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Proposed deletion of List of molecules by year of discovery

The article List of molecules by year of discovery has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This list is going to be useless as there are millions of molecules known, and it will become too massive. The idea of making and discovery of the molecules is also confused

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Nomination of List of molecules discovered in the 21st century for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pyxis Corporation

Hello Zchemic,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pyxis Corporation for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Meatsgains^(talk) 23:01, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Zchemic I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your recent edits are on a bit of a run about BD/CareFusion/Pyxis. It is not clear if you are a fan or might have some conflict of interest. Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how we manage it. In case there is some conflict, I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Zchemic. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with BD/CareFusion/Pyxis, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it, and if you are editing for pay or the expectation of being paid, you must disclose that. After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. By the way, I work a lot on articles about companies in the biomedical space, and it is nice to see interest in this. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 00:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I do not have any connection with BD/CareFusion/Pyxis, directly nor through a third party, but thank you for asking!--Zchemic (talk) 00:08, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (List of proprietary bioinformatics software) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating List of proprietary bioinformatics software, Zchemic!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Is this list expected to eventually contain more than two entries? If not, I don't think it merits a standalone page, but should be merged with the open-sourced list. I'll return in a few weeks and see how it's coming along.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 21:36, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of List of female American football teams

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I have declined this speedy deletion request. These is no copyright violation. Not even close. -- Whpq (talk) 17:38, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

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Nomination of Dolores Cannon for deletion

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05:01, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Dolores Cannon

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Speedy deletion nomination of FocusWriter

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A tag has been placed on Focuswriter, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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That page was nomitated to be deleted, but it was deleted in less than a minute after its creation at the moment I was replying... My repply was:

FocusWriter does not need promotion, it has been around for 15 years and the following websites talk about it:

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/focuswriter

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/focuswriter-rich-in-features-poor-in-some-important-ones-76710.html

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328838/best-linux-apps-for-chromebooks.html

Thanks.

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~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of FocusWriter

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Zchemic. Thank you for your work on FocusWriter. Justiyaya, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Looks good on a notability standpoint. [1] exist if you would like to use it as a reference. Happy editing!

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Justiyaya 01:51, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Justiyaya: I don't see how Softpedia passes WP:RS. Chris Troutman (talk) 04:43, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chris troutman WP:NPPSG says it does and I didn't really look further when reviewing. I'm not so sure of it now looking into it, [2] seems to give more mixed results than what the source guide summarized as "reliable for reviews". Justiyaya 04:50, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Gary Kildall broken

• Cite error: The named reference Watt_1986_Reorg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
• Cite error: The named reference BW_1991 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

98.248.161.240 (talk) 02:32, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

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"List of molecules by year of discovery" listed at Redirects for discussion

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