Talk:Lead

Infobox

Some of us discussed the elem & chem infobox earlier, and seemed to agree, that the last thing we ever wanted was a really long elem infobox or chem infobox. In other words, only the key things should be in, with the idea that other physical attributes could be put in the article or under a separate subpage. A really long infobox leads to a bad layout for articles. Note all of the white space in this article at the top. I think you will find fair resistance to changing the chem and elem infobox to be this inclusive. An alternative might be to have a physical properties infobox later in the article in a physical properties section where things like boiling pts and crystal structure forms, UV-vis, NMR, refraction, etc could be placed. David E. Volk 16:06, 31 March 2008 (CDT)

There's actually a discussion which I hope you would have found on the talk page of this particular template in use; I meant to post it to the chemistry workgroup page but there didn't seem to be that much activity there. Please weigh in. --Robert W King 16:10, 31 March 2008 (CDT)

Mr Volk: The white space came from not including the TOC placement, not from the infobox itself, but note there is nothing from preventing an author from including an arbitrarily large amount of info in either infobox.

All: Part of what I was trying to do is to eliminate the "placeholder" (read as "empty space on the screen that a header says should contain information") for info that was not included in the article. Please see for example the Carbon Infobox, in the Hazards or Properties section). Perhaps including these headers with no info is not what we want. Also, if it's a pretty layout you're after, we should consider a "keepout" for article text that surrounds the box. The text in articles that use the original Elem_Infobox looks kinda crammed up against it IMHO...--David Yamakuchi 14:41, 1 April 2008 (CDT)

Temporary commenting out

I've temporarily commented out the infobox, because it is just not ready for implementation. --Robert W King 10:55, 1 April 2008 (CDT)

OK, how 'bout something more like this...CZ:Sandbox2?--David Yamakuchi 14:41, 1 April 2008 (CDT)

That's better. A few minor comments: label all the numbers (use small font for the labels if you have to); I can guess what the "207.2" and "82" are, but I'm not sure everyone can (and no, having them hyperlinked isn't enough, although it's a good idea). Ditch "Electronegativity", it's too obscure. Would "boiling point" be useful instead?

Also, once this is up, we can lose most of the "Lead has the symbol Pb (from the latin Plumbum) while its atomic number is 82." from the intro; it's duplicative, and not a good use of that space. Maybe just "Its chemical symbol Pb is derived from the latin Plumbum." J. Noel Chiappa 15:22, 1 April 2008 (CDT)