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[edit] Quantum chemistry stubs

Hopefully WP:WSS will mark all quantum physics and quantum chemistry stubs with {{quantum-stub}} in some time. The process has just begun. Conscious 07:09, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] City of Hobsons Bay

Thank you. I am sure admins (like Ambi and others) would be able to do something about it, but people are generally banned for much worse than what I reverted on the page. It has to be persistent vandalism (not just a spate in a few minutes). If you would like to join the WikiProject and improve articles, then you're welcome to.

--EuropracBHIT 04:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC).

[edit] Re: Comp Chem stuff

Hi. I don't really have any comments, I really like your recent additions. I would write more myself - though probably about some specific quantum chem methods - if I could afford to pull more time away from my research. Karol 09:02, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDU entry

The whole entry is a bit over the top anyway - reads like a pub rels person -- there are quite a few issues ( olf myilly poiny campus which was on old royal darwin hospital etc etc) go ahead - if you know anything, do an edit. otherwise... vcxlor 09:05, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Not sure what you are refering to here. Myilly Point was the original campus of the University College of the NT, where I was a foundation member of staff in late 1986. I do not see a reference to Myilly Point. It was the old Darwin Hospital, while the new one is correctly referenced as the home of the Menzies School. It does'nt look like a public relation person. It just looks like a mess to me. Bduke 09:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

The point is that if wikipedia is an encyclopedia, the cdu entry lacks any detail in the historical sense - as a foundation staff person you may well have a few items that should help expand the article! vcxlor 13:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I have had a big go at it. I would welcome your comments. I note that several university pages do not have much history. A good example is Deakin University. Bduke 01:14, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Excellent! It is much more what it should be! Mal Nairn was a family friend (my father being a vet had known him when he was at Murdoch), and he actually now lives in the house that I grew up in Swanbourne. I was a postgrad at NTU while he was VC.

Humff. Reminds me that Mal was from Murdoch not UWA - fixed. Would you care to write the link for him? I can not find anything that is not in my memory and that is flakey. Bduke 04:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia needs more like you! I have the unfortunate situation here in Perth of having to deal with teenagers and less than 22 year olds who have minimal understanding of historical context of hardly anything. NTu/CDU has had more than its share of problems, and I think your building the article up is excellent! vcxlor 04:33, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Being 66 does give one a sense of history! Bduke 04:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
The article is really so much more interesting, and you have hit the nail on the head of what has been quite a complex history! Please do more on the territory - your work is excellent! Thank you !vcxlor 01:34, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Austin Asche

No problem, I'm not too familiar with the Australian government. -Drdisque 01:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Northern Territory

It's really good to see another person taking an interest in Northern Territory topics, as it's one of our most sadly underrepresented areas. I've tried to do my bit, but I'm limited by being on the other side of the country. Thanks for updating some of the articles on MLAs, anyway - I went through a huge burst of activity in the leadup to the election, and got distracted with other projects when the results were released, so some of the articles are a tad out of date. Ambi 06:48, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm in Melbourne now, but I lived there for 18 years. Bduke 06:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grant Tambling page

Gah, that was a stuffup. Thanks for pointing that out - he was actually defeated by John Reeves. If you ever want to check any federal election results (or recent territory results), Adam Carr's site Psephos is invaluable for these things - it has results for every electorate in every federal election since 1901 and territory election since 1997. (from User:Ambi 11.56, 30 December, 2005)

[edit] Hello!

I saw your post here and thought I'd come by and say a word of greetings. Nice to meet another computational chemist! Do you think you could help with expanding the articles on vibronic coupling and coupled cluster? --HappyCamper 00:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Martin Walker's home page

Hi Brian,

This user contributes to the Chemicals Wikiproject

I just noticed that you put some message on Martin Walker's homepage instead of on his talk page. As I wanted to announce a nice new User Box for the wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals (aka WP:Chem), I took the liberty of plastering it on his home page, but perhaps messages can better be put on the talkspage? Wim van Dorst 23:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC). ps. Interested in the WP:Chem project? Will give you a nice userbox ;-). WvD.

Yep, I put it on the wrong page, but I have now moved it. I am interested in the general WikiProject Chemistry but not so much in the Chemicals sub-project. Best wishes, Bduke 00:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recruiting other chemists

Hello Bduke! Thanks for organizing the List of publications in chemistry page. If you want to get some talkative chemists then bother these people:

I think you'll be lucky to get comments from anyone else. Most discussion in the chemistry related Wikiprojects just involve us. We REALLY need to get fresh voices in these projects, but for some reason, not many chemists are Wikipedians and not many Wikipedians are chemists. I hope this helps. ~K 03:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. I have come across all of these but one and I have just left a message on his talk page. Bduke 03:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Comp chem software table

Hi. I just felt that there's no point in having them in the table if there's no page, but maybe that was too hasty. I actually have heard some very good opinions on PQS, especially its optimization and customer support, and I also used it myself one time for fun, with success. As for Quantum, I've never heard of it. Karol 23:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Nice work, really. I was just about to create a PSQ page yesterday, but then I went to sleep :) Karol 07:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] userbox

Hi,your userboxes looked messy,so I cleaned it up a bit.Batzarro 09:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Darwin

Done. You don't need to be a sysop to revert vandalism though - if you click on the edit history tab and go back to the last good version, you can revert it yourself. Ambi 20:00, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chemical thermodynamics article

Thanks. Have to rush to a classical guitar concert.

My daughter-in-law is Australian. She and my son and I are all faculty in the Chem. Dept. here at the Univ. of TX-Austin.

When I post it as a proper standalone article, I'm going to change the redirect so it doesn't default to Thermochemistry, but will be a separate article. Already noted that one.

My "reformulation" is simply a mathematical rephrasing, not original research. I am aware of Wikipedia's guidelines. In any event, if it were original research, I wouldn't post it here before publishing.

David Shear Theoretical Chemistry Institute University of Texas at Austin dshear@austin.rr.com

[edit] Athenaeum

Very good start to entry-it must have an amazing history. If your statement of the building being finished in 1842 is correct (and Im not doubting it) it may be amonsgt the oldest buildings in Melb (see History of Melbourne entry) and should be mentioned in both entries.Lentisco 04:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Well to be accurate perhaps the fact that its facade may date to a later date should be mentioned. The Athenaeum library msut have a separate entry as it would have a long and very interesting history as well as being central to Melb cultural life in its way. Lentisco 04:29, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, 'To many in Melbourne its ...' is true now--in fact only say only 1% of Melbs population would know of its existence--but in the past esp. in 19C it was a major public institution. So historically its very important.Lentisco 04:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting Barnstarn

Did you see this proposal? Scouting Barnstarn --evrik 19:46, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Quite nice. I have mixed views about Barnstars - not sure whether they are a good idea or not. Perhaps they do help the WP community. --Bduke 20:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting Barnstar - Where to put it?

I believe that the award that was created for the Scouting Barnstar should be a topical award. Scouting is a world-wide movement that has served youth in many countries for more than 100 years and represents the youth of the world at the United Nations.

It has been suggested that the award be given as a PUA. The first line on the PUA page reads, "This page provides a collection of awards created by individual Wikipedians." The Scouting Barnstar was created by the WikiProject Scouting.

Currently, the is a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:Barnstars#Removed_the_scouting_barnstar. Please comment there if you are interested.evrik

[edit] Australian Ufology

Hi Bduke. I've added this deletion debate to the Australian Wikipedians' notice board, and also to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia page. -- Longhair 09:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category war

Please consider going to Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Boy_Scouts_of_America_controversy_and_Category:Boy_Scouts_of_America_controversies_to_.28he_didn.27t_say_what.29 and voting on this (we want delete) and the "Contentious issues" listing right below it (we want keep). There are constant edit wars on the "Controversies about..." article, so I don't really worry about it, but I would like to keep the contentious issues grouped together in the project as they relate to Scouting. Rlevse 11:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian States Scout Template

A draft is at User talk:Bduke/Workshop/Template:TSAUSbystate. --Bduke 07:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Now created as Template:Scouts Australia States. --Bduke 07:23, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commonwealth Scouting

Brian, you seem to be developing articles in a pattern, and I really could get behind it if you're thinking what I'm thinking. I am reading the original Scouting 'Round the World by a Scotsman, very heavy on Commonwealth Scouting. I really dig it as my interest is the B-P and colonial period in many countries. I don't know how to do it precisely, but I'd love to see something tying them together. Here in the States B-P is generally an afterthought, not as it should be. Check out where I am going on The Bharat Scouts and Guides. Work in progress. YiS, Chris 05:41, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

afterthought-instead of dividing the UK by Scout County, as there aren't that many (articles now), what about expanding that template to cover all of the Empire, the movements that have grown from the parent? Just an idea. Chris 05:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Chris, I'm afraid I am not working to much on a pattern. I am also getting behind with some chemistry work. I need to get something finished for a workshop on the 12th. I will tackle the Australian State pages sometime soon. Somewhere I suggested that for the UK we should work on the areas (a few Scout Counties) covered by a Field Commissioner. That would give us about 20 articles for the UK - not too different per population from one per state in the US. It is not the 100+ Counties. Unfortunately, I can not find a list of Field Commisioners and the areas they cover. There is a suspicion that they no longer call them that. I'm really not sure about the empire idea. I personally like to look at the history but I think people want it see it as it is now and the Empire is rather irrelevent. The template would be hugh. On the UK, I do not think we can progress until we get a keen UK Wikipedian on board the Project. We do not seem to have one. --Bduke 06:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Brian, I'm done with the Scouting WikiProject, I appreciate your hard work and backup, and I have renamed two templates I am turning over to you until they can find homes, as you'd be the best point of contact for them. They are User:Bduke/workshop/Template:SCanbyprov and User:Bduke/workshop/Template:TSAUKbydiv. I will be around, but I'm done with that lot. See you for now. Your brother in Scouting, Chris 21:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thermochemistry paper

Fixed per request; thanks for the format suggestions. I am fairly certain that this book is also the founding book for physical chemistry (I have degrees in chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and I'm presently working towards a third degree in biochemistry). I am also presently reading Nobelist Jean-Marie Lehn's '95 supramolecular chemistry textbook; I’m not for sure, but I think it might be the first every such textbook on this subject? --Sadi Carnot 00:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UK scouting template

The problem stems from there not being a legal Flag of Northern Ireland, and the former one (which is associated with militant Protestantism in some eyes) getting treated as if it were official in the NIR template. Hence my removal. The Tom 23:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: VSEPR theory

By all means, be my guest. I have yet to see a formal description of the theory outside an undergrad-level textbook, so if you have any sources that might be helpful please let me know. I'd be interested in bringing this page up to standard as well. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 22:07, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Fantastic! I should be able to get hold of the article within the next couple days. Thank you very much. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 01:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template:Scouts UK Counties

User The_Tom removed the image from many templates, despite not fully understanding al the issues at hand - I simply restored to all.

I have no problems with you removing all the flags from this particular template.

[edit] useful editing links

G'day there BDuke,

I saw your support listing for my nomination of Surf lifesaving to become the Australian COTF and decided to have a look at your userpage. Boy was I surprised to see my "useful editing links" list sitting there on an Admin's (?) page. I'm honoured to have done something that other people find useful - I wasn't even creating it for other people - under the assumption that I couldn't find a convenient list of this kind of stuff because I don't know where to look (not because there isn't one)! I assume you copied it off my userpage? If not, who did you copy it from? I created it due to the slow speed at which I find the right boilerplates and stub categories - this way I can just have a tab open behind my main page so I can copy and paste the templates across.

I hope it of use. I've recently added some more things to the list if you want to add them to your page too - they are primarily about notability, and some RC patrol things.

Cheers,

Witty lama 04:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pulp and Paper Merit Badge

Brian - The AfD tag was posted on this article while I was still making it. I think you may have seen a very early edition. Please revisit the article and see if you might change your mind on your suggestion for deletion. The article is squarely focused on the nature of the merit badge, and no longer makes any claims to be a resource page. My eventual intent is to preserve the history of each merit badge, including current and previous images, history of requirements, how the requirements relate to culture, business, and society, etc. Thanks in advance. NThurston 20:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Publications in Chemistry

Hi there. Thanks for voting for keep on my additions. I just thought I'd say though, that I didn't get the impression that the list is only for old papers and such. I just felt motivated to act when I saw that Lavoisier and Boyle's books weren't on a list of important Chemistry publications! I'll try making some more additions, as reading classic science books is somewhat of a hobby of mine. Gershwinrb 10:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COMSATS

Thanks Bduke, actually I'm a new user of Wikipedia. I have redirected COMSATS to the full title now. And I've also mentioned that it is South Asia not American South.-- mamoonlodhi 12:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] 144.173.6.76 (talk • contribs)

Hi Bduke, I blocked the ip for 24 hours. In future, you'd probably be better leaving a note on one of the sub-pages on WP:RAA, where you're likely to get swifter action. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 21:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] chemistry portal

i thought this way is more inline with the other science portals.. and now there's a link to the previous selected articles, which i think is handy. Mlm42 23:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. The portal is so important I think that such a change would best be debated on the portal talk page before making the change. However, I have to run off to uni now, so I have no time. --Bduke 23:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your vote
My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future.
Martyman - 09:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Hall

Hi, I tend to try and stay away from the articles on ANU residences. From what I have seen they tend to be heavily frequented by people wanting to push a point of view or rubbish a rival college. Ambi and Petaholmes are both also at the ANU, so they might know something useful about it, but I really don't know anything about it. --Martyman-(talk) 09:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

You are probably right. I have tried, partly successfully, to stop some Hall and College articles from being deleted. It would have helped a lot if the articles had been better. There is too much childish nonsense and rubbishing of rivals, as you say. I have done some work on my old Oxford College and that does not suffer quite in the same way. The Melbourne College articles are not too bad. The Sydney ones are less so. --Bduke 11:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Schaefer

Your article on Henry F. Schaefer, III seems to be a copyright violation from http://hermes.ccqc.uga.edu/member_page.php?id=8 . I noticed that in the original draft, you had put the copied parts in quotes, so I realize you weren't intending to do anything wrong, but it needs to be cleaned up. Sayeth 22:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

You are probably right. When it was in quotes, I think it was OK as it was only bio details. The quotes were taken out by an anon editor. I'll get around to altering it soon. It only needs minor rewriting I think to put the first para in my words, not his. Are you an admin? If so I'll ask you to clear the copyvio tags when I have done it. --Bduke 22:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Looks fine now. I'm not an admin, so you'll have to get someone else to clear it. Sayeth 16:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
It's been sorted out now. Just a couple of comments on the revised article:
  • As an experimental chemist, I cannot accept that a calculation "overturns" my experimental results: it might "force a reinterpretation" or some such phrase like that, but the like time I checked experiment remained the stronger proof.
  • You should add a source for the claim that he is the sixth most-cited chemist: "according to Science Citation Index" is better than nothing if we can't find the full study.
Thanks a lot for helping to improve our coverage of twentieth-century chemists! Best wishes Physchim62 (talk) 22:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing this. I'm not sure about "overturned". In the triplet methylene case, the theory forced Herzberg to go back and do the experiment again and he came up with a quite different result. However, I'll follow your advice. That para was not by me anyway. --Bduke 22:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction to Wave Structure of Matter

I am inclined to agree that this article should be deleted and put on WikiBooks, but I also think it is not suitable for 'prod', but should go to AfD. However, I'll leave it and see whether the authors have something to say about it. --Bduke 01:55, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't seem contrivercial to me. Check out the talk page, he claimed he was going to fix it in september. He hasn't been active in months. -Ravedave 02:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scout collaboration

Hey, Brian, still haven't made it to Japan, still no closer than I was Monday a week ago. :( Ah well. Take a look at Wikipedia:Anime Collaboration of the Week, maybe you guys could use that as an idea for a weekly improvement drive for some articles that are not as they should be. Heck, I can even nominate four or five of mine. Hope you are well. Chris 23:59, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chris, I hope you can make it to Japan real soon. I have experience of weekly/monthly/fortnightly collaborations and have come to the conclusion that a certain number of participants is needed for them to work. Not sure what the number is though. Some struggle to find candidates and do little with them when they have one. Others work quite well. The Australian C of the fortnight works quite well, but the Science one of the week is pretty poor. I'm not sure if a Scout one would work - maybe if every candidate was a BSA article, but not I think for a UK or Aus candidate article. We will be in touch when you return from Japan. Take care. Brian. --Bduke 01:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Alan Budd

Well it seems to have very little info (plus only one source which didnt give much of the info that was on the page, so there must have been one other source) I could see that there differnt sections like his life and such, but were not properly defined. Walksonwalls 20:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I may try to do something on it. I did not write this article, but I am keeping an eye on articles related to the Queen's College. I have meet and admire Sir Alan. Regards. --Bduke 20:56, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup in March

I see that you are listed as a participant in the WikiProject Melbourne. If you are a Melbourne resident I would appreciate your views on the suggested Meetup in March . Please give some indication of your interest, or otherwise, in the idea. Even a simple "No thanks" with your user name would be welcome and assist in assessing the level of support for a meetup. Thank you.. Cuddy Wifter 06:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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