User talk:Afluegel/Glass

Workgroup Glass, Development Page

On this page all relevant information is collected for setting up a Task Force for improving the quality of the article glass and related articles in the category glass. This Task Force could be a child of one or several of the following WikiProjects: Chemistry (glass chemistry), Physics (optics, physical chemistry background such as glass transition), Visual arts (glass art), History (glass history), Business (glassmaking companies, trademarks, and brands), Biography (glass makers and glass artists), and Geology (glass in nature). Please feel free to participate and to add information to this page. For suggestions and discussion about the topic go to the talk page of the article Glass.

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Lessons to learn from quick-failed good article nomination, article Glass, October 2007

Per the quick-fail criteria of the GA process, any article with cleanup or expansion banners and tags such as {{fact}} must be failed without a hold period. Please feel free to renominate the article when the necessary improvements have been made. Other major issues that would need to be dealt with include the following:

The prose is, for the most part, a pleasure to read. However, the article needs some work to comply fully with the Manual of Style. At present, the lead section is not a concise overview of the entire article. It only provides a basic definition of what glass is and how it's made. Expanding into a second paragraph which succinctly summarizes the rest of the article is necessary. Another issue is the use of blockquote formatting for quotations of less than four lines. This is improper per the MoS, and needs to be corrected. The sections Renaissance glassmaking, Industrial revolution glassmaking and Market structure also need serious expansion or merging in to larger sections.

Another area lacking is inline citations to references. Presently, every section in the article has large portions of text (i.e entire paragraphs and even subsections) that contain no inline citations whatsoever. The minimum for GA status would be a single ref at the end of the paragraph and for quotes. More, such as for potentially controversial statements, would be desirable. Remember that cites should always come after punctuation, not within it. This is especially true when citing quotations (such as in the bulleted list within Behaviour of antique glass).

Thank you for your work so far. If you feel this decision was in error, you are welcome to ask for a reassessment. VanTucky ^Talk 21:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Important articles

The following articles are considered to be most important within the topic glass, either because they are important for understanding the topic glass, or because the articles have many visitors. Hence, especially these articles should have a high quality:

Glass, Vitreous, Physics of glass‎, Amorphous solid, Supercooling
Technology, engineering, and science
- Glass production
- Optical fiber
- Fiberglass
- Glass coatings
  - Insulated glazing
  - Windshield
- Glass transition temperature
- Materials science
- Soda-lime glass
- Float glass
- Vitrification
- Sodium silicate
- Silica gel
- Glasses
- Window
Glass art
Glass history
Obsidian

= good article
Incomplete articles, lacking essential content, can be found in the category Glass stubs.

Good articles

Tasks

Article Glass

Topic glass in general

Maitenance of the category glass. A proper organization helps finding related articles easier.
Reviewing of related subjects that should have incoming links to the topic glass, e.g., articles mentioning glass, appropriate project pages, or portals. The incoming links may lead experienced editors to a glass topic in need of attention.
Maintenance of glass related templates: Glass makers and brands, Glass forming techniques, Glass science topics
Placing of the glass pre-project template {{Glass pre-project}} on talk pages of relevant articles (if there are too many project templates, add the shell {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} or {{WikiProjectBanners}})

Article Optical fiber

Articles that should be created

If created, the following articles would significantly help in understanding the topic glass:

Free literature

There is free literature online about the topic glass, which can be used for referencing.

Google books

Most of the following glass related books at Google are only partially online, however:

Patents

Almost all patents are freely available online through the website esp@cenet. The search for a specific patent in the area of glass may be performed as follows:

Go to advanced search
Enter the keywords preferably in the second line of the form (search for keyword in title or abstract)
For an optional targeted search, enter in addition the European Classification (ECLA):
- C03B (glass manufacture, shaping, or supplementary processes), or one of its subclasses
- C03C (glass compositions, surface treatments, joining), or one of its subclasses
- Example: A glass coated with at least two coatings of inorganic materials, e.g., an IR-reflective coating, can be found in a subclass of C03C, namely C03C17/34D.

Page view statistics

Article	Times viewed in 01/2009	Rank in English Wikipedia¹
Viscosity	131000
Frank Lloyd Wright	127000	2500
Glass	99000	3900
Optical fiber	79000	5300
Obsidian	45000	-
Refractive index	41000	-
Fiberglass	36000	-
Marc Chagall	35000	-
Swarovski	31000	-
Glasses	31000	-
Silica gel	30000	-
Optics	28000	-
Window	27000	-
Materials science	26000	-
The Crystal Palace	26000	-
Stained glass	24000	-
Dispersion (optics)	19000	-
Supercooling	18000	-
Sodium silicate	18000	-
Glass transition temperature	14000	-
Vitrification	12000	-
Louis Comfort Tiffany	12000	-
Amorphous solid	10000	-

¹For comparison: The total number of pages in the English Wikipedia is about 2.7 Million.

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