Talk:List of organic compounds

Merger

If you want to make a significant change to the purpose of List of organic compounds, it's best to propose it first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry. I have reverted your changes to the list, but left your merge suggestion. Thanks. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:48, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

The question belongs here, where the page is. Merging articles into categories is a laborious process, and it's more laborious if you don't know how to do it. The template includes space for details, rationale, or procedures in the proposal, but it doesn't display, so I didn't write it that way. So please, either revert your own edit, or explain why you disagree with the objective.

My rationale is simple. The category allows for subcategories and therefore better organization, and in a semi-automatic fashion. The category is already bigger. All that maintenance should entail is putting articles that are in the general class of "organic compounds" into more specific categories. This manual list should be a duplication of effort, but it can still serve the purpose of requesting articles (or seeing that a request has been filled, but not categorized).

The purpose of the manual list won't go away, as in you can't move it without creating dead links, AFAIK. For the most part, I see more point, at this time, to following my own recommendation and making articles refer to categories, but they should also refer to this list.

Lyall's Conjecture:

 If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.

Brewhaha@edmc.net 15:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Might be useful to add ChemSpider to the list of resources?

Might be useful to add ChemSpider to the list of resources? --ChemSpiderMan (talk) 17:54, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

To help solve the visualization issue I suggest to view through chemicalize.org

To help solve the visualization issue I suggest to view through chemicalize.org, see this example Alex Allardyce (talk) 09:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Water

Why is water on this list? An organic compound is defined as containing carbon. Water does not contain carbon, ergo water is not an organic compound. I removed it from the list a few minutes ago, but the change was immediately reverted. Could someone please explain why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.136.198.184 (talk) 14:38, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I'll fix it. Pikiwyn ^talk 14:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Delete / Redirect ??

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#List_of_organic_compounds regarding the usefulness of this page and its future. All are invited to add their comments, before any action is taken  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 20:58, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

I have temporarily re-instated the article. Please see discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#List_of_organic_compounds. Biscuittin (talk) 14:10, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

I have created a slimmed-down page. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#List_of_organic_compounds. Biscuittin (talk) 20:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:List of organic compounds/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This list is important for maintenance purposes in wikipedia categories. I think it is an alternative place to request articles. Brewhaha@edmc.net 15:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 15:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 22:16, 29 April 2016 (UTC)