Talk:Periodic table of elements

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Rob, I've removed the approval template that you added to the article. Please see Approval Process. A single individual, who has worked on an article (as you have this one), should avoid nominating an article for approval unless there are two other Chemistry editors who are on hand and who have declared their willingness to approve the article as well. Even if there are other editors at work on the article, even if in allied fields such as biology, you still need two more chemistry editors. Sorry, but that's the rule that we decided on back in December. --Larry Sanger 12:21, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

The stamp (toapprove) has been here for over 4 weeks, NO chemistry editor in that period even was online, or have been for even some longer period. We can however remain sitting like a lame duck and do nothing. Waiting for editors to come aboard and be active. This is what I will do from now on. Thank you for pointing me to that. Robert Tito |  Talk  14:33, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

Unfortunately, that's what we have to do! But it is a problem that can be corrected. I think it will be corrected, in fact, either after we grow some more, or when we start up our new workgroup announcement lists--so, you'll be able to reach all the chemistry editors who agree to receive occasional messages. --Larry Sanger 14:56, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

Also, it would be great if the image of the Periodic Table were large enough to read. You need to make two clicks [1] in order to read this one. The Wikipedia article does a good job on this score. See [2] --Larry Sanger 12:24, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

The information in that table is just a fraction of the information in the used table. Any other example on WP also uses the two clicks. I could have placed a very simple table here, I wanted it to have relevant data. And in ONE jpg no links to other pages as these distract from the info. Robert Tito |  Talk  14:33, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

Well, it's just my opinion and I won't insist on it strongly, but it is frustrating for me to see that there is a lot more information on that particular table, and yet not be able to see it without clicking through. A simpler table, that one can use to click through to the individual elements, would be better, IMO. However, this is your decision, Chemistry Editor. We can always, of course, link to the bigger and better table. --Larry Sanger 14:56, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

My point is, Larry. The table can be used in both directions - omitting the information in the overview (that is the table) wouldn't make it easy to understand the coherence of the table. In that case the info would be in the individual eement pages, that was and is something I wanted to avoid. You look for instance to electronegatively while traversing horizontally, or shell configurations while traversing vertically. When you only have the name of the element such details will be overlooked and will not be evident. The coherence from the information of each individual element does not point to these obvious (for a chemist) uses. Accepting the double click is IMHO the better didactical option. Robert Tito |  Talk  15:05, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

Rob, I have real problems with reading this table at all, even in the largest version. There are two reasons for this: the resolution of the scan is too low; and the contrast is insufficient. Is it possible to get a better quality picture? Bear in mind that picture files of text need to be much larger and higher reolution than of simple graphics, especially when there is so much small text in it.

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Martin, I have been poking around for better images but this was the best and informative I could find in the PD area. Many others are copyrighted - even though the info is PD. Robert Tito |  Talk 

Can anyone scan it again? If not, I will try meddling with it to improve the contrast and resolution. I do this a fair bit and have some tools, but it is always better to scan again if possible. --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 19:15, 18 October 2007 (CDT)