Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals/List of A-Class articles

The following articles have been classified as A-Class in the worklist of WP:Chem. Briefly, the {{chem A-Class}} distinctive indicates:

well written and complete
appropriately sectioned
full chembox infobox (or better)
well drawn picture or photograph
sufficient external references (one can be enough)

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A-Class articles, full compliance

WikiProject on Chemistry

This article has been assessed by the WikiProject on Chemicals as A-Class: a complete and well written article on a chemical compound which could be considered for featured article status. Please see the list of A-class articles, which may have ideas for editing this page.

Preliminary classified as A-Class, with remarks

These articles have in the first assessment process of all articles on the worklist of the Chemicals Wikiproject been classified as A-Class. Later scrutiny have shown open issues still to be resolved before full compliance to A-Class classification. Unless these issues are dealt with, these articles are recommended to be re-graded to B-Class, by September 2005.

I have re-assessed all the still open items, with updated status. My proposal is to do this weekend the administration on the ones that have no problems anymore IMHO (at present unless contradicted soon: Acetic acid, Ethanol, Folic Acid, H2O2, Toluene) and the ones that have to be removed from the Worklist (DNA, Protein), and do the administration on the problematic ones next weekend. Wim van Dorst 21:55, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

1,3-Butadiene

no sources cited. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

Re-assessment: No changes yet. Wim van Dorst 21:03, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Acetone

no sources cited. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

Re-assessment: still no sources, although improvement in chembox and text. Wim van Dorst 21:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Carbon monoxide

no sources cited. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

re-assessment: no sources added, and the rest isn't up to the expected level either. Wim van Dorst 21:13, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Formaldehyde

insufficient sources, whitespace, old style chembox. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

Handled whitespace, and updated chembox. Wim van Dorst 10:17, 17 July 2005 (UTC).[reply]
Re-assessment: text and chembox ok, but no references or sources. Wim van Dorst 21:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Methanol

no sources. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

re-assessment: A good page indeed, but still no current day references (that 1661 reference is interesting though: it predates the USA by far ;-). Wim van Dorst 21:38, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Testosterone

insufficient sources/references. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

Re-assessment: I don't know whether this wikipage complies with the requirements for the Drugs wikiproject, but IMHO it doesn't fulfill the references of a Chem A-Class, still. I'll accept the Drugs chembox, though. Wim van Dorst 21:41, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Water

insufficient sources? Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 15:24 (UTC).

Needs some work doing on it, even if most of the basics are there. At present it reads as if the authors doesn't quite know what their talking about... I will see if I can get around to it once I have finished with Ammonia. Physchim62 23:08, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Re-assessment: PC, I see you haven't come around to getting your hands on Water yet, but given the excellent result on Ammonia, you're excused, of course. Current status is IMHO unchanged. Wim van Dorst 21:48, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Proposal of articles for upgrading to A-Class

The following articles are currently classified as B-Class. Nonetheless, they are so complete that they may be compliant to A-Class requirements. Their classification is here for peer review. If you need support with writing an article you can always follow the Wikipedia Peer Review Process. When sufficient support for re-classification is listed here, the article will duly be moved to A-Class.

Cadmium chloride

Needs a bit of editing, table update, but for the rest is seems to fulfill all A-Class requirements. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 20:09 (UTC).
Henry kindly improved the crystal structure image. Walkerma 8 July 2005 22:02 (UTC)

Chloroform

Seems to be rather complete. Wim van Dorst July 8, 2005 20:38 (UTC).
Needs some chemistry, I think, for example formation of dichlorocarbene. Walkerma 8 July 2005 22:02 (UTC)

There has been no significant improvement to the article since we downgraded it to B-Class. My objections still stand: this article needs carefully written Toxicology and Safety/Hazards sections before it can be considered complete, all the more so given the controversy over the chlorination of drinking water. Oh, and a bit more pure chemistry wouldn´t go amiss either! Physchim62 11:31, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Benzene

Needs to have the rest of the chembox filled in, but otherwise it's a really good article. ~K 22:29, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, this is close. I would also like to see a short section on reactions to help students learning organic chemistry, otherwise it's very close.Walkerma 00:35, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chembox filled out now. Fully agree to A-Class. Wim van Dorst 10:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC).[reply]
- Agree with Martin, a touch more organic chemistry would be useful—I didn't see any reference to electrophilic substitution for example! Hazards section could do with a peer review, as it is missing some important references. Still, we're pretty close here. Physchim62 10:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ammonia

I can't think of much else to write on this esoteric hydride of nitrogen, but I am sure you will provide me with inspiration if required! Physchim62 21:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A beautiful piece of work, A+ class! Thank you so much for all the hard work. The old version of the page was an "OK" page- but the new version seems much sharper in style to me. I presume that things like NaSCN are not acids in liq. ammonia, so I rephrased that section, otherwise it looks great! I'd nominate it for FA, if it wasn't for HCl being so recent. Thanks PC. Walkerma 16:53, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the copyediting—that section now says what I meant it to! The old version relied heavily on the 1911 Britannica, with the plusses and minusses that that entails... As for nominating articles for FA, I agree that we should wait a little while, if only to show that they have stable content (the latest WikiFashion). In the case of ammonia, the red links should really be filled in first (things like metallic solution, solvated electron, spectrochemical series). On the basis of numbers of articles (2500/750k), we should have chemistry on the front page once every 9 months or so: as we are a reasonably active project, I think we should aim to send an article to WP:PR every six months or so (obviously no quotas, nor sending articles which obviously don't make the grade). Physchim62 21:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And here's indeed another good piece of work that cropped up in the vacation period. Compliments, PC! This decidedly is an A-Class now. Wim van Dorst 21:01, 26 August 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Regarding the FA comment, for variety I would like to see "something completely different", such as an organic natural product or something like that. It should be something of general interest - but please, not lysergic acid, cocaine, etc...! I agree with the 6 month suggestion. Walkerma 22:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, although what I would really like to see is a chemistry FA which does not deal with a specific chemical (outside the scope of this prjoect, I know). Limonene seems to have potential on these criteria, as would menthol. I'll have a think about it, but it is further from my central area of expertise. Physchim62 16:22, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]