User talk:Bduke
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No luck in getting to Japan yet, seems her family does not want to talk to me. Check this out, it belongs in Clwyd. Chris 00:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
That is tough, mate, really tough. I'm sorry. Re Clwyd - yep, I came across it a few hours ago. I have left message on users talk page. He is a newbie. I did'nt put the merge tags on but I told him that merge was the only thing that would stop it getting deleted. If he does not reply by tomorrow, I'll fix it myself. I wish someone would add some real material about Clwyd Scouting. It really only has the merge from the 3rd Colwyn Bay Group. It is a mess. --Bduke 01:31, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
King Edward VII School, Sheffield & C.J. Beck
It would indeed be of some note if Beck were an alumnus of Wesley College and publishing in 2002. For KES provenance I refer you to a site you are no doubt using for research. See; nlc.oldedwardians.org.uk/ plays/strongLonely.html and related speech day credits. Google Image search displays the school play pic and book cover for 'Spiked'. Malundi 4 March 2006
- I know about the Old Edwardian site, but I'm not actually doing research right now. I ordered the Centenerary book months ago, but there was a commumication problem (they e-mailed me saying they needed more postage to send it to Australia and I never got it). That is fixed and it is on its way. Are you an Old Edwardian? I'm a very old one. I was there from 1950 - 57. Regards, --Bduke 22:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
There's a French saying which ends, "...fifty is the youth of old age." All the best with your work. Malundi, 6 March 2006.
Thank you for your support of my RfA
Thank you for your support of my successful request for adminship. I am honoured that the nomination was supported unanimously and that the community expressed confidence that I would use the tools wisely. If you have any concerns please let me know on my talk page. Regards A Y Arktos 20:57, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Dorms in the US
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University Hall (Bristol) has been closed without consensus, but I just wanted to clarify if you were still wondering. "Dorm" is a fairly umbrella term in the States. For example, the precedent I listed on my deletion argument, Jester Center, is where I'm living for the rest of this semester or term. It has more than 7,000 residents, access to athletics facilities, numerous tutoring and computing resources, at least 7 eateries, occasional faculty sponsorship of a hall, and social activities, and was deleted a few months ago. On the other hand, other "dorms" on campus solely provide rooms, but are classified the same way. We also use the term "residence hall" as a term for all "dorms." However, the term "college" usually refers to an academic body, such as the "College of Engineering," or the "College of Liberal Arts" within the "University of Texas at Austin," or simply by itself as, for example, "Franklin and Marshall College" — not a place of residence. — Rebelguys2 talk 19:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. I was aware that College had the meaning you indicate. I spent 5 months at the University of Georgia back in 1990. I was not aware of the facilities that "dorms" provide. The situation here in Australia and in UK is getting to be similar. For example the University of Melbourne has many old Colleges with history, senior members, tutorial system, sporting competition, etc., but there are also many commercial blocks near the university that just rent out rooms and have no legal connection to the university. I was Head of a College once in UK. I think they deserve articles of some form. Some can be grouped together. The problem is that many have articles written about them that are just vanity rubbish and they also get vandalised frequently by, I suspect, their own members. BTW, I notice that Smuts Hall, that was kept at AfD recently, has been substantially worked on since then. I think on this one, I would be happier if US Wikipedians decided the fate of US Dorms and Australian (or UK) Wikipedians decided the fate of Australian (or UK) Halls/Colleges. They at least would know what the article could be developed to. --Bduke 20:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello
Hello Brian,
I have a view that Wikipedia should evolve into not allowing anonymity or to at least allowing the moderation of anonymous/pseudonymous edits by non anonymous folk, just my view but I hope I'm allowed to express it. I have no doubt people will disagree and I'll respect their right to do so but that doesn't make the anonymous slagging that I've personally witnessed on some articles right, good for Wikipeida or behaviour I could ever accept. DarrenRay 04:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Umm, Brian? :-o Chris 22:16, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for drawing my attention to it. Take a look now. I fixed up a similar Glasgow mess yesterday. Cheers, Brian. --Bduke 23:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to get a example of a good or featured science article of yours? This would make it easy to vote in your favour in the project. Whats also be good a example of participation in a PR with good ideas. I think a long list of edits and administrative abilities are not enough for board member. --Stone 07:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I do not have a featured article and I do not believe I have a good article, in the sense that I think you mean. That has not so far been my priority. Let me explain. My chemistry contributions fall roughly into three categories:-
- Biographies. I feel that an encyclopedia should not only tell people about the science but also about the people who made the science. The people I need to mention in articles that I work on are mostly in International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. This article lists the current and deceased members. I have written 18 of their articles. However of 88 current members, there are articles for only 29. The deceased members fare better, with 18 out of 29 having articles. Generally I have written articles for people where I found redlinks or wanted to add a link. Recently I finally fixed the fact that the first sentence of the main article, listing the founding members, had two redlinks. I think it is more important to have a brief articles about all of these people, rather than a very full biography for a few of them. The latter can come later. I use this example as the first category as it is so clear.
- Chemistry literature. My first edit, as anon, was to List of publications in chemistry which is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Science pearls. I came to see that these articles could develop into a POV mess. Now after a request from the coordinator of that Project and with the consensus of the chemists who frequent the page, I coordinate that page. We have developed stricter guidelines for inclusion and a debate process for every new addition. With a few more entries, particularly in the empty sub-discipline areas of chemistry, I think this article will be a good one. Removing entries that were just journal titles lead me to List of scientific journals in chemistry. I have added very many entries (name and external link to journal home page) but it is still very incomplete. Most journals are redlinks. Again I think it more important now to write brief articles on all these journals rather full articles on a few. I have added at the top of that article three lists of the top 20 journals according to different citation measures. I have also been involved in the search for the best way to have just 10 chemistry journals listed in List of scientific journals. We seem to have settled recently on the top 10 by citation count of journals that publish papers in all areas of chemistry. It is of particular concern that about 50% of all the journals in these links of clearly important journals are still redlinks.
- Computational chemistry. This main article has been listed as a good article (not my doing), but it had, and continues to have, some serious problems. It had many redlinks to particular methods and to particular software. I have written quite a few articles to fix these. It had many links to articles that contained errors, many of which I have fixed. The section on semi-empirical methods was particularly difficient, giving the impression that these methods were just a 50 year old method for π-electron molecules. I have altered the main page here, removing some material to a new article and written several new articles on particular methods. All are still stubs but their expansion can come later. Sometime soon, I will go back to work on the main article. However the sub pages still need a great deal of work. There are overlapping articles that need merging and impoving. There are articles that come from physicists in physics categories and similar articles from chemists in chemistry categories. There are still methods that are not mentioned.
I hope this gives you some idea of my philosophy at this time. Basically, in these areas that interest me, I think we need covereage before long articles. Stubs however, still need to be accurate and well written. That is my aim. In other areas of science, including some areas of chemistry, longer really good articles can exist and I think I can help to achieve this. --Bduke 22:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)