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WP:SD

Why revert? - BᴏᴅʜıHᴀᴙᴩ (talk, contributions) 04:17, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion criteria are typically wordsmithed such that there is no room for misunderstanding as to what is and isn't eligible for deletion. Your edit introduced a run-on sentence – which may be much harder for some to follow – so was at best unnecessary and at worst confusing. If you believe something is wrong with criterion G2 as written, please note it at WT:SD. ^Complex/_Rational 04:26, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

How could it be misunderstood with my sentence? - BᴏᴅʜıHᴀᴙᴩ (talk, contributions) 04:28, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

CSD require careful wording and concise, easy-to-follow sentences are part of that. You may go to WT:SD if you still object, though looking at some of your other edits that have been questioned or reverted, it may not be in your best interest to make frivolous requests such as this. There's nothing left to say here. ^Complex/_Rational 04:46, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

BBC Radio 4 on new elements

Broadcast on 10 Sep 2025, with the presenter Andrew Pontzen visiting LBNL. It seems that the search for 120 has started. :)

(This one is presumably the Cf + Ti that has been talked about.) Double sharp (talk) 16:30, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

(BTW, if 120 gets discovered before 119, how should we show 119 on the PT? Back when 118 was discovered but not 117, we showed 117 on the table but marked it without a border since it was undiscovered. Maybe we should just resurrect that precedent and put 119 on the templates, but refrain from colouring it as belonging to a block as long as it hasn't been discovered, like how 119 and 120 are currently treated at {{Navbox element isotopes}}. Anyway, no counting chickens before they are hatched, so I shan't say more than that. XD) Double sharp (talk) 16:57, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

I guess some news is better than no news... and agreed, should 120 come first, probably it would be best to repeat what was done during the ~7 years between the discoveries of 118 and 117. (And while I am ever hopeful that new elements will be discovered, it will mark the end of an era with a neat, complete 7-period table.) ^Complex/_Rational 22:00, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Well, in that case JINR didn't announce 118 in a journal for a while, so maybe in the wider world it was 4 years. What a mess it would be if again we got an internal announcement but no peer-reviewed publication for a while. I guess let's hope that mess doesn't happen again. :)

Funny you say that. Randall Munroe of xkcd fame had a talk at Google about making a RL periodic table (it's in the first what if? book), and it had this quote about the "seven complete rows" situation:

And I don't know if it's a typographic thing, but I feel like it's very, very satisfying [to] have the nice, square, rounded-off shape, and it gives me this weird urge to sabotage particle physics experiments, so they don't synthesize element 119 and ruin the really nice justification.

(Well, hopefully it will finally get people to get the group 3 thing in order.) Double sharp (talk) 08:31, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Incidentally, we finally have news about the RIKEN attempt at ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁰Ti for 118. :)

(No atoms, but the reaction was only done for 39 days, because they wanted to use ⁵¹V projectiles instead and go for 119. An upper limit of 500 fb was reached for ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁰Ti, which is about the same as the real-cross section for ²⁴⁹Cf+⁴⁸Ca. Probably the real cross-section for ²⁴⁸Cm+⁵⁰Ti is about 50 fb, i.e. an order of magnitude lower, which should be doable these days as a 50-day irradiation.)

This and the above interview came out in September. Huh, apparently I complained about it when some news had actually come out and I just hadn't found it yet. :D Double sharp (talk) 08:15, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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New lanthanoid isotopes

Thirteen new ones: ^118,119La, ^119,120Ce, ^122,123Pr, ^123,124,126Nd, ^125,126,127Pm, ¹²⁸Sm. Double sharp (talk) 11:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@Double sharp: Thanks, looks like a few updates are in order soon! ^Complex/_Rational 21:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

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Draft:Yvette Hooites Meursing: Potentially promotional

Hello. Could you help me compare the deleted version of this article with the new recreation? - BᴏᴅʜıHᴀᴙᴩ (talk, contributions, deleted contributions) 23:55, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@BodhiHarp: The question is moot because comparing live and deleted content is most useful for considering eligibility for WP:G4, though that criterion is only applicable for content deleted following a discussion (e.g. an AfD). When there exists a speedy-deleted version, you should instead consider whether the same (or a different) speedy deletion criterion applies – which can be assessed solely based on the content of the extant page.

In this case, though, I checked the references and at least three of them are dead on arrival, which together with other tells in the text, strongly suggests the page was unreviewed LLM output and thus was eligible for speedy deletion per WP:G15. The first draft was twice as long and had similar issues; it was correctly deleted per WP:G11. ^Complex/_Rational 03:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I just found User:Hussin.almoustafa98/sandbox. - BᴏᴅʜıHᴀᴙᴩ (talk, contributions, deleted contributions) 04:19, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Deleted; thanks for catching that. In the future, please also place a speedy deletion tag on the page, so that it may be reviewed more quickly if I (or another specific user) is offline. ^Complex/_Rational 04:41, 4 December 2025 (UTC)