Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements

This WikiProject has managed to standardize the articles on the known chemical elements (see Guidelines page). Now it is aimed at the maintenance of these at an agreed upon format discussed in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements and at the expansion and improvement of each article to featured article quality (check out our Goals below).

Periodic table by the quality of the articles on each chemical element. (dark blue for FA, green for GA, light blue for A, yellow for B and orange for Start)

Announcements  · watch · refresh · edit · history
Current and successful FACs, FARs, GANs, GARs, PRs, milestones or similar activities

• List of elements by nuclear stability is under peer review for aiming to become a featured list.
• Noble gas is a good article nominee.
• Tungsten is a good article nominee.
• Hydrogen passed a FAR on 20 April 2008! See archived discussion.
• Oxygen was featured on the Main Page on 14 March 2008.
• Zirconium became a good article on 12 March 2008.
• A link to the WikiChem IRC channel was added to the project pages on 17 February 2008. Use this channel to chat with other chemistry and element project members about improving our articles. Check out the IRC tutorial for instructions on how to sign up with IRC.
• Periodic table (large version) passed its featured list review on 11 February 2008!

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[edit] Goals

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Short term

1. Wikify the last Preacautions section of radon so it can be submitted for GA/FA.
2. Bring the vital article Carbon to GA then FA standard.
3. Fix the issues that resulted in the WP:VITAL articles Copper and Aluminium delisting as GA

Mid term

1. Bring all B-class vital articles (Gold, Iron, Nitrogen, Silicon, Silver) to A-class or above
2. Bring all the remaining d-block elements (yttrium, hafnium, tantalum, rhenium, osmium, and iridium) and astatine from start to a B-class level.
3. Bring Discoveries of the chemical elements and Periodic table to GA standard (or above).
4. Bring the rest of the Noble gases (Neon, Argon, Krypton and Radon) to FA-class and then make noble gas a featured topic

Longer term

1. Bring the rest of the articles marked as WP:VITAL on the Articles subpage (Aluminum, Sulfur, Copper, Gold, Iron, Nitrogen, Silicon, Silver) to FA standard (4/13 = 31% as of 6 Feb 2008)
2. Bring all articles marked as Top Importance on the article subpage to GA standard or above.
3. Bring all articles marked as High Importance on the article subpage to A-class (or above).

Ultimate goal

1. Bring all element and supporting articles to FA standard (turn the Periodic Table by Quality blue)

[edit] Periodic table

This common arrangement of the periodic table separates the lanthanides and actinides from other elements. The Wide Periodic Table incorporates the f-block. The Extended Periodic Table adds the 8th and 9th periods, incorporating the f-block and adding the theoretical g-block.