Talk:General Chemistry/Periodic Table

Why Wikibooks and not Wikipedia
This is a quick note as to why I'm keeping this page even though all of the links go to Wikipedia.

Earlier I deleted all of the "sub pages" to this Wikibook module because it was largely duplication of previous work on Wikipedia and mainly encyclopedic articles that were poorly named as well. I'm keeping this particular module (renamed, however) because I feel that this table is indeed something that can be kept in a simple form and not subject to the whims of Wikipedia editors unrelated to the General Chemistry Wikibook. This also give more freedom for the authors of that Wikibook a chance to incorporate this Wikibook module more closely into the contents of that book, and even do modifications that make sense only within that book.

A "generic Peroidic Table" within Wikibooks is inappropriate as Wikipedia already does a pretty good job as it is. This is a book-specific table and should be treated as such. --Rob Horning 18:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Name Change
You are absolutely right, this should be a simple Periodic table for the general chemistry book. I changed the name to reflect that this is part of the General Chemistry book. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Julians (talk • contribs).

Removal of "History" section
While I'm not against adding a history section here, what was added is in clear violation of copyright and can be found here instead:

http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/perhist.htm

That is clearly copyrighted material and needs to be removed completely from this article. Any attempt to add it back will be deleted immediately because we simply can't have that on Wikibooks. If you want to paraphrase it and do some scholarly research to elaborate on those ideas, but make it something original, you are welcome to do so. --Rob Horning 23:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Nonmetals
Although I like your coloring scheme, I believe it misleads students into thinking that the halogens are not nonmetals. Is there another way of assigning all the nonmetals the same color while still defining which are halogens and noble gases?

We don't need to do that.

We can just change "Nonmetals" to "Other Nonmetals," and also put something saying that the nonmetals not colored in the color are "Halogens," and "Noble gases".

Germanium
Germanium is always considered as a metalloid. Here I put it as a metal.

Can someone change it to a metalloid.

And then I will put a citation saying why I put polonium as a metal.

Please also do that for the General Chemistry/Periodic Table/Print article.

Lawrencium atomic weight change from [263] to [262], [262] is the most commonly stated atomic weight for Lr
As with No on the /Print version, on this and that I want Lr to be changed from [263] to [262], to not confuse most people.