Talk:Thorium

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Use in cavity magnetrons filaments (used in microwave ovens)

The page on cavity magnetrons states Thorium is used in the filaments of the magnetron. It would be interesting to find references to support this and to mention it under the applications for / uses of Thorium.

Long-term Abuse

This article has been a long-term target by newly created sockpuppets, vandals, and trolls. I listed some sockpuppet incidents below.

February 2024 Incidents

On 2/2, ThoriumEnjoyer2222 replaced thorium with “methium”, a fictional element from the TV show Breaking Bad. One day after ThoriumEnjoyer2222 was indefinitely blocked, Beebish the People added that thorium was a dog breed and added a description that he made up. The article was then semi-protected for 2 weeks. Both accounts caused heavy damage to the article.

Thorium to “Lokium”

From 6/21-9/18, sockpuppets of Lokilizations are Bad have been replacing thorium with “lokium.” I think it’s because the sockpuppets think that it’s unfair that Thor has an element named after him and Loki doesn’t. On 7/31, the article was semi-protected for 3 months. On 9/18, a sockpuppet with an offensive username requested to change thorium one and a half months into the 3 month protection. The first request was to change it to the Peanuts character Linus, the second to lokium.

If this continues, this page will need to be semi-protected indefinitely and we may need to start a sockpuppet/long term abuse investigation.

List of Sockpuppets who Vandalized “Thorium”:

ThoriumEnjoyer2222

Beebish the People

Lokilizations are Bad

Archaea Improvement Scheme

Bifrost Connex Bus

Dsadowski1 pruning Loki variants

2603:8080:D03:89D4:24B3:323B:92D5:B580 (talk) 23:24, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

That's a known long-term abuser, many admins and editors (including myself) have some of the targeted pages in our watchlists to be able to deal with the damage, and request a longer semi-protection if it happens again after this one expires. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:45, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/BMX On WheeIs? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:08, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Yep, that's him. Loki-related pages are already mentioned in #Targeted areas, pages, themes, but at this point it's best to not give him too much attention or information. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:18, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

BMX On WheeIs is also a troll 2603:8080:D03:89D4:E16F:6B38:6B10:E77 (talk) 23:22, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

It could also be Lokicat3345 2603:8080:D03:89D4:A59A:7BF6:7DDC:2313 (talk) 23:33, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

No need to list all of them, they're usually blocked on sight and giving more attention like this is not especially helpful. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 23:52, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Additional source/update for nuclear clock

A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock Mapsax (talk) 01:10, 17 November 2024 (UTC)