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Block message:

{{blocked proxy}}:

Blocking administrator: KrakatoaKatie (talk • blocks)

Decline reason: Not enough edits yet for me to feel comfortable giving you an IP block exemption. Are there other locations you can edit from? — Daniel Case (talk) 15:02, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Parcly Taxel (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am using the IP address of a shared network, the NUS Computer Center, and I did nothing wrong, yet I was blocked. I request unblocking. Freywa (talk) 3:31 pm, Today (UTC+8)

Accept reason:

I've unblocked the IP, it doesn't seem to be an open proxy. Closedmouth (talk) 07:50, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cyclopentadiene as "Cp"

Thanks for adding that note about the copernicium symbol. Neat fact! DMacks (talk) 14:00, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I told that person off

I saw what Oyashi77 did to your user page and I've told him off. I was angry when I saw what he did. BTW, I have Aspergers too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aspietoo (talk • contribs) 10:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I am Oyashi77. I am really sorry for having vandalized your account but please try to understand that my account was hacked by someone who vandalized your beautiful user page. Please kindly request the admins to unblock my account so that I can make constructive edits to Wikipedia. Thank you. Signed by Oyashi77. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.245.227.100 (talk) 14:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copper

[1]

I'm not sure I agree with removing the section headers. Right now the section looks like a large chunk of unorganized text. While the subsections prior to your edit were short, the existence of subsection headers provided focus and impetus for further edits. If there should be fewer section headers, we should start with a general comment, then binary compounds (see Greenwood & Earnshaw), then coordination & organometallic compounds, followed by other things like Cu(III) which are rare. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 16:46, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you clarify what you mean by redundant? You've done good work on that article, but I'm concerned that you might be past trimming fat, and getting to muscle and bone. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 07:16, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article has information that is unnecessary for readers; that is the redundant information. The stuff on comproportionation and Cadiot-Chodkiewicz couplings are unnecessary details that add no useful information. Criterion 4 of the FA criteria says: "It (the article) stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail." True for this. (Where's the barnstar?) FRE YWA 07:29, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling and the related Cu-alkyne reactions are historically significant. It also gives the major side-product when you run a Sonogashira reaction. Not all metals comproportionate with their salts. I think it is worthy of mention here. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 14:33, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They've been added back. Now find some references. FRE YWA 02:09, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		For your great GA reviewing! Lanthanum-138 (talk) 09:23, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copper review

I'm reviewing Copper...could you, um, add more references to some chunks? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 07:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Astatine picture

At WT:ELEM you stated that the Guinness World Records 2008 book had a picture of astatine as a black solid. Do you have the book?? If so, could you scan the picture and upload?? We'd all appreciate it very much... Lanthanum-138 (talk) 07:36, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have the book, the picture is on p. 150, bottom-right corner, but what licenses do I use since I took this from a book? FRE YWA 01:06, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The current solution (File:Californium.jpg, File:Polonium.jpg) is to use {{non-free poster}}. :-) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 02:50, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello?? Where's the picture?? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 09:37, 7 May 2011 (UTC)\[reply]

It may not be available soon. FRE YWA 10:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Once it's available, please upload! ;) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:20, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no. This seems to match one of the fake pics I've seen before. [2] What a shame! Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:41, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, if it is in such a widely sold book, why can't it be astatine? The authorities at GWR have checked the pic throughly and if they say it is At, it is. FRE YWA 10:52, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The image matches that fake pic (Materialscientist) agrees. The size is telling...no one has had that much astatine! (I think that amount would melt the ampule, if it were pure At.) Ve...ry...worrying. Anyway, it's not like it will be deleted immediately; there's a week for it to be on hold. I hope you don't feel bitten about this. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 11:31, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In short, it's too good to be true. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 11:35, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And the site for the fake pic says:

“

German: At-218 (Halbwertszeit 1,6 Sekunden) ist Teil der Zerfallskette von U-238, so daß Spuren von Astat in der hier gezeigten Pechblende vorhanden sind. Menge: 0.2 g Pechblende, entspricht 0.002 ag oder 6 Atome At-218.

English: At-218 (half life 1.6 seconds) is part of the decay chain of U-238, so traces of Astatine exist in the pitchblende shown here. Amount: 0.2 g pitchblende, corresponding to 0.002 ag or 6 atoms of At-218.

”

Conclusion - ...2 zeptograms is hardly sufficient...or even hardly insufficient... Lanthanum-138 (talk) 11:38 & 11:39, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Alchemist-hp would have At at his disposal, besides, he may make great pictures for WP, but I don't think he wants to compromise his own safety. :-) Not everyone has an alpha particle gun, I'm not sure if he can gain access to one, but regardless, good luck if he tries to get an At picture! (Remember the saga with F?) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 06:51, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently I may not be able to get the 40 MeV stated in the article. Remember I am an 8th grader in Singapore, a country with almost no synchrotrons or anything else. Sugestions for A-HP? FRE YWA 06:56, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually referring to A-hp, not you above. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 08:50, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I may have to contact the Department of Research, Innovation & Entrerprise in my school to access the synchrotron. Tell you, this is real hard. Nobody makes astatine these days, it only belongs on the periodic table. FRE YWA 04:22, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mustn't forget to get the bismuth first :-) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 05:12, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Astatine.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Astatine.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:58, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive update

Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

So far, 54 people have signed up for the drive, and 33 are actively participating. If you signed up for the drive but have not participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to talk to us. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We currently have 17 articles awaiting edit.

Progress report

We are making slow progress on achieving our target of reducing the overall backlog by 15%; in order to accomplish this goal we will need to complete about 400 more articles. However, we are making good progress on the 2009 backlog, as we have eliminated over half of the articles from 2009 that were present at the start of the drive. Let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009; leaderboard awards will be handed out for 2009 articles this drive. Thank you for participating in the May 2011 drive. We hope it will be another success!

Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:55, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

GAs

Btw, Pd and Cn are currently on GAs. Care to review? :-) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:58, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any other comments? (Some of the people at WP:ELEM are thinking that you, like me, are rushing slightly through the GA process. Not sure if you knew about that already.) Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:39, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!

Participation

There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.

Progress report

During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.

Coodinator election

The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), Tea with toast (Talk), Chaosdruid (talk), and Torchiest (talk).

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:21, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

May GOCE barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to Freywa for copy edits totalling over 20,000 words during the GOCE May copy edit drive. Thank you very much! --Diannaa ^(Talk) 02:05, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP Elements in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Elements for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 17:45, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for participating in the interview. The overwhelming response shows the excitement and dedication of the members at WikiProject Elements. I had to trim some of the interview to make it a little more manageable and to reduce redundancy. The responses to the first question and the "anything else" question were used in writing introductions for each member. I also cut an unneeded question. Please take a look at the revised interview to make sure I haven't inadvertently changed the tone or character of your response. Also check to make sure I've used the correct pronouns when referring to you. None of these changes are set in stone and we still have plenty of time until publication in which we can tweak things. Pictures and a sidebar will be added closer to the publication date. Cheers! -Mabeenot (talk) 01:54, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inline external links on Fluorine

Hey man, I put those external links inline on purpose. I think it looks like junk to have that stuff floating off to the right side and have a different appearance for some links from others. (Oh...and you didn't save any space, are actually taking more space now. Besides, I think an in order list is a lot cleaner than stuff floating. And at the bottom like that, the space concern is not so big...besides if you really want it clean and tight, do two columns, not combining different-side justified links.) I'm not going to edit war you (it's stupid, gotta fix the chemistry first). Just get this. That was done that way ON PURPOSE, not as a mistake. See also painted turtle. TCO (talk) 13:21, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Massive changes without concensus on Floppy disk

My friend, it looks like you are a passionate Wikipedia editor like many of the rest of us. I appreciate that you want to contribute to articles and you make bold edits. You will likely find your edits more accepted by other editors if you discuss your desired changes on the talk page of an article first. Otherwise the other editors will feel you might be making changes without or against consensus and that is not good. On the Floppy disk article please review your desired changes on the talk page before making further changes so that we can discuss the pros and cons of those proposed changes. That will prevent your edits from looking like vandalism. Thanks for your attention. § Music Sorter § (talk) 09:02, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

So far, 45 people have signed up for the drive, of which 30 are actively participating, a very high participation rate. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to talk to us.

Progress report

Progress has been less than that needed to meet our target for the drive (which would reduce the backlog by about 400 articles). Remember though, if everyone copy edits one or two articles every day, we will easily meet our goal. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. Reducing the number of articles on this list has been a major success of this drive. Thanks for participating!

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:02, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Europium

Hi Freywa, I am the main contributor of the Europium article and I am away for two weeks, can you leave the GAN open for that time? Thanks Stone --Stone (talk) 09:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive report

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Here is your end-of-drive report.

Participation

50 people signed up for the drive, of which 39 participated. Thanks to all who copy edited articles and helped us reduce the backlogs in both the total articles and requests. We offered a bonus for copy edits from the Requests page, and have been somewhat successful in reducing that backlog, as a record 89 new requests were received in the month of July.

Progress report

During the month of July we reduced the backlog by 338 articles, or by about 8.5%. We did not reach our goal of a 10% reduction, but we came close, and did very well considering the small size of the group participating. Since our Backlog elimination drives began in May 2010, we have reduced the backlog by 4,708 articles. End-of-drive results can be found here. We will be handing out barnstars within the next week or two.

Requests page

Please remember that the GOCE Requests page is receiving a high number of requests, with the number of August requests already above three per day. Any assistance to help keep the backlog down would be greatly appreciated.

Our next drive will be in September. We hope to see you there!

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:40, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE awards July 2011 drive

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Freywa for copy editing articles totalling at least 12,000 words in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! --Slon02 (talk) 03:46, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

		Leaderboard Award—5k Article Count— Tied 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Freywa for copy editing 1 article totalling at least 5,000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' July 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. --Slon02 (talk) 03:46, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Floppy article invitation

Hi, you're invited in taking active part in editing/patrolling/reviewing Floppy disk hardware emulator. Hoping you'll enjoy it as you enjoed Floppy disk. Blackvisionit (talk) 04:54, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, maybe internal article disputing is over. Go on keeping an eye and be bold to refactor written english-text as you aslready did on the Floppy disk article. Blackvisionit (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody's a Gom!

I see you're using the Gom template on your userpage, but I also see that there's a humour notice at the top. I assume you just like the picture, or you're poking fun at service awards? You'd have had to start editing Wikipedia in 1992 (about 11 years before it started) for it to be played straight! --Slashme (talk) 14:06, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

>>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:25, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Folding@Home's Wikipedia Team!

Nice to have you onboard! :) Spitfire19 ^T/_C 16:35, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild.

Progress report

So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue.

Rollover words

Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives.

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

September barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to Freywa for copy editing articles totalling over 8000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you very much for your help! Dianna (talk)