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²³⁸U(⁵⁴Cr,4n)²⁸⁸Lv

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first actinoid + heavier-than-⁴⁸Ca projectile that was actually successful, right? That seems to deserve some mention.

(And perhaps it'd be the start of the era, since the warm-fusion party started with ²³⁸U+⁴⁸Ca.) Double sharp (talk) 03:36, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

@Double sharp: That indeed appears to be the case! Unfortunately, detailed results haven't been published in the literature yet, but I did find this press release saying that this was the first successful synthesis of a SHE using a Cr beam, so I guess we can go with that for now. ^Complex/_Rational 14:43, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Cool!

BTW, I notice that table of nuclides seems not always in sync with what's listed at the isotope pages (e.g. isotopes of iron stops at ⁷²Fe, but the table goes to ⁷⁶Fe). Do we have some up-to-date sources for what's currently known? Double sharp (talk) 14:58, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

The most up-to-date source is usually NUBASE2020, unless more recent papers have been published regarding certain isotopes.

Synchronizing data, unfortunately, is something that someone has to do manually; this also includes using the same values in all pages referencing a given isotope. I'm wondering if, at least for tables and infoboxes, incorporating values from Wikidata might be feasible. ^Complex/_Rational 16:19, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

presentation this year from RIKEN

The 119 search is still ongoing, but it's nice to hear at least something. :) Double sharp (talk) 16:08, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

P.S. in 2019 ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁴Cr was 検討中 (under consideration) at RIKEN as well as ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵¹V. I assume the plan is still to try that next after ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵¹V, assuming somebody else doesn't beat them to it. But no source explicitly saying so. Double sharp (talk) 16:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

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Seasonal greetings and have a Merry Christmas!

Hello ComplexRational: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Jerium (talk) 17:11, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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@Jerium: Thank you! Happy holidays to you and yours as well! ^Complex/_Rational 17:15, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas! Double sharp (talk) 04:24, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Double sharp: Thanks, merry Christmas to you and yours too! ^Complex/_Rational 16:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

A Boxing day update on actinoid targets for superheavies

New paper! Double sharp (talk) 04:43, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

It's been a while since I read one of these, thank you!

So it seems that JINR still has the mixed Cf target and may try again to create new isotopes of Og, but otherwise will have to make do with ²⁴⁸Cm targets. And there's also hope for producing a usable amount of ²⁵⁴Es for a target to chase E119 and E121. ^Complex/_Rational 15:07, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

²⁵⁴Es was already hoped for in the 2015 version of this paper (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2015.06.009). Perhaps this means it's nearer to fruition. Or perhaps this means that it just hasn't progressed.

OTOH, it's stated in the 2023 paper that Russia produces ²⁵²Cf at the SM-3 reactor, so it seems not out of the question that they could get Bk and Cf if they really needed it.

P.S. The fact that HFIR and SM-3 were built in the 1960s, and there are currently no other high-flux reactors (though PIK in St. Petersburg may be on the way), makes me sad. :( Double sharp (talk) 15:46, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you! ^Complex/_Rational 20:37, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

regarding curium-247

I do wonder: even if someone found it live on Earth (which still hasn't happened AFAIK), how would it ever be proven not to be anthropogenic? This was even an issue for the actinoids ²³⁶U and ²³⁷Np on the Moon (one, two).

Unfortunately, I suspect live extraterrestrial ²⁴⁷Cm will be something like primordial ¹⁴⁶Sm: by calculation, it must exist naturally, but it'd be almost impossible to actually prove it experimentally. I hope it will happen one day, but more for the romance of pedantically talking about 96 natural elements than for the science, just like natural promethium. (²⁴⁷Cm decays to ²⁴³Pu which decays to ²⁴³Am, so finding live r-process Cm would imply natural Am in secular equilibrium.) :)

But a similar issue kind of affects fission products. We list ¹²⁶Sn as a trace radioisotope, which no doubt it naturally is as a spontaneous fission product of uranium; but surely it must be more common as an anthropogenic fission product. I feel like if the logic would lead one to call ⁹⁰Sr natural, one has kind of lost sight of the point, even if it's technically true. Perhaps you could help come up with a consistent criterion? Double sharp (talk) 16:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

And while we are at it: a nice recent presentation on r-process studies. Not sure if you've also seen this 2021 paper. Double sharp (talk) 16:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I don't believe I've seen these before, thanks!

The difficulty in creating a consistent criterion stems from the fact that natural processes can produce various nuclides that are neither primordial, cosmogenic, or major decay products, but in such small quantities that pinpointing their natural origin is difficult. We could also call nuclides such as ¹⁸²Yb and ²⁶Ne (from cluster decay of ²³²Th) natural by some metrics, though they ought not to be classified alongside, say, the short-lived nuclides in the 4n decay series. And for fission products, the recurring theme seems to be a relatively long-lived bottleneck for each mass number, though I would agree that it would be rather difficult to distinguish minute amounts from natural SF branches and anthropogenic waste.

I think criteria of (1) primordial, (2) cosmogenic, or (3) main decay product of Th/U would encompass all isotopes that have unambiguously been detected in nature, although one could argue the merits of including nuclides such as ²²¹Rn (very rare branch in the already-rare neptunium series) under criterion 3, similar to your example of ⁹⁰Sr.

And regarding curium-247, "simple" math suggests that since about 300 half-lives have elapsed since the formation of the Solar System, reducing its abundance by 91 orders of magnitude. As such, I'm quite skeptical that any would exist outside ejecta from more recent r-process sites, so any detected on Earth would almost certainly be anthropogenic. However, we can still hope for detection in interstellar objects – maybe the next ʻOumuamua? ^Complex/_Rational 22:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

²⁴⁷Cm has been considered since 1960. Unfortunately its half-life is about ten times shorter than was hoped then. :( But hey, at least it presciently realises how it could be detected as an extinct radionuclide, as indeed it eventually was. Other than visitors from supernovae, I can't think of any way to get it to exist as a live isotope on Earth without human involvement.

Well, ¹⁴⁷Pm is more common in Earth's crust than ²²³Fr. So by this logic ¹³⁷Cs should be a "trace radioisotope". Essentially we're stuck in a bind because it's ridiculous to say Fr is not natural when Marguerite Perey found it in nature (I really salute her for this), but practically speaking, it is even less natural than Pu, which is far more a synthetic element than a natural one. (BTW, this makes me idly wonder about an alternative-history in which somehow transmutation was developed a little bit slower. Astatine was almost first found in nature too, and so I guess Tc and Pm from spontaneous fission could really have been found first had history gone differently! The trouble would be Np and Pu: without transmutation to produce larger quantities, one would not know what to look for, and one would probably not find them because one would expect eka-Re and eka-Os chemistry.) Double sharp (talk) 19:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hi ComplexRational. Thanks for completing the revdel on Platonic Love; would it be possible for you to take a look at the other i found by the same editor, Tere Bin (2022 TV series), which i also put the template on? Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 09:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

@LindsayH: Revdel completed, thanks for your vigilance! Cheers, ^Complex/_Rational 13:30, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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game names

Thank you for working to improve Wikipedia.

This edit conflicts with Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works#Italics, which says Italic type...should be used for...Video games, board games, trading card games. Actually most of that article does not italicize Quoridor... but either it should or the Manual of Style needs adjusting. Maybe this is a question for an admin. Do you know any? ;-)

Wishing you happy, productive editing.

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Thanks for the heads-up; I had previously been unaware of that detail. Italicizing consistently throughout that article is an easy enough fix.

It may, however, be worth clarifying on the MOS page that there are certain exceptions such as chess and checkers (which I probably used as a mental reference point), as those fall into both the categories of traditional games and board games. ^Complex/_Rational 01:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Hern

Hello, I was watching this afd but forgot to vote. I believe based on what I have seen that the subject meets notability guidelines as an author. Could you put the deleted article into draft so I can improve it? Thank you, Thriley (talk) 01:42, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

@Thriley: I have restored the page to Draft:Matt Hern, where you may work on it. Happy editing, ^Complex/_Rational 02:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Thriley (talk) 03:09, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

New isotopes

New paper published today. Currently away, so feel free to update the isotope pages. :) Double sharp (talk) 23:25, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Double sharp: Thanks for the link! I'll probably get around to updates tomorrow – and happy travels! ^Complex/_Rational 03:16, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

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Cites inside cites

Hi, ComplexRational! I noticed that when you edited Isotopes of Neodymium, you replaced some <ref> tags with {{r}} instead. However, {{r}} is not a drop-in replacement for <ref>: a footnote defined via {{r}} must be named.

tl;dr: if you're looking for a way to nest <ref> tags, it might better to use {{#tag:ref}} instead. Hope this helps, Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 07:30, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I'll keep this in mind should I encounter a similar scenario. ^Complex/_Rational 16:58, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Programmable matter

edits on DNA' behaviour (mosapodilla tree) and looking to synthesize to programmable matter (chicle). Artificial elements? Swet fissile for uranium bombarding to achieve power generation. Tech stacking?41.121.21.232 (talk) 07:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Not sure what you're trying to ask. ^Complex/_Rational 13:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

If I may, can we talk via email? It'd be an honour, meet at luckymsiza19 at gmail dot com ? happy to meet you.

So it's more of DNA edits and then engineer novel species (call it fruit) to achieve stacking. 41.121.116.73 (talk) 17:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not very familiar with this subject matter. You may have better luck finding someone more knowledgeable at Wikipedia's reference desk for science. ^Complex/_Rational 18:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks very much, will do.41.121.68.191 (talk) 06:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. Among the topics, we'll be covering the newly-released drafts of the Movement Charter for Wikimedia global governance. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Wednesday, April 10 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon
New York City College of Technology Additionally, you are invited to City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon at the New York City College of Technology Library in Downtown Brooklyn! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online. All are welcome, new and experienced! Interested in attending, but not a CUNY student or faculty? Please get in touch; we'll help you navigate City Tech building security. Email Jen: jennifer.hoyer18 (at) citytech.cuny.edu. Thursday, April 11 City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki). 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm (come by any time!) 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (reception to celebrate the library's LGBTQIA collection) City Tech Library Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night

April 25: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce

Past event at Prime Produce. You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Thursday, April 25 Hacking Night @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Introductions + Hacking) 9:30 pm – 10:00 pm (Showcase) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director

May 8: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! This special WikiWednesday will feature a welcome session and beginning of a listening tour by the newly appointed executive director of Wikimedia NYC, the first staff member leading our local non-profit. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info: Wednesday, May 8 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom

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Possible RD2

This edit and others by the same IP were reverted as BLP violations. Can they be REVDELed? Thanks in advance. Nickps (talk) 22:42, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Nickps, I don't think revdel is necessary here because they're asking a question about dubious claims, not themselves making such assertions that would be considered BLP violations. ^Complex/_Rational 00:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

My concern is that the IP's comment could be an attempt to use the "just asking questions" method to spread the claims in question. But I might be overreacting. Nickps (talk) 00:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

If that were the case, such claims would likely be inserted directly into the article rather than on the less-visible talk page. But if something more egregious does come up that may need revdel, please let me or another admin know. ^Complex/_Rational 00:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I'll be sure to do so! Thanks again for looking over this. Nickps (talk) 00:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

FYI, another admin has since REVDELed those revisions. Nickps (talk) 11:37, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Nonmetal FAC #9

Are you able to comment on this nomination(?); there's no obligation. Thanks, Sandbh (talk) 05:08, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

real quick request

hey some pretty gross edits were made on Ronald reagan. could you hide them, thanks! Gaismagorm (talk) 00:03, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

@Gaismagorm: The edits have been hidden and the page has been protected by Muboshgu. Thanks for your message, though, and keep up the vigilance. Cheers, ^Complex/_Rational 02:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

ah ok, glad everything worked out! Gaismagorm (talk) 11:40, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)

June 2: Hacking Sunday @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hacking Sunday at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! The event runs for the whole day, though you are welcome to come by for as little or as long as you'd like. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. A documentary filmmaker will be in attendance, working on Rabbit Hole, which aims to document Wikipedia's community to showcase how our network tackles important questions about how history is recorded. They will be in attendance to film snippets of this gathering for the documentary. It is completely optional to be a part of the film and there will be protocols in place if you wish to not be filmed. If there are any questions about the filming please reach out to the filmmaker, Meg Vatterott (meg.vatterott@gmail.com). Meeting info: Suunday, June 2 Hacking Sunday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki). 9:00 am – 8:00 pm (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) P.S. Next up will be Sat June 8 Wiknic on Governors Island!

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