User talk:Thewinster

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[edit] blanking

Please don't blank pages without explanation. If you want the page deleted, please add {{delete|reason}} to the top of the page instead. Thanks.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 17:52, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the direction. I will keep that in mind the next time! --Thewinster (talk) 18:15, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Getting in contributors for the book

Hello Thewinster, welcome to Wikibooks. I saw the note that you sent to User:Mike.lifeguard, I hope you don't mind me eavesdropping. In response to your request, I have posted a message about the Inorganic Chemistry book on my blog:

http://wikibooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/inorganic-chemistry.html

Hopefully this will generate some support for you and this book. Let me know if you have any other questions. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 21:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collaborating - Notes

I would be willing to look at your notes and transcribe them into the wiki textbook. I am student, I've taken general chemistry and am currently taking Inorganic. I have a textbook and powerpoint by my professor to refer to for writing. I'm a physics major, I'm undecided about continuing with chemistry. I first looked at the physics textbooks for something to edit, but didn't find anything clearly in need of content.

I was reading the wikipedia article on Lewis Structures and I think it could be used with minor changes for the textbook. I didn't want to do anything because I wasn't sure about the policy on this. It looks like that the page is a good lesson on how to draw them. I held off on adding some content because I wasn't sure what was needed. Could you tell me what pages need to added to and created?

Glad to help out with the project. Timetraveler3 14 (talk) 22:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Bonding Page11.gif is missing license or source information

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See Thewinster (unlicensed|untagged) for a complete list of your uploads which may get deleted soon.
Thank you.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 15:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


We just need a source and license template for your image uploads. If you have problems, you know where to find me.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 15:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Just a reminder that Image:Bonding Page6.gif is missing info.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 04:59, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Transwikied pages

I've started to carefully remove content on the sections that have been copied from wikipedia, removing content that is isn't useful for someone first learning the topic. Mostly I've deleted pieces about background or that talk about details that aren't relevent. Timetraveler3 14 (talk) 00:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Work to be done

I'm contining to slowly remove content so that the pages seem more like textbook and not an encylopedia. I don't completly understand how to fully use wikipedia. What is the best way to comment on things that i see/feel should be changed across the book. Is there one place with a list of all edits that need to be done. How should notes be made on future work to be done? Thanks. Timetraveler3 14 (talk) 17:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Additional places to get content from

I think to add to at least the section on chemical bonding, we should use content from other chemsitry wikibooks. Basic things like the orbitals that are talked about in Gen Chem we use whats already done. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_Chemistry/Atomic_Structure Timetraveler3 14 (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] IIT JEE Committee scans

G'day, regarding the scans you've uploaded from IIT JEE Committee question papers, is this work yours or someone else's? i.e. did you write the papers, or did someone else write them? Webaware talk 07:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, the hand-written scans I assume are yours. But the typed ones I've tagged as copyvios; it looks like those are scans of a textbook, or a test, either of which would be copyrighted. Please note that transcribing them (if that's the case) would also be a copyright violation.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 15:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Solved Question Papers - AIEEE

Is this a real textbook? It doesn't seem like it to me - perhaps example questions would be best included in a pre-existing textbook on the subject.  — Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

It is a reference book. Since this is a compendium of questions previously asked in other exminations, it will not make sence if we have them ONLY as a part of other books and not an annual set. --Thewinster (talk) 11:19, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Do we know who owns the copyright to the questions? Since textbooks are educational, where is there an explanation of the concepts explored by the questions? Simply having a collection of examples isn't educational.  — Mike.lifeguard | talk 15:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Done. I had hurried up with posting. The further edits will contain solutions as well (as was planned). And since "explanation of concepts" is emphasized, they will not be step by step solutions. As far as copyright is concerned, they do not belong to anyone. These are very fundamental questions. I tried to search for a particular template - which says that the content marked with this template is common human knowledge and one cannot claim authority over that. Basically, these questions belong to that category. --Thewinster (talk) 09:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chem markup

You might be interested in following 17133 Add support for mhchem package in <math> markup. mhchem is a nice package I use for this sort of thing. I have no idea whether that request is doable, but will hopefully get a tech person to look at it at least.  — Mike.lifeguard | talk 18:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File upload scans

I came across your file uploads and browsing around started wondering what their precise sources were. Are the hand-written ones notes taken from a course, or gathered from one or more textbooks? There are also a number of scans that seem to be from published works, but their source and authorship is a bit vague. Could you please clarify these? File:1996 IIT JEE Math QP Page 0001.gif, for example, gives the source as "Question Paper" and the author as both you yourself and "IIT JEE Committee". Thanks, --Swift (talk) 02:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

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