User talk:Davepio

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Image question

Hi Davepio,

Looking at the images you uploaded on commons, I see File:Thermal Cope rearrangement.jpg and File:Thermal rearrangement.jpg, which differ only in the presence/absence of an alkene on the upper-right edge of the final structure. Is one of these images a mistake that should be deleted, or are there really two different variants of this reaction that give different products from the same reactants and intermediate? DMacks (talk) 02:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The image without the olefin in the upper right edge was a mistake. It should be deleted. Sorry, I did not know how to delete the image File:Thermal rearrangement.jpg.Davepio (talk) 13:50, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I see you found the deletion process there:) If you find a quick actual mistake, it's usually okay to upload a new version to the same filename to avoid needing the deletion-process of the old one. No harm either way though...it'll get deleted soon enough.

Nit: When you respond to someone on a talkpage, please use colons to indent subsequent responses. It helps see the flow of the conversation, and prevents comments from being displayed in the same paragraph. DMacks (talk) 16:17, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Edwin Vedejs has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Edwin Vedejs. Thanks! SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 14:47, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your helpful comments. I've added the pronunciation key for the last name "Vedejs" and used the articles in the external links section as references to support the information in the biographical information section.Davepio (talk) 16:53, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work. I should have mentioned this in the original comment, but the Research section needs secondary sources too; as an encyclopedia and a tertiary source, Wikipedia should summarize what independent writers say about his research. In general, articles should be primarily based on secondary sources. You can, however, create a "Selected publications" section to showcase his most significant papers (see Stephen_Hawking#Selected_academic_works for an example).

I would also recommend removing most of the chemical diagrams from the Research section; the large number of images is a bit distracting. Sorry for all the nitpicking! SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the comments. I've cleaned up the page by removing most of the chemical diagrams, removed the reference to the Family Search document (from the biographical information section), and pushed up a secondary source that summarizes Vedejs' work (reference 8 attached to the first sentence of the "Research" section). Most of the primary sources were moved to the "Selected Publications" section. I left one chemical diagram that pictorially describe the area of chemistry for which he is most well known, i.e., mechanistic study of the Wittig reaction.Davepio (talk) 17:48, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I will review this soon. Just one last thing (sorry!) - the Selected publications section should be formatted as a list of citations, not as prose; see the example I linked above. You can pull the <ref></ref> tags off of the citation templates to display them as text, like so:

Vedejs E, Chen X (12 March 1997). "Parallel Kinetic Resolution". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119 (10): 2584–2585. doi:10.1021/ja963666v.

For this section I would recommend using the list of his top 5 most cited papers from this secondary source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10593-018-2221-2

Thanks again for the article. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 17:55, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Selected Publications section has been cleaned up and is now shown as a list of citations.Davepio (talk) 19:08, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 23:40, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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