Talk:UHPC

Please be gentle, this is my first new entry. I had too many questions to leave it in the Sandbox, some of the features don't actually get "fleshed out" in the Sandbox. Notes: This was indeed a redlink in other pages, which is the original reason I decided to create the page. It was a redlink on concrete, for instance, and I didn't put it there as a related term. I also chose this as my first foray into new page creation because I suspect it will be low traffic but not completely useless. I am trying to advance human knowledge in general by turning a redlink blue, but also not make too much trouble in the meantime while I learn.

I have specific questions:

1. Why does my link to Wikipedia look different than the ones I usually see? My link is not a box on the side.
2. Resolved I fixed the countable vs. uncountable. I didn't realize that uncountable would be an argument to the en-noun template, and I didn't realize the argument would be just a hyphen. I guess it needs "-" to tell Wiktionary "please consume one positional argument, but it has no value, it has not been omitted but it is blank, null, and void".
3. Should I link to the Wikipedia article "Types of concrete" also? The article "Concrete" does not mention UHPC, but the article "Types of concrete" has a whole section on it. I feel like the article on concrete in general is probably more useful if somebody is looking up "UHPC", because they are probably asking "what was the bridge made of?" It was made of concrete. But the fact that "UHPC" itself is not a Wikipedia page, and Ctrl-F for "UHPC" on the page "concrete" will find nothing, is slightly frustrating. UHPC has a full section in "Types of concrete" and it has a lot of Google hits. The older concrete buildings and bridges in cities all over the world are beginning to fail, sometimes catastrophically, and concrete is a major source of greenhouse gases, so the concrete from 80 years ago is probably not a safe bet for the decades to come. That's an opinion, but this is a Talk page. If humanity can use a smaller volume of concrete to build a skyscraper, and replace it less often, then we can have a lot more cities like New York and London without utterly destroying the planet. Or we can slow down the process.
4. On the bluelink for "standard" in my entry, can I have the user dumped immediately at "Standard > noun > sense 1 > sub-sense 4" which is "A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government." The standards in this case are imposed by standards organizations, as discussed on the Wikipedia article "Types of concrete". If you just click "standard" (the bluelink in my definition as it exists now), the top think is the adjective, and that might be confusing.

Thank you. Fluoborate (talk) 08:36, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Fluoborate The Wikipedia link doesn't look the same as the others because you have to use {{wikipedia}} for it to show up (and in that case, it would usually be placed directly under the "==English==" header). The {{wikipedia}} template will display a Wikipedia page with the same name as the entry you use it in, but you can get it to link to another article using a second parameter: e.g. {{wikipedia|Concrete}}. Regarding your fourth question, check out the change I made to the link. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 04:49, 28 November 2018 (UTC)