User talk:DMacks

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Erich Clar page

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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.

Proposed deletion of Sex, Love, Misery: New New York

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Talk: Leonid Brezhnev

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Many thanks for fixing the archiving/page move there. The editor also had moved the following 4 talk pages as well: Talk:Konstantin Chernenko, Talk:Yuri Andropov, Talk:Nikita Khrushchev, and Talk:Mikhail Gorbachev. I'm going to try to fix at least one of them taking your action as my template. If I mess up, I'll put in a call here. - Shearonink (talk) 13:23, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh hahahaha on me...can't do the Move. "Page already exists". Oh well, beyond my poor editing powers I guess? I'll put in a request for the other 4 talk page moves at "Requested moves"...which has a backlog! Well, at least I tried... - Shearonink (talk) 13:45, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Talk:Mikhail Gorbachev page move had already been corrected by Queen of Hearts, I have put in Requests for the remaining three at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. - Shearonink (talk) 14:13, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for keeping tabs on them. User:Pppery took the lead on the other three. And it took multiple edits and admin tricks by them and others to accomplish each one. I gave a final warning. DMacks (talk) 17:22, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yw and HUZZAH. Yay Pppery! Glad they've all been fixed. I'm just going to do some minor clean-up on the talk pages' bits & pieces. - Shearonink (talk) 18:04, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Deleting Template:Trans

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I came across your closure at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 April 12 § Redirects to Template:Translation and Template:Transliteration, and I disagree with deleting {{trans}}. Looking at the dozens of comments in the discussion, I can only find two people who said that {{trans}} should be deleted. Most of the discussion was about the longer template redirects, and the proposal to delete the whole set was near the end (so previous silence doesn't imply agreement). And at least two !votes talked about "using {{trans}} instead" or similar, which implies not deleting it. I think getting consensus for deleting {{trans}} would likely require a discussion focused on that template redirect alone. jlwoodwa (talk) 08:34, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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