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Standard atomic weight: style change

Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

I have changed the style (presentation) of the s.a.w. (for stable elements only then, not mass number). It now has a boxwide line for the quantity (=label, LH-side). Before, the A_r text was squeezed into the LH labelcolumn, which looked bad especially in mobile view (3-line label). Technically, s.a.w. now is a child infobox. In {{Infobox element isotopes}}, a similar change applied. DePiep (talk) 10:36, 11 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Ideas are welcome to improve texts, it is a difficult value to explain. For example, the name "weight" is archaic and incorrect, and people easily expect a unit (would be Da). DePiep (talk) 11:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Lattice constant

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi all, there have been a couple requests at Template talk:Infobox gold to add the lattice constant. I don't have a ton of subject knowledge here: is that a reasonable thing to add to this? If so, I can throw something together in the sandbox. LittlePuppers (talk) 02:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Symbols for horizontal neighbours

Latest comment: 2 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I propose to replace left and right words with symbols for those elements because, when word for element is too long, it goes into new line (and we are not interested in those elements surrounding the one an article is about; black symbol in vertical middle at right and name with letters in horizontal middle below is just what is topic). 5.43.101.148 (talk) 08:07, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply