Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals

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WikiProject Chemicals

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Chembox validation work
Data book
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	Paracetamol	2004-06-14 removed 2009-02-25
	Hydrochloric acid	2005-04-25 removed 2023-09-02
	Acetic acid	2005-12-02
	Raney nickel	2006-02-21 removed 2012-09-17
	Caffeine	2006-09-16 removed 2011-12-09
	Lead(II) nitrate	2006-11-11 removed 2020-01-23
	NAD+	2007-12-23
	Bupropion	2007-08-30
	Plutonium	2009-01-11
	Rhodocene	2011-02-08
	Psilocybin	2012-01-18 removed 2023-03-04
	Amphetamine	2015-01-14
	HMB	2018-03-23

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WikiProject Chemicals is a daughter WikiProject of the WikiProject on Chemistry. It concerns writing and improving articles about chemical compounds in Wikipedia. So far, more than one hundred members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

A worklist of representative chemical compounds has been finalized. Progress on the articles in this list is monitored by participants. Also, templates for Lists of Properties for the compounds have been standardized, as has formatting and naming articles on chemical compounds. Presentation of chemical structures should also be standardized (to some extent). This WikiProject also serves as a forum on how best to present chemicals information and proceed with work on chemicals in Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding your name (and table format) to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please be referred to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide high-quality, standardized articles in Wikipedia for all important chemicals, similar to the Merck Index. This comprises all organic and inorganic compounds, elements, reagents, commodities, pharmaceuticals, pollutants, and other large-scale and small-scale chemicals of interest. Additional focus is given to the selected articles about approx 400 representative chemicals, on the target worklist.

Other chemistry subjects, including chemical groups, ions, methodology of analysis, production, reactions, etc., are included in the Chemistry WikiProject, or in its other daughter wikiprojects.

Assessment

The primary aim of the Chemicals wikiproject is quality improvement of articles about chemicals. Within the wikiproject, these articles are quality classified for chemical completeness (Class) and the relevance of the chemical compound to general chemistry, according to the Wikiproject's Assessment Scheme.

Although the Wikiproject does acknowledge the Wikipedia status of Featured Article (FA) and Good Article (GA), these are generic qualifications only, with no specific attention for chemical completeness, and as such are not listed in our Classes.

Access the WP:Chemicals table, log and article listing

	Featured articles	7
	Featured lists	1
	Good articles	49

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Chemistry.

Descendant WikiProjects

A descendant of this WikiProject is WikiProject Polymers.

Participants

User WP Chemicals

This user participates in WikiProject Chemicals.

Emeritus participants

User WP Chemicals

This user participates in WikiProject Chemicals.

Discussion forums

Several streams of discussion are on-going, among others:

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals, recommended for everything
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry, about the WikiProject as a project
Wikipedia talk:Chemical infobox, about the infoboxes specifically
Some users' talk pages (difficult to find)

Activities in progress

Worklist to ChemStart level as a minimum

The worklist of the Chemicals WikiProject is undergoing continuous updates, to be brought in line with the goals as presented above. Please assist in adding, completing, and otherwise improving it. Work is now in progress to actually update the listed compounds, all to a minimum of {{chem Start}} level.

Worklist to A-Class level

Additionally, not necessarily sequentially, to the above target, all articles on the worklist be enhanced to {{A-Class}} level.

Activities finalized

Templates

The templates of the overall Chemistry Wikiproject will be used. Additionally:

An {{Amino acids}} navigational box for amino acid articles has also been defined.
Two stub templates, viz., {{Organic-compound-stub}} and {{Inorganic-compound-stub}} have been defined and implemented on all chemical compound pages which are still stubs.
a Userbox {{User WPChem}} has been defined to show your support of the Chemicals wikiproject
A wikiproject template {{chemicals}} with options: core, class, and importance
For common reference sources such as Organic Syntheses, there are citations templates listed at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(chemistry)/References_and_external_links.

Chemical Infoboxes

Additionally chemical infoboxes have been agreed on as guideline, and are available as templates. For this a {{chemical datatable header}} specific table template has been defined. Two infobox formats have been defined, {{chembox}} and {{Infobox drug}}.

List of lists

The huge list of compounds was recently split into three smaller related lists: list of inorganic compounds, list of organic compounds, and list of biomolecules. The editing work associated with this is now complete.

Style guide

Manual of Style/Chemistry is live.

References

For filling out the chembox templates, the project has made available a useful data book of gas densities, viscosities and solubility products. Other tables may be added in the future.

Data book of the Wikiproject

There are many other general reference lists available in Wikipedia for chemicals. These include:

List of inorganic compounds, for well-known inorganic compounds, including organometallics
List of organic compounds, for well-known organic compounds, also including organometallics
List of biomolecules
Former list of compounds, including all chemical compounds in Wikipedia, now a disambiguation page only
Inorganic compounds by element, same data, but other order
Dictionary of chemical formulas, to find a name from a formula
List of particles
Polyatomic ions, listing the common ones
List of alchemical substances
Solubility table, table of solubilities of inorganic substances with changing temperature
List of gases

For elements, similar lists are available for the Elements WikiProject (to be moved there in future):

and several others, ordered differently

For minerals, similar lists are available for the Rocks and minerals WikiProject (to be moved in the future):

List of minerals

Articlebot alerts

Articles for deletion

31 Mar 2025 – Nanochannel glass materials (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c) was closed as no consensus by OwenX (t · c) on 23 Apr 2025; see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
11 Mar 2025 – Lead(IV) hydroxide (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 日期20220626 (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 18 Mar 2025; see discussion (7 participants)
17 Feb 2025 – SENS-01 (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fram (t · c) was closed as delete by Sandstein (t · c) on 24 Feb 2025; see discussion (4 participants)

Proposed deletions

26 Apr 2025 – Methionylglycine (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Anonrfjwhuikdzz (t · c) was deproded by Mdewman6 (t · c) on 26 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025 – Fucophlorethol A (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Anonrfjwhuikdzz (t · c) was deleted
30 Mar 2025 – Nanochannel glass materials (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ldm1954 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 31 Mar 2025 was deproded by Mark viking (t · c) on 31 Mar 2025

Categories for discussion

10 Mar 2025 – Category:Mexamines (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by HouseBlaster (t · c) wasclosed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

05 May 2025 – Trioxin (talk · edit · hist) →1,3,5-Trioxane was RfDed by Bkonrad (t · c); see discussion
03 May 2025 – Cyanogen hydride (talk · edit · hist) →Hydrogen cyanide was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

23 Dec 2024 – Doxycycline (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); see discussion
23 Dec 2024 – Ketotifen (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
15 Apr 2025 – Manganese (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Keresluna (t · c) was promoted by Reconrabbit (t · c), see discussion
23 Mar 2025 – Chloronitramide anion (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Mrfoogles (t · c) was not promoted by Pi.1415926535 (t · c), see discussion