Wikipedia:WikiProject Polymers

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to polymers. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title

WikiProject on Polymers

Scope

The aim of this WikiProject is to organize and disseminate all polymer related information on Wikipedia in a coordinated fashion.

At the moment, we are focusing on a few things (and please, be bold with adding new things to this list!)

1. Bringing a list of industrially significant polymers up to featured article status.
2. Doing a "top-down" approach on how to organize polymer articles and related information, possibly with the use of categories which group together significant topics relevant to polymer chemistry.

The approach at the moment is to first bring one polymer article up to featured article status, and then use that article as a template for other polymer articles. Polyethylene might be a good start because of its prevalence and dominance. However, it might be better to pick a more application specific polymer first, because there is too much variability for the definition of these polymers. The articles on polymers generally need to emphasize that they define a class of mixtures of molecules with a particular distribution, et cetera...

Other WikiProjects

Portal

• Portal:Chemistry is a good place to look! Not directly related to polymers, but related to chemistry.

Related pages in Sister projects

• Polymer chemistry & Polymers‎
• Wikibooks:Polymers
• Wikiversity:Portal:Polymer chemistry & Wikiversity:Polymers
• Wikiquote:Polymer chemistry
• Wiktionary:Polymer

Participants

If you are interested join with us, please add your user name to the list! Do so by adding * ~~~~ to the end of the list.
Join below

• Muzammil Iqbal 5 July 2005 12:43 (UTC)
• HappyCamper 5 July 2005 12:43 (UTC)
• ChemGardener 16:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• Joel 15:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• rolandog 20:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
• Nathaniel 03:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• H Padleckas 05:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• abakharev 02:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
• Hispalois 10:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
• SparkyOC (talk) 12:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
• Mothball (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
• UMChemProfessor (talk) 15:11, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
• - Vis M (talk) 11:19, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
• GregCM1
• StuPat (talk) 11:50, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
• Shishir Kumar CIPET,India)
• Walkerma (talk) 18:11, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
• Adam Rees, user:adamrees89 11:48, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
• --Minihaa (talk) 09:00, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
• CraftyChemist (talk) 21:43, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
• Cmcfaul (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
• HokiePE (talk) 01:00, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
• SPT ChrisFellows (talk) 14:22, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
•  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  22:19, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
• Gmrozz (talk) 04:25, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
• MesoAlchemy (talk) 06:12, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
• Lsosavargas (talk) 14:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
• Chenomic (talk) 14:51, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
• GRALISTAIR (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
• KiarashFa (talk) 19:54, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Pages needing attention

See:Category:Polymers articles needing attention

Other subpages

• /Article alerts

Articles to be split

• 25 Sep 2025 – Pulp (paper) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Chickenpox4dinner (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Nov 2024 – UV coating (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HLHJ (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 12 Sep 2026 – Draft:5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxylic acid (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Red Hot Chili Cherries (t · c)

Templates

Templates used by WikiProject Polymers

What to type	What it is for
Stub template
{{Polymer-stub}}	To be placed in articles which are stubs.
This article about polymer science is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. v t e
Banner of the project
{{WikiProject Polymers}}	To be placed on the talk page of those articles which are in the scope of this project.
Polymers (inactive) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Polymers, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.PolymersWikipedia:WikiProject PolymersTemplate:WikiProject PolymersPolymers
Navigation templates
{{Plastics}}	A table which lists a number of important plastics. To be placed at the bottom of plastic related topics.
{{HealthIssuesOfPlastics}}	A nav. box containing polymers and plasticizers which have health issues or associated problems. To be placed at the bottom of appropriate articles concerned with it.
Infoboxes
Currently most of the polymer articles use {{Chembox}} as an infobox. Some use simple tables. An infobox completely dedicated to polymers has not yet developed.

Categories

Lists

• List of synthetic polymers contains list of examples and brand names
• List of polyurethane applications
• Thermoplastic contains an extensive list
• Elastomer lists a number of rubbers

German lists include

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzzeichen_%28Kunststoff%29 Kurzzeichen (Kunststoff) (Abbreviations (Plastics))
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunststoff Kunststoff (Plastics)

Articles

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Resources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polymers.

Watchlists

• External watchlist
• All namespace - including maintanence pages related to polymers.
  • Articles - includes all articles in the category:Polymers
  • Recent discussions - on article talkpages.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion for improving articles.