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Erich Clar page[edit]
I want to include a synthetic reaction that is known as Clar's reaction. It is of a certain class of cyclic ketones that condense with themselves when heated to 400 C in a mixture of zinc dust and zinc chloride.
I will add references and a description of what it is used for in synthesizing new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Please check your inbox[edit]
I just sent you an email. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 23:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Epoxy[edit]
Hi there!
Regarding the edit in Epoxy#Renewable, recycled, waterborne and biobased epoxy
I appreciate your point about biobased epoxies having been around for a while. However, the concept of 100% closed-loop recycling is quite novel, which is why it's highlighted in the recent publication in Science. Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear enough. I am just trying, to keep Wiki up-to-date.
Closed-loop recyclability of a biomass-derived epoxy-amine thermoset by methanolysis | Science RomanVilgut (talk) 13:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Editor at Signs of the coming of Judgement Day[edit]
Noticed you at that page and thought I'd bring up not the edit (although I don't understand the switch they are making there and elsewhere of a chart) but their contributions. Most seem bad. Lots of copyvio, clumsy English, failure to source. See [12] When they do source they clearly don't know what our criteria, eg using an open wiki as a source. Of their just over 500 edits, 62 have been reverted and I think that a lot more need removing. You may not have the time or stomach to bother with this, and that's ok. But I do think they are messing up a lot of articles but am not sure I can sanction yet. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 07:32, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- One other. Here's an edit chosen because the edit summary says "stop using cushion words" referring to the word "some" that he removed from "daf holds special importance because some Muslims believe that it is the only musical instrument which is permitted to be used".
- The source contains a quote saying "Some Muslims hold all forms of music to be forbidden, others permit certain forms of unaccompanied singing, while others will permit the use of daff or drum like a tambourine (without the cymbals). In some Sufi circles the flute or lute are permitted"[13] Doug Weller talk 07:35, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- I think you can sanction. A ton of small problems, and an occasional large problem, especially in this topic-area, needs to be stamped out. Copyvio and change of meaning (especially when it was previously per cited ref). DMacks (talk) 04:18, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- I should have been more specific. Short block or indef? I think the latter, but he hasn't been blocked before. Doug Weller talk 07:20, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- No objection to indef. I'm hard-pressed to AGF in cases of change-of-meaning in religious/sectarian contexts when edit-summary does not mention it. Either they don't know what they are doing (CIR for idiomatic English) or they do know what they are doing (NPOV or sealion). DMacks (talk) 04:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for your advice. Doug Weller talk 11:33, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- No objection to indef. I'm hard-pressed to AGF in cases of change-of-meaning in religious/sectarian contexts when edit-summary does not mention it. Either they don't know what they are doing (CIR for idiomatic English) or they do know what they are doing (NPOV or sealion). DMacks (talk) 04:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- I should have been more specific. Short block or indef? I think the latter, but he hasn't been blocked before. Doug Weller talk 07:20, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
hi[edit]
hi 104.235.88.49 (talk) 23:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)