User:H Padleckas

Just a minor philosophical statement

I see Wikipedia as an all-around general reference that has become quite large and detailed.
I try to write articles on Chemistry and any other topics in Wikipedia so that the average intelligent reader, not necessarily technically-minded, is likely to understand as much of what I write as practical. I don't want to "water-down" the Wikipedia by omitting important chemistry and other technical fundamentals in order to cater to a less intelligent crowd. In an article about chemistry or other technical articles, I include enough technical facts to at least "define" the basic concept of the article and include its most important fundamentals, even if short extra explanations are needed. In many cases, I would rather explain what is fairly obvious to the expert than omit what may be an important fact or explanation for the "average reader" of Wikipedia. In many cases, the readers (often students at various points in their education) are here to learn fundamental facts from Wikipedia. Also as much as possible, I want to include the appropriate technical terms, even if I have to provide short explanations for the "average" (non-technical) reader. However, there will be points where many readers will have to use the Wikipedia links to understand something. That is what they are there for. I do think that there are limits at which the technical detail and complications should stop and be omitted for a general reference encyclopedia like this. It is a matter of opinion where those limits are, and of course, I have my own opinions. If the "average reader" doesn't like the fact that I include some chemistry (or other technical info) in articles that I edit, such as chemical structures, (s)he can ignore that information. Much of that information is not needed for the majority of people, but it can be there for those few who find it useful, much like a reference book. H Padleckas 18:39, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Currently working on:

• Sulfur
• Ammonia
• Phosphorus chlorides -insert more on reaction of PCl5 with water and add pic of POCl3; then User:Walkerma might start working on this.

Planning to soon work on:

• Ethanolamine
• Synthetic rubber (plan to discuss Butyl and Nitrile rubber)
• Disinfectant
• Antiseptic
• Bisphenol A
• new article on polyphosphoric acids and polyphosphates
• Cyanuric acid
• Triazines
• add to list of Phenols

Taking a break from:

• Chloroprene
• Hydrogen chloride, but plan to return; would like to add section on Reactions
• Amine, but plan to return soon to mention morpholine, piperidine, imines

Taking a longer break from:

• Hydrochloric acid-would like to add small subsection on Reactions under Chemistry; move old stuff to other places
• Ethylbenzene-needs Table of Properties
• Morpholine-needs Table of Properties
• Polystyrene-needs Table Properties on solid and expanded forms
• Polycarbonate-I'm practically finished, but could use Table of Properties?
• Rubber-practically finished, except mention of gutta percha
• Propylene stub needs Table of Properties
• Acyl Chloride
• Acyl Halide- yet to do Gilman and Grignard reagent reactions
• Potassium permanganate -needs Table of Properties
• Chromate
• Triclosan -needs Table of Properties and some minor applications stuff
• Biocides - will work on Cyanuric acid instead

Future plans will probably include:

• making Property Table for 1-butene, cis and trans-2-butene, methylpropene in Isomers of Butylene
• making Property Table for ortho, meta, and para-Benzenediols
• discuss removal of H₂S from sour gas in Natural gas
• improve Teflon

Longer-term plans:

• clean up Ester
• clean up Amide
• fix up Phosphoric acid
• start article on Toluidines
• start article on Toluic acids
• improve Hydrogen sulfide
• mention clinical chemistry of electrolyte Chloride

Long term plans:

• improve Urethane and Polyurethane
• start article on Thiophenols
• beef up Petroleum refinery
• start article on Catalytic reforming
• start other relevant articles

Pie in the sky ambition:

• Redirect link Chemical process to stub Chemical plant and expand to article
• expand stub on Petrochemicals