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Paracetamol 2004-06-14 Hydrochloric acid 2005-04-25 Acetic acid 2005-12-02 Raney nickel 2006-02-21 Caffeine 2006-09-16 Lead(II) nitrate 2006-11-11 NAD+ promoted 2007-12-23
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WikiProject Chemicals is a daughter WikiProject of the WikiProject on Chemistry. It concerns writing and improving articles about chemical compounds in Wikipedia. So far, more than fifty members of Wikipedia have signed up to participate in WikiProject Chemicals.

A worklist of representative chemical compounds has been finalized. Progress on the articles in this list is monitored by participants. Also, templates for Lists of Properties for the compounds have been standardized, as has formatting and naming articles on chemical compounds. Presentation of chemical structures should also be standardized (to some extent). This WikiProject also serves as a forum on how best to present chemicals information and proceed with work on chemicals in Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and look at the worklist. To join, simply list yourself at #Participants by adding your name (and table format) to the section. If you would like to request a new chemistry-related article, please be referred to the WikiProject Chemistry requested articles list.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Assessment 3 Parentage 4 Descendant WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 Goals 7 Discussion forums 8 Activities in progress 8.1 Worklist to ChemStart level as a minimum 8.2 Worklist to A-Class level 8.3 Style guide 9 Activities finalized 9.1 Templates 9.2 Chemical Infoboxes 9.3 List of lists 10 References

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide high-quality, standardized articles in Wikipedia for all important chemicals, similar to the Merck Index. This comprises all organic and inorganic compounds, elements, reagents, commodities, pharmaceuticals, pollutants, and other large-scale and small-scale chemicals of interest. Additional focus is given to the selected articles about approx 400 representative chemicals, on the target worklist.

Other chemistry subjects, including chemical groups, ions, methodology of analysis, production, reactions, etc, are included in the Chemistry WikiProject, or in its other daughter wikiproject.

[edit] Assessment

First aim of the Chemicals wikiproject is quality improvement of the worklist. These articles are only quality classified, not importance classified. Note that for historical reasons this Wikiproject does not have a GA-Class.

WPChem worklist articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	7	7
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