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List of oxidation states of the elements[edit]

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I've listed this list for peer review because I feel that it has great potential and might be a potential FL candidate if improved. Also, WP:ELEM currently has a shortage of FLs (we currently have only one) due to delisting, so I think this could be useful in reversing this trend.

Thanks, Double sharp (talk) 08:33, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some other references, besides Greenwood & Earnshaw, supporting the inclusion of a –1 oxidation state for the alkali metals could be helpful
Oxygen could do with a note commenting on its oxidation state in hypofluorous acid HOF. I suspect this is regarded as being 0. This prompts the question as to whether there are any other elements having an oxidation state of 0 in a compound—I don't know if there are any. Sandbh (talk) 12:20, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon and argon are two examples. Double sharp (talk) 11:59, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The list needs to contain one example for each oxidation state. Nergaal (talk) 20:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Check alkalide for a reference to barium in the –2 oxidation state and platinide for platinum in the –1 and –2 states Sandbh (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Assuming you are heading to WP:FLC at some point, here are some more basic comments:
Don't start "This is a list..." we haven't done that for a couple of years.
You need a WP:LEAD which adequately describes what we're about to read.
I'm not sure what you'd do, but some kind of illustration or image would be welcome.
Try to imagine that you're appealing to readers who don't necessarily understand what "Elem." means, or worse, "Sn"?
Expand the table so we include English readable element names.
Make it a regular table with row and col scopes and cell boundaries rather than this rather nebulous table.
Why is this is notable? It may be interesting, but why should this even exist, why are oxidation states notable? (I know the answer, but you should explain it).
You have some entries bold, we don't use bold for emphasis, what's it for?
The FIG I illustration is.... well... what?
Some work to go, have a breeze around recently promoted featured lists to see what we're looking for, I know this is much more esoteric, but nevertheless, we have some standards that this list currently fails.

The Rambling Man (talk) 18:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC) Incidentally, this checklist may be useful to you). Good luck. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]