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Erich Clar page

I want to include a synthetic reaction that is known as Clar's reaction. It is of a certain class of cyclic ketones that condense with themselves when heated to 400 C in a mixture of zinc dust and zinc chloride.

I will add references and a description of what it is used for in synthesizing new polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Need help with website links

Hello! I am the person w 68.173.170.185 (talk) 00:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, IP-user! What are you trying to do and what sort of help do you need with it? DMacks (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I accidentally posted without finishing.

Hello I am the the user that made that official website link edit which is this one.

+2 {{official website}} is fully viable and explicitly allowed (no pref for/against) in WP:EL. It appears to give the same result in this case...what problem are you trying to solve? Undid revision 1261837351

I made the edit because the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links way of linking is a more cleaner, easier to read when editing, and has less text than the previous edit.

I was wondering what are the benefits and downsides of using the other method way of linking, even though you get the same output is there any downsides to using that way?

If I am correct is the {{official website}} a template? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template

The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wiki source of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the {{Template name}} syntax. Another method is substitution, where the content of the template is copied into the wiki source of the target page, just once, when it is saved.

Is that slower or require more resources?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion

Transclusion events occur each time the target page is loaded and the template is rendered. A related event is Substitution, where a template call is replaced with its transcluded source content at the time it is invoked. Unlike transclusion, which continuously updates the target page with changes from the source, substitution results in a one-time inclusion of the content, meaning that subsequent updates to the source content will not be reflected in the target page. For example, a template call for {{Pagename}} with the subst: prefix results in the substitution template call {{#if:|{{PAGENAME:}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}[[Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word|H{{PAGENAME}}]]. When invoked, this template is replaced, also referred to as substituted, with the actual wikitext of the source page at the time of the call, thereby making it a permanent part of the target page.[c]

Thank you, I am still learning and trying to find the best ways of linking stuff on wikipedia. 68.173.170.185 (talk) 01:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello DMacks: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Spread the love; use {{subst:User:Dustfreeworld/Xmas3}} to send this message.
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Happy Holidays

Hello DMacks: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Abishe (talk) 15:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Abishe (talk) 15:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Breyers disruptive editing

Could you please have a look at Breyers and the last three topics on the talk page? A user - Axad12 - is opposing simple sourced edits to a start-class article that should be uncontroversial and easy to describe.

This user and three others refused collaboration or constructive suggestions on a recent DRN. The user claims consensus is established on the talk page to say that a 2013 Breyers dessert product contained "antifreeze", a comment mentioned only in an unscientific book on "banishing belly fat".

Admins Cullen328 and BD2412 previously provided comments indicating use of the antifreeze term was undue. Otherwise, I have made only straightforward, sourced edits that Axad12 immediately reverts.

Thanks for your time. Zefr (talk) 19:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As per the recent talk page discussion, 6 users oppose the edits that this user has been attempting to make. However, the user keeps opening new threads apparently in the hope that none of the opposing voices will continue to object.

The idea that I have been disruptive here is really quite mistaken. All I have done is reverted edits which are contrary to obvious talk page consensus.

The story here goes back to early November, when the user above implemented a COI edit request that had previously been declined. They were then reverted and ever since then they have bludgeoned the talk page. Axad12 (talk) 19:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

William Ellery

I don't know where "Andem" comes from, but William Ellery Sr. was a prominent RI politician who died in 1764.

And given where Andem St is in Providence, there's no way there was a street there in 1776, when Samuel Ward died. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:58, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Innnnnteresting, thanks! I am not knowledgeable about the history of that area of Providence. Good removal of uncited and now seemingly dubious. DMacks (talk) 05:03, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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