User talk:TatanyaGolding

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Two small suggestions

Edits on biomedical aspects will get removed eventually unless commentary is supported by citations meeting the high standards of WP:MEDRS, i.e., a respected review or textbook.
1200 references and counting on AgF ... Wikipedia has no aspirations to compete with Chemical Reviews.

Happy editing. --Smokefoot (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Smokefoot - do you think there's a problem with citing the original research papers for the dental bit when I've got several review sources too ? I really don't know that much about medicine so perhaps I should enlist some help on this topic.

I want to make the article longer though and there are surprisingly few uses outside primary research; looking at review papers there are only really two which give broad summaries of current applications and they're both in organic chemistry (the Eros article + doi:10.1002/hc.10102). Am I right in thinking it's better to include information about inorganic/materials application even if it isn't in any secondary literature ? Thanks for the support ! --TatanyaGolding (talk) 15:23, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why try to make the article longer? That is the aspect that puzzles me about the recent edits. AgF is an esoteric material of no value to mankind, aside from a few research labs and as an illustration to students about lattice energies. For me, I like short articles. Easier to read, and they touch on the most important things (do readers really want to know that AgF comes from HF and silver acetylides?). The article is already more advanced (thanks to your excellent contributions) than silver iodide, which is more important. If you like the binary fluorides, the lower fluorides that are poorly described in Wikipedia.

About the dental aspects, I have seen large amounts of content swept away because of WP:MEDRS. Editors are very strict. Anyway, I am a chemist, not a dentist or medical doctor, so I avoid those themes. Good luck, you know what you are doing and seem good at it --Smokefoot (talk) 15:50, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, TatanyaGolding. You have new messages at Stefan2's talk page.
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Stefan2 (talk) 22:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of TatanyaGolding/WPT

Hello TatanyaGolding,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged TatanyaGolding/WPT for deletion, because it doesn't seem to have any encyclopedic content.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Archanine (talk) 23:18, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note I have moved the page to User:TatanyaGolding/WPT, which is evidently where you meant it to be. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 23:59, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	In recognition of your edits to Silver(I) fluoride. The page is now about four times larger than it was when you started editing it, and it's gone from four references to 27! Keep up the good work! Howicus (Did I mess up?) 23:21, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	It's OK. A lot of users sometimes make mistakes like putting a page in the wrong namespace. You reacted well though, and I give you this barnstar for that. Archanine (talk) 00:21, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Archanine - what's the procedure for creating pages in the "user" namespace ? --TatanyaGolding (talk) 11:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, it's the same as creating an article, except that you put User:TatanyaGolding/ at the front of the page's title. A quick way to do it is as follow. Edit any page, such as this talk page, and type in (for example) [[User:TatanyaGolding/Cauliflower]]. Thendon't click on "Save page", but do click on "Show preview". The preview will contain a red link User:TatanyaGolding/Cauliflower. Click on that, and you will get a blank page with that title, ready to edit and save. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I saw my files coming up with the "File:" prefix automatically on upload...so I assumed the software would get the message ! o3O TatanyaGolding (talk) 21:06, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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