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A possible article for you to consider

Esteemed Bd, when I came across the Triplet oxygen article today, it had 6-7 repetitious article tags, so I condensed them down to a wordy three.

The issue at the heart is a Nov 2013 edit, more than doubling the size of the article, which was then taken to task in Feb 2014 for being naive, and lacking in foundational knowledge to allow for proper scope and nuance. (Not my objection, just summarizing about half of the earlier tags.)

The other main issue raised then (in the remainder of tags) was that the article is essentially unsourced. (Two online undergraduate handouts appear in further reading, but that is all.)

Would you have time and interest to do a mini-Chem reviews sort of job on this, so we have a decent short article on a triplet state? Very important to me is to have it thoroughly sourced from advanced teaching pchem texts, PW Atkins and the like, but to also have it touch on history (Pauling is mentioned in the main O2 article) and any relevant highlight from more modern comps.

I could do this, but it would take me 5x as long as you, and my sources could not be as good (as my shelves are organic, medicinal, some structural, and only a small handful of PChem and IOChem).

RSVP here, and I will keep looking in. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 09:12, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Writers

I have stopped. I don't know where the error is in my CatScan request, but I'm not going to be doing any more until I can figure out where the mistake came from. I've done the same thing with writers from other countries and haven't had this problem. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

You could actually read the articles and not do things automatically. --Bduke (Discussion) 20:46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

I try to read - at least to get a couple of cues - but things slip through nonetheless. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Help with dodecaborate

I saw your suggestion about dodecaborate. When I was first working in Wikipedia, I often created articles on compounds vs ions, thinking that this approach would allow more specificity. It turns out that Cs₂B₁₂H₁₂ is the usual salt for [B₁₂H₁₂]^2- (Cs⁺ being kinds of an honorary quat cation). In any case, I will raise the renaming option at Talk:Caesium dodecaborate. I doubt if many editors check that article, but we'll see. --Smokefoot (talk) 00:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

OK. 50 years ago I was up to date with boron chemistry although more so for the smaller boranes and ions. Now I am hopelessly out of touch and I am very busy right now. --Bduke (Discussion) 03:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Well its been all screwed up now. Mediocrity and expediency takes the day. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:57, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Evolent Health

Hello. Can I get a page deleted please? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bda3853/Evolent_Health I wrote an article titled Evolent Health but when searching the article in google, I found this one instead (the link above). I was able to delete the content from the above link but cannot delete the entire page/title, and was wondering if you could help me delete it. I think it is part of my user page. I don't want there to be any confusion if someone is searching Evolent Health. Thanks Bda3853 (talk) 15:19, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I have deleted it for you as deletions have to be done by an admin. I also deleted a redirect from your your user space. --Bduke (Discussion) 22:26, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations

There is an RfC that you may be interested in at Template talk:Infobox country#RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations. Please join us and help us to determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:51, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

De-PROD of Trevor Billingham

Within the Trevor Billingham it states "Occupation school teacher". From reading the article, I assumed their notability was for academics. What would you consider them to be notable for? I'll have a look at the relevant notability guidelines, If I agree. I also have an issue with the sources used, they all seem to be "in-house" non-independent sources.—Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 22:44, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

The assertions of notability are about his services to sport. Whether they stack up or not is another matter, which will depend on sources. This article is clearly not one for proding. If you still think it should be deleted put it to AfD. Editors may then find better sources. Wikipedia:Notability (academics) is about university academics, not secondary school teachers. In fact his spell as a teacher seems to be quite a short one. --Bduke (Discussion) 23:52, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

M. J. S. Dewar

My name is Eamonn Healy, I spent 10 years working with MJSD and I penned the brief memoir that recently appeared in ACS Symposium series. Let me start by saying that I am deeply appreciative of your expertise in curating, not just Michael's page, but many of those that relate to the quantum chemistry and its methodologies. I am currently preparing a talk relating to Nobel prizes in Theoretical chemistry, and I have recently been focusing on his fraught relationship with Linus Pauling, and that has led me to my confirmation of his FRS designation. How that relates to his contentious relationship with Pauling is an entire story in itself, suffice it to say that the Royal Society website clearly identifies him as being elected as FRS in 1960, a designation confirmed by his posthumous biographical designation by John Murrell in 1998. His standing as a British citizen at the time obviously trumped his American residency. Thank you again for all you do in the service of our discipline — Preceding unsigned comment added by Efhealy (talk • contribs) 04:35, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

No worries. I heard Dewar talk at several conferences. Actually I thought he was elected a Fellow before he left London, but I see he had been across the pond for a year. I have seen some of your papers but a long time ago. --Bduke (Discussion) 06:11, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for the response. I did not start new article on the same association. His article was on "Boy Scout of Nigeria", mine was on "The Scout Association of Nigeria" but he deleted it on August 24th 2016 and started "Scout Association of Nigeria" on August 25th 2016 and directed the page I wrote to the new page he wrote. Wikicontrol 06:47, 28 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikicontrol001 (talk • contribs)

You are not understanding wikipedia. He did not start "Scout Association of Nigeria" on August 25th. He moved "Boy Scout of Nigeria" to "Scout Association of Nigeria". That is very different as it keeps the history. "Boy Scout of Nigeria" might have had the wrong title but it was about the same association as "The Scout Association of Nigeria". You do not start a new article. Your job now is argue for changing the content of "Scout Association of Nigeria". The question of moving/renaming it to "The Scout Association of Nigeria" can be left to later. Let us get the content right. Please sign your contributions on talk pages by add 4 tildas (~) at the end. --Bduke (Discussion) 07:48, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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talkpage histmerge?

Talk:Air Scout and Talk:Air Scouts need to be merged but with their history preserved, is that something you can do? If so, please!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:03, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Not sure, but I am going to be flat out off-wiki for the next week. I will try to think about it though. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:13, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Got it sorted, thanks!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:44, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Good. Thanks for telling me. --Bduke (Discussion) 08:22, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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Geoff Lee/Silver Kangaroo

I was editing the new article on Geoff Lee, which led me to write a stub on the Silver Kangaroo, which has been popping up in different bios. I found both in your sandbox. I hope you don't mind, I used the bulk of your SK text rather than reinventing the wheel. But the Geoff Lee I figured I should leave for you, in the event you knew the gentleman or had some connection.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 09:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

That is all good. I had forgotten about that sandbox. I know nothing personally about Geoff Lee. Keep up the good work. A small point - I do not think the Silver Kangaroo has anything to do with Guiding in Australia. It is just Scouting. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:26, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Okay, got Geoff squared away, went to thank you and inadvertently thanked a sockpuppet with your name. Yikes! Please check to see I did him justice.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:37, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Allow private schools to be characterized as non-affiliated as well as religious, in infobox?

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

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Hi,

Have you seen the related discussion on my talk page? Something smells fishy about this AfD to me. Adam9007 (talk) 21:08, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

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Next Melbourne meetup

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World Organization of Independent Scouts

Hi Bduke, I assume you are still active as a member of the WikProject Scouting. During NPP I came across an article for Britain's Independent Scout Organisation which - at the time at least - was defective as lacking any kinds of references and indication of notability. I dug a little deeper to the main body and also realised that this article is highly defective with basically all sources either self-published or somehow lacking reliability. It seems they were founded as splinter group from an established association and I was wondering how notable they really are. Google did not give me a lot about them, other than pointing to Facebook, LinkedIn or blogs. Technically, they would both fail notability for lack of reliable third party sources. Any thoughts? Cheers, _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 07:50, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

I agree. I will redirect it to World Organization of Independent Scouts and tidy that up. --Bduke (Discussion) 08:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks. It seems our messages got crossed. I had in the meantime AfD'd the article about the UK chapter in which I also mentioned my concerns about the main body. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 08:37, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Given the AfD was initiated, it should be allowed to go through the process before a redirect is done. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:05, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Andrew Bolt

Plaease remove autoconfirmed from this article, as it was set to indefinite in 2010 but now no longer up to date and currently having low frequency of editing. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.248.27 (talk) 14:09, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Done. I agree. Thanks for reminding me I protected the page a long time ago. It is however still on my watch list. --Bduke (Discussion) 02:29, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Square root of 4

Hi Bduke. I noticed the extended confirmed protection that you applied to this redirect after Purgy Purgatorio made edits to it. I just wanted to let you know that Purgy Purgatorio is extended confirmed, hence (assuming that your protection was meant to stop further edits by this user) the protection won't restrict the user from editing it. Just wanted to give you an FYI just in case ;-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 11:08, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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chemistry and scouting

Thank you for quality articles around chemistry, scouting and much more, such as chemistry education, semi-empirical quantum chemistry method and Michael J. S. Dewar, based on academic background, for Scouting and Guiding in New South Wales, for service from 2005, including gnomish help and admin services like a scout, - Brian, repeating (23 Ocober 2008): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Ten years!

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Images of England

The Images of England web site is to be decommissioned this month by Historic England. The text of the site entries has been available on the corresponding National Heritage List entry since that web site was created. The images are being transferred ahead of the decommissioning. As a result of this a BOT has changed all {{IoE}} templates to {{NHLE}} templates and translated the reference number according to a list provided by Historic England.

It would be good if members could check these, when they come across them, as I have spotted one with an incorrect translation. Some articles already had {{NHLE}} templates in them so the references may need to be combined. Other changes that may need to be performed are removal of template or text referring to the site as needing registration, changing the text "Images of England" or "IoE" to something more appropriate or may be even removing it if it is part of the description..

WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project

The August 2019 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.

Month	Dates	Article(s)
		B class choice	Start class choice
112	1 Apr 2019 ~ 30 Apr 2019	Ilkley Roman Fort	VolkerRail
113	1 May 2019 ~ 31 May 2019	James Milner	Walkington
114	1 Jun 2019 ~ 30 Jun 2019	North Yorkshire Moors Railway	X+Y
115	1 Jul 2019 ~ 31 Jul 2019	Death of David Oluwale	Yorkshire Wildlife Park
116	1 Aug 2019 ~ 31 Aug 2019	Amy Johnson	Zetland Hotel

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Woohoo

	Happy Adminship	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing Bduke a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! -- Mjs1991 (talk) 05:13, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I did not realize it was an anniversary. I am not that active as an admin these days, --Bduke (talk) 05:46, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Nobel Prize

The semicolon separates awarding agencies in the list. Removing the "and" makes that clause subjectless. -Mys_721tx (talk) 03:08, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

chemistry and scouting
... you were recipient no. 2055 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Glendalough railway station

Hello. Per the discussion at this AfD [1], I am striking Glendalough railway station from the discussion. However, I don't know how to remove the AfD tag and remove the page's connection to the AfD in this type of situation. This is the first time I took multiple pages to AfD at once. So, I am wondering if you as an Admin know how to do this in the correct manner. If so, then I am really glad you stopped by the AfD page. Regards.

By the way, I love Australia. I have visited three different cities, each at a different time: Perth, Sydney, and Adelaide. It was quite a while ago. Your people made feel so welcome. Looking back, I wish I could have brought 20 Aussies back with me! Uh oh! Now I'm wanting to go back for a visit again. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 00:40, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Indeed. I like Australia. I spent the first 40 odd years in the UK, but have been here since then for another 40 years! I am in Melbourne now but lived in Darwin for quite a while. --Bduke (talk) 00:34, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

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Requests for uncreated articles

Greetings & a great weekend to you all. I believe it would be great if the (Requests for uncreated articles) section in our wiki project can be attended to & at least one article be created this weekend as some requests have been pending since 2016. I believe this would be pivotal to the encyclopedia as a whole & a means to get editors who have gone inactive to revive their Wikipedia activities. Sent by Celestina007. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

What Wikiproject are you referring to? I am on holiday so will not have the time to do anything serious. --Bduke (talk) 20:30, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Related AfD for churches in Leicester

Given your AfD comment on churches in Leicester, you may also want to post your opinion on the other open AfD on List of Baptist churches in Leicester. — MarkH₂₁^talk 07:48, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Baden Powell

Hi

I am removing the comment 'Baden powell is a known racist, he shall be shunned.'

Is there any reason why you have reverted that?

The edit said it was about 'Baden powell is a known racist, he shall be shunned.'. but it also deleted a paragraph and I thought that was all the edit did. I will check it out to see if it is now all good. --Bduke (talk) 03:10, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Bduke a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 07:22, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. I am not as active as an admin as I used to be because I am getting old and my memory is not as good as it used to be. I take action when I am sure nobody is going to argue with me. --Bduke (talk) 07:55, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

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• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
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Hat tip

Just saw your name pop up at WP:BN, and I wanted to say thanks for everything so far, both admin-related and writing-related. I hope you do stick around and edit from time to time. You have made (and continue to make) the place better. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:59, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I just saw your post on BN, too, Bduke. I respect your decision to step down. Thank you for your service as an administrator and I also hope you continue to be an editor here. Best wishes. Acalamari 08:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)