Wikijunior talk:The Elements/Introduction

Pictures
This article needs some pictures badly. And just maybe some sections... Wikisquared 20:44, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Article is Too Long
This article (and all the other introductory material for this book) is far too long. This is not intended to be a chemistry book. It is intended to be a book about the elements. Perhaps some of this material should be forked to Wikijunior Basic Chemistry and we should decide what material here really adds to the overall mission of this book. Also, as Wikisquared has pointed out the article is far from complete, so it shouldn't be marked so on the front page. --xixtas 12:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Modification of outdated material-waste of time?
User:Az1568 modified the older version of Introduction, I think you may have wasted your time. Perhaps check the newer one and edit/improve that instead. If everyone agrees, then my plan was to move "new!' into the Introduction slot and delete this older version. cheers!--Read-write-services 22:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

What are the new and old versions you speak of? I only see one version here! John H, Morgan 20:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

This is the new one! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_The_Elements/Introduction_to_The_Elements-NEW%21

and this is the version that was modified by Az1568, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_The_Elements/Introduction

cheers. --Read-write-services 21:42, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

The basic issue is that some authors have been working on a basic chemistry book here. I think this is an admirable goal and should be encouraged and continued. But I don't think that it fits with what this book is designed to be about. That is why I proposed forking the content. Keeping a version of the Introductory content here in "The Elements" but drastically editing it down, and creating a new book "Wikijunior Basic Chemistry. Having two different active versions of the same article in the same book space is confusing for everyone, I think. --xixtas 02:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)