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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.

Block evading IP

96.33.107.226 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) is probably a block evading IP of User:Jiwood23… look at contribs - WP:ENGVAR trolling - Uw-ipevadeblock for 6 months - it should look like this:

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. Thanks. ~2025-38650-35 (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously is. But no activity on that IP since April, so I don't see a reason to block that one now. DMacks (talk) 05:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DMacks, this user has been going around trolling admins (here and on meta) to do nonsense things like this for them. They're also socking: the reports I've investigated have turned out to be one user making disruptive edits, logging out and generating a new TA, then reporting their own disruptive editing. I have blocked them as well as I can but please feel free to ping me or another checkuser if you get more requests like this. Cheers. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:21, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. That was good-hand/bad-hand troll was not one of the abusers with which I was familiar. DMacks (talk) 15:51, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Harold Foppele (talk) 19:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you Harold Foppele (talk) 13:13, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

Allow a question please: Do you have access to ref sources? I have an article with 64 refs and I cannot access some of them. Do you or anyone you know have access? Also, am I allowed to use a figure out of a publkic paper inside an article with source quotation ? Thanks Harold Foppele (talk) 17:10, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can usually get access to materials from a university research library near me. But they do not have everything...hard to predict without seeing the specific journal reference. Copying diagrams or other images from a published source depends on the source. Copyright law is very complicated. DMacks (talk) 06:19, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found Perlego.com if you need to look up references :) Harold Foppele (talk) 21:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting resource I had not heard of before. DMacks (talk) 06:19, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have a subscription now, so if you need any refs, ping or email me, Cheers Harold Foppele (talk) 10:55, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! DMacks (talk) 13:10, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

About my speedy deletion nomination

Okay, I haven't realized that I nominated a user talk page earlier today (Eastern Standard Time) until now. I was too busy notice my mistake. This is the second unintentional time this month. I own up to it. I never saw the page say User Talk, thus my mistake. Felicia (talk) 22:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries:) DMacks (talk) 06:02, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft for Maria Dorota Czajkowska-Majewska

Sorry about the missing BLP references, my fault. I have added three of them. One is a reference about the author (M.D. Czajkowska-Majewska) from the Archive of the Science of Poland, with information about her education (Early life and education section). The second one is the author’s CV from the webpage of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland (Academic career section). The last one is a listing of the author’s popular publications from the website of the National Library of Poland (Science outreach section). Her research publications can all be found on her included profiles from the open sources: Google Scholar, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Dimensions. Thank you! Walerus (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Will I get banned if I put on my Userpage that I post on Soyjak.party?

Yes or no. I’m not a Nazi. I just browse the Sharty cuz I like their memes. Will I be banned for this? Sammywonbor or whatever the user is called (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea. DMacks (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is in response to them being pinged at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § Users associated with hugely problematic imageboard Soyjak Party. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 22:27, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the context. My answer stands. But now I can also direct to read that thread and ask there for clarification as necessary. I am going to decline to speak on behalf of the participants there. DMacks (talk) 03:10, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On a personal level, I would suggest you break off your ties with an imageboard full of no-life bigots who dox and troll for fun. Athanelar (talk) 03:38, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will I get banned for it doe? Sammywonbor or whatever the user is called (talk) 11:38, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Our Rangpur friend

I saw you blocked a prbable LOUTSOCK of the person doing the disruptive page moves at Rangpur. Should this go to SPI if they do it again or would that be WP:QUACKing loud enough to skip that step? TornadoLGS (talk) 20:19, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say SPI if it happens again so we can keep a central record (plus more eyes means faster catching in the future). Looking at some deleted histories, I see an article-overlap with a much older sock-pile, but the material they each added seem different enough I think it's unrelated. DMacks (talk) 21:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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