this kind of edition [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Plindenbaum/xul4wikipedia])--Plindenbaum (talk) 19:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Bromous acid & bromite edit

Hi Stone

Just to explain. Earlier today, I removed the wikilink to bromite because I redirected bromite to bromous acid. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 14:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Peer Review edit

Thanks for you answer. I changed it a bit though:

... cleaned, so that the results would indictate no...

from a "...not..." to "...no...".

Does this change your answer? Thanks68.148.164.166 (talk) 10:10, 24 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Uraniumtrioxide edit

Hi, on your Uraniumtrioxide page you have a link to Samuel Epstein - should it be to Samuel Epstein (geochemist)? (I've been correcting some links and came across it). DuncanHill (talk) 13:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Right Thanks!!--13:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Glad to be of help. DuncanHill (talk) 13:57, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Albert Niemann edit

Hello Stone! How are you? Thank you for your contributions to the article Albert Niemann. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Stone, according to the German Wikipedia, Niemann was an Austrian. If you have any information about Niemann, please add them. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
You might be right my source said nothing special, and before 1871 the Germany definition was moving alot!--Stone (talk) 14:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Stone, I made a mistake. Spanish Wikipedia calls Niemann Austrian. German Wikipedia calls him German. He was born in Goslar. Let's call him German. What's your view? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:49, 25 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

May 2008 edit

  Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Image:Acetaldehyde-skeletal.png. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. Thank you. Sdrtirs (talk) 05:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Augustus Matthiessen edit

Thanks for your edits to Augustus Matthiessen. May I ask how you found it? I created 10 other articles (also biographical stubs) at around the same time. It is nice to see at least one of them get some extra attention! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 12:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

User:AlexNewArtBot/ChemistrySearchResult/archive11 showed me the chemists bio!!--12:06, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Ah, thanks. Good to know that the new articles get laundered through several processes and distributed to the right people! I thought the story of George Fownes was particularly sad. Carcharoth (talk) 12:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Leopold von Pebal was not much better of!--Stone (talk) 13:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
John Kenneth Stille is also a sad loss, caused by a stubid accident.--Stone (talk) 13:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Nickel silicide edit

As a chemist Dr. Stone can you open a new page on nickel silicide and add all you know please RoddyYoung (talk) 05:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

oxypnictide edit

thanks for your input on oxypnictide. Rod57 (talk) 16:56, 14 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

I see you don't have a high opinion of the interest in this area. Let's see what results arise in the next year. Rod57 (talk) 23:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Pictet-Spengler reaction edit

Thanks for the help! Berichte usually gives me problems! --Rifleman 82 (talk) 19:29, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

NF3 edit

Thanks for the note. I still need to insert your information on hydroxylation of dichlorobenzene. By the way, if you find any data on how much NF3 is produced? I cannot imagine that very much is released because it would be too precious, but maybe I am incorrect.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

July 2008 edit

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Julius Adolph Stöckhardt edit

I noticed that the English Wikipedia doesn't have an article on Julius Adolph Stöckhardt, but the German does (de:Julius Adolph Stöckhardt). I can read a bit of German, but am not confident enough to do a good translation. Perhaps you will be interested. --Itub (talk) 12:17, 23 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

I will try! But you will get a stub first! --Stone (talk) 21:04, 23 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Refs at Henri Moissan edit

hello...thanks for the 'heads-up'. it really wasn't my intention to delete them all. i was was attempting to trim the least important and redundant items, but somehow, the cut/paste operation failed. if you wish, you can try your hand at doing what i apparently didn't do as well as i thought. --emerson7 21:55, 14 August 2008 (UTC)Reply