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Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND)

Hello. I just created the article Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) and since physics and astronomy are not my strength, I am humbly requesting members of this project to please review the text and the categorization. Thank you. Rowan Forest (talk) 17:40, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Moving work over to mainspace

Hi, I'm moving my work over to the mainspace and was wondering if anyone could take a quick look at it. The link is here. Thanks! Qbrodsky (talk) 22:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Wouldn't this article be better suited for a Wikibook? --MaoGo (talk) 08:23, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
However nice this article might be for offering ideas on constructing a propaedeutic course on this topic, I would nominate it for deletion if I were more fluent in the WP-capitals, because I consider it to lack any encyclopedic value. Purgy (talk) 09:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Given some general fixing-up, it could join the list of introductions at Template:Introductory articles. XOR'easter (talk) 14:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Now that I've been motivated to look at it, I find that the "Chaotic and emergent phenomena" section of Electromagnetism is very miscellaneous and, well, WP:FRINGE-y. It's full of strong claims about obscure points with questionable sourcing, and is generally not what a main article on a major area of physics should have. XOR'easter (talk) 15:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
@XOR'easter: that section is totally technobabble, maybe we should remove it. As for a general article it is playing no purpose there. --MaoGo (talk) 18:19, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
No objection here. XOR'easter (talk) 20:33, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
OK, I cut it way, way down — keeping (but recaptioning) the picture, which was nice and dramatic. XOR'easter (talk) 12:06, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Planck units

Attention of editors is drawn to Talk:Planck units#Derived Planck Units by ElectroMagnetism & Thermodynamics proprieties where an editor gives a very long explanation, much of which looks like WP:OR, of why he wishes to edit this page. Eyes would be useful here. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2018 (UTC).

Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:33, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:JOURNALS needs help

A few of the top-cited journals without articles on Wikipedia belong to physics. Going through WP:JCW/Missing1+, we've got

General physics
Earth sciences
Material science
Biophysics
Particle physics

All of those are cited dozens if not hundreds of times. Help writing the journal articles would be greatly appreciated. We have a guide for that at WP:JWG, which means writing a solid journal article takes 20-30 minute. It's possible some of those don't warrant full articles, but could be sections in another article. E.g. maybe a dedicated section inside Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales would be sufficient for Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.

Thanks for any help you can give! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:11, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Help with improving a draft article on Ewin Tang

I have created a draft article on Draft:Ewin_Tang, a computer scientist who caused a bit of a stir when she and her supervisor Scott Aaronson demonstrated a fast classical algorithm that solves the recommendation problem at nearly the same speed as quantum algorithms. I would welcome edits, additional references, and any further changes that will make this article compelling enough to survive as an article. I am aware that she is incredibly young (she's starting her Ph.D. at age 18) but she was named on Forbes 30 under 30 this year and her work has already had media coverage. I found her journey incredibly insightful and interesting, but maybe that's just me! The page is here: Draft:Ewin_Tang. Thanks in advance (note I only started editing Wikipedia for the past ~6months so apologies for any errors). Opto kitty (talk) 18:12, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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