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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, about twenty members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

Lists of chemical compounds have been finalized. Progress on the articles in these lists 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 * ~~~ to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please add to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

WikiProject on Chemicals

This WikiProject aims primarily 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.

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Chemistry.

A descendant of this WikiProject is WikiProject Polymers.

Userbox WPChem This user participates in WikiProject Chemicals.

The following SMART items are defined as the project goals. Progress is monitored through the project worklist.

1. Write a full page for one significant compound of each non-radioactive element in the periodic table. For metals this will usually be an oxide or chloride.
2. Compile a list of 50 common reagents (inorganic and organic) used in chemistry, such as lithium aluminium hydride.
3. Write a full page for a selection of 30 small building block molecules used in simple organic reactions, such as iodomethane
4. Write a full page for the 50 major commodity chemicals, such as styrene and hydrochloric acid.
5. Write a full page for 30 common solvents, e.g., DMF, and water.
6. Write a full page for 50 compounds of biological interest, including amino acids, vitamins and hormones
7. Compile a list of 50 other important compounds of chemical interest, including commodities, pharmaceuticals, as well as environmental pollutants. Examples include NAD, fexofenadine, indole, prismane and dioxins.
8. Write a full page for 30 common polymers, such as PVC

Other goals are project oriented:

1. All articles resulting from this WikiProject should comply with the standard set for featured articles. As a minimum they should have an appropriate chemical infobox. The naming convention for chemicals should be updated, and subsequently complied with in those articles.
2. Develop appropriate navigational aids to help users locate chemicals pages relevant to their needs, and which help identify those compounds that have complete pages written. These would help supplement the traditional searches, categories, and list of compounds by being tailored for the specific class of compound. All lists considered part of the wikiproject should be indexed, e.g., by chemical element, Hill system or otherwise.
3. Set up a means of keeping track of progress towards the above goals. An assessment is to be developed and deployed. This is on-going on the /Organization page.

These are not permanent goals, rather they set targets for us that are achievable in a reasonable timescale. One or two may already have been reached, and when we have all of them checked off we can set new goals.

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)

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

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

Participants are working on developing a style guide for naming, writing and formatting articles on chemical compounds.

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

• An {{AminoAcids}} 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

Additionally chemical infoboxes have been agreed on as guideline, and are available as templates. For this a {{chembox header}} specific table template has been defined. Three infobox formats have been defined, viz., the {{chembox}} template as a generic table, the {{chembox simple organic}} for organic coumpounds, and {{chembox simple inorganic}} for inorganic compounds.

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.

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 items for which possession is restricted
• List of particles
• Polyatomic ions, listing the common ones
• List of alchemical substances
• Solubility table, table of solubilities of inorganic substances with changing temperature

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

• Periodic table, (recommended reading)
• List of elements by name
• List of elements by symbol
• List of elements by atomic number

and several others, ordered differently

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

• List of minerals