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— Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 12:48, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi UtopianPoyzin and thank you for the question. Posting on the talk page is optional; mentioning it in an edit summary is mandatory. I have already added the required attribution: Diff of Draft:Unbibium. No further action is needed on your part. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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What you have to do when copying within Wikipedia is mention in your edit summary that the material is copied, and provide a wikilink to the source article. If you forget to do it when you add the content, do it in a subsequent edit summary. Please see WP:Copying within Wikipedia for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks then!

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I saw that you have been changing the classifications of several of the mineral articles without having made substantial improvements to the articles. More of the normal practice here to work at improving articles, and then hope someone else looks at the article and decides to upgrade. My own practice has been to improve on C-class articles and then do a Good Article Nomination without bothering with an intermediate upgrade to B-class. I also saw that you intend to improve Chromium, and then submit it to FA review. Laudable and ambitious - good luck with that. David notMD (talk) 15:44, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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I apologize for misunderstanding your classification changes. I was misled by your Edit summaries, compounded by not looking at the actual classifications in the Talks. David notMD (talk) 02:15, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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An editor removed List of countries by chromium production from See also because redlinks are not allowed in Featured Articles. I'm OK with that, as the topic is covered in the Production section. There, however, there is a 2002-dated world map showing which countries produce what percentage of world production of chromium. If you can find more recent information, perhaps can update references 40 and 41 and associated text, and also get rid of the figure and ref 42 (the image is colorful, but really adds nothing to the article). The figure above it is good to have, but currently is not referenced. David notMD (talk) 11:03, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

@David notMD:, I kept it there to match the fellow featured articles of Titanium and Zinc, who both have such pages in existence. At some point, I would love to have that article exist as a reference.

I see it in the Zinc article but not Titanium. Regardless, I find the figure counterintuitive, as one could think that larger countries are producing more, when what really matters is color. My opinion is that a table, descending order by percent of world production, would be more understandable, and also easier to update as new information becomes available. David notMD (talk) 17:19, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Most of the FA and GA mineral articles do not have a figure of this nature. Some have a table showing country-by-country production, but some do not have even that. Again, a 2002-based world map is already outdated. David notMD (talk) 23:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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See also

In the Ready or not? comment at Chromium Talk, R&R is offering to provide a pre-review. I think it is a great idea, but leave the decision to you. David notMD (talk) 12:22, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

The spaces or lack of spaces when creating reference content (PMID=12345678 versus PMID = 12345678 versus PMID= 12345678) have no impact on how the reference looks. Likewise, having a space before and/or after the | separating pieces of the reference is optional. I tend to do it like this: |date=2015 |PMID=12345678 | and so on. David notMD (talk) 16:12, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I was primarily searching for first names and correcting date formats. I personally style the citations such as |date = 2018-10-18|variable = x|, and I was formatting them as such when I was searching. The citations don't necessarily need to look like that; I was just reviewing the citations in the area. I will say; I probably didn't need to change as many spacings as I did. I should have had a "well, while I'm at it, I'll do this task" mentality, but instead I had a "while I'm at it, I'll do do this task and too much more." I space citations that way if I work on them, but I was spacing some I didn't touch.

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You may want to query R&R at its Talk to clarify whether offering to do a peer review or do the FA review after it is submitted. Was not clear to me from what was written in Chromium Talk. David notMD (talk) 16:55, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

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I have never contributed to a FA. Better to ask Stone. David notMD (talk) 22:04, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Researching question of why chromium is in plants and does it matter which oxidation state. David notMD (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Finding interesting content on two topics: 1) effects of chromium on plants, algae and bacteria; and 2) potential for use in phytoremediation of chromium contamination of soil and water. David notMD (talk) 11:36, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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Yes, intent is to add it to this article. Chromium absorption is passive (akin to other minerals), and there does not appear to be a physiological role. Cr6+ is much more toxic than Cr3+. Phytoremediation is an interesting subset of the topic, as microbiota and plants may be able to convert 6 to 3. David notMD (talk) 19:29, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

How about you work on the parts where you have expert knowledge and leave the biological role section alone until peer reviewers identify concerns? David notMD (talk) 03:38, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Maybe "Health Claims" was too broad of a title name...

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In this field, where I have a doctorate in nutritional biochemistry and a 38-year career in R&D and regulatory, "Health claims" is taken as a claimed benefit, but not always with adequate evidence. There is no process of prior approval, so companies claim anything they can think of until the FDA or FTC stops them. The longer subsection title indicates that the content will be about government reviewed claims only. David notMD (talk) 03:45, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

The following three subsections are about conditions for which health claims are made in marketing chromium dietary supplements, but the evidence is inadequate. David notMD (talk) 03:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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Since 2004 I have been a science consultant to supplement industry (declared as COI on my User page, and when appropriate, on article Talk pages). The majority of what supplement companies claim as health benefits rest on weak/incomplete science. My job is to tell them to tone down the claims or get better science. Sometimes they listen. Worst example: a company hired me, paid me, ignored my advice. About two years later the Federal Trade Commission fined them $21,000,000. David notMD (talk) 15:44, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

On the plant stuff, looks like the content may naturally split between Biological role and Environmental issues. Hexavalent chromium is toxic to plants, and in polluted areas can accumulate in plants to point that amounts are potentially unhealthy for animals (and humans) that consume those plants. The mineral does not appear to have any function in plants. However, there is also research into bacteria, algae, plants that can take up Cr6+ from ground water and soil, and convert it to Cr3+, or accumulate so that the biomass can be collected and moved to safe landfill. David notMD (talk) 15:44, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Progress on the article appears to have stalled. I still intend to add content about chromium in plants, bacteria.... but higher priority demands on my time are my day job, and intent to continue to improve Folate to ready it for a Good Article nomination. Aside from Chromium, I hope you are finding other articles that need improvements. The shortfalls of Stubs and Starts and even C-class articles are usually easier to identify and tackle. David notMD (talk) 14:03, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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...and working on plants and single-cell organisms section. David notMD (talk) 22:27, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

to maybe propose an AfD for

Thanks for the heads-up,

UtopianPoyzin... maybe discuss at Talk:NUR Reactor#Suggestion of AfD? Looks like a reasonable stub to me. Andrewa (talk

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@Andrewa: Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to tag you the first time (I did the second. Does linking somebody's user page really call them over?) I was considering the thought of holding an AfD on the NUR Reactor article, so I left a reminder on my talk page to go back to run through the AfD criteria to see if it truly holds up to standard. The reason that I didn't put one out on the talk page there is because I hadn't really looked into the article in depth.

At first glance, I felt that the article failed to reach the notability criteria to be an article at

WP:SIGCOV

, but I hadn't done much research on the topic to see if there was anything that could be supplemented. As of now, all that exists in terms of sources is the NUR Reactor website. That is where I assumed a biased point of view would originate, but as I stated, I hadn't looked into it.

Then again, I am aware that you do write very well kept articles, and that you have a very good reputation in this department as an administrator, which is why I was hesitant to make any further action on the matter, leaving it as a note on my talk page rather than a discussion on the article's talk page. However, I didn't want to dismiss the article completely, and assumed that it may just be a smudge that needs cleaning. While the topic may be reasonable to be kept as a stub, I don't believe the article is notable based on the two sentences and website cited at the article itself. I was thinking that one more independent source to help provide verifiability may be what is needed, but that is just my take on the matter. Thank you for listening (and sorry for calling you over)!

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After post: notice how I set "may be hard to get by". I do understand that you do make great articles, but

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Hi thank you for your many edits to Wikipedia. I reverted your well intentioned renaming of nickel selenide to nickel(II) selenide. The S, Se, and Te derivatives of many metals are nonstoichiometric, so oxidation states dont apply. The situation is different for the halides or nitrates of these elements. I'd be glad to provide more info if you want it. Cheers, --Smokefoot (talk) 12:52, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Utopes, I stumbled upon

Yep, @ComplexRational:, thanks for the feedback! I ended up withdrawing the CSD claim, as you said; here was my mindset when I first posted the CSD. I could not derive any meaning from "He directed who is the first wife of my father filmography." upon my first glance, and then "Saare jahan se acha" seemed like gibberish to me. I did not consider that a different language was being spoken here, and while I recognized English words at first, I couldn't understand what the article was trying to say. So, because I wanted to give the author a chance to clean up what was written and I was definitely biting the newcomers here, I removed the template as I started to understand that this was supposed to be a director and that the Indian titles were the movies. (However, the article is an autobiography and not notable, so I firmly stand by my decision). But thanks for getting back to me about this, I will try harder to derive meaning from these types of articles. What CSD criteria would you have cited in that case? Utopes (talk) 00:55, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! For starters, I agree that this is certainly not suitable for mainspace; I would not have accepted it either. I don't think any CSD applies to this draft in this case, actually, so I would let it be. G13 would apply in six months if no further edits are made, though. When I can't understand text in these cases, I always use Google Translate first, and only apply G1 if it still is gibberish.

Iff this were already in mainspace, though, A7 would apply, as being a film director is not credible claim of significance and the linked sources do not suggest that such a claim can be made (if it is, then AfD is the way to go). But of course A7 only applies to articles, not drafts! ComplexRational (talk

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