Talk:Vanadium

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 01:51, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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Vanadium crystal bars and cube

• ... that vanadium (pictured) is detected spectroscopically in the light from the Sun and other stars? Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/130379
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Asman Boedisantoso Ranakusuma

Improved to Good Article status by Praseodymium-141 (talk). Nominated by BorgQueen (talk) at 15:21, 23 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Vanadium; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Recent GA and neither me nor Earwig can find any copyvio. Source verified and cited inline. QPQ done. Hook is... interesting, though I would ask "what isn't detected in spectroscopy?". Just in case, I propose a couple other hooks, for the promoter:

• ALT1: ... that vanadium (pictured) was named after the Norse goddess Freyja?
• ALT2: ... that after vanadium (pictured) was first discovered in 1801, its discoverer mistakenly believed he had instead extracted chromium, and retracted his claim?

Juxlos (talk) 07:05, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @Juxlos:. Your proposed hooks will need to be approved by someone else. BorgQueen (talk) 09:21, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

ALT1 approved. I agree with the concern regarding ALT0, and ALT2 is confusingly worded (it would need to be explained that the "mistakenly believed" was a second step for the "retracted" to follow). ALT1 works well and should attract readers surprised by the non-obvious connection between the two names. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

I am guessing that a mirror picked up the article at 94%. Bruxton (talk) 01:48, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Native vanadium into Vanadium

Extremely narrowly scope article about a rare form of a metal, better covered as a redirect and section Sadads (talk) 01:15, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

• Support: non-notable as a standalone article. ¹⁴¹Pr {contribs} 12:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

  Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 12:04, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Suspicious reference

"It is oxidized in air at about 933 K (660 °C, 1220 °F), although an oxide passivation layer forms even at room temperature.[21]"

I can't find anything verify about this inside reference [21]. When I go deeper via that query string at the link of [21], I found this that have everything very similar to Wikipedia. I suspect citogenesis happened here. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 07:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Early name erythronium

@DG197 Please do not add the content about erythronium to the first sentence. It is not appropriate in my opinion and another editor already reverted your addition. Johnjbarton (talk) 18:38, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

That name is used in books (also in english books) and it is the original name. DG197 (talk) 18:54, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

The another editor that reverted my addition did that because "it is not used". DG197 (talk) 18:55, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Which source said it is used? Johnjbarton (talk) 19:51, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

I put in the article the sources where erythronium is used. DG197 (talk) 01:10, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

But it has been enough, I will accept the mention of the original name that is currently in the section about the history of the discovery.

Best regards. DG197 (talk) 01:28, 30 January 2026 (UTC)