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bench_notesTL4 Moderator25 Dec 2025#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by hana.sato on 2 Feb 2026.

24 Feb 2026 — bench_notes: Added the worked example and a unit label to the table header.
5 Jun 2026 — mira.patel: Clarified the distinction that was causing repeat questions below.
2 Feb 2026 — hana.sato: Removed a claim that the cited source did not support.

Editors: bench_notes, mira.patel, hana.sato

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Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions.

This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a note. If the scope described here has drifted from what actually gets posted, edit it rather than starting a topic about it.

What belongs here

Questions specific to announcements, with the units and the context stated.
Reports and datasets, with the collection method stated.
Disagreement about the substance, conducted in public.

What belongs elsewhere

Anything urgent belongs in Safety, immediately, and not here.
Anything about how this site works belongs in Meta.
Requests for a maintained page belong in Wiki requests.

Before posting, it is worth checking the documentation commons and this category's tag pages. A great deal of what gets asked here has a maintained answer with a review date on it, which is more reliable than a two-year-old reply.

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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator10 Feb 2026#2

Staff post. Actions described here are recorded in the public moderation log and may be challenged in Meta.

Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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v.sjobergTL216 Mar 2026#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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impurity_tableTL3Analytical chemist15 Apr 2026#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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s.chowdhuryTL3Regular13 May 2026#5

Staff-only posts: some announcements are visible only to staff (concerning internal operations). Members see public announcements.

The claim is narrower than it sounds, and deliberately so.

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j.bhattacharyaTL28 Jun 2026#6

impurity_table, post #4: Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note. Go to post

Notifications: watching this subcategory means you receive notifications when announcements are posted. Useful if you want to stay current.

Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice.

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formulary_notesTL3Regular3 Jul 2026#7

bench_notes, post #1: Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a note. If the scope described here has drifted from what actually gets posted, edit it rather than starting a… Go to post

Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions clarifying what was announced.

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an.ibarraTL228 Jul 2026 · edited#8

Answering the question post #4 raises rather than the one it answers.

Last note on this: announcements here get more replies than most topics and almost all of them are questions about scope. That is a hint about what an announcement should lead with.

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