Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to chemical compounds. 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 look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding * ~~~ to the section.

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.

• Eequor
• Martin Walker
• OpusV
• H Padleckas
• Wim van Dorst
• Cacycle
• Daniel Quinlan
• schneelocke
• Tim Starling
• Zendonut
• Rune Welsh
• ~K
• shanedidona
• Physchim62

The following SMART items are defined as the project goals.

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. Compile a list of 100 important compounds of chemical interest, including commodities, pharmaceuticals, as well as environmental pollutants. Examples include NAD, fexofenadine, indole, prismane and dioxins.
7. 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.
2. Develop appropriate navigational aids to help users locate 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.
3. Set up a means of keeping track of progress towards the above goals. This has begun 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 user's talk pages (difficult to find)

Infoboxes are defined on Wikipedia:Chemical infobox. Three templates have been defined sofar, viz., the {{Chembox}} template as a generic table, the {{Chembox simple organic}} for organic coumpounds, and {{chembox short inorganic}} for inorganic compounds.

The templates of the overall Chemistry Wikiproject will be used. When necessary, specific templates for Chemicals can be developed. Of course the above infoboxes are available as templates.

The work-list 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. Some further unsorted lists are available under /Digests.

There are many lists available in Wikipedia for chemicals. These include:

• List of compounds, including all chemical compounds in Wikipedia.
• List of inorganic compounds, for well-known inorganic compounds, including organometallics
• Inorganic compounds by element, same data, but other order
• List of organic compounds, for well-known organic compounds, also including organometallics
• List of items for which possession is restricted
• List of biomolecules
• List of particles
• Polyatomic ions, listing the common ones
• List of pre-scientific substances

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