Talk:Potassium

Potassium has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
June 21, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
December 21, 2016	Good topic candidate	Promoted
February 18, 2026	Good article reassessment	Kept
April 6, 2026	Good topic removal candidate	Demoted
Current status: Good article

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Information Sources: Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Potassium. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Potassium. Other information was obtained from the sources listed on the main page but was reformatted and converted into SI units.

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Article review

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It has been a while since this article was reviewed, so I took a look and noticed lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs (espcially in the "dietary" section). Should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 03:23, 27 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

GA Reassessment

Latest comment: 8 months ago11 comments5 people in discussion

Potassium

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Result: Issues appear to have been resolved. Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:44, 18 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Uncited statements, including entire paragraphs (especially in the "North American" subsection of the "Dietary" section). Z1720 (talk) 03:24, 18 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

The North American section is in fact fully-cited, but someone had split it into tiny paragraphs without repeating the citations. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Chiswick Chap: I have added citation needed tags to the article to highlight other places that need them. Z1720 (talk) 22:15, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Let's hope there are still some chemists around to fix them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Z1720 Editors @Smokefoot, @Reconrabbit and I have worked over the article since your post. All of the citation-needed tags you added are fixed along with other improvements. Johnjbarton (talk) 03:35, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Johnjbarton: I have added some additional citation needed templates. The "Supplementation" section needs to be formatted more effectively, with paragraphs being merged together. Z1720 (talk) 03:45, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Z1720 Yes, supplementation was mess. Please review my changes. Johnjbarton (talk) 18:29, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Johnjbarton: I added a couple of cn tags to review. Z1720 (talk) 14:34, 24 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hello, has there been any progress on this? Keres🌕Luna ^edits! 20:15, 10 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Keep, I think? While not perfect, it seems like everything is cited. Unless someone states that there is a major aspect missing, I think this can keep its status. Z1720 (talk) 21:28, 16 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2026

Latest comment: 27 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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Change the lilac flower hyperlink to the lilac color hyperlink. Llamalizard (talk) 01:26, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the suggestion, fixed. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:01, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Contradictory info

Latest comment: 22 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The infobox gives an IPA pronounciation and an English pronounciation respelling for the name kalium. The pronounciations given are inequivalent. Either the IPA should be /ˈkeɪliəm/ or the pronounciation respelling should be KAH-lee-əm.

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