[Foundation-l] Glycerol information

[Nikola Smolenski]

On 11/11/2010 11:16 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nikola Smolenski<smolensk at eunet.rs>  wrote:
>> Back when we were under sanctions, it was impossible to buy antifreeze
>> (or it was prohibitively expensive). So, my father remembered that in
>> one of the books in our home library he once read that it it is possible
>> to make antifreeze by mixing glycerine, alcohol and water in appropriate
>> amount. It took him weeks to search through the home library, but he
>> eventually did find the book and made his own antifreeze.
>
> What is the year of publications of this book in your library?
> It might be out of copyright, or out of print and the author (or their
> estate) willing to release it into the PD early.

It would take me weeks to find it again :) Anyway, it's most likely not 
out of copyright and not in English.

> When was this first discovered?  Glycerol was well known before 1923,
> so it is quite likely that there are PD sources which cover this in
> detail, and they can be added to Wikisource.

Wikisource texts could not be updated with new information and will not 
be as well linked with Wikipedia articles as the articles are among 
themselves.

>> It probably would be allowed on Wikibooks. But for one reason or
>> another, people simply aren't interested enough in working on Wikibooks;
>> Wikibooks don't show high enough in Google because the articles are not
>> highly interlinked; and the Wikibooks howto in the opposite fashion
>> could not have encyclopedic information in it (for example the very
>> important section "Historical cases of contamination with diethylene
>> glycol" that is present in the Wikipedia article and that would
>> obviously be very important to someone who needs to make his own
>> antifreeze).
>
> Wikibooks is also an option.  I don't see why Wikibooks can not
> include this historical information.  Once the Wikibook pages are

Because of WB:NOTWP.

> reasonable quality, you can add {{wikibooks}} to the Wikipedia page,
> allowing readers to easily find this information.

If by "easily" you mean "at the very last place they would ever look, 
hidden behind a link with a meaningless name".