Talk:American Chemical Society
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[edit] Award
Hi,
Could someone maybe write some subheader about the American Chemical Society Award(s) and make a redirect from the red link? Thanks! effeietsanders 12:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Past presidents
Today I enlarged the list of ACS presidents. Should the list be arranged differently, perhaps in columns? - Astrochemist 04:08, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- I changed the list of past presidents to a navigational box (which I thought was better). The anonimous disident reverted my edit. Any idea why? Mgnelu (talk) 15:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- I have no idea what User:Anonymous Dissident thought, but I think the navbox looks pretty bad on this page. Instead of a columnar list of items, there is a ragged set of rows: very hard to scan to find a certain year or person. Its use on the individuals' page isn't much better: still difficult to find info, but also hard to find simple things such as "who was previous/next?", again because it's tabular data presented in prose form. In addition, it's huge, taking up half or more of many of those people's individual pages. The navbox doesn't really serve any purpose other than collecting all the names in a difficult-to-use set; I think this is much less clear than a list in the main page and more confusing than a succession box on the person-pages. DMacks (talk) 20:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Problems with Sourcewatch.com external link
I removed a link to the ACS sourcewatch.com wiki under External links since it violates Wikipedia's policy on external links. It states that one should avoid "Links to open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors." The sourcewatch.com page was authored by only two editors. This link clearly violates the policy. If there is valuable information on the sourcewatch.com wiki page, then it can be integrated into here. M stone 16:18, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- At best, an extlink to this material would be usable as a citation to support some content. Just tossing it in as a loose extlink isn't good even if it were a reliable source because there's no explanation of it or obvious context or usefulness of that link. Wikipedia is a cited encyclopedia, not just a pile of links. DMacks 16:23, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- In response to the thought that "ACS Wiki is there, why not this one?", the ACS Chemical Biology Wiki is not there as a content-site or source of information about ACS, but rather is part of ACS's actual content and/or services (perhaps it should be annotated as such?). DMacks 01:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- I've removed the "ACS Wiki" and two other links as irrelevant. It is a wiki related to ACS Chemical Biology, one of the dozens of journals published by ACS. As such, I don't see how it is relevant for a link section about ACS in general. Really, the only link that should remain IMO is the official ACS website, although perhaps the CAS and ACS Publications links are not all that unreasonable given that they are major ACS divisions. (The other links that I removed were another ACS Chemical Biology page and a news story about the ACS/Pubchem scandal. Random news articles don't belong as external links either, although they may be used as references.) --Itub 14:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- Sounds reasonable to me. DMacks 19:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
- I've removed the "ACS Wiki" and two other links as irrelevant. It is a wiki related to ACS Chemical Biology, one of the dozens of journals published by ACS. As such, I don't see how it is relevant for a link section about ACS in general. Really, the only link that should remain IMO is the official ACS website, although perhaps the CAS and ACS Publications links are not all that unreasonable given that they are major ACS divisions. (The other links that I removed were another ACS Chemical Biology page and a news story about the ACS/Pubchem scandal. Random news articles don't belong as external links either, although they may be used as references.) --Itub 14:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
I just now created a reference section using the three URLs in the text. I seem to recall seeing an old book on ACS history. Can it be found and mentioned somewhere on the page? - Astrochemist 15:31, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
