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Resources?
In the occurrence section, it says "World lead resources exceed two billion tons". Resources?? I have no idea what that means, if anything. Last I heard, mineral quantities were most commonly talked about as "reserves" - at least in a mining and usage context. Upon encountering this statement, I checked the reference. The citation contains NO MENTION of either reserves or 'resources'. I was able to find a USGS page, here: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-lead.pdf that was likely the intended citation. Since the wiki citation is cited at least 3 other times, I wasn't inclined to wade thru which should and shouldn't be linked to the old vs my new cite. Maybe someone can fix this?98.19.179.27 (talk) 06:12, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Split
The page has over 9k words of prose, per WP:Article size it should be split. One option is to create a separate history of lead to move the history section. ReyHahn (talk) 13:10, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- That's an interesting proposal, and I've personally had a blast with history of aluminium, which is currently an FA. So if you want to bother to move the content there and provide an overview to keep in this article, by all means, please go ahead. But if you're just bringing this to others' attention in hopes they do it, this will probably not happen. R8R (talk) 21:28, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- I will proceed, I was just hoping to get some consensus.--ReyHahn (talk) 08:13, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Done, reduced to 7k. See History of lead.--ReyHahn (talk) 10:10, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
"Ledd" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Ledd has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 29 § Ledd until a consensus is reached. consarn (talck) (contirbuton s) 20:28, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
Revert
I am re-adding text removed in this diff by an IP editor. The edit summary "Part from the lead about toxicity moved, and production note also in the body". The part wasn't moved, it was removed. The diff is tagged as a mobile edit, so I assume it is a mistake, as there's also no indication of why this was removed. After all, a substance that kills millions of people per year and causes trillions in economic harms should mention this, especially when statement this is sourced to The Lancet.-Ich (talk) 20:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- An IP colleague (the same person?) has again removed the statement with the explanation "Numbers are estimates, not confirmed counts and stated in personal view article, not for lede section." and "The real source about the production World Lead Factbook 2023." I agree with the latter; it was published by International Lead and Zinc Study Group, a reliable source. On the former, I disagree in part: "estimates, not confirmed counts". When scientists study things like air pollution or trans fats, they necessarily have to work with estimates and express these in confidence intervals. This estimate was published in a peer-reviewed journal, albeit in the "personal view" section, but the figures are directly cited to a separate Lancet article, "Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults: a health impact and economic modelling analysis". Given the enormous worldwide health problems that lead exposure directly causes, I think the lack of any discussion in the article about the disease burden is a serious oversight. To remedy this, I have added a new section that we can expand further, and we can add these figures to the lede.-Ich (talk) 14:56, 13 March 2026 (UTC)