Talk:氦

Not fluorine

Note: many databases list this character as meaning "fluorine," but that is incorrect; it means "helium." 71.66.97.228 05:09, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, 71! By way of reference for anyone else landing on this talk page, here are some links mistakenly listing a meaning of (deprecated template usage) fluorine:

• http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/氦
• http://www.weblio.jp/content/氦
• http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=6C26

Note the following links to the same sites, only this time for the character 氟, which actually does mean (deprecated template usage) fluorine:

• http://www.jisho.org/kanji/details/氟
• http://www.weblio.jp/content/氟
• http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=6C1F

Déjà vu, anyone? I'm not sure where this error first occurred, but it really looks like a number of websites are all just mirroring each other, with no one actually aware of or checking for mistakes.

Interestingly, the bottom of the Unihan page for 氦 references MDBG, which page here clearly shows a definition of (deprecated template usage) helium -- disagreeing with the Unihan page, which gives a gloss of (deprecated template usage) fluorine.

By way of contrast, here are the ZH WP pages for (deprecated template usage) helium and (deprecated template usage) fluorine. Both pages clearly show the element symbols and give the names in English at the beginning, so any EN WT editors can still tell what they have to say (in brief) even if you don't read Chinese.

• He: w:zh:氦
• F: w:zh:氟

HTH! -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 06:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

RFC discussion: January 2011–April 2012

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