Talk:Super Purity Aluminium

So did we ever put this to a merge vote? Or did Keenan Pepper just decide to move some of the content away and set up a redirect?
~ender 2006-03-03 2:40:AM MST

Voting is evil. Do you have a convincing argument why an article on the pure form of an element should be separate from an article on, um... the "Super Pure" form of the same element? —Keenan Pepper 12:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, you can't make SPA by the process you make regular aluminium. And nobody's yet told me *how* you go about doing so (because it's merely part of the main article and thus nobody cares). And it is essential to any number of items we use everyday: like CDs.

Also, has wikipedia decided to change the process? Voting on content, or positions, is kinda different than voting on whether to merge or not. I can agree with the attitudes present in Voting is evil, however some things do come down to a yea/nay. Move or don't move. Merge or not. Disambig page, or mentions at the top of the page.

~ender 2006-03-26 19:56:PM MST

"you can't make SPA by the process you make regular aluminium." On what basis do you make this claim? I would think it is made by the same process, only put through an extra purification step at the end. If you want to know more about aluminum purification, ask a question at the reference desk, or better yet, do some research yourself and contribute to the article.

I think you have some delusions about the level of bureaucracy involved in Wikipedia. It's not about "deciding to change the process" or whatever, it's about people trying to cooperate. If you sincerely want "Super Purity Aluminium" to be a separate article, you should simply start writing it here. I'm not a dick; I won't change it back to a redirect without talking about it or voting on it first. —Keenan Pepper 03:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Based on everything I've read. Yes, you need extra purification. How do you get more purity than using electrolysis on the molten stuff (which is the process used to make aluminium)? I've tracked down an email address for someone in the industry, from the Aluminium group's (association?) reference stuff, but I haven't gotten around to trying to nail them to the wall with some description. Lack of an article to put it into makes me less likely to do so. That ref. desk link should be useful. When I'm not so tired, I shall submit this as a question (if you've not done so already) there, and see if they just delete it - like most things on wikipedia...

No delusions, but we write out the rules we're playing by, and we try to play by them. If people aren't going to follow the rules, I'm taking my balls home :) Cooperation means that people spend some time learning thr rules, and spend some time following them.

~ender 2006-03-27 10:28:AM MST

<sigh /> You just don't get it, do you? Wikipedia:Ignore all rules.

Questions are not deleted from the reference desk unless they are obviously blatant vandalism. Even so, if they have the form of a valid question, I try to answer them seriously (see Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/March 2006#Can male homosexuals still fart?).

Note that an email from "someone in the industry" is not a verifiable source, which is a much more important Wikipedia policy than voting on every little merge. If you're going to break rules yourself, don't whine about how I'm not playing by them. —Keenan Pepper 18:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]