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Welcome!! --Gurubrahma 13:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!! Antrax 14:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We make new friends easily by having a look at Special:Recentchanges as a part of RC Patrol. I noticed that your talkpage was a red link and hence promptly welcomed you. Good to see your work on Chemistry related pages. Keep up the good work. --Gurubrahma 05:49, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome as well from WikiProject Chemistry! Feel free to drop by and share your thoughts on chemistry articles at the project pages, or to contact me if you have any questions. Physchim62 (talk) 10:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

There is no formal tutorship on Wikipedia, as it conflicts with our general philosophy of spreading the necessary work as widely as possible: in general, all users are expected to act as tutors as far as they can. Wikipedia:Help desk is a good place to post specific queries (even for "experienced" users, although most questions are posted by newcomers); Wikipedia:Tutorial is what I used to get me started; Wikipedia:Welcome will put you in touch with users who have particular experience in welcoming newcomers, and links to other tutorials which have been created; and the Wikipedia:Bootcamp aims to be a crash course in contributing. All that having been said, the best way to learn is by contributing yourself: be bold, and don't be afraid of making mistakes. Most mistakes are easily corrected, and you will never learn by being afraid!

As for the merge, I completely agree that Chemistry resources should not be where it is. If you read WP:NOT, you will see that Wikipedia is NOT a respository of external links: we are not trying to be Yahoo! here. However, these collections of links are tolerated on pages beginning with Wikipedia: such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Data, where they are kept for the benefit of editors trying to improve articles. So Chemistry resources should be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Data.

Before you do this, I should leave a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry to let other people know what you are planning to do. It's not obligatory, and I don't think there will be much objection, but leaving a note like that keeps you covered if another editor disagrees with you: the other editor cannot accuse you of just following your own whims because you have specifically asked for feedback.

Then you should copy (not cut) the contents of Chemistry resources and add them to Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Data, then save the page with the edit summary "merge from [[Chemistry resources]]". Then immediately re-edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/Data so that it looks OK.

Finally, you will need to nominate Chemistry resources for deletion: as the page is a fairly blatent breach of policy, there should be few problems here, but be sure to have read WP:AFD thoroughly before you take this step, as the process is a little bit bureaucratic.

As for getting the links to point in the right place, I suggest you take a look at the wikicode of this response (just click on the "edit" tag) to see how I have done it: that's quicker and simpler than explaining it!

All the best, and happy editing, Physchim62 (talk) 16:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

merge proposal

Hi, have a look at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals/Data where I have started and centralised the discussion. Also look at the other two talk pages from where I redirect people to this talk page. If and when a consensus is reached, please let me know if you need any help with the merger. Apart from this, I do not think I'll be able to help additionally as my last brush with Chemistry has been more than 15 years ago! --Gurubrahma 17:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Energy portal

Hi! As a contributor to WikiProject Energy development, I thought you might like to be aware of the opportunity to contribute to the new Energy Portal, now that there is one... No need to reply. Gralo 17:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Energy portal & future selected articles

Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the Energy portal, and intend asking for a portal peer review within the next day or so.

The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!

Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page, my talk page, or on Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate. Gralo 15:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please help improve Plug-in hybrid

You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Energy development, so I am asking you to please consider helping to improve the plug-in hybrid article. This is an ad hoc article improvement drive. BenB4 08:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]