@GaurangTandon I think it is fairly organised already - we have a nice workflow and when things get posted they (eventually) get deleted, although I must apologise for making Martin pick up the slack... What could be helpful though is if we, as a team, chose one particular query to focus on - as you can see there are some of those in the room description, but as you've certainly found out there are lots of possible queries that would bring up a list of, shall we say, less stellar questions.
We're undoubtedly making slow and steady progress, but when everybody is working on something different, I guess this progress is not readily visible. So maybe it would be good for us to just focus on one bite-sized query at a time, something like 100-odd questions (and it would be a morale booster too when we finish one of those). I guess that's what you had in mind when you said 'organised'?
I feel we can get the maximum output by deleting out the bad stuff tagged [homework]. These days my primary will if any is to get the homework tab off our homepage (just view the site in incognito mode, the homepage shows [homework] as our top tags. yikes!)
over time, as questions about thermodynamics, everyday-chemistry, experimental-chemistry, electrochemistry increase, they'll displace [homework]. however, we can accelerate that by getting bad homework questions deleted first
Anyone interested in testing the beta version of the Citation Helper? Have a look at the trailer: https://www.useloom.com/share/6b706826b2c04e2f929e2c339643ee72
I've tried to make it as robust as possible. There are only two bugs remaining to my knowledge, for which I am awaiting a reply from the concerned people involved on the internet, but the main citation generator is working fully.
It's a userscript so I believe any Chrome or Firefox user may want to give it a start?
thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/… pasting this as the link doesn't work, but pasting it as the DOI works. Also, the author's name is capitalised wrongly. I know that can be a tough one to fix and I reckon there could also be a potential problem with chemical formulae, e.g. HCN will be re-capitalised to Hcn if the article title is converted to title case.
Additionally there is a mistake with the abbreviation for that, it should be Tetrahedron Lett. not Tetrahedron Letters
Also, bonus points if there is a way to automatically renumber the references properly. Right now if you have two references [1] [2] and you insert a third one between them, it comes out as [1][3][2]. Ideally the new reference should become [2] and the old [2] should be renumbered to [3]. Although I don't know if that is possible.
for the first part: hmm the problem with `paperWeb` URLs (as I call them) is that I have to _manually_ incorporate them into my code for each instance, so it's a lot of `if-else` conditions, like this:
if (/wiley/.test(URL)) { return // DOI easily } else if (/springer/.test(URL)) { return // crude match condition to extract DOI } else if (/sciencedirect/.test(URL)) { // lots of stuff to convert the given PII to DOI.... return "10.1016/" + doi; } ...
I think you get the idea. I am still looking for a better method though. Do you have some suggestions?
@orthocresol for the second part, yeah, that's a problem I have. For the article title I have it set in a way that it should convert the title to title case ONLY if it is entirely in ALL CAPS (example), . Otherwise, it should remain as it is, un-touched (example), to avoid messing up chemical names.
But I just ran title case on author names without such a check; i guess this can be fixed easily with a similar check
@orthocresol wow :( from what info I found on the internet, Elsevier DOIs can be constructed from the PII like so - "Sxxxx-xxxx(yy)zzzzz-c" (S can be upcase/lowercase/absent altogether) (example). But this one has an entirely different DOI. I'll have to investigate a bit more.
@orthocresol for that I have set a mechanism that uses the separate list that I'd earlier told you about; it requires a one time execution on the user's side of a very large file; so that i'll share later
@orthocresol ahh nice thought. it's tough though. I'll see how I can handle that correctly.
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@orthocresol In all but one case, there was no swearing ("asshole"). Besides, in all cases, even if I did get angry, my anger was justified. There was no baseless trolling. However, I will try just ignoring and flagging users that I get angry with in the future. Hence, I request you to put me out of the penalty box or at least shorten the time. Thanks.
Sir, I still think you shouldn't answer a homework question directly. In this case, maybe you should have provided links of online tutorials. — M.A.R. ಠ_ಠFeb 9 '15 at 20:19
I've read all the comments and apparently the student has a problem to figure out how to proceed to solve this exercise. So, I decided to solve this classical exercise to him, as a role model. So, he can solve similar ones. And I tried to clarify obscure points for him, step by step, as I usually do with my students, so that he can solve harder exercise on his own. I hope I persuaded you! Thank you. — Yomen AtassiFeb 9 '15 at 21:05
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Ok, I activated Roomba on a few. I'm out of votes for today because I wasn't thinking
@pentavalentcarbon haha :) JS is too powerful than this, and I am only using it in its minor capacity. though, for the time being you can always instead just ping me with a new feature-request ;)
@pentavalentcarbon i don't recall the exact rules but i hope the roomba activated was a monthly/weekly one but not yearly?
@pentavalentcarbon we should rather reopen it instead. The OP has a misconception and it is worth clearing. the closure seems unwarranted. thoughts?
@pentavalentcarbon maybe we can keep this on standby as an example for a future canonical post on the Henderson-Hasselbach equation, and just mark it as duplicate in the future
@GaurangTandon That userscript you told me about tells you when it will be activated, if it can be. All of the ones I triggered will be wiped today, because they're very old questions.
agree with everything else
@GaurangTandon I really don't think I should be the one to write them, but I can keep track of the links/notes if you aren't already
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I am on board with removing any effort based policy, but to handle homework vampires like these - archived question - we would probably need one canonical post per elementary reaction type, and then mark the question as duplicate of all those elementary reactions involved. <convenient-self-note>
This question has a convenient Roomba - but I do not want this question to die, because I find the question useful, especially once the effort closure policy is gone. Agreed?
@AvnishKabaj I meant: if and when it gets killed. whether that happens the next month or the next year, that i don't know. and it's definitely not being killed atm, so you can relax.
@GaurangTandon There are a bunch of versions of this, we need to collect a few...there is definitely at least one that writes out the full matrix expression(s) and explains that sometimes the problem is overdetermined (multiple solutions)
@pentavalentcarbon I too thought of that, but that matrix question is different because it attempts to find a full solution to the equation, the question in this case only wants a relation between two coefficients
@GaurangTandon I think the best possible canonical would not only have multiple levels of "difficulty" and different problem-solving strategies, but it would explain how they're connected.
That last part can be difficult...it needs some insight
@pentavalentcarbon it is at the risk of becoming too broad though. those different parts (or sub-parts) would probably need to reside in separate posts, so new questions can be marked as duplicate of those sub-parts as well.
or maybe I think this discussion would make more sense once we have the CP posts to begin with
@pentavalentcarbon not quite sure what to do about this one. I think it can just generally be rewritten into something like "Does light (or electromagnetic radiation) of different wavelengths travel at different speeds?" At the same time it really isn't about chemistry.
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